I was just wondering what your thoughts are on this. I want to make $1000 per week, being from the UK this is only £500ish by doing one of the following. 1. Build one large site, aiming to make $150 per day through adverts. I have some ideas for what kind of site this would be. 2. One large subscription based site for small businesses. $10 per month, would only need 400 subscribers to meet the target. 3. About 5 mid sized sites over different niches, making $30 for each site. 4. 50ish small sites, updated with one article every 2 or so days. This would mean writing 150 articles per week. Each site making $3 per day. Option 4 would seem on the surface to be easier as I would only need relatively few visitors per site compared with the other options. But the options that would come with having a large site are quite attractive and the small sites would have a limit on their potential income because I wouldn't be able to spend as much time promoting them. Option 3 is the inbetweener option which I could do, increasing the number of sites or concentrating on the most successful one after a few months.
Well none of them sound all that easy, but from my point of view 4 seems the hardest. 50 sites at 3 dollars per day is gonna be a whole lot of work. And if you plan to write 150 articles per week? Assuming you average 1 hour per article, you'd be putting in 150 hour work weeks. I would say at the very least, if your goal is to have some type of nearly automated income, 4 isn't the way you want to go. However i don't have 50 sites, so somebody that does may disagree..
Speaking from my own experience, the fewer sites the better. Better quality = better advertising revenue. Attempting to maintain 50 individual sites would make my head spin, even if I was doing it full time. Personally, I'd do a combination of 2 and 3.