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Angie Mecklenburg is a mother of four in from Sutter, Illinois. Her blog’s about her Farm, God and chickens. Over the last 18 months, Mecklenburg has been writing three blogs. The most popular is Ang’s Chicken Coop, which has the tagline “a view of the world from the coop.”

The blog has only 250 daily visitors, but Angie manages to make as much as $1,200 a month, collecting fees from Google advertising and marketers who pay her to write about their products via the blog ad network iZea.

iZea is operating since June 2006. The company pays as many as 85,000 bloggers to write about a range of products, including household products, cars, wireless phones, and new movies. According to Randy Mountz, vice president of sales, iZea has roughly 11,000 advertisers in its network, including Hewlett-Packard, Ford, and MGM.

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