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First of all, good morning to everyone out there in freelance writing world!

If any of you visited the site earlier this morning, you may have found it inaccessible – asking for passwords or returning an internal server error. Unfortunately things got messed up on a few of my sites during an upgrade to the server last night. Fortunately though, the nice folks at HostGator took care of it, and things seem to be A-OK now.

Also, while looking through things during the fix, I noticed that the new custom ad placements meant ads showed up on the homepage – potentially meaning it would be violating the Adsense TOS if I had ads in more than 2 posts there.

I had a few options:

1. Go back to single-page ads only where they’d have to be in a fixed location and not work very well for some posts (not an option really in my book).

2. Cut the posts per page to 3 and remove the ad at the top of the homepage to make sure only three adsense ads appeared on the page.

3. Start using the “more” feature to cut off posts before the ads (then posts wouldn’t be full in the RSS feed).

Since most users seem to come from RSS and search here, I opted for number 2. I apologize that you’ll see fewer posts per page, but for the bulk of visitors it seemed like the preferable option versus cutting off feeds (something people specifically requested in the past).

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About the Author: Jennifer Mattern

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Jenn is a professional blogger and freelance business writer. She has worked as a freelance writer since 1999, and has been an active business and niche blogger since 2004. She owns All Freelance Writing as well as several other sites and blogs covering PR, small business, and related topic areas. She is also currently writing a nonfiction book for freelance writers called The Query-Free Freelancer, and is the author of the Web Writer's Guide e-book series.

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