Assuming that things are working correctly, you most probably will have noticed a Google AdSense<\/i> ad box between the list of pages and the first post on the page.<\/p>\n
I actually signed up for AdSense in the middle of last year, but when I changed the blog to the current theme, which I like quite a bit, there was really no place to put ads that wouldn't mess of the flow of things since the theme has only one sidebar. I consider the recent comments very important, so I didn't want to push them down, and there's not really any point putting an adbox halfway down the page. I finally took the time to go through the tutorial and figure out that I could probably put in a horizontal adbox near the top by hacking it into the theme's header HTML code.<\/p>\n
That's how. Now why? This is a hobby blog pure and simple and that's not changing. At the same time, if I can make a little money with it, well, I am certainly not averse to that. Frankly, I have my doubts. By its nature Columbia Closings<\/i> is a very local blog for a medium sized city, and simply does not have the traffic stats that something with a wider geographical appeal might have. My other venture into commercialism, the Columbia Closings Cafe Press store<\/a> has so far cleared me a grand total of $10.00 (and cost, if I recall correctly, $60 to set up, so I'm still $50 under water on that -- not that I mind as it was fun to put the calendars and other products together).<\/p>\n So, we'll see what happens. If the ads bring in a miniscule amount, I may drop them, otherwise not. At any rate if you surf without javascript turned on, or if you Firefox<\/i> users load the adblock plugin, you should be able to avoid seeing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Assuming that things are working correctly, you most probably will have noticed a Google AdSense ad box between the list of pages and the first post on the page. I actually signed up for AdSense in the middle of last year, but when I changed the blog to the current theme, which I like quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}