Should I make membership required?

[RegFee]

I'm begining to get the ball rolling on my site, http://www.regfee.info , with my newest blog, available overture w/ ext domain names. Only problem is, when you post names on a forum, people are more likely to donate forum dollars. When you post them on a website, sadly, some people are dishonest, and will just register and leave. While this will still get me traffic, I've set up a paypal donation button in hopes that some people will be kind enough to donate.

So what I would like to know is, do you think I should make the names visible only to (free) registered members, or should I keep it public so the search engines can index it? Or maybe I should keep it public until it gets real popular and then make membership required.

 

[LeetPCUser]

Keep it public.

 

[NPQueen]

I would also say keep it public... at least for the time being. If after a while you are more popular and choose to make it a membership site you can always do so. Best of luck in your new venture.

 

[wacky_lokpo]

public! people are lazy and would just forget about it if they have to put with registration

 

[thomaslgates]

Let it be public. But you see there are a lot of people who are really lethargic in registering for an account and hence they quit from that site...!

So be careful in whatever decision you take..!

 

[Ju5T]

For Public. I am >always< for public, if there is no secret information.