New sites

[jlawrence]

With all the recent posts about creating quick revenue, I thought I'd ask how people approach this.
Do you buy a new domain, use a subdomain, or buy a used domain ?

I normally aim for a site to make little or no money for the first 3 or 4 months whilst they start to rank. So for me it's like a rolling game, create site, market it, wait for income, do it over and over. I don't normally put adsense (or there PPC) on until the site is indexed and is getting visitors.

What I'm looking for I suppose, is a way to mitigate the sandbox effect - if there even is a way.

[LeeD]

I am with you on the plan of building new sites. I have found it is a waiting game in most cases, with a quick success to happen occassionally. That is always a site with a huge viral aspect to it though. I also don't worry about income from a site until it receives 500-1000 visits a day.

[dct]

For me it depend on the sites, my long term income generating ones ones take about 6 months before they start making money but I do have ads on them from the start.

[sji2671]

If I am looking at a serious new venture I often look for a half decent domain in dmoz or located in the serps but way down and an obviously neglected site that the domain can be bought cheaply for.

[jlawrence]

It's not the medium term sites I'm thinking about (ie >6 months). But rather sites that take advantage of something current.
Say something happens in the world that you can build a site about. That something might only be of interest for a couple of months. Is the only way to take advantage of this sort of thing to have a news site where you can add current content or can anyone think of another way ?