I’ve been trying to find a reliable metric to track traffic ever since the site was launched, but many methods are inconsistent or rely on not-for-profit systems with frequent outages. There are a number of complicated solutions available, as well as one that is very, very easy; Google Adsense.
If I placed paying ads on this site, it would be very easy for a court to misconstrue my efforts to educate the public for a crusade for personal gain. I haven’t put any ads on the site to avoid exactly that discussion, but that doesn’t mean I can’t take advantage of Google’s ads for the sake of tracking my traffic, even if I’ve made it impossible to actually get paid for doing so.
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