Building a 'Generalised' Website for Spare Articles

What to do with multi-topic articles?

[bouncybunny]

I've got various articles, that I wrote for different purposes. These are different lengths, varying subjects etc.

I'm unlikely to ever start a large specific website on any of these subjects, but they are interesting and some even cover topics that are, if not unique, offer a unique outlook.

I have thought about a two different approaches.

1. Build a separate of one or two page website to host each specific article, buy keyword relevant domain names, build a few links to them and see what happens.

2. Build a 'generalised' website and stick them all on that, on separate pages (or even sub-domains)...

Any thoughts?

[Webwork]

I have a site that I guess I could call my "writing as a hobby" site. It covers whatever interests me that doesn't quite fit within another site. It's a "no pressure / no pressure to succeed" site. I can throw anything I care to on it: affiliate stuff, politics, whatever. It's like a small retreat, a do-nothing, an escape, i.e., like a hobby.

There's work involved, like there is with a hobby, but it's not work-work, if you know what I mean. ;)

It makes a few bucks but I try not to worry/focus on that.

The danged thing is, probably as a result of not worrying about the money (or much of anything else) the site will probably end up being my biggest money-maker after a few years . . . and then I'll have something to worry about. :P

[bouncybunny]

Heh. Thanks Webwork.

Do you keep it in the form of a blog, or regular website (i know the differences are few these days).?

Otherwise, with domains being relatively cheap, I was thinking of building a 'site' for each article. That way, if for some reason one of them showed promise, it could be developed. Developing a site which has a mixture of content can be confusing.

[Go60Guy]

I wholeheartedly agree that a site with no focus will probably not be productive of much of anything, unless it's simply a personal hobby undertaking, as Webwork mentions.

I would give serious thought to doing, say, a small site a week, toss AdSense on top and sprinkle in some Amazon for any products, books, DVDs, etc. that may be related. Get a little revenue going, and six months to a year later you'd be surprised what you can sell sites like that for, especially if they're done on WordPress and can demonstrate some revenue.

[bouncybunny]

Thanks Go60Guy.

Thing is, these 'sites', would only have a couple of pages on them (Unless I get some downtime and have chance to add to them). Is that too small?

[Webwork]

Regular website . . built using WP.

For now I choose to "not interact", i.e., engage or allow comments, so it's not quite a blog.

[bouncybunny]

Thanks.

Indeed, I no longer interact on any of my sites. Forums especially got too much work for too little 'results'.

[leadegroot]

Starting a site for each topic would also give you something to 'play with' at low risk, if you wanted to test some technique before you 'risked' a money site.