1 site at $100/day or 100 sites at $1/day? What's your approach?

14 years ago

When you work by yourself, you need to decide what will keep you focused.

For instance, if you have 100 small sites, can you keep track of them all to see if one takes off enough to warrant the effort to build a bigger site?

I like small sites. They are easy to create and a great way to test the waters... Build a few pages, do some basic link getting and see what happens. When one performs, it is worth doing more work on.

In my case, more work means creating more products along that theme to offer my customers and building out that category into a more robust profit stream.

But since I sell physical products, my focus and intent might be different than say someone just trying to make a bunch of adsense sites and spreading the risk around.

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Steven Wagenheim 14 years ago

I agree with Stede. Why would I want to spend so much energy over many
sites when I can make the same amount of money from one site?

Now, if you can put these 100 sites up and have then generate income,
literally on autopilot (would probably be something like Adsense) then sure,
I'd do it.

But then you still have the headache of having to remember domain
renewals, site downtime, etc. I have enough problems without having to
worry about 100 more of them.

No, I'll take one site over many any day of the week.
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Smcminigal

14 years ago

Doesn't make much sense working harder to run 100 sites to make a dollar each, so the simple answer that everybody will reply is to 1 site with $100.
Once you have established 1 site that earns 100 you can branch out and have a few 100/per day sites, but not to much as to not enjoy the money you make...

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Bertil Jenner

14 years ago

I agree with Schabotte.

There is no guarantee that a large site is going to make you money just because it is a large.

The approach of building many small (5-10 pages) sites first and then adding more pages to your successful sites works very very well.

Shooting fish in a barrel comes close to what i am thinking of.

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Rich Struck

14 years ago

I would rather have one site than 100 but what I tend to do is build one big site then build little sites to feed it. This gives Google more stuff to find and it keeps me from going crazy trying to decide what to do next.

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theemperor

14 years ago

Think of the yearly domain renewal bill for 100 sites also !!

However there is the site-flopping strategy of course...

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Steven Carl Kelly 14 years ago

Originally Posted by theemperor

Think of the yearly domain renewal bill for 100 sites also !!

My domain renewal bill is just under $1,000 a year right now. I cut back and dumped a bunch of domains I bought and never did anything with.
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- nettech 14 years ago
  
  Mines x5 that...lol
  
  Its not good at all!
  
  Originally Posted by Steven Carl Kelly
  
  My domain renewal bill is just under $1,000 a year right now. I cut back and dumped a bunch of domains I bought and never did anything with.
  
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  theemperor 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by nettech
  
  Mines x5 that...lol
  
  Its not good at all!
  
  Jeez! Become a registrar and use yourself as a customer :p
  
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ELVISTHEPELVIS

14 years ago

I think having 100 sites would drive people crazy. Your mind would be constantly thinking about each one and what needs to be done. If you could put all of your energy into one or even a few sites it would be more realistic to reach your goals.

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Thomas Smale

14 years ago

Neither

I'd rather go somewhere in the middle. I have more domains than I can count, but of the sites I have developed, I have around 20. 100 sites requires a lot of management and quite frankly aren't worth the effort individually. I would never have a business relying on 1 site either, so that counts that out. 10 sites making $10 a day would be the best middle ground IMO.

Another thing to remember is to stay proactive. If a site isn't performing, don't just sit on it - flip it. You can use that cash to reinvest in your more profitable sites. This is a really good way to ramp up your earnings really quickly and avoid having dead-weight in your portfolio.

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Retta

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Thomas Smale

Neither

I'd rather go somewhere in the middle. I have more domains than I can count, but of the sites I have developed, I have around 20. 100 sites requires a lot of management and quite frankly aren't worth the effort individually. I would never have a business relying on 1 site either, so that counts that out. 10 sites making $10 a day would be the best middle ground IMO.

Another thing to remember is to stay proactive. If a site isn't performing, don't just sit on it - flip it. You can use that cash to reinvest in your more profitable sites. This is a really good way to ramp up your earnings really quickly and avoid having dead-weight in your portfolio.

Thomas

This will absolutely show my nube face, but how would you flip a site that isn't performing, why would anyone else buy it if it isn't performing?

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InHwan Park

14 years ago

if the sites are automated than i would would make 100 $1 sites actually y not more? ... but it would only be worthwhile/possible if you can create a easy system that can be outsourced and when finished be automatic. than your time is freed up to maybe buildup on a free that are doing better than $1 a day. ...

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nettech

14 years ago

I have hundreds of domains with about 100 sites live, let me tell you since Google Mayday it has made me rethink my strategy.

Now unless you are super organised which I think I am. even then you'll get confused. Having all those sites, updating them, SEO'ing each one, social bookmarking, writing articles, setting up soo many link building campaigns really starts to take its toll. I'm now starting to consolidate those sites and only focus on about 20-25 which I know can make me solid money.

Authority sites seem to be the way, so IMHO I think you should start of with say 3-5 sites, build them and take it from there but don't spread yourself too thin otherwise your AdSense empire may never get off the ground.

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bay37

14 years ago

Build 10 websites that make $10/day each. Scale the winners.

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Osman_M

14 years ago

How about 10 mid range sites pulling in $100 each a day?

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Whiplash25

14 years ago

Having a 100 different sites allows for more chance of striking something big. Until you find a nice niche that is willing to make money for you, only testing 1 idea at a time could be a long process, why not speed it up?

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espresso 14 years ago

I am working on 10 sites making 10$ a day model
I am going to be doing a few SEO test next week and in the next month

In saying that I am launching a new site Monday that if successful could land me 50$ day

Heres hopin
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MervikHaums

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Mustafa Khundmiri

How many of you have been succesful in taking the route of creating many small sites as opposed to one or two large sites? It's a lot easier to make a site that makes $1/day, but is it easy to make 100 of these sites? Just curious.

I'm with the second suggestion - Stick with a single idea.

I've started my news journal 5 months back and honestly not even a single penny in the first month. But I stick to it. It was like 2$ a day the second month and third.. But now I have a better deal per day there.

Go with the second idea. Stick to a single idea/project and work hard on that. Trust me!

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TheNewGuy2010

14 years ago

I agree with everyone that said have a few sites not 100 or even 50 or 25.

If you work hard enough you can earn $5k-$10k USD from one site. Build nice "beefy" sites. Give the SE's something to grab. Make sure you theme(LSI) you articles.

Go for 5 or 10 sites. Even 3 sites you could clear way over $10K.

I think the Micro site days have seent their best days, assuming they even had any best days.

I like to build mine to a minimum of 30 pages, than after the initial 30, post 1 new article a week. It keeps the content fresh and and site updated.

After the content ages and you do your SEO, the traffic just rolls in. On top of other promotions. A few high quality sites producing is much easier to manage.

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Magik

14 years ago

@ the OP:

Why limit yourself by thinking like that?

Making $1 a day seems like an AutoBlog jobbie.

Making $100 seems like an Affiliate Sale or Store Front jobbie.

Why not do both?

Magik.

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TheNewGuy2010

14 years ago

Doing both spreads your time and financial resources thin. Even without blogging you still have to manage the process.

I know people that have 3 sites and make over $40K USD/month.

I'd take that any day over 100 sites.

Originally Posted by Magik

@ the OP:

Why limit yourself by thinking like that?

Making $1 a day seems like an AutoBlog jobbie.

Making $100 seems like an Affiliate Sale or Store Front jobbie.

Why not do both?

Magik.

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dmadnani

14 years ago

Personally I would go for 1 site making a hundred due to 2 main reasons:

-Easier to manage: Even if you consider the 100 sites making $1 on autopilot there are going to be some updates or domain registrations that need to be renewed every now and then. So doing this for a hundred sites that make $1 each doesn't seem very rational.

-Flipping Value: The site that's making $100 a day is going to fetch a hefty price tag if you ever decide to sell it (provided you know how to market the sale well), minimum 10x the monthly revenue, up to no specific bar (sometimes 20/30 times).

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rjhere

14 years ago

Hundreds of sites is my choice. My strategy is what someone has coined the mudslinging strategy. I do everything automated so it takes me a few minutes to create a site and about 15 minutes and some links to get them going . Sling enough mud on a wall, some will stick. That's my strategy.

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deuxlai

14 years ago

If you are able to create 1 site earning $100/month, why dont just build 100 sites of that?
Can earn $10,000/month and not 100 sites of $1/month which is only $100/month.

End of the day, you will still spend the same time to work on the site. Better spend your time wisely as your time is limited.

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John Romaine

14 years ago

Id like to hear more from nettech. It seems you have a lot of sites. What is your business model, and how do you manage them all? Are they thin content sites?

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syedasim786

14 years ago

Focus on a big buying niche, that has to do something with urgency or addiction. Look for niches that solves peoples problems, like solving smoking addiction, or porn addiction. They have high buyer rates, good conversions, and sure they are competitive but their are soo many keywords out there for these niches, and new keywords being born every day. Find the low hanging fruit keywords, build a website around it, produce highquality content, create a free give away, build up your list, and start driving traffic to your affiliate promotion.

That one site has potential to make a 4 figure salary a month, focus your energy and strengths on bigger competitive markets that can give out a high return. It's worth more of your time, rather than focusing on one site or a micro-micro-niche that makes you $100 a month.

Those are my two cents.

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cpace32 14 years ago

Focusing on a few profitable sites would be the way to go- 100 sites at $1/day would be a nightmare to maintain.
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- rjhere 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by cpace32
  
  Focusing on a few profitable sites would be the way to go- 100 sites at $1/day would be a nightmare to maintain.
  
  No.. You only maintain the best of them.. And churn out more. One site making 100 a day is of course preferable but it's much easier to get to 200 making .50 a day.
  
  The ones that day start earning 5.00 a day you cultivate and if they were a farm crop. And in that batch you keep the best ones.
  
  It's q numbers game. The ones earning 1.00 a day you flip for about 150-200 on flippa.
  
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  RSK3000 14 years ago
  
  Well I have 50+ one or two page minisites, mostly .co.uk domain names, monetised by Adsense.
  
  Most will pay for themselves over 12 months and some do a bit better than that. So now I have to create hundereds of backlinks and make thousands of submissions to article directories to get them ranking well.
  
  Just think how much better I'd do if I was focussing ALL that effort on a few authority sites.
  
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14 years ago

Does it have to be one extreme or the other? Can't you just aim for a nice middle ground? I can understand the appeal of just focusing on one site, but it seems to be better to spread the risk around.

Then again the prospect of managing hundreds of domains just pains me.

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mikemac1

14 years ago

It's funny you mentioned this because I actually think about this concept a lot and eventually always answer with something like Alexa mentioned about "putting all your eggs in one basket."

For myself, I'm more comfortable with diversifying, so having revenue from multiple places is worth the work.

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rondo

14 years ago

Yesterday I listened to an interview with a guy who had 10,000 sites each making approx $1 per day with Adsense/lead gen. He's working on 20,000 sites!

Andrew

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Kevin_Hutto 14 years ago

Originally Posted by rondo

Yesterday I listened to an interview with a guy who had 10,000 sites each making approx $1 per day with Adsense/lead gen. He's working on 20,000 sites!

Andrew

Now thats the most I've heard...
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John Romaine 14 years ago

Originally Posted by rondo

Yesterday I listened to an interview with a guy who had 10,000 sites each making approx $1 per day with Adsense/lead gen. He's working on 20,000 sites!

Andrew

Andrew, is this interview online? Link???
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PaulaC

14 years ago

I'd rather make $100 per PAGE.

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MarketAbel

14 years ago

As my sig states... I have really only had one main site for many years and it has been a consistent ~$5-$7 a day earner (just adsense) even with NO updates to the site for 2 years at one point.

I think I would like to have 10x $10 a day earners and reading this thread has helped me reaffirm that is exactly what I need to focus on... Medium? sized sites that have an authority feel to it.

I've done it once...and it took 6 months. You just don't know how much I kick myself in the arse knowing I could have made one site each year making $7 a day for the last 7 years...

I would be at $1,470 per month!

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