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Ads are ubiquitous online, but I'm pretty sure that people who go to a blog regularly don't click on the ads. I know I don't. For my other blog, I found a cool plugin that turned off ads for frequent visitors, so anyone who visited our site regularly didn't see any ads at all.

That exact function doesn't exist here, but I configured the closest thing - the 2 most noticeable ads on each page can only be seen by non-members. So if you are a member and you are logged in, you won't see the ad in the upper right corner and all the way at the bottom of the page. I thought members might appreciate not seeing them.

Another thing with ads is that the typical social networking site collects ad money while the site is built by its members. Shouldn't members get something? I certainly think so, thus we have revenue sharing. Here's how to do it:

1) Get a Google Adsense account from www.google.com/adsense
2) You'll be assigned a publisher ID that looks something like pub-9999999999999
3) Go to your account, click the Edit tab, and then click *private information*.
4) Enter your publisher ID into the Google AdSense ID box and click Submit.

Voila - instant revenue sharing. Once this publisher ID is submitted, every blog entry, forum topic or group entry that member makes will result in ad money being split 50/50. I can't say I've made very much from my other websites, but you never know.

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