Comments on: Do Ugly Blogs Convert Better?

By: Mike Paahana

Mike Paahana — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:19:17 +0000

just like ugly girls r easier to score with

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» SEO Test - Site Beautification » SEO News - All The SEO Scoop — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:42:28 +0000

[...] There have been some discussions recently about the positive effect of ugly sites on conversions, such as here and here. [...]

By: http://earn-money-and-be-a-millionaire.blogspot.com

http://earn-money-and-be-a-millionaire.blogspot.com — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:53:44 +0000

I think the design for the blog/site have to be neat and tidy to get loyal readers ,if we put ugly ad’s it may seem that we are forcing the reader’s to click on them , the site has to be friendly , ugly designs can bring a negative effect on the reader

By: Dan del Villano

Dan del Villano — Mon, 22 May 2006 02:48:05 +0000

I can’t comment on conversion, but we just met with our designer for our soon-to-be-launced site and we are really glad we went with a professional designer. The site just looks so much better than it would have! To me, it is like having a good looking garden that everyone can see when they go down the street. My gardening skills aren’t so hot, but they are still way better than my web and graphic design skills!

By: sharon

sharon — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:38:56 +0000

I predict that eDate over the next couple of years will overtake all of the big guys.
eDate.com is totally 100% free with no catch. It’s got a great chart room which I use a lot
to meet people and it’s a quick running site with an easy to navigate design. eDate.com will be
one of the most popular dating sites out there. I have spoken with the owner about his current developing and marketing platform and I am confident to say that http://www.eDate.com will be a huge competitor in the online dating and free online dating industry.

By: Do Ugly Sites Sell Better? » @ Ambot ah! [ technology news and reviews ]

Do Ugly Sites Sell Better? » @ Ambot ah! [ technology news and reviews ] — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:26:34 +0000

[...] I think Scoble may have revelead this earlier in the month and called it “anti-marketing design“. Dozens of other bloggers picked up the story — Darren thinks ugly sites convert better but Rustybrick of seroundtable.com brings it down to the huge volume of organic traffic. [...]

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:43:12 +0000

eDate.com seems to be along the same lines as plenty of fish. eDate is a totally free, fast loading desing that appears to be attracting thousands of users each day. One advantage over plent o is definately the nem.

I have spoken with the owner of edate and he is not corporate and he just wants to offer a totally free dating service that takes on the big boys. It is currently pretty new so he is transferrring thousands of users over from another site.

I met my boyfriend on http://www.edate.com about a month ago. Does anybody understand how they stay in business without charging any money? I didn’t have to pay a cent and it seems just as good as any other dating site that I paid for.

Just thought I’d let people know about edate.com because alll of the other dating sites rope you in to paying some fee and edate didn’t.

By: What A Ripoff - Bloglogic.net

What A Ripoff - Bloglogic.net — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:51:34 +0000

[...] Back in early March, Robert Scoble wrote this post about how ugly sites convert. A few other blogs picked up on it as well, and all was well. [...]

By: The Blogateer

The Blogateer — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:07:56 +0000

The way your site is designed depends on your circumstances?
I mean if your just blogging for fun, then an attractive site design works better, yet if your blogging for a profit, simple, yet well layed out design works.
I really think its not about how your site or blog looks, if its clean, and its got content that YOU want to read…who cares?

By: Small Business Blogging

Small Business Blogging — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:33:35 +0000

Do Ugly Blogs Earn More?

Robert Scoble started a blog post about anti-marketing design site of his friend Markus Frind. He is Google’s #1 AdSense user in Canada, pulling in more han $10,000 per day from Google. His site is certainly not beautifully designed, but receivi…

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 05:03:31 +0000

As another blog designer, I’d agree with Peter’s comments.

Also, there’s all sorts of factors which come into play which make a site *successful* – usefulness (content) is #1.

Probably we all frequent websites which have “ugly” designs because they’re *useful* to us and there’s no alternative which is as useful.

Our *experience* visiting sites is a mixture of content, design (by this I mean what it looks like), usability (how it works, how easy it is to use). We need to work on all three to make the experience for visitors even better.

By: www.Niche-Hunter.com»Blog Archive » Niche Blogging: Blog Design

www.Niche-Hunter.com»Blog Archive » Niche Blogging: Blog Design — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:38:24 +0000

[...] There is recent discussion over at Problogger.Net about blog design. The discussion talks about ugly blogs and conversion rates. [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:14:39 +0000

Scott, you are definetly right. Not to mention most people I know are more interested in the content and don’t really pay attention to the design. I believe content and navigation are the key’s to a good site.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:42:29 +0000

I use that good old acronym KISS – Keep it Simple Stupid. The average internet user doesn’t care about fancy flash or graphics. They want to be able to use the site quickly and efficiently. The best feedback I have received are from my simply designed and easy to navigate websites.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:54:25 +0000

Let me just step back away from Leon before the tomatoes start to fly :-) You’re a game man mate.

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:33:44 +0000

Websites are kinda like women. You have the gorgeous but shallow ones and the average looking but interesting ones. While the pretty ones might hold your attention for a while, the average looking ones make you stick around. Content is king! Remember that!

By: Declan

Declan — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:54:49 +0000

When you don’t know where you are going any road will take you there…

By: Alan @ Weblogstop

Alan @ Weblogstop — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:22:11 +0000

Amazing! And did you read at Scobleizer that plentyoffish.com makes $10,000 per day in Adsense revenue? That’s just insane.

By: Must Love Goblins

Must Love Goblins — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:18:50 +0000

I think it may be more that *simple* sites convert well. People notice the ads because there isn’t a lot of crap distracting them. I have some old school web sites that are straight white background black text with Adsense at the top, and they all have double digit CTRs.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:00:53 +0000

Does anyone really think that Scoble would be less succesful if, say, he’d got the Blog Studio to design his blog? Do people really think that plentyoffish.com wouldn’t have done so well if their site ran on rails and had a proffesional looking design? These sites happen to have crap designs but the content they have is exactly what people want, so they ignore the design. I’d bet if you did a redesign of Scoble’s site he’d get an instant bump in traffic. Same with plentyoffish