Plentyoffish, Simple or Ugly?

by David Evans on March 20, 2006 · 2 comments

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Plentyoffish got Slashdotted this week. The site received enough traffic to freeze the site intermittently as huge amounts of people visited the site from an article titled “The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites” where PoF founder Markus says he is getting $10,000 a day in Adsense revenues and that he makes more money the more simple (some say ugly) he makes the site. Somewhat counterintuitive arguments in the comment section but if you’ve never visited Slashdot this is a good reason to. PoF got a ton of exposure, Markus gets a free critique of his site and some more Adsense dollars.

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Dexter ZafraNo Gravatar 09.17.06 at 9:23 pm
I don’t consider it ugly. The site is just plain HTML.

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