Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

On Fri, 9 May 2008 22:00:25 -0700 (PDT), Prisoner at War put finger to
keyboard and typed:

>On May 9, 5:41 pm, SAZ <saz1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The vast majority of these sites are over 500,000 in Alexa.  Frankly,
>> I'm shocked they're even advertising these numbers and actimg like it's
>> something special.
>
>Huh?  I'm talking about http://results.sitesell.com/sunnyside.html
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>like half are *under* 500K Alexa...now my sense is that you can't make
>much money until you're 100K Alexa (and no "financial independence"
>without ranking below ~45K).

That may be true if your only income is from advertising, although it
depends on what you mean by "much money" - I've helped create an
ad-sup****ted website which is currently ranked around 500,000 by Alexa
and generates around $250 a month in Google Adsense earnings. That's
not a huge amount, but it covers the costs of hosting it with plenty
to spare and it's a useful second income for the owner (who isn't me,
by the way; this isn't one of my sites that I've mentioned in other
posts to this group).

It's certainly not true if you're selling an actual product or
service. I've worked on a site which has an Alexa ranking in the
300,000 range that earns enough to sup****t several full-time employees
and a bunch of contractors.

Mark
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