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Writing to be Read by Google: Selling Out?

Posted on 2010-12-27 by dgilbert

I was work­ing on sev­er­al of my many drafts today and I real­ized that a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of my time is spent think­ing about my audi­ence… and by audi­ence, I don’t mean the nice peo­ple who end up read­ing my … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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My first dollar (fifty)

Posted on 2010-12-25 by dgilbert

I had a nice Christ­mas Eve with my par­ents and one of my sis­ters at her house.  Nice din­ner, nice con­ver­sa­tion… all around pleas­ant.  I was show­ing off my blog… fish­ing for com­ple­ments.  I even broke out Clones (see my … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Add the Ads.

Posted on 2010-12-22 by dgilbert

There.  That’s that box checked.  There be ads!  My google adsense account was approved today and I man­aged to insert some ads in the wid­get area (that’s what word­press calls the bits on the right of the page).  Inter­est­ing­ly, it … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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WordPress: easy, Ad plugin: not so easy…

Posted on 2010-12-22 by dgilbert

You did­n’t expect abject altru­ism, did you?  Are you sur­prised that one of the first things I’d be fig­ur­ing out is how to put ads on my blog? I’ve been using Google AdWords late­ly.  They seem to be giv­ing away $100 … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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