How Do You Manage 100s of sites?

14 years ago

I use the set it and forget it model. I only pay attention within my Amazon/Adsense stats. The only way I can remember most of them is to look at Filezilla and see what sites are hosted where.

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davidjames42973 14 years ago

Ditto. The set it and forget it method is the only way that will keep you from going insane trying to track all of these sites.

I'll create about a dozen niche websites and wait around to see how they rank. If they don't rank as well as I hoped they would, I add more content to it and try pointing some backlinks to it. If it still doesn't do what I want it to do, I move on.

You'll find that some of the sites that weren't making you a dime a year ago may suddenly rank really well and might possibly begin bringing you money.

Find a profitable niche and build, build, build...
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- thehcdreamer 14 years ago
  
  I don't have hundreds of websites but I created a website for myself (which you can use too or take inspiration from at showmemoneyapp.com) where I can register each month how much money I made via a website. I do this because a website might only make 30 bucks in a year, which is still enough to cover costs. Use tracking codes to see where sales come from.
  
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CDarklock

14 years ago

I sew the towels together.

No, wait, that's the answer to a different question.

Never mind.

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sbucciarel Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

I sew the towels together.

No, wait, that's the answer to a different question.

Never mind.

lol ... what a comedian.

I pretty much use set and forget too, with the exception of content sites that I am building up for a flip. A lot of my sites are demo sites for the niche blogs I sell, so they just sit there and look pretty and occasionally I earn some decent adsense from them.
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eQuus 14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

I sew the towels together.

No, wait, that's the answer to a different question.

Never mind.

CDarklock: Often your replies are acerbic, witty, and informative. This one wasn't. Try again.
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Winlin 14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

I sew the towels together.

No, wait, that's the answer to a different question.

Never mind.

I have no idea what that means and still i'm rotf.... lmao
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- jamespitt 14 years ago
  
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drew3806 13 years ago

I sew the sheets to the drapes!

RIP George Carlin

Originally Posted by CDarklock

I sew the towels together.

No, wait, that's the answer to a different question.

Never mind.
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Joseph Then

14 years ago

XSitePro. I manage almost 100 sites from this software.

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mike.leembruggen

14 years ago

depends what you are doing with the site... if they are all wordpress sites than it becomes quite difficult managing them... but if they are simple sites then it's not so hard.

I actually use my own analytics script to see the traffic across all my sites at once.

if you are using adsense then you can see which sites are actually getting hits in your adsense account. That's pretty handy

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14 years ago

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markharrison04 14 years ago

Use an autoblogging plugin for wordpress. I set up approx.50 posts on each, social bookmark 10 posts at 10 sites,drop the link in my twitter feed and then forget about it.
If it doesn't rank then I have misjudged the keyword I was targeting.
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cashcow

14 years ago

Set and forget is the only way to go if you have that many sites.

Then just monitor your earnings and see which ones make you the most money and work on expanding those.

I'm sure I own many sites that I've even forgotten that I have!

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eQuus

14 years ago

Thank you ladies and gents for your input, appreciate it.

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biggsy

14 years ago

Stop getting lost in multiple sites and refocus your individual purpose / interests and build from one main concept. Juggling many sites is old school and can really mess up your mojo.

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spudnick

14 years ago

Originally Posted by biggsy

Stop getting lost in multiple sites and refocus your individual purpose / interests and build from one main concept. Juggling many sites is old school and can really mess up your mojo.

Is this true?

Do people these days focus on a smaller number of sites, and try to create authority sites with lots od content and value. Or are some people still creating thousands of smaller adsense sites, trying to turn a few bucks a day from each?

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6secrets 14 years ago

If you have more working sites than you can handle - generally you need to start hiring a team.
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Rsberg

13 years ago

Originally Posted by spudnick

Is this true?

Do people these days focus on a smaller number of sites, and try to create authority sites with lots od content and value. Or are some people still creating thousands of smaller adsense sites, trying to turn a few bucks a day from each?

People focus on what they LIKE to focus on....

Meaning, if you prefer a specific approach to IM and you have figured it out (so to speek) where it makes you some money...then you focus on that, rinse and repeat...

biggsy obviously likes to focus on one site, which probably works for him. If you want to take that approach then give it a shot, if you want to try to build several sites...then give that a shot too.

In the end it all boils down to what works for you and no one person can tell you that...except yourself!

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xieleri1

14 years ago

There are a lot of softwares that support a management, you can use a wordpress plug-in and manage like this more convenient

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dezchamps

14 years ago

Most people with 100s of sites don't manage them alone. They outsource. When the time comes to add more content and backlinks they usually need a team.

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Ruhi Acharya

14 years ago

outsource your work or either hire people to manage your sites thats the best advise you can ever get

if you are new to internet marketing and are strapped for cash start only with a few sites which you will be easily able to manage and start outsourcing when you have enough cash to do so

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zorus

14 years ago

i use emporiumbot to manage around 40 sites

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JustinDupre

14 years ago

Take a deep breath and go one step at a time. The set it and forget method is very effective for me as well.

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LasseKohau

14 years ago

I have hired a VA, to nurce my websites.

I dont have the time, to watch, develop, put content on, build backlinks, and further promote them myself.

They are oftenly small adsence and amazon-sites, which brings in between 2 and 5 follars a day. (set and forget)

best regards, LASSE

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SEOFocused

14 years ago

depends on what type of management we are talking about. if you are adding content, building links to each one of them, then it would be pretty insane to do it on your own for 100s of sites. but if you wanna just monitor them, then its totally different.

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l23bc

14 years ago

Do like many have said (set and forget them)

But there always Flippa to reduce the load of sites that are not meeting the forecasts i have on them or for if the sites in question are not doing anything but just sat on my hostings space.

Just track the ones that are doing well week in week out and lose the not so favorated ones and collect the cash to start again. Kiss(Keep it simple and stupid)

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tht222

14 years ago

Set and forget believer here as well - I check my stats every now and then and when I see a huge drop in the traffic, then I start checking my hosts and the sites just to make sure that none of them has gone offline, etc. Backup is important - I had to move about sixty sites from one host to another about a month ago and it was painful even though I had all the files.

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TheMagicShow

14 years ago

Make sure, to check up on all your sites. Many skip the idea, that the domain might expire and you could lose out, on some really good domain names.

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coffeejunkie 14 years ago

I use keepass from keepass.org.

I used it primarily for all my online accounts to keep tab of passwords.

but lately i've been using it for my expanding number of sites.

what i do is i create a password group which contains the hosting, domain mgmt, wp passwords, ftp, etc. then the affiliates i join like bidvertiser, adsense, etc.

just make sure to keep backups of the password database regularly. ( i send mine to my gmail).

this topic brings me to a question i've been wanting to ask (sorry to hijack this thread mate), but how do you guys manage adsense channels and such? what i do is when i create a channel i name it using the site's domain name and then put in which adsense it is (leaderboard, big rec, etc). i'm interested how you guys monitor adsense for all your sites. tnx!
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derekwong28

14 years ago

I have up to 1200 sites at any one time. I just use a excel file.

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nmarketing 13 years ago

Originally Posted by derekwong28

I have up to 1200 sites at any one time. I just use a excel file.

I was gonna say just organize. Excel works wonders.
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Elvin 13 years ago

That is mind-blowing...and you just gave me an awesome idea. Its worth it.

By the way, does each site pay at least its own cost for hosting/domain in a yearly basis????
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- Destination Freedom 13 years ago
  
  I work with a site until its making $1/day and then I let her fly.
  
  If i check it in about 6 months and its foundered ill let her go to the highest bidder.
  
  Some of the work is outsourced (mostly linking) and my wife and I take care of the rest.
  
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Marhelper

13 years ago

VERY carefully

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Johnny Danes

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by eQuus

Many warriors have said they have 100s of sites. How do you keep tab, how do you manage, how do you control, how do you audit such a large number of sites? Do you do it alone? Do you Outsource? Do you Tango?

Build 3-4 great sites and you'll blow away those with hundreds of sites. Focus on quality not quantity.

I know folks that earn $20-$30K/month from 1 site.

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Bane

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Johnny Danes

Build 3-4 great sites and you'll blow away those with hundreds of sites. Focus on quality not quantity.

I know folks that earn $20-$30K/month from 1 site.

Posts like this really should start with I think if you

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Bane

13 years ago

Originally Posted by eQuus

Many warriors have said they have 100s of sites. How do you keep tab, how do you manage, how do you control, how do you audit such a large number of sites? Do you do it alone? Do you Outsource? Do you Tango?

Tango all the way.

Seriously, I keep track of them in a SQL database that lists profits, niches, past month traffic numbers, etc. When I see a low performing site (comparitively speaking) I will load it up and do some A/B testing.

It's really quite easy once you get the hang of it, and considering the number of sites I have (5 digits) it is really handy

I dislike outsourcing this sort of thing, really really dislike it.

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Dave Rodman

Banned 13 years ago

I focus on my top sites and then just let the others ride.

If your sites are like mine, the top 10% of the sites account for the majority of the revenue. And that's where most of your time should be spent.

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txconx

13 years ago

Spreadsheets are my alternate brain. I couldn't manage without them.

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Rob Whisonant

13 years ago

I got tired of the build it and forget it path. So I created my own multi-user program to track and do exactly what I wanted to run my business and manage all my sites better.

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Mister Googlehead

13 years ago

That's a tough work if so many sites managed by one person.But it easier if there are more person and they can communicate with each other easily!

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CDaeda

13 years ago

When a Warrior member says they have 100's of sites, exactly what type of sites? Does each site have its own domain? Is each site a blog? Is each site an article? etc. Please elaborate. :confused:

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Rsberg

13 years ago

Originally Posted by CDaeda

When a Warrior member says they have 100's of sites, exactly what type of sites? Does each site have its own domain? Is each site a blog? Is each site an article? etc. Please elaborate. :confused:

This could be so many different combinations it would be almost impossible to nail it down. I will say though that if someone has a lot of sites (as in your example) they are most likely individual domains on their own hosting. There are ofcourse other possibilities but not many people would build that many blogger blogs without some form of backup in case they were deleted.

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Sharon Lai

13 years ago

I find Google analytics AND excel really useful

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Jake Gray

13 years ago

The SET and FORGET method is only applicable to websites that don't need your attention obviously.

Personally, I don't run 100s of websites, but I run around 25-30, but most of the websites require my attention.

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cinbusiness

13 years ago

I love Google Analytics but they limit you to 25 sites. I have been looking for a free alternative. I found this tracker.icerocket.com it is the only site I found t hat is 100% free and does not seem to have a limit on how many sites you can add. The functions are a little light but its what I am using for now till I find something better that allows unlimited websites to be added and tracked.

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throlsonllc

13 years ago

Anyone successful using wordpress multi site?

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Apollo-Articles

13 years ago

Great info here, although it seems testing to see which sites are the most profitable and then concentrating on these, is the way to go. Most peoples sites (I presume) will be running on auto-pilot.

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Devid Farah 13 years ago

Many of these sites are built so that they require little to no attention.

The goal of many internet marketers is to create passive income.

That means income that keeps coming in each month without needing a lot of stimuli.

If the websites do require a little more up keeping, it might be a good idea to get a virtual assistant to help lighten the load.
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