I think internet traffic will increase for some during these hard times.

I also think many companies will decrease advertising budgets.
To increase ROI, they will turn their focus on advertising on a few sites only. With Adsense, they could do this via Placements. (Or, like some, they will do direct advertising.)

Are you ready to take advantage of these changes?

lol same goes for me also :)

It gives members one more thing to post about. ;)

-Raymond

here some numbers ;)

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Yep, I think the Internet is one of industries benefiting from the current situation if anything, in some ways of course.

CNN Today:

My board is suffering - not due to loss of advertising, donations, merchandise - the fact that I live in Australia and websites do not offer an Australian Dollar price its all US Dollar some of the pro addons etc that I wanted/needed for my website have now become unaffordable as
the US Dollar is kinda like 62c, so for every dollar I pay I am losing out on 40c doesnt sound like much but when things are $180 or so your looking at nearly $240AUD.

It have almost brought a stop to the development of my website as affording to buy pro addons is almost unastainable, or even paying for custom work to be done gets too far out of hand - so one thing I am trying to organise is getting custom work done (just basic stuff) and in return putting an advert on my website to the coders website and paying off amounts owing at like $20 - $50 at a time type thing just to cut down on costs with the current market.

As long as we keep our jobs, we could survive the situation.

I pay for hosting every 2 years, let you know after our 3% sales tax raise here in CA kicks in.
- 10.25% Ya ! :(