For Example... food-blahblahblah.com or hamburgers-blahblahblah.com, soda-blahblahblah.com, steaks-blahblahblah, etc. Obviously the larger site would get more visitors than each smaller site. However, combined, do you think the smaller sites would have more traffic. I'm leaning towards creating many smaller sites (more manageable...and trust me this will be a LARGE undertaking) just to start getting them on the web (I don't want to put the larger site on the web if its incomplete). Smaller Sites Pros: more focused traffic, more manageable Larger Site Pro: More variety, visitors will click around more What do you vets think?
Create one site, build it up to a point where it's making you a lot of money, then start on the smaller sites if you're inclined. You'll never maintain focus if you start off with 10 sites instead of 1; also, marketing 1 site is easier than marketing 10. Only start on additional sites when that one site is doing well enough that you no longer have to spend hours working on it every day. Don't spread yourself too thin when you're just starting out. You'll end up with 10 sites making pennies in one year, when that 1 big site could be scoring you buckos in the same time frame thanks to dedication and focus.
Good advice jackburton2006, I agree with him 100%. You will start all 10 with great dreams, but will not be able to spend quality time for each one of them.
I would have to agree with Jack on this and I also have had experience with what you may or may not attempt to do. I started by setting up like 10 sites and gradually (within about 8 months) moved up to about 400 and you really do lose focus on what you are doing and will become exhausted...this exhaustion is no party, I don't mean tired, I mean suicidal exausted, just you don't have the energy to do anything about it. I did however make alot more than pennies, but it was FAR from worth the phisical torment that I put myself through with all those sleepless nights. I have parked most of the sites that were not making much and required too much energy. Now focus is set on a few larger sites and I can see rapid growth double the rate they were going at before. I would advise that you take Jacks advice and learn from my experience and go with the larger site and let it become reasonably self-sufficient with strong roots set in the search engines. When you do move onto the next site, I would imagine that you have a fairly good ranking with the initial 'big' site and you could link to the new one from that and so on..that's only my 2 cents but ya asked for it Good Luck~
if you have 10 hours to spend on web development... spending 1 hour each on different 10 sites will get you more revenue/traffic in the long run than spending 10 hours on one site.
This is my personal experience. I can make sites in about an hour or two with enough decent content and SEO to get into MSN at least (and usually Google and or Yahoo months down the road) and make a couple of dollars per day. I guess it depends on the person and their development experience, but for myself I just need enough content to give the search engines a little something to enjoy. Especially the way MSN is ranking sites currently, that's all you need to get a bunch of traffic right off the bat.
I think there can be a happy medium, but it really depends on the kind of sites you are developing. For example, if you are trying to develop a blog network, that is going to be a very content-creation heavy workload even after you launch the site, whereas launching forums or informational sites might not require as much content-maintainence on your part. The less time you spend creating content, the more time you can spend marketing. Honestly, I'd think that the more time you can spend marketing your sites, the more traffic you'll get. Granted, you need some good content to make this work, but I'd focus on building a few sites with some solid content first and then market them a lot. Once they start to get some good traffic, then spend more time on the content, but don't waste too much time on building a ton of content off the bat because if nobody knows your content exists, it's worthless.
Managing 400 sites by yourself would be next to impossible, unless you create sites with one or two pages and then forget about it. But, how will you market so many sites i.e. build links, advertise, etc.
If you have 400 sites with 10 pages each, all you need is for each page to get 1 click per day at $0.05 and you are at $75,000 per year. Its not as hard as you think to make 4000 pages with somewhat unique content (content unique enough that search engines will like it, but probably not good enough to get visitors to come back). Anyways, its a numbers game...and in the end it matters whether the time you spend on your sites is worth their return.
I don't see any benefit to spreading your content across multiple domains if they are on the same general theme, like your food example. Pages are pages, and will rank or not depending on how they are SEO'd and how many quality relevant backlinks each page can get.
Whether you think you can or can't, you are right. My point exactly was that it is exhasting to infact do so. I wasn't encouraging Cal to do what I did, but rather the opposite. Also, who said anything about me doing all this writing and making pages? I guess if you just decided to open up Dreamweaver or whatever you use and start making page after page after page...it would be difficult...but never impossible. I use CMS sites to avoid that kind of insane workload and it was the users who do most of the content work, I just had top do quick mod stuff and make an occasional post or comment, change /add a new plugin ect... About that.....well alot of them WERE one or two pages. They were affiliate sites...and nothing to do with AdSense. The point is..that like I said in my original post, it is not easy to manage that many sites, (even though we have a team of 6) and that is is a better idea to make one bigger site and perhaps sub-domain the other categories. Like I said with my advice for Cal, generate a high volume of traffic with the starting site(s) and then have links to the new sites from them. I started with 10 sites, and did just that. 2 guys take care of the SEO work only, 2 more work on viral marketing, chatting people up ect.. and myself and my partner we basically install and design the sites, research ect. Anyway, I think that Cal got the info he needed...so Im out.
I have two pretty good size forums, one has 53k members and the other has 36k members. Both forums get a lot of traffic but the larger one routinely makes 4x as more as the smaller one. Just more clicks. Now since both of these get good traffic, I'm experimenting with smaller, related sites for affilates, ppc, or whatever that might compliment the type of traffic I get from the other two sites.
Certainly, working on one site is more targetted and brings more result. But you need to build a lot of smaller size website to bring in more traffic And you see SEs like to see targetted websites. But my theory is, Build a Winner and then go for smaller. Combination of both will work for you too. Big sites will help you get going the smaller. After all at the beginning there is no point of going after 10 or 20 sites. It is a Big big headache. I do not how a person can make a site in 1 hour. Are we talking about some cut and paste or some professional websites. Websites creation is not just design and programming, it required content. And thats what make user visit again and again. There are no free lunches. Nuttymarketer
@synergymarketing maybe you share with us some of your tips; how you make some dollars / a day with one hour-made site