I've been reading this forum for quite some time and I constantly see somebody post something along the lines of "Well the more websites you have the more you will earn with Adsense." This "advice" is terrible , and I'm surprised so many people recommend it. While this tactic sounds enticing, the chances of it working is slim to none. Yes there are very few exceptions just as with any other situation. But in general people think that they'll make 100 websites, never update them, never promote them, then plaster some adsense ads on these websites and make a fortune. Welcome to the real world, and that's not how it works. You need to promote your website and get visitors. You need to focus on 1 site (2 at the most), put quality content on it, advertise it, submit it to directories and so on. Only then will you earn a good check from Adsense. Let's take a look at a real world example of Toyota and General Motors, even though it might be a little far fetched for this situation. But the rule still applies. While GM expanded and had over 15 different divisions at one time their quality suffered as a result, while Toyota only had 2 divisions and added Scion as their 3rd division not too long ago their quality continued to improve because of how focused they were on those 2 divisions. While Toyota stayed smaller and focused on quality, GM wanted to expand because just like the people here, they though that more is better, as a result quality declined as well as demand for their vehicles (same as it is with poorly designed websites.) The moral of the story is that quality prevails, Toyota is a very profitable company, while GM is barely alive. Look at the top Adsense earners, there is not a single person on those lists that manages more than 1 site, do you know why they made so much money? Because they treat their website as a business, not as some get rich overnight scheme. They developed their websites into what they are today through hard work and dedication. Most of them don't even rely on adsense anymore, they have their own advertisers that pay them a hell of a lot more than adsense ever would. A feat that would be impossible with a lot of sites. Think about it, if you owned 100 different businesses and had nobody else help you manage them, do you think a single one of them would end up succeeding in the end? The answer is no, and you would end up filing for bankruptcy and living under a bridge for the rest of your life because you bit off more than you could chew. The sooner people start to realize that a website is in fact a business, the sooner we will see people stop whining about their low earnings.
I agree with you. My first website was great, made me loads of money, it earnt me 25% more than my full-time job. So, I thought, if I can just get another one to do the same it'll double my income ... so, what if I did one a month? Well, I've got about 25 now ... and 24 of them are just fragments, things I never ever got round to setting up properly. Never had time to promote any of them. all my time got sucked into creating new ones, or updating just one piece. They're all a bit of a hotch potch. I've no time for SEO, no time to promote, no time to improve and build on that first success. All you end up doing is diluting your efforts. One is MORE than enough to do properly. I'm ashamed to say none of my websites have been done properly and my income hasn't grown since the day I decided to start the 2nd one. If I'd kept my eye on the ball of the first one and put all my efforts into that one, I'm sure it'd have been paying me 2-3x as much by now - instead, the earnings have actually dropped by about 40%. All that lost time and opportunity. So, pick ONE and do it properly!
Thank you for your reply, I thought I was going to get flamed by people for simply posting this thread. But it is good to see an actual example that supports my theory.
And they would then also write an ebook "How to make $100 per day" and sell it for $1 here in DP as well. I hardly buy them but read the review ones and I hardly believe how the person earning $100 per day has time to accept $0.65 ( you know the paypal fees huh ) from this ebooks where as he would make more than that much per 10 mins anyway
I have also to agree with you. My personal approach is build 5, let 4 of them age, focus on 1 until it is on top for its niche, then move onto second, move it to top, then third and so on. The upside is your domain and site will have aged and so gained weight in Google's database and make it easy to rank thereafter.
This is not myth. My theory is: When building website for sale, you can easily bring your website to 1000-10000 USD price You can concentrate for building large website with high traffic, which will have price of 100000 USD, but you will not be able to sell it or it will be harder for you. Building of large number of websites gives to you large number of opportunities and making some experiments about SEO too, which is some of advantages. But all the time you should have one BIG website and some smaller, which will be the best.
I agree with you completely, sometimes, note its sometimes, quality is better than quantity. Then again if you can outsource those tasks, then you can concentrate more on a few instead of all of them. But I still prefer working on one, its more enjoyable.
This was not what was discussed in the thread. I was talking about websites that earn their revenue strictly from advertising. Building websites with the intent of selling them down the road is a completely different topic altogether. Right, but that's exactly what I was arguing in the original post. How are you supposed to have a lot of quality websites? I guess if you never sleep and never eat and all you do is manage your websites then it's possible. Or you're Rupert Murdoch and have thousands of employees working on your websites. Then sure more power to you, continue to do what you're doing. My theory is that you should start out with one website, then once it's earning money, start another one, however outsource all the work.
I don`t agree with you on this one. But don`t get me wrong, it`s hard to scale on niche sites without outsourcing. In my opinion the more niches you cover the better, just plan the stuff out, outsource all content writing, automate/outsource and plan link building and you are good to go
I agree with you and disagree with the original post. My first site was like my own baby. I took care of it then it became stable so it can run on its own. Then I made another one. It again became stable. Then i made another own...on this process my earning increasing day by day. I have not stopped making sites. Its true that its hard to promote them all but now there is a situation that those sites promotes each other. Like a network. So More sites can make more money.
You are correct, I guess I should have clarified it in my original post. It's okay to have multiple sites, however don't make 50 half assed sites at the same time. Make one great site, expand it, advertise it, once it become stable and gets a lot of traffic and revenue, start a new site, perhaps hire some employees to help you manage it.
I disagree. I only have 2 sites myself but I know someone that has over 100. They all earn money and it's quite simple to do. He makes a site and writes 5-8 long articles after that his attention is focused on getting links and lots of them he also markets them. He might only get 50-100 visitors a day but they are highly targeted and they click through.
So he's getting an average of about 5-10k visitors a day from 100 sites? I can guarantee you that if he put all the effort he's putting into marketing those 100 static sites into marketing 1 site with great content that is continuously undated he would be getting way more than 5-10k visitors a day.
What the original poster is saying is 'If you find something that works, don't bother replicating it, because it won't work again'. Sorry to say I disagree. And so do the embarrassingly large bank balances of many people I know in the business, who do *exactly that*.
I agree with the orginal poster, as it relates to my own experience. I've had a very successful site for years, but have been unable to come anywhere near that success with other sites that essentially follow the same format, type of content (not same subject, but related), and SEO methods. My experience has been that if I spend time developing and refining content and SEO for the original site, the payoff comes sooner and better than if I spent that same time on one of the other sites, or create another site. I prefer to put my efforts where it has the best payoff. I realize that this might not be the case with all web sites, all niches, and all situations, but it is true in my own case.
I dont agree, well parts I dont... I think if you can handle 100 sites with promotion and content then thats great. I think thats what people have said here, make 100 sites and promote them, not let them sit... I personally have 100+ and I am able to work on them with a partner and most are great, the ones that dont do great I sell them off and think of something new...
I totally agree with the poster. I made the mistake of starting too many websites and only a couple of them do earn money. The rest are just sitting there and bring $0/day in adsense revenue.