Matt D is right though when you think about it. Some people keep setting up new websites but in the end they don't have enough time to put the right attention to any one of them. I think it's best to set one up, tweak it until it's on auto-pilot, then set up another one. Repeat this process over and over again making sure you update sites when needed and eventually you'll have an authority site (hopefully).
Matt UK have suggested that trusted site and authority site isn't the same, which I haven't noticed. MorgansMom, Well, things aren't so simple. What if you get 5 visits a day from SE for one query and you are placed 12th. Would you keep link building hoping to reach 1st position and hoping that position would bring you 100 visits a day? But, you have already did much.
That's exactly what I did. And if being #1 doesn't bring you 100 visits a day, it's time to research other keywords.
Just what qualifies a site to be called an authority site? I have a site ( one of my first ) that has shown in the top 10 (usually top 3 ) for my main keywords in the top3 SEs for over 3 years. But i would not classify it as an "authority site". Even though it often outplaces the local gov & edu sites.
same here, this morning (in Portugal) i found that we're back again to #3 spot in SE for main keyword, puttin some gov sites to lower places. Yet, its not an "authority site"... it will be in 1-2 years...
Create a good number of sites that you will want to update on a regular basis and market them on a constant basis. You should only create as many sites that you can update and maintain. Some people can do this on more sites than others for various reasons such as how much time they can realistically put aside for webmastering.
With alot of sites, you can also tell if a site had been put up quickly or is a good large site. Visitors are more likely to come back to larger sites that are updated regularly than what they are with small sites that are never or rarely updated.
If you are buying a domain name as an investment, you make more money if you make a mini site than park it .
In my opinion you will notice when your site has reached "authority" status when you can make a new page and it will rank well for the keywords targetted on that page almost immediately. I also think there are different kinds of authority at google for sure. For instance big news sites will take over SE results for top stories even on the same day but these don't always stick. There are probably 100 opinions on what authority really means but it all comes back to a site the SE's trust above others on any subject.
Thanks, this thread was very informative. I'll pass on the word to some of my friends who do that. I don't understand why they do it either. There must have been some point where / when it did work.
I would like to build one good website first then go for the other. I have 20 websites now, and I found it's hard to maintenance all of them, and most of them don't make much money. maybe I can build 100 websites but make fewer money than some people only make one good website.
Very good information I would like to thank everyone for all the info you guys post Im learning alot from reading all the posts but it is alot of reading thats for sure.
Personally I had 27 websites for a year, but I got rid of 22 last week via the delete button. I decided that it is much better to focus on a few sites rather than waste hundreds of hours doing countless work on sites that are not of much use plus also will not make much money. If you want to really make money on the Web then you have to just focus on a 1 or a few sites like Google, Yahoo, Youtube. They all have only 1 or a few sites and they have grown big. Although I doubt if we will get that big, but there's always hope. I also find that once you do a few sites and get some traffic you then start creating others and by the time you finish them and start promoting the new lot the ones that were getting the traffic before has died down. This is because why would visitors want to keep coming back to the same site where the content never changes. I know that I never hardly will unless it is really useful information and I need to relocate it again for some reason or other.
another reason its not good to have more than 50 sites, its very very hard to constantly update and manage since there are only 24hours in a day and ppl do sleep and eat
I have around 5 'minisites'. But they earn a good income and they are all listed in Wiki. The trick is to have QUALITY, ORIGINAL Content and a killer design never hurt nothing either