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AdSense isn't the unstoppable revenue engine for every eBusiness. Before I am taken out and flogged by the eCommerce pundits -- please let me explain what I mean in my defense.

I make revenues from AdSense at a very high click-through rate. I experience high click-through rates with AdSense without resorting to questionable tactics like tricking site users with photos.

By now you may have he

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I was playing around with pictures this evening. Normally, I don't mess with pictures in my blogs because, frankly, I'm too lazy. But this night, for some reason, I decided I was tired of looking at the large expanses of plain green that made up the stock template at my Blogspot site. So I thought I'd fix that. And then I noticed that the images I was playing with were showing up on Bloggerparty's Popular Content sidebar. With my nonsense tag names and no explanations. I could understand if some of my blogging buddies clicked on these names and went, well, "What the ..."? So, here's the "What the ..." Which just happens to be my opportunity to tell you a little bit about what I actually do for a living. When I'm not writing about war, and peace, and purloined bicycles, and geriatric cats, that is.

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