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How to Lose Money with Your Website
ChuurchOfApathy.com was launched in August 2007. By September 2007 it was making an average of $0.02/day in income. Now it brings in an average of over $0.05/day. Subtract the $5 a month I spend in hosting fees and the fancy traffic tracking service that costs me $15 a year to monitor precisely how many people out there couldn't give less of a shit about my site, and I calculate this thing is costing me roughly the price of a fast food grilled chicken sandwich to keep running each month. Want to know how I did it? I tried.
If you DON'T want to lose money with your website, don't start one.
Don't try.
Do you really want to monetize your website/blog with a bunch of ads and crap that will automatically induce the few wayward assholes who stumble upon it by accident to think it’s a tacky pile of dogshit and click away before at least giving your content a chance not to completely suck?
If you don't believe doing so is lame, uncool or obnoxious, then chances are your site is already plenty lame, uncool and obnoxious anyway, so what the fuck.
Can anyone lose money online?
Yes. Unless you're on good working terms with a number of college age girls suffering from severe daddy issues or a bunch of corporate types who derive a depraved pleasure from being kicked in the nuts or farted on by fat women in rubber g-strings, you'll find it virtually impossible to generate enough revenue with your website to pay your monthly hosting bill, let alone what you paid for your web design software and whatever you decide to shell out for advertising.
How much money can I lose with my website/blog?
It depends. If you stick to a cheap host like GoDaddy and your parents weren’t so closely related that their sweaty rutting didn’t conceive someone stupid enough to think paying some other website 15 cents or more per click to generate traffic to your blog is a good deal, that people would want to buy a bunch of crummy merchandise bearing your site’s logo, and that you need to invest in the finest security software to keep all the non-existent barbarians who give a fuck about hacking your site at bay, you can keep your losses low like mine. If however your folks were first cousins or siblings or something, you can definitely turn your site into a seemingly bottomless cash pit inhabited by an insatiable money eating monster of some kind.
Should I really waste my time creating a site that nobody is going to read and will only end up costing me money?
Sure, why not? Judging by how many millions of people are spending so much of their free time on their asses bitching and complaining through their computers about the ways other people should be doing things differently to make the world better, or idly gratifying their egos writing nihilistic, narcissistic garbage such as this, apparently there’s nothing else on the planet that needs anybody’s attention.