from my experience with friends and on this forum there are a lot of people who try to reach their earnings goals with quantity rather than quality. If you could make 7 sites a week that make a dollar a day, in a few months you'll be doing really well. Wouldn't you rather get 1 or 2 successful sites that can drive much more earnings? MFA sites are garbage IMO and I would rather have a few sites that I think contribute to this thing called the internets. Furthermore my theory is that my 1 site will pan out more than 30 craptacular sites in the future. Just needs time now.
Depending on the area or how your plan of attack is some have hard time making a site big so they shoot for several small niches while other shoot for big and go big... its all in your plan either can work but i must say if you do ahve one big site better do another as you need diversity in the internet as things change often.
I can understand that totally. That just makes sense and I'm still working on it. but if diversify means have 40 crappy sites with only ads on it then I don't think I'm gonna. And by no means do I have the BIG one.
Making a big site successful requires a lot of time and patience. You basically have to "eat" all those months of hard work without any obvious signs of success. Some webmasters, in particular the younger ones, don't have the patience for that, and demand immediate returns. Thus you get the "quick strike" websites that are produced in a matter of hours.
I preferred creating many small sites instead just one Hint: pick the one that won't take much of time to update *
its actually a lot harder to get a dollar a day than it sounds. making a piece of crap website wont get you a dollar a day, thats for sure
Jackburton. Yeah, I am a younger publisher (I think). I'm 25 years old but I think it's just my blue collar work ethics the make me feel the way I do. If you are gonna do something try to make it the best it can be and the pay off will come sooner or later. I'm on the right track I thinks. Judging from other threads I'm ahead of the curve for how long I've been in it.
I think you are making the assumption small sites have poor content. Some of us like to research very targeted topics and write the equivalent of a 2,500 word essay about our findings. That will turn into a 5-10 page website with tightly focused content. By doing this I enjoy the writing more and don't have to spend as much effort on site navigation and other overhead that a larger site requires.
I'm in favour of the "small" sites here, for example a 4 page site targetting a niche that has between 20k to 100k searches a month. It's better ROI in terms of effort & time spent
But he originally stated making 7 "small" sites a week. Making a 5-10 page site with really good tightly focused content takes more than a day... Busting out 7 a week would probably result in poor content
Well instead of trying to bank completely on 3-4 small sites developing a couple of small sites (targetting the $1 a day concept) and in the mean time developing a big and useful website (time consuming) will be more helpful. As the small sites will supplement the income needed when you are busy developing the bigger one.
Not really... 10 hours are more than enough per site. If you plan to have a good design & graphics & stuff, that's another story.
A site that receives 20k searches/mo would be making $200 or so monthly, definitely more than $10 a day with the right blending. I see your point though but the problem with making big sites is that it requires a lot of time & effort + if the concept/topic of the big site is unique, it needs to "take off" or catch on.
That's the point I was making. If you want a "big" site that is successful, it really requires a lot of time and, most of all, PATIENCE. You can't expect returns in the first week or month or even several months later. But sooner or later, it WILL pay off, and then you have yourself a big site bringing in a lot of revenue. It doesn't mean you have to limit yourself to working on that one big site; you can branch off, but always mindful to keep adding content and promoting that one site.
Some people prefer to make smaller sites, some people prefer to make one huge one. It depends on the person, it also depends on your networking skills i.e. can you get someone else to help you with the project, split the workload & achieve better results. I personally like to work alone with my projects, but that's just me
Until you really know how a site is going to perform it is difficult to invest the amount necessary to make it a really big site. (By big I mean something around 80,000 words or so). Maybe I'm wrong I think some people launch small sites to see if any of them take off. In my experience creating a site that quickly gets to $1 per day isn't something you can do in 8 hours.
I'm under the impression that a good way to earn is to develop many sites, find the ones with good roi, then increase the traffic to these by development. These will become your main sites, and overall you'll only have a few sites bringing in good money. Keep testing the waters with extra sites though dont spend too much time doing this. ---- Sorry let me add to that. The above is a good way to make money via PPC, affiliate, and link sales. There are many types of online businesses providing services/goods which dont follow the above strategy. By creating an entire business around an idea and website your taking much more time and monetary investment however the profits can be much larger. Creating Unique programs and scripts can also take a long time but can lead to large sales worth 1000s of dollars. These types of website require large amounts of planning but can pay off in the long run.