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You have a great site. One little tip, look into changing your favicon. It would make it more bookmark friendly. 

Don't take adsense too literally, the point here is that the best revenue sources (for long-term profits) are those that grow with the visitor numbers, not the Pagerank of your site, or whatever.  If a link on a PR 2 site with 1000 uniques a month is…say $20/month, and a link on a PR 2 site with 2000 uniques a month is…say, $25 then all things being equal, the advertiser is really only paying $10 for the exposure on the second site, and $15 for the SEO advantage.  

I think direct ad placement is the best way to go, as you usually get a premium, and advertisers are just as interested in branding themselves as they are getting clicks.

Hi College Investor! Just from reading your comment, I was intrigued. I think you writing an article about how you can still make money if you are banned from Google would be great for a guest post at a site like ProBlogger. Just a thought:).

The College Investor said:

What happens if you are like me and are banned from Google AdSense?  I think that KNS Financial was in the same boat?  I'm back to making money without Google AdSense, and it seems better to be free from it.

There are other options beyond AdSense that won't kill your SEO!