How can we develop 100 websites?

by Andrew2015

Posted: 9 years ago 16 replies

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A friend and I are looking into creating 100 websites during 2015 and wanted to get some advice on content and categories.

The sites will all be created from scratch using WIX - we do not want to purchase domains from other sellers. The sites revenues would be Adsense and affiliate marketing as we do not want to take the added time ( manual work) required to sell products on all the sites.

There are two directions we are discussing:

1. 100 Separate Subject Websites

2. 10 Core Website categories with 10 sites of related material under each site

My 2 questions to the group are?

1. How much Adsense revenue can we get from these sites monthly ( I understand we do not have much info to give to qualify that better - so we would like general averages here.

2. Which of the 2 above strategies would you use to develop these sites?

We do have a large database of contacts to send initial emails to and we understand that this will not form the basis of our traffic in the long run.

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Jonathan Henson

9 years ago

You didn't mention whether or not you would write the content yourself, but if you do write the articles yourself:

100 websites separated into 10 different niche websites would be the easiest way to go because you could easily rewrite articles for each of those 10 different niches. This clustering technique is one of the biggest secrets to success with Adsense.

This would cut your time considerably because you would be able to minimize article research and perhaps launch 200 sites in a year!

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Steve B

9 years ago

Andrew,

The "build 100 sites" fad ended about 5 years ago. It was all the rage for awhile, and then most marketers moved on to a different strategy. Why? Simply because the business model was a heck of a lot of work for the return that the sites gave. Google penalized such sites and saw right through the approach.

Think about the kind of authority site you could build with your own products (or those of others) if you focused all your energy in one place.

Marketing 100 sites stinks. Your effort is diluted and even after you get them all functioning, they are a pain to maintain and keep "fresh."

The amount of money to be made on each one is pennies because the advertising model you're employing requires mega-traffic for the site to ever produce more than a dollar or two per day.

I know this is not what you want to hear . . . but the probability that you'll ever make any significant money from this model is almost zero unless you are a master at driving tons of traffic to each site.

Focus just like you would focus the beam of the sun from a magnifying glass on a piece of paper to set it on fire. With 100 sites you will never focus enough on one site to get it hot!

Steve

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Andrew2015

9 years ago

Thanks for the insight. We do plan on being strategic along the way. 100 is the goal but if we end up with 50 that is fine as well.

The goal is to create websites as opposed to blogs so content is not an issue.

If we could make a couple of dollars a day on each site that would not be a bad result in the end. The creation of content is not an issue and I am sure out of the 100 sites we would have a few winners that make up for the rest.

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jasondinner

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Andrew2015

If we could make a couple of dollars a day on each site that would not be a bad result in the end. The creation of content is not an issue and I am sure out of the 100 sites we would have a few winners that make up for the rest.

If you do it right, you can make the same amount of money or more from one site than you would from making a couple of dollars a day from as many sites as you end up building.

Get your first site built and generating revenue, then figure out how to get more revenue from it - before you start building your 2nd and 3rd and 4th sites etc.

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discrat

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Andrew2015

A friend and I are looking into creating 100 websites during 2015 and wanted to get some advice on content and categories.

The sites will all be created from scratch using WIX – we do not want to purchase domains from other sellers. The sites revenues would be Adsense and affiliate marketing as we do not want to take the added time ( manual work) required to sell products on all the sites.

There are two directions we are discussing:

1. 100 Separate Subject Websites

2. 10 Core Website categories with 10 sites of related material under each site

My 2 questions to the group are?

1. How much Adsense revenue can we get from these sites monthly ( I understand we do not have much info to give to qualify that better – so we would like general averages here.

2. Which of the 2 above strategies would you use to develop these sites?

We do have a large database of contacts to send initial emails to and we understand that this will not form the basis of our traffic in the long run.

Hey Andrew,
I think your best bet would be number 2. No question.

The first one people still make money doing. But not nearly like it was when I started 7 years ago. It is a risky gamble where an incredible amount of time can be lost by cranking out site after site with little revenue.

- Robert Andrew

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Jeff Burritt Banned 9 years ago

I personally would start with 10 websites total, one in each category, and build those up as authority sites.
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johnben1444

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Andrew2015

My 2 questions to the group are?

1. How much Adsense revenue can we get from these sites monthly ( I understand we do not have much info to give to qualify that better - so we would like general averages here.

How to Calculate AdSense Earnings

It's quite simple to know how much you can generate from a market you are about to explore.

1. Find all the keywords you want to target and add up the avg monthly traffic. Divide the total traffic by 10 sites (That's the 10 sites on the first page of the search engine).

2. Add the total CPC of your keywords and find your 65% publishers cut from the total CPC.

3. Find the 15% CTR of the result of your traffic after dividing it by10 sites.

4. Multiply the CTR Traffic by CPC and it will give you an estimate of what you should earn per month when all keywords are ranked and monthly traffic remains the same.

2. Which of the 2 above strategies would you use to develop these sites?

We do have a large database of contacts to send initial emails to and we understand that this will not form the basis of our traffic in the long run.

I would suggest a single website and room for repeating in different markets.

Thanks

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Chris Lee 9 years ago

I've never used Wix before. Do you even own a Wix website? i.e. Can you sell it?

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Also, why not build them all into one domain?
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Chris Lee 9 years ago

Just got curious and did some digging. That should be a warning to not use wix.

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salegurus

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Andrew2015

The sites will all be created from scratch using WIX - we do not want to purchase domains from other sellers. .

Listen to the good advice Steve and Jason have given you...
PS! You don't own the sites you plan to build on the WIX platform, they can destroy all your hard work in a flash...
You obviously did not read their TOS, mistake a lot of people make...

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Andrew2015

9 years ago

Originally Posted by salegurus

Thanks. But why would they want to destroy a site they get renewable revenue from every year?

What do I currently have 3 websites - 1 on WordPress and 2 on WIX.

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salegurus

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Andrew2015

Thanks. But why would they want to destroy a site they get renewable revenue from every year?

What do I currently have 3 websites - 1 on WordPress and 2 on WIX.

You obviously have not been around long enough to have heard the horror stories of people losing access to their Blogger,Wordpress etc sites...

You may never "lose" your site but it's not good business practice to rely on a third party when building a long term business...

But hey it's your money as they say....

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Chris Lee 9 years ago

The thing is if you don't own the hosting, you don't own the site - the people who host your site own your site.

So you can't sell it and they can do whatever they want with it.
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kk075 9 years ago

Hey Andrew-

I think you're missing the point with your idea, so let me ask you a quick question. Would you rather have 100 websites that earn $100-200 a month ($10-20k total) or one website making $10-20k a month?

Because if you try to knock out two websites a week and then forget about them except to collect paychecks, then you're never going to build anything that has real value. So forget the 100 site idea completely and completely build out one niche. If it takes three weeks or three months or three years, then so be it...but that one site is going to generate more revenue that all 99 of your other sites you want to dedicate 3 days total to.

Once you have your first site optimized, then build a second one. Don't even think about #3 though until your 1st and 2nd site are killing it.
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tonyscott 9 years ago

You're unlikely to rank any of the websites for any keywords of significance. Your Adsense income is very likely going to be zero.

As others have said, building your "business" on another companies real estate isn't a business.

And spamming a list of random contacts isn't a great idea.

You're about 10 years behind the curve.

Put up one site, see if you can make that work, on your own hosting. You'll get some numbers and you'll know where to go from there.

You're selling access to email lists for up to $2,500 and you're building websites on Wix?

Tony
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Gladiator 9 years ago

You don't need to develop 100 websites, Just Need to monetize them better and also get traffic to them or they are worthless!

Why not use sitebildz - much better than WIX platform for what you want to do. IMO

I'm not an affiliate of sitebildz or associated with them but but it is owned by Warrior Joe Russell the senuke people.

Andre
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