Feedback for a new free site please!

[Kisa]

Jester- Carrie= Hollywood Interactive Inc. well-known spammers- Just an FYI- You're likely to see their spiders all over your site-

[Toby]

The ads just plain don't make any sense when trying to build a community based site. The draw, the stickiness, of such a site is the community, the membership base. Think of them as the equivalent of the galleries on a TGP, only interactive.

Until you've established a large enough membership base, sending traffic off to sponsor links is like shooting yourself in the foot.

Sit down and write up a detailed business plan. Making it up as you go is going to leave you running in circles going nowhere. The days of "build it and they will come" are long ago gone.

[Kisa]

Originally Posted by Toby

The ads just plain don't make any sense when trying to build a community based site. The draw, the stickiness, of such a site is the community, the membership base. Think of them as the equivalent of the galleries on a TGP, only interactive.

Until you've established a large enough membership base, sending traffic off to sponsor links is like shooting yourself in the foot.

Sit down and write up a detailed business plan. Making it up as you go is going to leave you running in circles going nowhere. The days of "build it and they will come" are long ago gone.

Carrie is Hollywood Interactive Inc! Known spammers! That whole stupid site she/he posted is already well developed and looking for affiliates.

Just check your own site for their spiders- I don't understand what their motivation is especially with starting a thread like this???? Makes no sense to me.

http://spam.tinyweb.net/article.php/...od-interactive

[carrie15]

Thanks for the input Toby and Jester...at the very least I think I will reduce the size of the banners so they aren't intrusive. Okay, bed time!

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Kisa

Carrie is Hollywood Interactive Inc! Known spammers! That whole stupid site she/he posted is already well developed and looking for affiliates.

Just check your own site for their spiders- I don't understand what their motivation is especially with starting a thread like this???? Makes no sense to me.

http://spam.tinyweb.net/article.php/...od-interactive

While I don't know how you came to the that conclusion, it does look like the owner of AdultsOnlyList.com is a message board spammer, spreading some nonsense about creating a Craig's List for adult services. Many of the pages I've found are already 404'd, probably due to them being filtered as spam.

http://www.google.com/search?q=adultsonlylist

Nice catch, Kisa.

[NY Jester]

Good heads up Kisa and UW... now carrie..inquiring minds want to know...