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[MrYum]

Originally Posted by plateman

imo a free site is just another tool to get traffic, fancy recips and other facny things dont get you more traffic or clicks to tours, if you wanna impress reviewers and non buying surfers then thats fine with me

I'd try new ads or sales pitches to get more clicks throughs than the fancy stuff

I dont build many free sites much more as I am heading in another direction but I will always build them for the long term traffic and the trickles of sales you get

All good points

Another reason to keep things relatively simple, is speaking for myself anyway...I don't have the extra time to scan heavy code, looking for nefarious shit. If it's all html, it's much easier to run through it quickly and know it's clean.

It's very easy to fall into the trap of spending lots of time making free sites pretty, when really the goal is surfers, you want to either to make the sale quickly or route them through to your internal pages. Once inside, sure...dazzle em with your technical skills (not sure that'll have much effect on the ol johnson though ).

But, the primary goal of free sites is a pretty simple concept...traffic