If you've looked at this blog, you'll note that there are now some Google ads embedded in the main page as well as in all of the posts. There are a few reasons for this:

• I've finally hit the point where the traffic justifies trying to monetize this thing.
• Anecdotal evidence suggets that pages with embedded Google ads do much better in Google's rankings than pages without them. I suspect the reason for this has less to do with an overt bias and more to do with the fact that sites with ads get crawled a lot more frequently, but I wouldn't put it past Google or anybody else to favor the folks who drive traffic their way.
• My accountant would really prefer that my business has multiple streams of income, even if they are small. I've never considered this blog a "business," but I suppose I might if there's a few hundred bucks a year in it.

I've rebuilt the pages to keep the ads as unobtrusive as possible. They should blend in pretty well and are located at natural break points or at the ends of blog entries.

I have also updated my search box to use Google for searches both on this site and on the web.

-btc