I hear everywhere that the best way to get rich with adsense it to make 300-500 mini sites that are greatly SE opted. I hear its not good to put all your eggs in one basket. Well how many baskets should you put your eggs into?
id say that you should make a quality site, then move on and make another, keep marketing each of your sites and make sure they are good. Then each one will bring you good revenue, which will continue to increase.
Yeh i started off with one, made another sort of related, then the first one helped the second, then on my third decent sized one now I know i couldnt handle 300 mini sites, it'd be too annoying but whatever works best for you
As big as you can handle. When you hit the 300-500 size, I'd be hoping that you have some degree of automation on... or a massive body of article writers.
I use Google's 70,20,10 model when I contemplate new site ideas. 70% time spent on main site (largest money maker) 20% time spent on related websites 10% totally different niche Ok so it's just a LITTLE modified from the original formula. For all intent and purposes, however -- It keeps my head sane . Versus having sites in 500 different niches when at the end of the day, almost everything is related, even if just by 1 hair , keeps that blood pressure low
if you make a ton of related sites, try to keep things in php include files. makes things a lot easier!
It's "too much" when your sites can't make enough to pay for their hosting after 1 month of being online.
As Jack said, if you can earn money from them, then it's never 2 much. It's a profit/loss game, but remember you need time to spend your money, you've got a life to live.
Doh ! I forgot that part. Is there a cure for Adsense ? My rule is if a domain earns its keep it can stay.
Thanks for the replies. I made my first site a couple days ago, but didnt really make it for money, only with the intention of learning some basics. I plan on launching a site today where I can really let my creative juices flow. Its a site that helps people with a certain area of their lives. There isnt much competition, only about 30,000 results on google and I have about 6 keywords that are like this. Im going to use all the SEO techniques I can and hopefully get it indexed a start making money soon.
This is were outsourcing can really help you. I'd outsource the time-consuming tasks that don't actually make you the "most" money. You might want to spend you time on actually designing the sites, or updating the sites with content, or something else that makes you more money for you time. I've had six little blackhat sites that generated $300 a month for me. It was a little test I run for directory generators. If you do plan on making that many sites, you really do need to work on automation. Get a system in place. Use a blog (like wordpress) as a backend and then develop other tools that help you build more pages on the fly, in a non-spammy way that actually helps the user. Then just update your sites with new content once or twice a week. Have a "featured article" for your site. Having 300-500 sites like that, that will take up a lot of your time just updating the sites with new content twice a week.
i suggest don't try to earn more first time you get nothing get one site work for months make it good and finally when you have atleast 1000 unique visitors per day then add another 1-3 site put some popop saying "we have ......" then attract visitors they will sure want to check your site and sosososo i guess this will work great
Regarding the hosting bill - put most/all of your domains on a single host. I do, and don't get the same i.p. addresses for them, either. My percentage of developed sites is ~70% at Dreamhost, 20% at GoDaddy, 10% at 1and1.
You have too many sites when they take away your life Seriously. Having money and doing web dev is nice and all, but if you're working 100 hours a week to try to update them all, maybe scale it back. On the other hand, if you have extra free time to explore and build new sites, aware of the time considerations for starting and then updating them, go for it THough, I've found in general, unless you do have good ways to optimize your content production as has been mentioned above so that it keeps the time down... the more sites you own, the more your sites own you
I have hosting package that allows multiple domains. What do you mean you dont get the same ip's? I dont follow, sorry Im new.
linking from mutiple domains help a lot. If u plan to have a number of sites, ensure u dont have too many sites which need to be updated / maintained manually. I found that even a forum needs constant moderation and sometimes take up a lot of time. Again having automated sites cud lead to thm being treated as scrapper sites.. if based on rss fetching etc. spend more time in the initial development of the site... monitor using google anal or any other stats package or adsense channels how they are working ... if u see its working , spend more effort on that. Sometimes some thing just click. Competition for certain niches are more ... but its pays more ... so mix and match between easy areas and the more competitive ones.
Same IP i think subdomains, i think that would stuff up thx to the new smart pricing thing. Anyway, my concept is not to make mini sites, but rather list the stuff that inspire me, i.e. my hobbies, and then split my hobbies into seperate sites and then go from there. E.g. I like investing. so 1 for real estate and another for stock market.