How many websites do you own?

Websites, not domain names.

[Freedom]

Me = 12.

Was 13 until I consolidated a mini-site into a larger one.

[dvduval]

Around 50

[Sanenet]

in between work on, own, manage and control... gets into 4 figures.

[lusagalo]

I think this is a funny topic... hahhahahaha

let´s see who´s the first to say that he owns a million sites!

[Freedom]

You mean, who's the biggest?

Does Size Really Matter? Haha!

This post will be ganked.

[brucec]

If you own 1,000,000 sites, then you have too much money to burn...Does billy want to comment on that one?

I own about 4, but have owned about 12 over the years

[wavebird23]

Seven at this time.

[Numberman]

I've currently got nine. Used to have a couple more until I merged them.

[dvduval]

A better question would be...
How many page views do you receive per day? Or how many pages have you published on the web? Or how much money are you making?

[Shak]

4 at present

working on a big 5th

Shak

[rfcon]

I wonder how can 5 or more sites be managed, monitored, updated and webmastered at once. For the people that have more than 5 sites, are them content sites? Which kind of sites?

Sometimes I'm overloaded with 1 site tasks (pure content), checking forum posts, logfiles, stats, and Adsense :)

[Numberman]

I own all of my sites, and I do quite an amount of work on them, but I've got several administrators appointed at each site to aid me. That's how I manage it, although I do feel overworked sometimes...

[Dayo_UK]

About 15 - and some are really really poor! - but some are quite good :).

But yep, it does get a bit of a strain - especially as I was doing them as well as a full time job. But starting next week I will be full time self employed web type guy thingy. (No Idea what to call myself!)

[dvduval]

starting next week I will be full time self employed web type guy thingy

That's funny. I call myself a Web Developer. It seems to cover everything.

I recently became unemployed myself! I don't like the 9-5. Now I just wake up (when I feel like it) and say, "hmmm...how am I going to take over the web (World) today"

[Dayo_UK]

I just wake up (when I feel like it)

:) - I have given myself a strict timetable for now - lets hope I stick to it (includes a morning jog - that might be hard to keep to;))

[SlowMove]

4 sites.

I wonder how can 5 or more sites be managed, monitored, updated and webmastered at once. For the people that have more than 5 sites, are them content sites? Which kind of sites?

Automate, and find good sources of content that visitors will find useful

[vkaryl]

I wonder how can 5 or more sites be managed, monitored, updated and webmastered at once. For the people that have more than 5 sites, are them content sites?

8 sites. 3 are my own, 1 is my daughter's, the others are variously owned, but I manage them all. They are all "content" sites, though none of them is large, and only a couple of them get an appreciable number of hits. I don't "SEO", because none of us have any need for it.

The content & other changes are managed as I have the time, mostly on weekends. I'm gone from home 11 hours a day (2 hour round-trip commute), so I'm generally too tired to mess with anything other than my 100 or so emails after I get home.

Sometimes though.... last night, some bozo 150 miles north of here cut a fib-op cable-bundle - guess what guys, NO PHONES. Not even cell.... so I actually wrote some page changes in topstyle (which has a decent selection of quasi-browser viewers though HARDLY perfect), which I've already uploaded tonight. *shrug* But I still didn't manage to stay up very late. When you have to get out of bed at 4:30 am....

[Teshka]

About 10 sites, all content. I intentionally choose topics that won't necessarily become obsolete if I don't update them for a year, although it's never really that long between updates. I tend to work on one site at a time, then move on when I feel like working on another one. Keeps me from getting sick of any one thing.

[rfcon]

Automate, and find good sources of content that visitors will find useful

Good point, beside template's, sometimes it's extremely difficult to automate a content site. I run a dentistry website, all content submitted by users, and I sometimes I get articles written so badly that I spent hours and hours spell checking the content.

The content & other changes are managed as I have the time, mostly on weekends.

Regarding this issue, I'm victim of my own success. My website is pretty popular, # 1 on all the search engines (it's now written in english) and if I slip on the newsletter schedule I get tons of mails like "Hey, where's the newsletter? When will you publish new content". I lost the SEO race, I don't have time to make any sitewide change.

I'm planning to open a new dental site but in english ;) but with a different approach (adsense centric.. hehe)

Any tips on how to manage content sites and have time to sleep is pretty welcome!

[SlowMove]

Perl and PHP are the best for managing a large number of sites. I can't really compare the two since I only learned the basics of Perl.

[vkaryl]

Don't worry about "lost the content race" - sounds to me like you have the best of the dental world anyway!

I'm hell on wheels as an editor/proofreader. THAT is something I can do in my sleep. If you want help with that aspect of keeping up with your content monster (once you've put up the English-language site, of course!), sticky me and we'll see what we can work out. I NEVER misspell anything and my grammar is meticulous; and while English is honestly the only language in which that's a truism, I can and will point out "translation idiocies".

Typos are a WHOLE OTHER STORY.... *sigh* I do fix 'em when I see 'em....

[mifi601]

I NEVER misspell anything and my grammar is meticulous; and while English is honestly the only language in which that's a truism, I can and will point out "translation idiocies".

I am not so sure about that ";" in there ....

[sidyadav]

I'm exactly in the same position as Shak.

I own 4 sites, working on a big 5th :)

Sid

[zulufox]

I have one site that I dedicate all my time too.. all content.

However I am thinking of working on 2 or so sister sites starting in the fall.

My fiance is just beginning to get into webmastering and is currently running 2 small sites (1 school club and 1 medicial fraternity)... I´m hoping to get her into making her own content site soon.

[Leosghost]

I can tell you vykaryl does read Verrrrrrrry fast ...

BTW Vykayrl I owe you a mail .. didn't forget just very busy ......
: )

[Essex_boy]

One currently 1 never more than 2. I just couldnt keep up otherwise...

[ronin]

<sigh>These threads...</sigh>

One. Just the one.

[sidyadav]

I'd rather own just one website, which is big, popular and generates $$$, instead of 4 minor websites which do nothing.

That's why I'm opening the big 5 :)

Sid

[bull]

My beloved personal 500page site and managing 3 other, smaller ones and soon a 4th one. All are content sites and I am a small fish, but this is not my primary profession anyway.

[Kewe]

I have 5 sites and that all together are 800 pages.
The only way to handle a lot of pages is to write them by hand, in php/html with a lot includes. In this way it is possible to have more control over all your pages.

For SE you must include somethings if you have a lot pages, because if Google change you must change your pages. And if you must change 800 pages than that it is a hell of a job.

The only difficult thing is to give feedback to all you're visitors.

Bye the way can somebody give me, and other webmasters some great, and interesting tips to improve our listing in Google?