Ok guys - wasn't sure exactly where to put this thread but here goes. I've been developing for about 8 years now on and off. This year i want to make a living out of it. i.e 4 digits a month in revenue. I've built a website which is up and running, and has been for the last few days - obviously because its new i cant expect to generate anything reasonable for about 6 months. This website has an enormous amount of competition and its not a great niche either. With the niche its in it NEEDS to be updated everyday. I cant believe i'm considering scrapping the whole website after all the effort i've put into building it in the last month or so. If i do scrap that website then i can concentrate all of my efforts on my second site - which is an established domain (and registered ltd business) - this website has been in googles index for 8 years now - so it wont take long for the SEO to take effect. This niche is good for ad revenue and of course the website is a business in its self so revenue can be obtained by other means. This website would require less effort with adding content etc when compared to my previously mentioned new site. I need to decide whether to scrap my new site and concentrate on re-building the business site. By the way - the business site hasn't been updated for 4 years yet still ranks ok for keywords with moderate competition. So its in Googles good books I'm half way through re-building the business site and i'm seriously edging towards to the 'scrap my new website' idea. Please guys - any of you experienced web developers out there give me some advice.
in april I'll be 11 yrs in webpublishing "business" full time with one single site . based on the ease to publish NEW topics - different from main content - and still rank TOP in G for about anything I do online. now more and more for fun ... and that fun part brings me a solid 4 digits/months ! I recommend you go with ONE site - the OLD established one - and even if one day you may disllike the "business" part - just ad fun parts in new sub-folders an "OLD" site always is better / EASIER to bring to top and to give you a solid monthly revenue by adsense or otherwise. while there might be soon many others recomending to have MANY sites ..... I recommend strictly ONE site for one PERSON for obvious reasons. God bless
Indeed i may just do that. Obviously my new site has now been purchased and is live for at least a year so i may continue updating that but only spend 1hr a day max on it. I shall devote most of my time to the Business site. I've already planned on extending into sub category i.e reviews of the products - manufacturer news and so forth. As its an established domain with Google i should think that within 14 days i will start seeing results in SERPS etc. I'm very excited about it anyway!