Richie0x - 11:44 pm on Apr 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

I am also thinking of creating other websites. The problem is that my current site is travel related and is about a specific destination (I don't live there myself). Fortunately the government's tourism authority in that country were kind enough to let me use their photo library free of charge (even though it's a commercial site).

That site has been very successful and I'm making an enormous amount of money from adsense ads. However I am worried that if I tried to set up another site about another country, the authorities there wouldn't allow me to use their photos. Since tourism sites rely heavily on photographs of the destination, without them I wouldn't have much of a site, and I wouldn't be able to travel all the way there to take my own either. With the current site I did manage to make a few deals with professional photographers, exchanging free use of their photographs for advertisements for their services, but it's taken years to get the right amount of traffic to produce adequate referals to their sites for that to work.

Another issue is that it costs money to set them up, for the domain and hosting fees and so on. If the site doesn't end up being successful it will have been a waste of money.

I have a good plan in mind for setting up the sites, but those are the only problems I face. Regarding the interlinking thing, I would set up one main site with summaries of the satellite sites, and links from the satellites back to the main one. For example if you wanted to make several sites about city breaks around the world, the main one could be 'city breaks network'. You could also use that main site to list information about advertising oportunities across your network and things like that, so it won't purely be interlinking.