
Hosting sites can be paid via CPM pricing, click-through pricing, or outcome based pricing.
Amazon.com pays for an ad banner when it results in the sale of a book.
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Nielsen, Jakob (1997), "Do Websites Have Increasing Returns?" Alertbox April 1997.