Advertisers pay the sites according to page views, turning those clicks into dollars.
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Now you can surf the Web without all those flashing, winking, bandwidth-sucking banners (that happen to pay for the sites you're visiting).
The move has left thousands of Vatican visitors and pilgrims scrambling to find alternate ways to pay for popular sites, including Vatican Museums, as well as souvenirs, gifts and meals.
The folks at Levi may offer a sop to the stores: It would like to emblazon Levi's banners on the retailers' own Web sites and pay them a commission when their customers buy new duds at the jeansmaker's sites.
Boutiques.com currently has the same business model used by Like.com, where merchants pay if shoppers end up purchasing the goods on other sites, or sometimes pay a small cost for each time a shopper clicked on their merchandise to learn more.
Wallace allegedly made money using this method to drive traffic to sites that pay for referrals.
Our correspondent says small groups of people have been coming to the bomb sites to pay homage to the dead.
Baidu also allows sites to pay for higher placement in search results, a tactic that Google has been careful to avoid.
Some sites even pay writers by the click, which is of course a system that promotes sensationalism, or doing whatever it takes to get noticed.
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Many people who are eligible for free tax services, for example, at IRS-approved Volunteer Income Tax Assistant (VITA) sites, pay to have their taxes prepared.
So when e-commerce sites, spawned by the new commerce revolution, are blacklisted for deceiving web users and reputable companies by directing consumers away from their initial choice to sites that pay them advertising fees, it impacts the credibility of the system and jeopardizes the system as a whole.
First, many jobs that are found on pay-for-listing sites are also available at no cost on company websites or freely accessible job search engine sites.
Others sites will offer pay-per-play classic games such as Asteroids and Pac Man, and others will offer cinema and theatre tickets or ring tones and icons.
And the owners of the big sites most often pay their bloggers as freelancers, avoiding all of those taxes and benefits that newspapers have to pay for their writers.
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But if they were living on the proposed transit sites, they would pay council tax and have access to amenities for up to six months.
That ad spending was narrowly targeted, mostly invested in pay-per-click ads on sites like Google and Yahoo.
Britain's tax on the disposal of waste at landfill sites is being used to pay for a small cut in payroll tax.
The network will entice Web surfers to try Starbucks out because it will open doors to sites that are normally behind pay walls.
Libraries of solved CAPTCHA images have also been collected, thanks to sites around the web that pay people fractions of pennies to solve tons of CAPTCHAs.
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Prospect, which represents 1, 300 of the 4, 000 people who work at the sites, says the current pay offer does not reflect the success of the company.
According to the survey, double the number of people who had used illegal file-sharing sites would be prepared to pay for music compared to those that had never used such services.
Google Inc. (GOOG) and other news aggregators may continue to show short news items on their Internet sites without being required to pay, German lawmakers decided in a parliamentary vote today in a blow to publishers including Axel Springer AG (SPR) and Bertelsmann SE.
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"A passionate fan should be willing to pay a reasonable price for access to these sites, " he says.
Among other things, the code stipulates that the chief executive's individualized pay should be clearly disclosed on corporate Web sites and in official documentation.
Prospect, which represents 1, 300 of the 4, 000 people who work at the sites, had said the original pay offer did not reflect the success of the company.
Another part of Google, though, creates the programs that pay Web developers to put ads on their sites, thus creating the incentive to make pointless Web pages in the first place.
The format of ads on Twitter's mobile and desktop sites are the same, and advertisers pay the same rate no matter the platform.
Refusal to pay salaries is a common scam on the construction sites that soak up much of the immigrant influx during the spring and summer.
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The easiest way to control this is to disable notifications, therefore allowing you to choose when you check these sites, rather than being forced to pay attention to every single update that people make.
So why would advertisers pay more for an ad on Facebook than on other sites, if the CTR is lower?
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