Dear fellow money-makers, I was wondering what strategy do you find less time consuming? Putting all the effort to promote one site, or to focus on the quantity, not quality. I'd be grateful if you share your experience. Thank you
What matters is if you can rank. You can have the greatest site on the Planet... no traffic = no earnings. So can you rank one site? Your odds are better making several... seeing what you can do then developing those sites that rank.
If you have site that has decent traffic already, then focus on it in promoting. It can give you more incoome.
It's like having 1-2 children or having 50 children. make one site big and then look to open second one.
Are you saying you're a feeder? One big child or several thinner ones? OP- Why not have a mixture? Find a niche you have a personal leaning towards and make that an authority site (large and detailed), then have a few micro/mini niche sites which are high traffic/low competition to bring in passive income from Adwords/Affiliates/whatever monetization you feel suits. That way you can focus 80% of your time promoting the larger site and for it to be enjoyable and have the smaller sites running as 'bill payers'.
I use a combination of both. In this business you can't afford to put all your eggs in one basket. The idea of creating one large, authority website and focusing all you attention to it is a good one, but in practice it rarely works. It's too much of a risk. I have a small number of large sites that attract a significant amount of traffic, these sites take up most my time. But once in while, I put together a small adsense niche site (of which I have many), and all together (through adsense and affiliate schemes) they earn a significant amount of money. The small sites are often a hit and miss affair, a few of them bomb and some do extremely well (after many, many years doing this I still can't guess which sites will make it BIG but good keyword research cuts down the risk of failure). But other webmasters apply different strategies. The key is in discovering the best strategy that works for you.
Depends on your skills and funds . I'd recommend multiple websites in the 1st year and if one website beats the competition then invest in it . One good website can make money for 100 weak websites but few people get the one .
Making one high traffic site is going to take a lot of time, hardwork and maybe money before you can reach it. Most people opted for micro because it's easy to get rank at the top of the search engine like Google. It doesn't matter which one you choose but each has different strategies.
It is good to have a combination of both. Make one site with good traffic and some small niche sites with $1/day i guess.
You need to find the balance between having a x amount of sites that you can give optimal attention. If you only have on site you could be out of business tomorrow, you need to spread out a little.