Comments on: Do Ugly Sites Perform Better?

By: total wellness

total wellness — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:23:46 +0000

Content is Key. Thank you for confirming this with your post.

By: Filmari Nunti

Filmari Nunti — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:33:13 +0000

Ok, lets make ours sites very ugly and see if its works ).

I think one of the reason besides what you mention its because they are in HTML ..no PHP or ASP.
They are clean and easy to crawl by Google.

Second reason – they are old. Its important for Google to have an old website.
I like your topics

By: homenotion

homenotion — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:38:13 +0000

Ugly sites do perform better. That’s because ugly site developers often concentrate more on their content, navigation, optimization and the ability to attract visitors, more than making the site ‘pretty’.

It never hurts to have an attractive site but I’d put more effort into making your site one that first grabs attention and offers useful, unique content. The ‘prettiness’ can come later.

By: Therabreath

Therabreath — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:42:58 +0000

I also believe that the old ugly sites have better content because during those times only well-researched, studied contents are being published in websites. With the right designing of the website, it will really be as attractive as the newly designed ones and have more substancial contents.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:57:33 +0000

And to think that I would spend so much time trying to make my site be “pretty”. Your explanations make perfect sense. The content is what is the “lasting” feature that draws people in and back often. Thanks for a great post!