One day IŽll be a true Webmaster

Tactics for my web development

[webjourneyman]

My goal is to become a self employed, creative and succesful webmaster. I would like to lay out my plan and anyone more experienced or in the same shoes could perhaps comment on it.

Basicly IŽm going to create a site around an idea or topic containing 365 pages. The pages will be simple with 250-500 words in a narrow column and large easy to read fonts. A server sided script will rotate the pages displaying a new page each day. The menubar on each page will link to index, contact, tell-a-friend, about and home.

When the website is complete IŽll put it online, notify search engines, register it in directorys, do a 5 cent Adsense campaign, write and submit a PR article and write a few articles with a link to free article sites. Then IŽll forget about it and start working on the next one.

IŽll return to it 1 or 2 years later. If it is getting decent amount of traffic IŽll start thinking about how to earn money of it.

I figure there are 6 ways to make an income online when you have traffic to your sites: Keyword ads, affiliate ads, dropshipping, banners, selling own product and selling own service.

[krez]

Sounds very simple, doesn't it?, my idea is that when you make 365 pages for rotating it every day the content itself can't be as interesting as someone might expect.

How is the content current with todays time and practices and events.
You would have to make interesting content for your visitors will they want to return and gaining a substantial amount of visitors for responding to your adds.

Banners are mostly ignored and for making money on affiliate adds you should have to gain a decent amount of visitors!
Don't be just a webmaster for the money, but be a webmaster because you like to be involved in making websites and it's content, care for the website itself in the first place, otherwise the potential money will never come!, in my oppinion that is.

You could make different sites about various topics that don't need constant updating, but why would this be so interesting for people to return, and giving it the possibility to grow.
For affiliate links to work you should gain a lot of visitors, otherwise i don't think the money you would be making would be very appealing to you.

To conclude: Do it for the website development expierence itself and not for the money, better to have one website with great potential then to have hundreds with no potential at all..........hmm sounds like a welknown proverb doesn't it :)
Anyhow good luck!

[webjourneyman]

Yes, the reason for me getting into web developement is not because I believe IŽll make more money faster than if I focused on a 9-5 career but because a) I like to write and research, doing essays was my favorite thing in school and IŽve some amateur experience publishing magazines and hosting radio shows and b) because becoming a webmaster is my best bet at being self employed doing these two things.
The reason for this notion of creating many websites is because I have not a clue for what idea will work out as a website, I might think its a great idea but maybe IŽm in a very small demographic, so IŽll diversify. Also what sites get popular must be at least as random as what artist get a break and who does not. I figure that after a year IŽll see if a site has a chance of making it or not.

Still IŽm not talking about creating a bunch of minisites, 365 pages is a big chunk of pages. Try, as I did, drawing 365 small circles on a paper, it takes a while. i think it will take me at least 6 months to create a site from scratch.

[abbeyvet]

If I understand you correctly, you will only have one page but the content of that page will change daily?

I don't think that is the best use of your all your efforts in writing so much content - if you have it, make it work every day, not just one day a year.

But maybe I picked that up wrong.

[webjourneyman]

No I intend all articles or pages to be accessable via an index page. ItŽs the startup page, the one that shows when you write in the url, that I want to be changing every day so that when I have a return visitor he/she will allways see something new instantly.

[krez]

My suggestion is make a top 10 for topics that interest you the most or that comes to mind, then look at the top 10 and try to figure out what appeals the most for you.

Then you maybe you should get a top 3, this you can use for making your websites for and starting to make it work for you.
Although i must say that this is always a longshot offcourse when it comes to actually making money, but when the visitors come you could potentially make some income with it.

What kind of income as a "succesfull webmaster" where you thinking about making on a monthly period?, if you have several financial obligations you have to maintain your normal day or night job otherwise you should go on a sabatical website exploration:) with some finacial savings backing you up!
It's always worth trying, if the ideas you have in your mind or worth trying out, because maybe otherwise you would regret it in the future that you didn't try it.
Find things for your website topics that make visitors "stick", ask yourself one question...why would i myself return to the site i am working on?, then you are on your way to getting a website with a large visitors potential, that will result in a nice potential in adds.

Do your research about making a top ten and make from that top ten a top 3 then go with that! Do not make a new website everytime and after 2 years see which of the x amount of websites is doing well! When you really think about it it is doomed to fail, because you can not spread your care and attention at all these websites.

Ask yourself this can you have 30 to x amount of girlfriends and make them believe they are a real girlfriend to you and not just a plaything, can you give every single one of them the time and care that goes with a real relationship?, offcourse not:) at the most three of them and then you would still be juggling your ass of with making excuses, etc.
In a way it is the same with owning websites and maintaining them, if you would have more people backing you up then you could get more help for this?
But as you said YOU want to be a true webmaster then this wouldn't be a option i think.
Regarding websites you could spread your attention and care for 3 websites to begin with, this is in my oppinion the right way to start at first for a webmaster with great ambition as yourself.
Think about it with great care how you would begin with your webmaster career otherwise you would lose a lot of time and money!

[Mister_Tut]

Now that you've better explained what you intend, this sounds like a pre-populated blog.

I would say you should launch asap, and start posting in real time as you write the content. THEN, once you have all the content up, start randomly presenting existing content pages.
That is, unless you already have 365 pages "in the can"!