Alright guy's, heres a little bit of my life story but bare with me. I'm at work and I've got a annoyingly boring customer on the phone so this is really distracting me and that's a good thing So, I haven't touched a website in about 14 months. Prior to that I've run and sold quite a few websites, in quite different categories. Now im a bit confused on how to take my approach back into the game. I still own a number of domains, and I also still have three websites that are online, these sites use to earn 3-5$ a day via Google Adsense but those days have passed and from what I have read online and seen via advertisments, Google has changed the way the advertisment's work, and the CPM has drastically decreased for the categories my sites fall under (1 Anime forum, 1 Sports fan site, 1 Soup recipe database). I also use to use TLA (text link ads) but they have also removed me since my sites were not updated for so long. Page-rank and all that has dropped to 2 and 1 and 0 etc...obviously. Although I've still got a few back links left.. (no more then 1-2k in Google) Now to be straight out honest, I don't know if I should work on these old existing sites and if I do, what directions to take them.. or focus all my efforts into a new project - more profitable. I'm looking into maybe getting a reseller program going and using a service like AdWords to refer customer, seeing as I'm working for Adwords campaigning team at the moment.. I'd be able to monitor it easily. To be honest I'm confused, I have the time now and I have the knowledge and experience a webmaster requires to carry out a project without fail.. I just have no direct or idea what I'm doing. Thanks.
Do you have any green coming in, or are you just coming back in with your mad skilwz? If you have green, I would just buy an existing site that is making some money, has some traffic, and members if possible. You need one central 'hub' type of site to launch from. So the sooner you get that in place, the better. Once in place I would look at some smaller sites to test, things that strike your fancy, etc. Try them out, sell off those that are not worth the time, and build your pyramid fine sire. I would not discount those ages domains, but they may be in niches no longer as profitable as your, 'good ole days'. So I would read some to see what's hot, and think of things of interest to you, factor in some green if you have it, and go from there. Good luck toots.
I've purchased site's before.. I don't like the idea of it to be honest. I'd rather invest money into a project that I've thought of /researched. I have green, but I don't want to throw it all at the computer and say "feed me" because that doesn't work. Thanks for the luck
I feel ya hoss. I am the same way. I invest my money and ideas into my own projects. However, I've been doing it for a decade. So I have kinda gotten over that "fear of failure". Now I get lucky more often then not, and it's very rewarding to get a new idea, of mine, going and making money, traffic, members, whatever the goal was. I still do purchase a site from time to time for different reasons. But I still prefer building, and investing in my own mad scientist.
True, I'm not afraid of failure.. but I want to stick to what I do.. I loose interest easily which in this business is vital to not do. I'm trying to find the perfect thing for me, and go all out at it. Now the hard choice I'm facing I think, is starting up an e-business (some sort of reselling system, or building a content heavy optimized website.) It's doing my head in.
Like how you have, authorized resellers for products? IE, templatemonster > but not templatemonster , just that same sort of system.. if you get what I mean.