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The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the make-them-stop dept.

nywanna writes "After seeing the example of Plenty of Fish and the reports of the site earning over $10,000/day in Adsense revenues, I quickly realized that there are a lot of ugly websites that are extremely successful. The reason for this, according to the article, is that ugly websites do a few things that beautiful websites tend to lack."

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  1. slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe that's why slashdot is so successful?

  2. Talk about Ugly.. by Azarael · · Score: 4, Funny
    Just look at the website for the article:
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    1. Re:Talk about Ugly.. by moochfish · · Score: 5, Funny

      Slashdot beat it with an ugly stick.

  3. So? by NoseBag · · Score: 5, Funny

    ugly websites do a few things that beautiful websites tend to (not do).

    Ugly women often have the same virtue.

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    Cloned foods give the statement "We had that last week!" a whole new meaning.
  4. Re:Well... by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really think you're underestimating the drawing power of Pakistani potato chips. I mean, I knew a guy who got $50 million in VC funding in 1998 for a website with nothing on it but a dancing package of Pakistani potato chips.

  5. I thought disclosing AdSense revenue... by MarkByers · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...was a breach of Google's AdSense contract?

    PS I have an ugly site. Can I have a front page link too? Thanks!

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    I'll probably be modded down for this...
  6. Re:ICQ by pbranes · · Score: 4, Funny
    How could you call this ugly?

    http://web.archive.org/web/20000815053636/web.icq. com/

  7. Re:"Ugly" can be very subjective. by Rorschach1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Plus, it's got lots of lesbians. That's a virtual guarantee of success for even the ugliest of websites!

  8. Re:something seems 'fishy' allright... by slashdot.org · · Score: 4, Funny

    :-) Yeah, the summary probably forgot to mention something:

    reports of the site earning over $10,000/day in Adsense revenues on days the site hits Slashdot's frontpage.