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What's up, Pat?

And welcome to episode 349 of Ask Pat.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.

All right, here's today's question from Hava.

Hey, Pat, what's going on?

My name is Kava, and I have a brand new baby, tiny little infant website over at Our Kids Can Thrive.com.

And my question to you is, should I use Google ads on my website?

I really don't want to.

I tried it, and I just think they just look very not nice.

And widely, like, do you suggest using ads at all?

And what would be an alternative to monetizing? And widely, like, do you suggest using ads at all?

And what would be an alternative to monetizing my site without using ads?

Thanks so much for all you do.

And see you later.

Hey, Hava, thank you so much for the question.

And I guess I should say, hey, congratulations on your new baby.

And by baby, I mean your new baby website, like like you said and it's really cool that you know I get a lot of questions from people

who are just starting out and these are great questions to ask and this is this is right up there

because it's obviously important to think about monetization how are we going to keep this going

obviously a lot of us want to profit from the work that we do online and over time you're going to be providing a lot of value and you want to get paid for that, which is absolutely the right mindset. Now, I also like your mindset in thinking of what your site looks like and how it might be portrayed if people come across certain things that really don't fit. And if you feel in your gut that something may be off a little bit,

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