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I track file hits, not page views, but checking over time has shown that page views are pretty consistently around 65% of file hits. In a normal month, e.g., October, November, December 2001, I get about 1.5 million file hits, which would be just under a million page views per month. In...

From October through December 2001, I was getting right around 1.5 million hits per month. In January 2002, due to some media coverage, it was up to 2.1 million hits (about 202,000 unique-per-day visitors). Past experience shows that a hit averages around 10k, so that means volume...

Wow -- thanks for all the good leads.

An ad network has required that my web site have a privacy policy. I have written and posted one -- any thoughts or comments? http://politicalgraveyard.com/privacy.html Anyone have experience to offer about web site privacy policies, what they should or shouldn't include, etc.?

Right now, I am fortunate enough to have a friend with a web server who hosts my sites for free. I do give him 20% of ad revenue. However, I thought I should check to see what my options are if I had to buy webhosting on the market. And from what I can tell, the service I am getting is...

I don't see any discussions of this, so ... anyone here tried the Amazon Honor System to collect donations from your web site users? I installed the thing the other day -- just a text link on the main page for now -- and so far I have gotten one donation of $20 (or $16.85 after Amazon fees)...

My site -- PoliticalGraveyard.com -- is making about $50 to $60 a month in ad revenue. It would probably be more if I were willing to accept gambling ads.

My experience? I receive them and file them under "virus". I guess I have a pretty large collection, heh. If I have any doubt about whether something's a virus, I forward the email to my university account; the virus screen there catches it (and gives the virus name) if it's a recognized...

Mailbox full of viruses SirCam and BadTrans and Magistr and others all scan the browser cache of an infected machine in search of email addresses to send to. In other words, if you have your email address on a popular web page, you have to cope with a constant stream of virus emails. Me...

As I think I mentioned earlier, I dumped Amazing Media some months ago -- they were running casino ads and claimed there was no way I could opt out of them. Somewhat to my surprise, they sent me everything I was owed, even though the balance was slightly less than $50. Agreed, kudos to...

I started with Amazing Media last December when they were claiming about $1 CPM. Then they retroactively cut that in half to about 50 cents. Then, they started running ads for casinos (very porn-like trashy ads), and claimed there was no way for me to opt out. Ha. I chopped their code out...

Well, I've never actually seen a tobacco ad online, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

This morning, I happened to be breezing past my site's main page, and noticed that Amazing Media's banner was an ad for a casino. Whoa. I really don't want to have those on my site. I wrote a polite letter to Amazing Media Ad Support, asking if it was possible to opt out of gambling ads...

And it's, what, now 85 days from the end of December... if she's telling the truth. So much for their claim of 45 days from end-of-month, which was already excessively long time to wait for a check.

(1) Lots of content -- useful info that people will find via search engines and come to your site, bookmark it, and come back. (2) Consistency across time -- it takes time for traffic to build. Be there when it arrives. Changes in URL mean that all past links to your site are dead...