mayor - 2:56 pm on Nov 2, 2000 (gmt 0)

The frenzy days where web businesses had more money than brains are behind us. The 'traffic at any cost' mentality is nearing the end of its death spiral.

I doubt if the fees Ink wants will fit into many viable financial business models, and the bean counters now raising in the ranks of surviving web companies will probably gag on them. Especially when the question arises "what will I get for the money" and the answer is "well, I don't know ... hopefully we'll get more traffic, but I don't know for sure and I don't know how much or for how long ... and of coarse it will still depend on how well our high-paid SEO people do their job"

Personally, I think a fee of $1 per page per year is more like it, especially in light of all the other pay-to-play programs now on everyone's palate, and in light of the dismal traffic levels that Ink has been generating in the past couple of months.