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20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of

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Re: 20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? I stopped at the second one and decided to read this thread instead (where the currently top voted comment is a pertinent summary)

That's still twice the page views that they would have received if it was all on one page.

But way less user engagement / time on site / likelihood of me coming back

Re: 20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of

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What is with the ridiculous use of "In Pictures" features now days?

If they want the page views, put each company on a seperate page, but don't pretend that the pictures count for more than 1% of the interesting aspect of this feature, and don't use a terrible slideshow system that makes it actually annoying to read the text.

Re: 20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of

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post #12

Last one is impressive. At $7000 a day the guy only has to work 143 days to reach a million per year.

I've met people who are kept very busy at a somewhat higher daily rate - nothing to do with technology though. They do have to dress very oddly.

Re: 20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of

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post #3

Nice list, hated they way they were shown.

They just got 20 times the amount of page views though. If they provided a list that means you could have skipped through and decreased their page views.

I wish people would stop worrying about page views, its a broken metric, always has been.

Re: 20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They just got 20 times the amount of page views though. If they provided a list that means you could have skipped through and decreased their page views.

I wish people would stop worrying about page views, its a broken metric, always has been.

It's not a broken metric when you're selling ad impressions on each page view. It's how you make money.

Re: 20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish people would stop worrying about page views, its a broken metric, always has been.

It's not a broken metric when you're selling ad impressions on each page view. It's how you make money.

i understand that's how ads are sold, but it does doesn't work.

the numbers are inaccurate, varying wildly depending on how you measure it (web server logs, analytics, etc), and its a horrible way for advertiser to measure ROI.

Re: 20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of

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I hope they become available in my state next time I have to move.

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