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Now I need to know that how do you manage all those sites at a time as i also need to make a lot of money :P. I am planning to start 2 or 3 more sites but the problem is managing. So how many sites do you own and how do you manage them.
[edited by: martinibuster at 5:32 pm (utc) on May 4, 2008]
[edited by: MFKaHB at 5:47 pm (utc) on May 4, 2008]
as i also need to make a lot of money :P.
That's what it has to do with AdSense.
I have 162 sites. 15 make money (enough to pay for domain registration and hosting). One makes enough money to support my family and a few employees.
Sometimes I wish I only had the one site, but I probably wouldn't have the one site if I had not tried so many different ideas over the years.
You may be tempted to write just for $$, but if that is your only motivation, why would your visitors want to come back to your site? Write on something you are qualified to write about.
Maybe off topic, but what would be the reason for running several sites on the same topic, instead of running one quality site that is the best at what it does?
I can think of a few reasons:
- Not putting the eggs in one baskett
- Trying to get the most commercial use out of one topic
- Filling gaps before your competitors do
- The first site gets too big
- The second site is used for trials with ads or affiliate programs
- Etcetera...
Maybe off topic, but what would be the reason for running several sites on the same topic,
There are quite a few reasons and MFKaHB listed several however my main two reasons are:
1. Geo-targetted establishment of a site i.e. specialising in niche products from a specific zone, the main ones in my case are Brazil, China, India, Italy, South Africa, Turkey etc.
Quite simply my customers feel more comfortable dealing direct with the actual supply office rather than with a generic .com address.
If you've never tried it, don't knock it, and do not under-estimate the difference it makes to one's company image that the supplier perceives their customers' business as being important enough to warrant their own dedicated regional web site.
2. Establishing an authority site for one specific product. I have done this for several of my exclusive product lines and all have many back links including trade sites and Wikipedia "possibly" because of their uniqueness and in-depth knowledge.
Sure they could have been created in an all-encompassing site however I like the authority-keyword-domain approach, people definitely remember them.
what would be the reason for running several sites on the same topic, instead of running one quality site that is the best at what it does?
One reason is if you are both a developer and domainer sometimes you concentrate your domains in certain categories or a niche you have knowledge about.
Maybe off topic, but what would be the reason for running several sites on the same topic, instead of running one quality site that is the best at what it does?
A quick answer would be Google truly penalizes well structured larger sites. The deeper in your site's navigation structure you go the more pages you will have that are "supplemental", indexed slowly. etc. What's funny is that's where the best content is.
Some might argue that "deep" links compensate for this, but there is a strong tendency for inbound (and even internal) links to go to the home page.
So one reason for multiple sites is avoiding a deeply nested navigation structure. And this is one reason some own many sites (domains that is). In some ways Google has encouraged web developers to create multiple sites instead of one well structured larger site, even within one topic.
However -- the MOST FUN I have had is a recent project that I have NO knowledge about, but find fascinating, and could read about for hours on end.
I found a friend who is an expert in this topic and I pay him to write for his own website, which I now basically own and run for him. He wants nothing to do with the "web work" and he can use the immediate cash. I am happily investing in this very personal and in-depth content -- it also can't be easily swiped due to the writing style and how it is woven in the fabric of his own life stories, etc. Great ads for the niche, too!
I am constantly on the look-out for friends who have expertise in a marketable area -- but he's the first one to get serious about writing regularly for me.
I have one big site that accounts for 75% of my income -- and the other 12 or so account pretty equally for the other 25% of it.
I like the idea of not having all my eggs in one basket.
YM
While hosted on the same domain google would, sometimes, have trouble displaying ads in a proper language. I hesitate for some time but after some time I decited to move each language to a separate domain name and the issue is (more or less) completely gone.
I did suffer an initial loss of traffic as it took 3+ months for the new sites to get indexed (the original sites did drop from the index quite quickly). To sum it up, after 9+ months I am seeing ~20% increase in CTR. The overall revenue increase is ~15%. The content is static.
revenue from each
40%
30%
20%
5%
4%
1% the rest
1 makes 70% of my money. 3 others earn 20% or less. The other 7 pretty much share the rest.
What's quite funny about my websites is that the first website I made earns 75% of the revenue. The next websites I created are earning very little or nothing. If somebody had told me that when I was starting, I would probably have resigned then:)
