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Originally Posted by FreeHugeMovies
You obviously didn't even look at my turn key solution before your rant.
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Actually, what I wrote is very far from a rant. It is a factual comment based on years of experience owning and managing review sites.
THIS is what a rant looks like:
I have seen your 'box' script in action, I've seen and used the
http://www.paysitereviewcms.com/ from MechBunny as well. I have written reviews for somewhere upward of 3,000 sites, reviewed some of them multiple times for multiple review sites using a variety of custom and 'box' back-ends... and I have spoken to dozens of other review site owners in my role as the owner of WebmasterScore which includes a review site submitter that has been used by more than 200 companies to submit more than 1,000 sites to more than 60 REAL review sites. During that time I have watched many webmasters fail horribly and lose money trying to start up fake review sites to fill the void when they see that their TGPs are failing.
A review site is not a magical window that will allow a webmaster to return to 2001 when posting pretty much anything guaranteed you sales. It will not make you rich overnight even if you build a fantastic review site, and if you build one that is less than fantastic you are pretty much throwing your money in the toilet. The advantage of review sites is that they actually have REAL value to consumers when they are operated properly. A quality review site helps a consumer find a paysite BETTER than a search engine or a tube or TGP can. Consumers who buy multiple memberships per year become loyal readers of their favorite review site (keep in mind they likely have ONE favorite each out of 100s of review sites).
So, buying a cheap box script and ADDING a 10% skim cost to your operations as per the Review Wizard website "
Review Wizard skims 10% of your outgoing clicks to sponsors. This means if a particular surfer clicks to go to a paysite, we replace your code with ours" is not what I would recommend doing as a new review site owner. I would recommend hiring a coder, a designer and a writer. Getting a custom script built from the ground up, a quality UNIQUE design that has features other review sites are missing... not just a pretty layout - functional differences, and reviews written by someone who honestly understands what the surfer is looking for and how to sell it without damaging the credibility of your review site in the process.
'Box" scripts can be useful, as I stated earlier, if you are on a very small budget and plan to transition to more complexity or if you have access to the source code (as mech bunny provides) so that you can do some serious modification to the script. That is how your site MIGHT be different from all others and actually stand out from the crowd a little bit.
/end rant.
