Bjorn Says

Web 2.0 portals?

I wasn’t planning on writing three posts today. I really wasn’t. But sometimes …. Argh!

Brad Smith sells Adsense portals. You all know what Adsense-portals look like, don’t you? A basic template with some space saved for Adsense-ads, articles, all articles linked etc. etc.

Brad added the opportunity for visitors to add comments.

In Brads’ eyes, that makes them “web 2.0“.

A web 2.0 site would have a lot more interaction than just a “comment this article”-field.

His portals doesn’t even validate correctly through W3C-s validation tool. They are not correct HTML. Do you think a page that is not properly coded will receive great ranking with Search Engines, even with “Comment this article” on it? Doesn’t matter if it gets updated and changed every other second. If it doesn’t validate, there’s even a chance the content will be interpreted wrong.

We’re not talking a couple of tags that are wrong here either. His portals (actually I only tried one, but they’re all based on the same template) has 86 errors. 86 errors.

If your morning paper had 86 errors on every page, would you accept that?

Stay clear of Brad Smiths’ “Web 2.0″-portals. They’re just the same old same old.

Crap is crap, even if you add a comment-field and call it “Web 2.0″.

Sorry Brad, not impressed. Not at all.