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Movin’ again, unfortunately

6 Gigs of bandwidth aint enough.

eHarmony Blog is switching hosts again.

From February 1 to 16, eHarmony Blog consumed 6 gigabytes of bandwidth. It seems that our hosting plan in our interim host cannot handle more than 100,000 pageviews per month from 21,000 visits. Bandwidth limits in this day and age? I can’t believe it either.

Today we’re moving to another interim host. This one is in the Garden State. From casual observation, this hosting company seems faster than the last two.

The last Free Communication Weekend brought us traffic numbers similar to the one before: 30,000 pageviews from 5,000 to 6,000 visitors. The four days ate 1.5 gigs of bandwidth.

eHarmony Blog’s traffic patterns and trends, by the way, is very similar to eHarmony.com. According to Quantcast, our audience demographics is 58% female / 42% male.

After these two moves, I don’t know if I should begin preparing a revenue stream. The site receives 28,000 monthly visitors, ostensibly more popular than any dating site review site out there, except Online Dating Magazine. (The promotional codes page received 52,000 pageviews in the last six months — we helped save a bunch of membership fees.) Do you think readers appreciate that this site has no revenue stream, not even a donation button? What do you think? Could you let me know?

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Comments 6

  1. LavenderLover wrote:

    Viva the Garden State :)

    Posted 19 Feb 2009 at 4:31 pm
  2. Dave Evans wrote:

    Ads are a double-edged sword but you don’t have to worry about bias charges like I do. Try a few ads, eHarmony affiliate link obviously. Every text link to eHarmony could be an affiliate link as well.

    Try to keep the ads relevant, i.e. no fat-burning snake oil promotions.

    Nice traffic, about 70% of my visitors come from Google, more consumer oriented, been trying to figure out how to accomodate them because they bounce after the first page when they see its more of an industry blog, or at least I think so.

    Posted 21 Feb 2009 at 8:59 am
  3. eharmonyblog wrote:

    Dave, ads will force us to unpublish a bunch of posts we republished.

    Read http://eharmony-blog.com/956 .

    Having certain forms of revenue sources will lose us some legal rights, I think. The company allocates millions of dollars annually on a legal department to claim its rights against sites that infringe on their intellectual property. Being ‘commercial-free’ gives us a strong legal defense.

    Today, the site authors (and everyone who contributes) enjoy enormous journalistic freedom simply because we don’t make a cent ’round here. The EFF has a great intro and FAQ.

    It’s a complex matter, but at this point of our growth, I’d like to start discussing the topic of blog revenue.

    I hope to hear from others as well.

    Posted 21 Feb 2009 at 1:03 pm
  4. Dave Evans wrote:

    I can see them perhaps not granting you affiliate status because you so often rake them over the coals but I don’t see how you are infringing on their IP, please explain.

    Posted 21 Feb 2009 at 1:11 pm
  5. eharmonyblog wrote:

    We republish screenshots, their site messages, their publications, their images, their advertising, their marketing materials, and heck, even their questionnaire. In full. In wild abandon.

    Posted 21 Feb 2009 at 2:21 pm
  6. Dave Evans wrote:

    The only issue I see is with the questionnaire. Everything else you mention is public information.

    You’ll go broke with a tip jar.

    Good luck with the server move.

    Posted 22 Feb 2009 at 9:28 am

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