Are 'rating' sites REAL popular?

[cis4life]

Hello all,

I was looking into starting a new project, and starting a rating site kind of caught my eye.

I simply want to know, like from your surfing and domain popularity, are rating sites becoming popular and are they even worth the time?

Thanks,
Cedric

 

[Rat]

They are good for page views. A single visitor can generate hundreds of page views making alot of money if your main income is from ads.

 

[marcuss]

One thing to think of is that it could be quite expensive in form of the bandwidth if the site gets popular.

 

[Wesley]

To a certain extent. Yes, while there are big sites like BuddyPic.Com, there are so many that it's almost too clogged Maybe a rating site where you add graphics (not hotlinking of course) and people can rate the graphics you make.

 

[xclusive]

It is a crowded field but from my experiance if you can get some links to other rating sites you will do very well as people seem to be addicted and once they find a link to your site they will go though the whole thing.

 

[rb]

I have a couple of 'niche' rating sites (using RJ's cool script) and they are a good traffic generator.

Like was said above, especially good for CPM ads if you can get approved for them.

 

[Blackpanther]

They are sticky, meaning people spend a bit of time on them and you will get loads of pageviews per visitor so they are pretty popular.

 

[Raf]

Rating sites are good in my opinion, the only thing you have to do is come up with a good idea on what to rate. That usually attracts attention if the ratings are for something interesting for example cars, houses, and etc.

 

[-Chef-]

Originally posted by Wesley
To a certain extent. Yes, while there are big sites like BuddyPic.Com, there are so many that it's almost too clogged Maybe a rating site where you add graphics (not hotlinking of course) and people can rate the graphics you make.

Try out my site www.RateMySig.com
And I allow hotlinking too so you can use it as an image host too! Got to do something with 1TB of monthly bandwidth..lol
Supporting signatures and wallpapers now. If it would ever get popular I may add avatar section too. If I can ever get it off the ground I may also start www.ratemyimg.com as well with more categories.

Either way, cis4life , I am out the door right now but I will PM you info on 2 different basicly complete site rate scripts (one CGI, one PHP) that I don't use if you want to take a look at them should you decide to go forward with something. Let me know.

 

[Anthony]

They are a great distraction for bored web surfers!

 

[cyberserf]

like xclusive said above those sites are addictive, so that is a big plus.