Here,s what I mean by that: I,ve gone through all the effort of writing my content... Publishing my content... I have been blessed with a visitor who is intere

Here,s what I mean by that: I,ve gone through all the effort of writing my content... Publishing my content... I have been blessed with a visitor who is interested in what I have to say... Joy! I want them to read what I have written, potentially changing their life for the better. It would be a great honor and privilege, in fact. It is the main reason I write. If I had a choice between that and a ten-dollar clickthrough to an affiliate, I would not make the trade. It may not seem like an either-or choice, but it is. Their time is also very limited, it is the scarcest resource any of us have, and their attention span is fickle. Even if their attention strays for a split-second by looking at the ad, I have already lost them, potentially to never have them again. I don,t need data to tell me that anything extraneous I put on the page is competing for attentiom with the content which brought the being reading it in the first place.