Hello, thank you and goodnight

When to kill off a failing site

[Essex_boy]

Not sure what to do here, I have a site at one point it was ticking over nicely - I earnt more out of it than it cost in fees and time.

Over the last six months the site has slowly died, Mr G has now put it in the supplmental index as a result its now costing me money.

Not a vast amount but thats not teh point.

What I need to know is what would you do? Pull it or find and alternative life for it? Or something else.

It seems such a waste to shut it off.

[zCat]

If it's still got some decent back links (I'm assuming any G "penalty" is for duplicate content or whatever), try putting some original content on some pages and see if they make a comeback. Then you could possibly make something else out of the site, or a subdomain thereof.

[trillianjedi]

If it's a good site (good quality content) then I'd be minded to keep it, but look to reduce it's costs, so that it can just tick over costing you either nothing, or next to nothing.

Then you can play with it as and when you have time at your own discretion and see if you can get it ranking again.

What do the overheads consist of? Is it primarily outsource costs (including hosting) or your own time?

What would happen if you were to just leave it (stop spending time on it), but keep it? Are there aging considerations/spam issues?

TJ

[maccas]

I just moved 4 sites that were hosted seperately to a VPS that is running a successful site. These sites have slowly died over the years and like you were lossing money. Now they don't cost any extra to run and what ever they make is a bonus.

[rj87uk]

What about selling it Essex boy? I know there are always people looking to buy websites including myself.

[oneguy]

Then you can play with it as and when you have time at your own discretion and see if you can get it ranking again.

I agree. Some sites that are effectively not making any money can serve as some type of back up plan in case you ever need one.

Not a vast amount but thats not teh point.

$5 per month or something? Keep it. If it isn't ranking in Yahoo, I'd spend a day or two trying to hit that, and not worry about G.

[Essex_boy]

Its gone supplemental for god knows what reason, its original content with nothing duplicated, unless some toe rag has duplicated it.

I wonder I wonder....

[larryhatch]

Try searching for short unique snippets of your original text.
That might explain why it went 'supplemental'
If you can fix that somehow, complaints etc., maybe you can revive the site. -Larry

[stu2]

You could try posting some of your original content into copyscape.com and see what comes up ;)

[Essex_boy]

Yep Im in several scrapper sites.

If the I altered teh pages to be unique again, how long to get out of the supplemental?