cyril_kearney - 8:31 pm on Jan 29, 2009 (gmt 0)

HugeNerd,
I am not so much looking to fight cookie-cutter sites as I am exploring the possiblity of implementing these low margin sites. The $300-a-site would be used to take up the slack during a economic downturn.

I agree that these sites will not have a great marketing potential for the site-owner. They serve meerly as a web presents. A local movie theatre nearby has a site. There objective is to give out there telephone number and travel directions to anyone that looks at there site. The same thing is true of a Nail-care site. They want it so that super-pages and other listing sites will have a url in the listings.

There are also Wedding Picture site where a couple puts up pictures of their wedding meant for their relatives and friends.

You have a great idea about looking at some of these cookie-cutter sites and trying to get them to upgrade to a better performing (marketing) site.