Templates?

[spacemanspiff]

I get the feeling that a lot of theories on the best way to build freesites (or any sites for that matter) are based more on conjecture and less on marketing theory, possibly mine included, although I do have a silly piece of paper that say's I'm suppose to know about that stuff. I look at it like this:

Surfers are looking for porn, not pretty sites. Using the same template can work for or against you. Just depends on the quality of your content, the personality of your site, who you're promoting and how, etc.

I could spout a bunch of crap about brand recognition, consumer confidence and loyalty, ad repetition before action, bla, bla, bla....

That being said, if you don't get traffic, you don't get sales, so you still have to adhere to the rules of the places you want to get listed at. If the link list owners want different looking sites, then build different looking sites.

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