As I type this, I am sitting in a wonderful cafe in Toronto’s east end called Dark Horse Espresso Bar. It’s in a dingy part of an up-and-coming neighbourhood that has been undergoing gentrification for the past 12 years. I have lived in this area for about 11 years and am amazed by how it’s [...]
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A few weeks ago, I came across a four-year-old posting on Yaro Starak’s blog Entrepreneurs-Journey: Making Money From Your Website Using Advertising. Before reading his post, I thought that I would be happy with running Google Ads. I quickly realized that unless I would be satisfied with anemic revenues, I should look elsewhere. Yaro completely [...]
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Update on Google Adsense:
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Google kept rejecting my application for their program. At the time, I thought my second application was rejected because my site had not been established and assumed Google was simply looking for more credible sites. That might be true, but it seems that the [...]
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Last post, I talked about how I realized that Google Adsense wasn’t going to make me rich.The amount of traffic I needed to make that happen would be staggering and the whole point of this exercise is to be able to replace my income – or at a minimum make enough to cover some basic [...]
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(Sidebar: I am a huge fan of the show Mad Men. Not only do I have a major fan crush on Donald Draper (my husband is aware), but I love the script, the art direction, the sets, the window into the 60s – well the entire show, really. It also helps that I kinda sorta [...]
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