of course if u wanna earn money you have to work hard. there is nothing like easy money in this world. also you have to update them all regualrly. at least once in a week.
I do free only directories, but recip are ok. Obviously the more pages the better but I would shoot for 300 as a minimum. Not on day 1, but eventually. And yes, if your site is white-hat you should over the course of the first 6-12 months find you have natural in bound links and people will begin to contact YOU after your page rank goes up some.
This is very true if you want quality white hat sites. I had an original goal of 100 sites in one year. Well, I am not going to make it. But realistically if you work 6-7 days a week on it a few hours each day you can do 20-30. Black Hat is a different story, you could do 20 a week, but i wouldnt know..
My most successful site has approximately 1,200 pages of content. My second most successful site has approximately 700 pages of content.
Is that content that you wrote? I mean, if you are going to make a site do you just buy content from people, or do you write it yourself. Or are those 1200 pages auto-generated?
nice informative thread. I run just the one website, but I'm looking to expand atm. I currently have a friend of mine setting one up for me, which should actually be very very good, and absolutely kill my competition in terms of new contents... atleast i'm hoping so. After reading this thread, I realise I now need to set up more lol, but I have spawned one idea whilst reading this thread. Very good bits n pieces of information in this thread.
I'm being swayed in to the idea of building very large sites rather than a lot of small ones, despite what some think of spreading the risk. With the prices some writers are offering content for: $2.50-$3.00 per 250 word article, it really wouldn't cost much to purchase 1,000+ original articles on a topic. With that many articles, targetting many keywords a site is bound to make a steady ammount of money with AdSense even as the search engines change their game around. There will be so many small and different phrases visitors are reaching each page from I believe extremely large sites are the way to go personally. Pete
A few of the pages are written by other authors. Somewhere around 90% are written by me. I keep meaning to look into auto-generated sites, but I just can't quite make myself. They just seem so... icky. Of course, even when I write a page, I am able to borrow content from many other sources. For example, outbound links are content and so are Amazon book descriptions.
I'm making $500/day with 20 cent clicks. There's too much competition for those "high paying keywords". Don't stress about CPC. Write about what you know and love and the clicks will come.
I'm making about $5 a day from cheap travel and education clicks. Largely thanks, I think, to having a forum with a poor CTR.
Yes. Just build lots of content that users love. The way to do that is to build web sites on topics that you love. It doesn't matter if you build one web site or twenty. I "feel" that the optimal number is three or four. That's a good compromise between "how many different topics can I be in love with concurrently" and "how diversified do I need to be in order to sleep". If you build web sites that users love, those users will link to your web sites, tell their friends about your web sites, and visit your web sites again.
Very much appreciated, your experience, Will. (Warning: philosphical muse coming): Here's how I define the artist: one whose perception is keen, whose love is deep; and whose experience mirrors the universal; so that it is an infectious thing. I don't agree that art is "feeling deep." I believe it must be a conveyed thing, a community thing. It must ripple through and pierce the being of those experiencing the artist's work. I also don't believe pandering is art - it must be owned by the artist, who must at the last let go of any ownership and just do his or her work. This relates because I have thought on this a great deal lately. I am a chef, with a love for cuisine bourgeois and peasant traditions, wherever they may come from. I'm also a martial artist, having lived as a direct, in-house student to a Japanese master. In terms of making money, I've often wondered if what I know and love is just more or less a private thing. It's not enough to love something - what you love must be loved by many, if it is to be a market thing. It must be, as you said: Ideally the two come together. Not trying to be maudlin here, but actually spending some time thinking on these very things, on what the web is about, what it means to establish community in a world which can so easily go the other way.
Seems like there's no correct answer to this question as some people are successful focusing and other doing several sites. I started making several different sites and my income dropped because I lost sight of the original site which is the real money maker. I think if you really want to make big money with AdSense you should focus on one thing (even if you risk having that site drop out of the index). You can't compete with all the other sites out there if they are focused and you are not. You'll end up with many low traffic sites as opposed to one very successful site. Also when you focus, your really building something of value instead of trying to do many little sites just to make money (not that people always do it just to make money). I've spent the last couple months focusing and my adense income has nearly doubled and continues to grow. I still do some work on other sites that I believe may make a lot in the future, but I first make sure that I am spending a full schedule working on the main site and other work is done after, like 'overtime'. If you make enough money to employ others to keep developing your main site then I say definitely build new ones if you feel motivated to. I don't want to get religious here, but there is a verse in the bible that says: "A double minded man is crooked in all his ways." If you try to do too many things at once then you'll do nothing of great quality and value.