I woke up this morning in Guatape, Colombia, to the news that Swiss climber Ueli Steck had been killed in an accident on the Nepali side of Mount Everest. Guatape is as peaceful a place as they come. And yet, this event, literally three continents away, has ruined my day.
¿Que un mundo extraño, no?
Hey y’all;
just letting you know I’m pausing the advertising on the site for the moment. It’s not generating a ton of revenue, and I’m not satisfied with all the additional scripts and tracking it runs. It slows down the site and makes your user experience worse.
I’m seeing more success monetizing by using affiliate marketing, so I will continue including those links in some articles. I hope this isn’t too intrusive.
What you could do to help me out though is sign up for my mailing list, here. I’m still dialing in the exact format, but I generally send a roundup of the week’s articles, and maybe a few links to other things that interest me. Anyways, everyone says the real way to start leveraging your audience and build a following is to start an email list, so that’s what I’m doing. As always, your support means the world to me 🙂
And of course, if you really appreciate the work I do, you can click the “Donate” button in the sidebar and throw me a tip 🙂 But I don’t expect you to.
Thanks for reading,
Daniel
Had to share… safe travels Bao Bao!
On February 21st 2017 FedEx Boeing 777-200LRF arrived at Dulles Airport to pick up Panda Bao Bao for a return flight to Chengdu in China. Bao Bao departed Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington D.C. at 11am, and continued the journey to Chengdu at 1:50pm. Total flight time was 13 hours and 30 minutes. From the […]
Hey y’all. Sorry for no update on Friday. I’ve been traveling and fell behind.
Back on schedule on Monday, I promise. In the meantime, I created a table of contents page for the Nepal blogs, so you can more easily pick back up where you left off. You can find it here: https://thisisyouth.org/table-of-contents/ Hope you find it helpful!
It’ll find its way into the navbar up top today or tomorrow. I’m planning on doing a little bit of housecleaning around here, so you might see a few new pages and banners.
Just thought I’d drop a note!
Happy Saturday!!
Hey y’all.
No entry in “In Praise of Character in the Bleak Inhuman Loneliness” this Friday. As promised, I’m letting the story breathe for a minute before we visit Pokhara. Pokhara is a peaceful place and deserves insulation from the chaos of Kathmandu. Even in cyberspace.
I’d like to take the space to address a change on the site. I have enabled WordAds advertising, which means some of you may be seeing increased advertising on the site. Since my site has reached a moderate level of traffic, running these ads means I may stand a chance to make a little money from this venture. Repay some of the coffees, dirty chais, and flat whites I bought while writing it, anyways.
(I’m lying, no one in America knows how to make a decent flat white. Miss u Ristr8o!)
These ads should look something like the ones above — possibly targeted based on your location or interests, you know how online advertising is.
If you want to disable these ads, that’s totally fine feel free to use adblocking software, if you aren’t already. I won’t hold it against you. That said, if you’d like to DISABLE your adblocker on my website, you’d be doing a small act to show your appreciation of me. That said, the choice is yours, Really.
Please let me know if you are having an overly obnoxious experience with the ads — I can turn them off if I decide they’re too intrusive.
I don’t yet know how much money I can earn per month from this, but research tells me not much more than a couple bucks a month, right now. I may do an earnings breakdown after a few months, just to share the information for aspiring bloggers and other WordPress users.
I have also begun placing Amazon Affiliate Links into my book reviews to attempt to generate income. If you click these links and do any shopping on Amazon (like buy the book), I earn a small percentage commission. My opinion is, of course, unaffected.
Hope to drop a few posts on you this weekend to space out the Nepal stuff; we’ll resume our story on Monday in at the Pokhara bus terminal.
Best.
thisisyouth 