The last 2 days I'm averaging about $3 a day and I don't have ANY web sites up! Just a simple, simple blog to fill in the time until the site goes up
I have over 40 websites...some made to earn revenues ( I have several doing over $20.00 per day a couple doing over $10.00 per day) and I have other sites that drive traffic or are used for marketing information only. I am fully self employed and have some very very part time help on occassion. This site runs itself so very little I need to do http://www.latestoldnews.com/ This one as well requires little maintenance http://www.increasectr.com or this one http://www.richestwomen.info These I just bought recently and I need to work on all. http://www.expertseotips.com/ http://www.linkexchanging.info/ http://www.webtipsandtricks.info/ There are others I work on in some way or form daily. As you can see I like diversity and multiple streams of income. I also work for clients in search marketing though I have cut back on client work as I find it more rewarding and fun to make myself more money than making them money.... And yes I take time for myself daily... otherwise my eyes would have screenburn
That's another issue with many posters. It's easy to assume that their situation is your situation. For instance, if someone has spent 50 hours on a site, it's easy to think that everyone else spends the same amount to accomplish the same thing. The reality is, the more experience you have, the less time you have to spend getting a site from start to profit. Some might need to spend 50 hours of time on a site and marketing to make $1. Others might need to spend 1-3 hours to accomplish the same thing or better. There's also the "masterpiece" issue. Some, usually those newer to making money on the Internet, think that each site has to be some masterpiece where everything is just right. Others know that's not the case and proceed forward.
Good point. Case in point: amazon.com makes a trillion dollars a day, but I personally don't think it's a well-designed site. Way too much junk and often not intuitive. I had to search for several seconds once for a "next page" button from some search results. In that several seconds, a large percentage would give up and go somewhere else. But it's good enough; web design doesn't have to be perfect.
The only problem is Amazon has a marketing budget running into the 10's of millions. Also, the network effect that Amazon has is only surpassed by ebay.
Do you know that web usability experts consider Amazon.com as one of the most user friendly site? Anyway, I completly agree with you. It has too much junk
Amazing! I always have problems navigating around search results and finding things on the site. I often get stuck poking around in the menus and just go back to the main page and start over. I'm not saying it's horrible by any means, but for such a big site you'd think they'd streamline it more. Google remains the king of simple design. I guess the downside is that Google can do a million things that most people don't even realize
Not really. That started back years ago. When it started Amazon.com had far less crap on it and was a standout site. Today, it's loaded with junk and other sites have evolved to show better layouts. I think the only "experts" saying this today are people going off of thoughts from years and people who have not evolved. I'm not going to say Amazon is garbage (I buy from there all the time), but it's not the dream site it once was when design experts first started touting it.
You get your own server eventually, or (if you don't have a ton of traffic) you just get a reseller account.
I only have 1 site currently but am working on a second site at the moment which should be released soon after some more testing.