Where do you make your money...Niche sites or supersites?

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by goodhuel, Apr 4, 2010.

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    Just thought I would poll the folks here and ask them where they make their money...on niche sites or on supersites. It seems to me that it would be way easier to maintain the links and articles on a single super site, as opposed to many niche sites.
     
    goodhuel, Apr 4, 2010 IP
  2. adsense-member

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    for me, I'm prefer niche sites... you will get backlinks that suitable for your site...
     
    adsense-member, Apr 4, 2010 IP
  3. aaramire

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    right now I am mainly making my money through niche sites. I find that they are easier to set up than one big content site
     
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  4. goodhuel

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    what about managing the backlinks for all of those sites? How do you manage that if you have 49 sites?
     
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    that's true. both methods have pros and cons.

    managing linkbuilding can get a bit complex as you get more sites that you have to manage. You have to start automating and outsourcing once the workload gets to be too much.

    If you target long tail keywords then it's not much of an issue (like sniper sites).
     
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    #6
    How does one start automating when it comes to link maintenance
     
    abicom, Apr 4, 2010 IP
  7. goodhuel

    goodhuel Member

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    Have you done any outsourcing on link building?
     
    goodhuel, Apr 5, 2010 IP
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    I have outsourced my linkbuilding. I have had people make link wheels for me, blog posts, and other link packages. In addition to that I also use the several membership services similar to unique article wizard that help me get backlinks to my sites.

    @abicom: I didn't mean automate link maintenance but automate link building. I usually don't maintain my links on either my niche sites or my one content site.

    I use yahoo site explorer to track them but I don't maintain them. Hope that helps

    also with niche sites if you target the right keyword, a few back-links will help you get first page ranking pretty quickly.
     
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    I have been outsourcing that too since it's all a repetitive and progressive process that'll really take a lot of time. I have my virtual assistant doing these for me as well as the admin tasks and for me, it's really helpful as I can provide my own time to create tutorial videos in marketing my business as well as contacting clients for interviews. Outsourcing has been saving me a lot of energy as well to strategize more for future projects. As one of those people who've learned good things about outsourcing, I'm thankful to be one of Mass Outsource' students. You can take a look at it (my sig) if you'd like more information and I assure you this Australian guy helped me so much and my business is up until now even if I'm only working with few staff in place.
     
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    I'd go for carefully optimised niche sites with high paying keywords.
     
    KrisOlin, Apr 6, 2010 IP
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    #11
    make a galatic site!! That will make you millions!
     
    Project Mobius, Apr 6, 2010 IP
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    #12
    What' s a supersite?
     
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    Well, I think _my_ site is pretty super :) And I'm pretty sure that everyone else thinks that their own site is super in it's own right, so we all have super sites, yay!

    I have no clue what a super site is and I don't think anyone else does, either. I love all these terms that get bantered about as if they are agreed upon by everyone. I mean, come one, first it was niche, but that wasn't specific enough so now we have micro niche...Shoes is a niche? Reebok is a micro niche? Well, I'm going to make a site about Reebok shoe laces and it will be a nano niche site. Then when that get's saturated, I'll make a site about the little plastic thing around the end of the lace that keeps it from fraying...voila, a pico niche! Think of the money I'll make then. What I want to know is what happened, did we just skip over the milli niche sites? I guess our supersite is a mega niche? Sarcasm: Off.
     
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    Supersites are the opposite to made-for-adsense sites. No greed involved in that developing..
     
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    I like the - slow and steady win the race mentality.

    Supersites for me.
     
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    #16
    I'm prefer niche sites
     
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    See, if you contrast supersite witch niche site I assume a supersite could just be a compilation of pages on different topics rather than one "niche" Thus a supersite could be the same as a bunch of MFAs hosted on the same URL...this is what I mean by no common terminology.
     
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    #18
    I use both. For some things a mini site is the way togo, for some other thing a huge supersite type of site.
     
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    Supersites are big portals (Niche or general targeted for wider audience), usually they are big authority websites with huge amounts of traffic
     
    combson, Apr 6, 2010 IP
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    To be honest I have both niche sites and a "super site" (as you call it) earning money from adsense right now. Personally, I make more money from my super site but this is partly due to the fact I concentrate more of my efforts on driving traffic to this site. Not that the niche sites aren't producing earnings, it is just the traffic is not as great to these sites and hence the earnings are not as high.
     
    jesse431, Apr 6, 2010 IP