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About 3 months ago I stopped running advertisements on my blog.

This was after about 2-3 years (not sure, really) of running AdSsense ads on my blog, and in that time earning a grand total of about $100. Needless to say, it wasn’t making much of an income.

During this time, I often found myself trying (usually in vain) to attract more traffic to the blog, but after awhile I began to feel like my motivations were wrong. The canonical strategy to advertisements on a blog, or almost any website, is that the more traffic you get, you should get correspondingly more click-throughs, resulting in more income. After awhile, my main goal was to simply make some money off the website. Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with this; I’m a big supporter of making money. But it seemed (to me, anyways) that my goal to drive traffic simply to make (hopefully) a few more dollars from the website, was distracting me from whatever purpose I had originally had in creating the website.