How to create a GREAT website
 

Here's some helpful tips from one of the UBERPIMPS of online marketing, Seth Godin: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...-create-1.html

His advice applies to most types of sites. In particular, the following apply well to adult and gaming sites:

6. Measure. If you?re not improving, if the yield is negative... kill it.

7. Insight is good, clever is bad. Many websites say, ?look at me.? Your goal ought to be to say, ?here?s what you were looking for.?

Good read, I always appreciate your threads, always something useful in them :) keep it up. I personally liked

1. Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a dealbreaker.

8. If you hire a professional: hire a great one. The best one. Let her do her job. 10 mediocre website consultants working in perfect harmony can?t do the work of one rock star.

This article reminds me that webmasters normally are faced with a TOUGH DECISION: do you do a FEW high quality/attention-heavy sites or do you do TONS of "build it and forget it" sites.

This is a tough question because there's always the fear of putting all your eggs in a few baskets using the former option above. However, if you FOCUS on your sites and LISTEN to your visitors/get them to help you address their concerns, your site could be more productive. On the other hand, building cookie cutter/semi-automated sites hundreds if not thousands of times would be a good way to find out what works, how it works, and finetune and replicate.

There's probably no right or wrong answer. The answer just might depend on how well you listen to and process the feedback that your site's stats are giving you.

"Many websites say, “look at me.” Your goal ought to be to say, “here’s what you were looking for.”

How true is that!

do people here make websites :)

Quite a few. There's a few that harvest traffic. Others are arbitrageurs. But MOST, I'm sure, conduct their online biz through websites :thumbsup:2 cents:

Not me. :upsidedow

That is something I have been struggling with since I started. Both can make you money, but I think listening and doing is much easier than cookie cutter.

Yeah. I tend to agree with you. VOLUME sites require a lot of automation. Automation = (usually) crappier attention to what the customer needs. My next step with my network would probably to convert them to more social media-centric sites.

I think Google's new focus on trust and authority rewards building large, comprehensive sites that provide a great user experience... It's too difficult to differentiate cookie cutter (but legit) sites from spam.

True. Although RSS and some content customization tools are making some real nice "original" cookie cutter sites possible.

You're dead on...

I used to do sites like that.... look at my Adult.com sites.... they're screaming "Look at me!"

Now I produce with the "Yeah... you fucking found it!" feel.

Works MUCH better. :thumbsup

Ive read two of his books, thanks for the link.

To hire all of my friends or not to hire all of my friends.... That is the question...

Thanks, bro!

Great post $5 submissions. Bookmarked.

Good thread, added to:
There is no money in porn

some nice ideas in there.

Good post $5 submissions.

Bump...

this thread made me think... a nice read though!

Yep, niche relevance and graphical cues re niche relevance/authority are KEY.:thumbsup

good read. :thumbsup