Pointless sites

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Roman, Jul 5, 2006.

  1. #1
    My site was placed (I didn't submit it) on http://pointlesssites.com/ and I have gotten about 150 uniques in the last hour. They take submissions, so if your site is pointless, it's worth the minute or so to submit.
     
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  2. amg2000

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    #2
    That's kind of cool... I imagine none of us would like to think of our sites as pointless... but the increased traffic is fun?

    Brian
     
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  3. Roman

    Roman Buffalo Tamer™

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    #3
    I take great pride in my site being called pointless:)
     
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    That falling sand game is cool. Loved setting fire to the little falling guys.
     
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    #5
    It takes a lot of thought to come off as pointless, you do your job good! ;)
     
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  6. Roman

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    Thanks, pointless doesn't just grow on trees you know;)
     
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  8. Roman

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    #8
    Submit it and find out:)
     
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    #9
    Interesting find. I'll give it a whirl and see if it likes one of my sites.

    Waptap
     
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  10. Zafar Ahmed

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    #10
    and those traffic will be pointless too :)
     
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  11. The Webmaster

    The Webmaster IdeasOfOne

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    Roman, aint you lucky to get links like that.
    4th time it is now :D

    Anyway I just voted for your pointless site congrats your site is #14 now..
     
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  12. Roman

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    Thanks, actually I have made it to quite a few similar sites, offhand, here's a list, some (I think most) take submissions:

    Fark, slashdot, digg, i-am-bored, gorillamask, fazed, college humor, shoutwire/torrentspy, ebaum's world, major geeks, 2spare, cool site of the day (was paid submission back then), stumbled upon, leenks...

    That's all I can recall of the top of my head but they all sent decent traffic with slashdot being the king by far.
     
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  13. Roman

    Roman Buffalo Tamer™

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    When I made it to Slashdot front page, the page they linked to has the first banner ad and the banner is linked to someone elses website. I believe that they received about 25,000 uniques from my site that day and had some server problems as a result. Guess it was a sort of Slashdot effect by proxy.

    My site managed to stay up and got well over 100K uniques that day.
     
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  14. The Webmaster

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    Didnt I say, you're damn lucky ;) :D
     
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    That's cool. I wish some of my sites were pointless.
     
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