Comments on: Two mistakes made by wannabe website publishers

By: Dennis Harnisch

Dennis Harnisch — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:03:00 +0000

With several sites so far, I am presently concentrating on content and I agree that it is extremely time consumming!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:34:59 +0000

I think the advice is great, as is all your advice I have read. I think it takes time to make a site work great and just coping another site does nothing but flood the market with junk.

Thanks Chris

By: Eric Smith

Eric Smith — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:55:51 +0000

I disagree Jules, I think new publishers can benefit significantly from this advice – especially the point about waiting to try to monetize traffic.

When publishers try to monetize their sites too soon, they end up neglecting their content and making it much less likely that they’ll succeed in the long run.

Publishers will be much more successful if they start by thinking what unique value they can provide to their market before thinking of what they can take from it…

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:57:47 +0000

Great article chris im loving it… i wish you published this 3 or 4 years ago when the site first started. =) it would of saved me alot of mistakes….

By: Jules

Jules — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:50:29 +0000

I imagine your average MySpace-cadet / Proxy-pusher would love to be able to produce sites that don’t rely on violating others’ copyright or a $29 script “with full resell rights!!!”. But they lack programming skills – particularly the advanced skills required to build a serious online service.

I don’t think the wannabe website publishers can benefit much from this advice, save to say that originality is indeed their best hope.

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:30:24 +0000

Thanks Chris, the One Billion Bulbs site looks great, I’ll be blogging about it in future (my site is about the environment, but in an entertaining way!)