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11 years ago

Yes definitely.

When I first got started in IM in October 2008 I purchased the domain name passiveincomeexplained.com.

I started to do something with it but then stopped for whatever reason (don't own it anymore).

Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income started in October 2008 also I believe and look how massive his site has become!!

Lesson learned.

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arojilla

11 years ago

Two not three, but yes, I regret not having been updating them. They still get a few hundreds of visitors a day and pay for themselves with adsense despite not having been updated in more than two years! Had I been working with them all this time I wonder how much could I be doing now...

Well, I'm starting over so I don't care and they are finally going to die exactly next month since I'm getting rid of anything that attached me to GoDaddy. I will lost the traffic but I have no use for it in my new venture.

I hope I'm not regretting anything two years from now!

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Paul Barber

11 years ago

I have plenty of blogs that I have stopped useing, but kept most of the domains, I end up paying Godaddy every month for Domains I have all but forgotten but do not want to let drop (partly because they are good domains and I would hate to see someone get it and make a fortune, showing me to be a complete wally!)

Occasionally I look at GA and find that one of the sites is getting some traffic and get all excited, but when I look it is usually a one day spike for some reason (no doubt someone up to no good!!)

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Steve B 11 years ago

Adie,

I think anyone that has been in Internet marketing for any length of time has had similar experiences with opportunities lost.

But here's the thing: there are so many, many money making opportunities available to anyone, it's sometimes (not always) advantageous to move on to new things. Markets change, products age and even become obsolete, and the business owners' interests mature and focus on new things.

Yes, I know what some are thinking - shiny object syndrome - jump from this to that and you'll never be successful. I'm not advocating this kind of bouncing around never to focus and persist in one niche.

But I am saying that it is very common for hugely successful marketers to change or modify their focus, dump an old blog and begin something new, branch out into new areas where they previously haven't done business, and constantly be searching for new products and methods that might warrant a brand new blog.

Letting go of an old blog or domain name is sometimes like quitting a job you no longer want and beginning a new one that holds great promise and that you are excited to jump into.

The best to all of you,

Steve
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maxfactor

11 years ago

Two not three, but yes, I regret not having been updating them. They still get a few hundreds of visitors a day and pay for themselves with adsense despite not having been updated in more than two years! Had I been working with them all this time I wonder how much could I be doing now...

Well, I'm starting over so I don't care and they are finally going to die exactly next month

Have you considered selling them instead of just letting them die? If they're getting traffic and making money probably someone would pick them up.

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Adie

11 years ago

Very nice explanation Steve. This is common for beginners but I think experienced marketers have a lower tendency to do this kind of changes. Impulse in registering a new domain I think is another reason why the old ones are left behind. This is one of the bad traits that I actually changed. I am limiting myself on registering domains. Even if it just $10, I should think about it several times before making a decision whether to register that domain or not. I dumped more than a hundred domains in the last 3 years and I promised I'm not going to do the same mistake again while focusing only to less than 5 authority sites that I and my VA is maintaining daily. Right now, I only have 14 domains inside my namecheap account (8 live and 6 are parked)...

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bhuff85

11 years ago

In my instance, it wasn't the sites or blogs that I let die - it was the one's that I sold off.

There is only one in particular that I do miss having, as it was making me a decent chunk of change per month (and ranked well for a variety of mid-volume keywords.). I ended up selling due to needing cash to fund another venture of mine. Besides that, I just didn't have the time to grow it as much as I wanted to.

It was the one site that I put quite a bit of effort into and could've turned into something special, but it is what it is. You'll have that, but you've just got to chalk it up as experience and move on.

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bluewaveseo

11 years ago

Very common issue especially when you are fairly new. Sometimes you
get too many projects at once and try to balance them all. At a certain
point you get excited by a couple so you let others go. I find its good to
slow down and put all your efforts in a couple of projects at a time. Once
you have a base built and have an organized workflow to manage it then
you can think about expanding onto other ideas.

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altitudemarketer 11 years ago

Oh man... you are hitting me where it hurts.

I started 2 blogs that would have been very successful by now with affiliate offers, because the traffic would have taken off, now that I know what I know.

I killed them both about a year and half ago, because I was very busy and was saving money, and didn't want to pay hosting, etc. I just was treating them like hobbies then, and hadn't really taken the time to learn affiliate marketing yet... because I had a corporate job... Now that I have the time, I wish I had those sites, because of age and organic traffic and the social media links.

Oh well... lesson learned.

Bluewaveseo makes a good point... I might have been managing too much, and that can lead to floundering on all projects rather than just succeeding with one.
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Randall Magwood

11 years ago

I've been a victim to this practice too. Who knows where i would be now if i just stuck with my 1 site that i created years ago. I think about it often, but i can't change it. To cope with it, i wander around my house like a lazy dog doing what i want to do, and just make money.

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jeffsolochek

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Adie

For warriors who started blogging 3 years ago and up, and abandoned at least 3 blogs within that time frame, do you have any regret today that you did not maintained that blog and let it grow? I am asking because I am feeling the same...

Although I still have 2 old authority sites that are giving me steady income through CB and Amazon, I still feel that I should have been earning bigger if I did not abandoned one of my IM blogs (now in the hands of other people and running successfully after they picked-up the domain)...

So how many of us here are actually asking ourselves this question.

"How big that site could have been and how much should I've been earning today if I did not abandoned that blog/site?"

Oh Yeah,

I have the problem that I get distracted too easily. I will start a blog and after a short time I'll move on to something else. I need to start one and stick with it no matter what. I have a lot of ideas for a blog.

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JasonBennet

11 years ago

I have wasted a lot of my time on doing many different projects when I am just starting as I am looking for the magic button. It is only when I realized that the magic button did not exist then I start to take real action.

Looking back at all the lost time, most of us will have a great authority blog if we focus the time on building the blog up.

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Sarevok

11 years ago

Wasted opportunity?

The story of my life.

I've been developing sites for many years, and I've let so many good ones (and domains) slip through my fingers.

Don't let it eat you up.

Listen to what my main man Sparticus says:

The past is seldom as we would have it. The future yet to be known. Embrace the present, and strike all else from concern.

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