[SEO] do ugly sites still convert best ?

[bill]

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/do- ... ll/342203/

[vblogger]

If the content is good they sure do

[pornmafia]

Fucking sites with popups, lay overs and other ad creatives piss me off. That lik is a prime example.

[AussieSpeedoGuy]

I hate popups and have difficulty understanding the financial gain vs pissing off your users.

When I update the blogroll list on my blog I remove links to sites with popups.

Dave

[bill]

I hate popups and have difficulty understanding the financial gain vs pissing off your users.

When I update the blogroll list on my blog I remove links to sites with popups.

Dave

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wish everybody would do that

[TheButcher]

I hate popups and have difficulty understanding the financial gain vs pissing off your users.

When I update the blogroll list on my blog I remove links to sites with popups.

Dave

If your site has a lot of traffic then it makes sense, in the old days pop-under traffic was selling for up to $15/cpm, not joking, back in 1997 you could make $1500 selling 100K pop-unders.

Sites were scrambling to out bid each other and buy pop traffic. First it was converting, second it was pushing their counters up on their sites, giving them bragging rights. yeh some of the old timers will remember those third party counters every site had, like hitbox sextraffic.....

But if your site gets a few thousands hits a day now and you put a popunder on it, you are just wasting time and pissing off surfers. If you are in the Pornhub league then sure it makes sense but that is it.

[viking]

You seen what we were building in 2000. ugly fucks making 25 times more than these fancy ones today

[vblogger]

I say no. Looks matter in website design.

[TheButcher]

I say no. Looks matter in website design.

To a certain extent, you can design the prettiest looking forum and if there are no members chatting the what is the point.

[Russ]

Beauty is n the eye of the beholder aka sales!!

[DeSexGuide]

Is Google a design master piece?

[Brian]

Is Google a design master piece?

It is not the design that does it but what it offers.

[bill]

Is Google a design master piece?

It is not the design that does it but what it offers.

so then ... ugly still sells ... if it offers great content

[BHT]

so then ... ugly still sells ... if it offers great content

We're talking Google here, they have no content of their own, all they do is index other people's sites and content. Think about out, they make a killing listing sites on the web, what a genius of an idea.

[bill]

that's what porn.com and other "fake tubes" do too

they use other people's contents and get paid per click

and they use other people's ads and get paid per click

so porn.com is a fully monetized site with very little cost of band width as far as i can see