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Just a correction. Service providers do not pay any money to the website owners. The money we pay as our internet bill only goes to the service provider and they in turn pay other service providers who provide the back-end infrastructure for the internet services.
Service providers are only charging you for the amount of data you use. It is not related to the amount of traffic for any particular website.
Site owners get revenue either from ads, selling services and/or products. Some websites provide their user information...
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to other companies for targeted advising. No website gets paid by the service provider for number of hits. At the most they can get some small amount of revenue if they enter into any deal with the ISP for targeted advertising.
For the most part, many sites are run by the administrators off their own pockets.