I also disagree.
Creating an "ultimate website" is not just a formula. Everything is different for each type of site.
Price comparison sites do not have checkouts or anything. They click on the pictures or words for the cookie to be attached or however the webmaster has designed it. A coupon site also has no check out. Their goal is to get the person to click on the link with the coupn or coupon code and then go to the merchant for the purchase.
A few things to think about though in creating an effective website are:
1. Make sure you do not stray from your niche. This is true whether you are in B2B or B2C, an Affiliate site, Blog or a Forum. When topics start to stray, you have let your traffic stray and the products you are pushing will no longer be as direct to the traffic. Stay focused on the purpose of the site.
2. Depending on the types of site you are doing, design to meet the goals of the site. In affiliate marketing for example. The goal of the affiliate is to drive the traffic to the merchant to close the site. The affiliate's site can either be set up to look professional or amateur. They both have positives and negatives.
If the affiliate site looks very amatuer, but has alot of content and really believeable reviews, it makes the reader feel more at home and trusting because they will have somewhat of a feeling like they are talking to a buddy about the product.
If the affiliate site looks proffessional, then the visitor will have a sense of security in that it is a real company and not the average person running a scam.
There are more benefits and downfalls to both, but to save space I will stop here.
On the other side, the Merchant's site has to be trustworthy and have the person feeling secure enough to put their personal information out on the web and make a purchase. This is helped by the referrals from the affiliate sites and by the name you have made yourself.
3. As far as driving the traffic. Sending articles to the different sites you mentioned is great, but for an "ultimate site" you are going to have to have some things on and about the site that is going to act as link bait and get people to link to you naturally.
I could go on and on but I have to get back to work. You have one formula which works in one situation, but it is not an ultimate forumla as different sites and different markets and niches all have different ways to get to the ultimate site level.
I don't think there is a true ultimate site forumla out there, but if there is, that person is making 10's of millions easy!
Sorry about the poor writing, spelling and Grammar I was in kind of a hurry. =0)
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