Does Web Traffic Always Equal Income?
qeorge: Put another way, are there situations where you can have boatloads of traffic and not make enough to pay for the bandwidth? Do eyeballs really mean all that much every time?Bandwidth is really cheap, so even the worst monetization can cover a $10/month shared hosting account. But that still doesn't mean its worth your time.For example, I used to own FakePosters.com (not affiliated with the current owners). It started as an SEO experiment, but the traffic grew to several million uniques a month with very little work on my end (StumbleUpon can push way more traffic than most people realize).Sounds great, but unfortunately these type of visitors just don't click on ads. The site easily covered its $10/month shared hosting bill, and made about $150/month at its peak, but 1500 bucks a year is hardly worth the time it took to run, not to mention the dubious legality of posting photos you don't own a clear copyright on. So I closed the site after 1 year and sold the domain off for $1k. I'm happy with the way it worked out, but I don't plan on a repeat performance.So if I were you, I'd move to cheap shared hosting and move on. 100k hits is nothing your ISP should be complaining about.