Originally Posted by
YoungSoloTraveler
Realistically, OMAAT, VFTW, FM should just split off into their own stand alone sites. Not hard to clone their WP blog.
BA must be paying them a king's ransom cause if those three left the network would probably crumble within a month.
Ben could do it. Gary is a shareholder in InsideFlyer so unlikely, albeit BA is still wholly owned by Randy IIRC. Greg probably benefits from BA overall and the nature of his site means that he wouldn't find it easy to get his own commercial deals.
One downside of BA is that people never visit your home page - BA send them directly to the article. This means your average session is 1 page. 35% of my page views are my home page, readers start there then click on the articles they want which gives me an average session of nearer 3 pages per reader (and so more ad views).
If I was a BA blogger I would be focussing hard on ways to keep people on my site from the individual article pages, which is where BA sends people.