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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. Ugly websites get slashdotted! by brian23 · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/769705d9b08519a47 87a04a681da4700/index.html

  2. Here's two examples: by MSBob · · Score: 4, Informative
    http://www.ebay.com/
    http://www.amazon.com/

    Butt ugly, horrible backends and still rolling in dough.

    --
    Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
  3. Re:Maddox by RalphLeon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good comment, better link: Maddox.

  4. Re:what's with the hate? by Taevin · · Score: 4, Informative
    Just rating a comment on Slashdot requires reloading the entire slow page of comments.

    1. Use Firefox or some other tabbing browser.
    2. Open new tab with the post to moderate (middle click the post number).
    3. Select moderation.
    4. Click moderate button.
    5. Close tab.
    6. Profit?

    In fact, that's how I do all of my posting.