Hi, I've got a handfull of small sites out there and am starting to make some cash. I also have a personal long term project that is making a few dollars p/m but hopefully will become of great value in the future. I thought that was enough untill reading that a few guys out there have hundreds of sites all bringing in a few quid a piece. I just wondered how many sites you pro's use in your various marketing ventures. For example, would a web marketing pro perhaps have 9 affiliate ppc campaigns with landing pages. 10 auto blogs, 14 amazon or ebay sites etc. etc. or are we looking at much much more, or maybe much less, concentrating on two or three decent sites or campaigns. I know this question is pretty wide open and will vary greatly but I thought it might be good to get an idea of what others do for their daily cash. For a beginner, there are so many ways to go, and money making opportunities to choose from, it can be quite difficult to choose which paths to take.
I realise that nobody wants to reveal any details, and I appreciate the need for that, but I thought maybe a few of you could give a few pointers. i.e. 'you need loads, head for the fifty mark across three or four different catagories', or ' find something you are good at and stick to that market'. I would think that it might be an idea to start with 4 or 5 different projects at once and go for the one or two that prosper the most. Then multiply from there ! I'm just curious... a vague outline from two or three marketers would be great.
That's also something I would like to know. What's the best method? -Jumping on hypes, quickly build a website, spend money on advertising, have good earnigs for a month, then search another hype, milk that one for a couple of months, and so on... OR -Build a good website, put in unique content, getting known by linkbuilding, without spending much on advertising, and maintain it and hope it will grow to an established website in its niche in about 1 year or so.
Most people won't say how many sites they have, especially "guru" marketers such as ShoeMoney. I have approximately 10 fully functioning websites currently.
This is not true at all. It all depends on the quality of your website. You could have a million websites but if none make you any money at all and have no traffic than 1 website with medium traffic will make you more. Some of the most successful people I know online all have around 2-3 websites. This ensures quality without having a huge overhead.
Searching around last night, I found a top amazon pro affiliate marketer had 29 blogs. He also had a team of twenty working on these blogs for his business. He was obviously very sucessfull to employ all these people. I also noted another blogger who had 9 blogs. Not sure how sucessfull he was though. I think we are starting to get some ideas in. Any input is greatly appreciated guys.
I've often wondered this. It seems easier to make 5 sites that bring in $10 each per day than to make 1 site bring in $50. But then I also wonder, is promoting 5 sites well a lot harder than promoting one? My guess would be to create one site, get it successful, then create another one and use the popularity of the first to help promote the second. Then when that one is doing well, create a third one and use the first two to help promote it. Although, I'm far from a marketing pro so what do I know
I would suggest focusing your efforts on one, maybe two websites at a time. Build them up slowly, fill them with quality content and you'll win out in the long run.
Thats one of those questions that varies on the marketer. It's my opinion to make a site profitable before moving on. That being said. I know several guys with HUNDREDS of small sites that make pennies a day. But it works for them. I would rather get a site to make min $10 a day before I start my next site. That being said. If I have a site that makes $100 a day I'm happy with making less sites. So again. It all depends on the approach you want to take to Affiliate/Internet Marketing. Now all of that being said. I do have several sites making decent money. But most of my money comes from CPA offers and redirecting people to those offers.
Yep to add more to what I was saying. I would start with 1 website and once you get used to it and get it rolling start on another website slowly. Once you have both of these going you will have the extra budget from those to hire people to run 2-3 other websites of the ones you have now and start on others. I have found that it is very hard to even keep up with 1-2 websites when you also do other work (I own my own marketing company). But it all can be done but really if you are doing it full time than 3-4 websites should be no problem but if I were you I would start with 1. It is like if you are running a restaurant and you want to open a franchise to begin with before you open your first small cafe.
All you need is a couple of good, quality sites. Right now I have maintain 1 forum and one wordpress site - and that takes up most of my free time. I have another dozen domains with nothing on them simply because I do not have the time. I also maintain my wifes forum, and my sons forum. If I took the time to build and update all the sites I have planned, I would not even have time to sleep. Take into consideration how much free time you have right now, and if you start building and trying to update dozens of sites, how much free time will you have?? The answer is going to be almost 0. If you are wondering how many sites you should open, make it just a couple of quality sites, not dozens of cheap, crappy sites. Quality matters, not quantity. I have to agree with this. I built a forum for my wife, my son and now my daughter wants a site, but I do not have the time to update it. And I have another wordpress site I have not updated in almost 2 months. There comes a point were its overwhelming and you say enough is enough. There is more to life then just sitting at a computer updating your websites. You will have to balance real life and what you want on the internet. When you start trying to set up dozens of sites, either real life is going to slip by, or the quality of your sites is going to suffer. Start with just one site, get it established, then move to a second site and then go from there.
This all sounds like pretty good advice! I do have one question about what you have said though, primeelite. When you say: Do actually have people running the whole site for you? Or do you have people writing the content or promoting it?
This is really good stuff and exactly what I wanted to hear. It's aslo nice to hear that internet marketers do actually need a real life outside that of a computer, and it doesn't matter what you do, you can't just sit at a PC 24 hours a day or you might as well not have a life. We do only get one. I suppose if you get a couple of sucessfull projects, just like in any business, you expand and hire other people to do the work. Us new guys seem to have the impression that super marketers manage all their 20 projects on their own. In reality, it's not really practicle.
well it depends, some have 20 sites and only make $100 from AdSense a month, but others have only 1 and make well over $20,000-$30,000 a month. So it all depends. For me, making $5-$7k a month took me only 2-3 sites, but it all depends on what you do or offer. Thanks