When Is Your Associate Site A Total Loss

I regularly see people working on websites that should have been trashed long ago. I don't think there has been a thread like this one, so I encourage people to add in their comments and participate.

Sometimes it's difficult for people to tell you, "Dude your site is garbage", because they know you put lots of work, and effort into your site, have high hopes for your venture and because they just don't want to be rude. So here is a self-check list that you can use or not use. It's not meant to offend, again, it's a self-checklist.

I'm going to list some reasons why you should kill your website right now. Maybe not each item will warrant a cancellation, but if you fall into several of these categories, then maybe you should take a better look at what your doing:

1. It's been two years and you haven't made at least $50 from the site
2. Your website doesn't cover the cost of it's own domain registration
3. The site isn't profitable enough to cover it's own hosting fees
4. When you get hundreds of visitors a day, but can't pull one measly sale
5. You've been banned by a major search engine
6. Your domain name includes the copyrighted name of another company (example acerdellcomputers.com)
7. You haven't updated your site in over a year and it doesn't make you any money
8. People tell you your site sucks all the time or that it needs something (worth coming to the site for)
9. Your site really does sucks and you know it, but haven't yet admit defeat
10. You've invested several thousand dollars and don't bring in even several hundred

Whoa , that was probably difficult for some people to go threw, but the beauty of this thread is that it's designed to help you understand something. If you haven't been successful after lots of effort, instead of continuing to sink your efforts into a losing strategy, start considering where you really want your site to be, and give it a re-birth. Take concrete steps on what you can do reasonably to get it there.

Don't be upset if your first website isn't a success. Even for professionals, it may take several versions of a website or application to get it right. Stay motivated and before you actually start creating something, get into the habit of reviewing successful sites in your field and see how you can improve them.

I hope this post was helpful.

thanks,
PuReWebDev

 

A fairly comprehensive list

I wonder if many sites have been through all 10 stages, but then gone on to be successful?

 

wow, I keep some of my sites that don't even earn for the domain, as link bases for newer ones

 

I definitely think you have some good points there. I've only had my astore and amazon affiliate for 6 months and so far I've been tweaking it to get a few dollars, I'm working on a brand new skateboard store, it should work out quite well.

 

I guess if it's really passing some pagerank, and traffic over to your new sites then it'd be worth keeping : )


thanks,
PuReWebDev