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Do you mostly work on keeping them updated(i.e. new/content), or do you dedicate time to improve their rankings through link exchanges, optimization, or even yet, do you put in more features, or,lastly do you work on additional sites?
I'd like to hear people's opinions and experiences on how they juggle the different kinds of workloads.
As for me, I seem to be stuck on one site which started being a mini site but I keep coming up with more features and looking for more content/products/merchants, that my main site is being neglected, and a couple other sites have been in the backburner.
Personally I have neary 100 websites and I plan on adding more. I'll probably stop designing new ones once i've covered all the topics and keywords I want to target.
Antoine
at this rate, it will take me at least a year to get 100 sites going!...how long ago did you start, and on average how long does it take you to build one site? and, out of curiosity, do you host them all in one hosting service, a handful, or what?
If I think there might be a better way to optimize keywords or categorize the site a different way I just build a new site. I think this helps out when there are algo changes beacuse each of the sites might be optimized a little differently.
As an example I built a site over a year ago in a very competitive field. The site never really got much traffic. A few weeks ago the site started producing just when everybody else was complaining about traffic drops.
I wish I could take credit for some advice I once read here: "domains are a disposable commodity".
If u have no goals, then it's obvious why you're posting the question, but my gut suggests that you may have too much work and not enough income.
If that's the case go to the gym, take a holiday, relax and think about where u want to go. Then and only then, you'll have your own answers.
I go back after a month and check my weblogs to see how I tha pages are doing. Sometimes I tweak them to come up a little better in the SERPs.
If you are only doing one website, and you are getting good results in the organic SERPs than you will be disappointed sooner or later. I say this because you never know when the site could drop drastically in the SERPs. Better to diversify and have multiple sites.
wellzy
I started designing websites in 1999. For the past year I have decided to oursource webdesign so I can focus on marketing. I try to keep a creating new site down to 2 days. My latest website is going to be article intensive, so I'm outsourcing the articles and the webdesign. That leaves me with getting traffic and earning the money, which is what I'm after.
Someone made a comment about making one large website, while I find this is appropriate in some instances it would never enable me to target the different niches that I'm after. If I initially design a website on lemons it would be pretty useless for me to add content about Toyotas. It would also seem illogical to my visitors to find a page on different Toyota models on what is a website about lemons. (i know horrible example)
Antoine
to tie in to my original question, have you found in your experience that once you have a site on lemons (that you did in 2 days) you may want to expand that site to include lemonade, or other fruits, and then juice drinks? or you pretty much keep them very focused? and if you have expanded, what was the general deciding factor versus allocating resources on another new site on an unrelated topic?
My sites usually have a domain name that is not product specific. This allows me to branch out. My site now has tons of products that are unrelated and it does very well.
When most users search the search they end up on the relevant page anyways. Same thing with PPC. You don't send them to the index page, you send them to the relevant page for the PPC term.
I say branch out unless you are really trying to brand the website as a whole.
wellzy
Other sites need constant nurturing ( although I'm not a fan of this type) and a once a month tweak to show some freshness. I just added 3 pages today to a site that hasn't had any new pages added in at least two years lol.
