Why don't you have more domains?

Very easy to collect domains. It's an entirely different matter if you actually do something useful with them that will earn you money.

I don't understand how that math positively attests to your argument. Owning domains and using them to monetize differ greatly.

I don't have more than a couple domains because I have pride in what I do and would be embarrassed crapless to have a bunch of really tacky, useless or even irritating crap floating around with my name on it. When how much money I can accumulate becomes more important than doing something gratifying and fun, I'll stock up on pure crap, too.

Here is some more simple math...

50 domains each get 1/50 of my attention.

100 domains each get 1/100 of my attention.

340 domains each get 1/340 of my attention.

1 domain gets 100% of my attention.

Now what do you think does better, a site with 1/340 of my attention or a site with 100% of it?

Your math looks great on paper but by and large it does not hold up in the real world. If you build 340 sites, which is crazy by the way, only a handful will ever make any money. Most will sit forgotten and dusty. In the meantime, you've spent a ton of time and resources creating them that you could have used more wisely. 1 or 2 big well loved and well crafted sites will almost always outperform a giant bunch of thinner sites.

Believe me, people have been doing the same math as you for as long as people have been building sites. If those numbers really worked like that, we'd all build, get rich, and be done with it.

You base this on the fact that each site can indeed earn you $1 a day.
What is your secret for this?


I got sucked into the math of what you are saying a few years ago...

If the site only earns a dollar a day, after paying hosting and domain fees I could still end up with a small profit. So multiply this by 100s and I wont have to work ever again....

Right !!!

I worked my butt off making niche sites, researching, writing articles, promoting making blog posts,inserting clickbank products, adsense units and cpa.... then onto the next one.

I got about 30 of these sites.
some do make me a trickle of money, a few considerably more than a trickle, but on the whole, most of them don't earn anything.

After several weeks of not working on them, the traffic goes down to 2 or 3 visitors a week. Even sites that are well optimized and had quite a few backlinks... if they are in a slightly competitive niche then most of the sites I have are barely paying for their domain fees.

IMHO its best to find one or two good niches and concentrate on dominating them... then to expand, create your own competition and start to dominate the search results.

It just doesn't work like that. That's why.

I implore you to go out there and create not 5, not 10, not 50, but "300" websites. And don't stop there, find 300 unsaturated niches to match.

Once you're done, go and get the info for each site to make it a) rank in Google and b) actually get visitors and clicks

Finally, are you really sure you want to put down a $3,000 investment on this? 90% of the websites, especially if made in bulk, won't give $1 a month, let alone $1 a day.

Totally unrealistic.

340 domains . . . sounds like a job, to me. A tedious job at that. That may work for someone else, but that's not a business model I want to get into.

Yes, you must have many domains=sites. Some of them will make 1 a day,others 10$ a day.

About attention to each domain, they don't need it after setup. The blog wthout any promotion,plugins can make money only with constantly posting.
The other side of math with pages.
If the site have 1000 pages and each page get 1 visitor a day,it's 1000 a day.
But,for example blog, just conect to twitter or other social networks,each post will get much more than 1 visitor.
Everything can be automated,if to use right softwares and right tactic.

As a large domain portfolio holder I really think it's better to concentrate on only a handful of domain these days. Quality, not quantity seems to be more important. I think 5 to 20 domains is more than enough to keep most people busy.

At present I own just over half a dozen domains. I have ideas for several, but I'm not going to cut my current sites short just to pursue new ideas. Some of my sites are pretty hands off, but the better performers in my limited portfolio are not so hands off. But fortunately they generate recurring customers.

I have about 100 domains and about 50 or so that make regular money....

Its hard work to keep them maintained and of course to the high standard that I have set in the past.... its do able though

Agreed, it should be much easier to make $30 a month on 100 domains then $3,000 on 1.

You are caught up in MAKE BELIEVE MATH. It seldom works.

Domains are like Cars... you can only drive so many. And if you collect them you have to maintain them.

Imagine this, 1 domain earning $2000 per day. That's $60,000 per month. That is my goal. One big authority site.

I want to pour my heart and soul into 1 website, not give a little bit of effort into hundreds of domains.

Why set up so many domains that earn small amounts per day when you can have 1 or 2 websites earning thousands per day? Go big or go home.

I would prefer having 5 domains/websites earning $100 each per day than owning 1000 sitting in my account and asking me to re-register every year without earning.

Tens of thousands of domains are wasted everyday because of wrong perception....

The OP is using typical pyramid scheme math that involves fantasy numbers in the myth that all domains are going to be profitable. The $1 per day per site myth persists, even though it's not proven to be true.

I've recently let go most of my domains/websites that did have some decent content because I lost interest, or they weren't cutting the mustard income wise. Those additional domains did not make me rich...

Now I'm focused on just a few sites that continue to have authority. Building one new site right now that is intended to be an authority site. Authority sites rule and Google loves them. While some mini sites make money, they do so because they have highly targeted keywords and content in a specific niche.

If you want to make real money online (and not just mythical theoretical cash), listen to the people in this thread that have had experience in owning numerous domains. Then ask yourself how much TIME can you realistically put into building a quality site that gets constant traffic and converts into profit.

People would be more likely to listen to you if you show proof that you have this large number of domains and that each one makes you that $1 per day.

It's easy to come up with plans that sound like they might work; it's quite another thing to actually do it.

A few years ago I was also thinking this way... I bought a few domains and build adsense sites thinking that if I can make just $1 a day on each site I would be doing very well if I had 50 or a 100 of them, but as time passes I find it hard to manage all of them as Google changes every now and them, the biggest impact comes when they introduced the farmer and panda updates which impacts earnings on some of my sites. I think it is always best to have a working strategy rather then working it out on math.

Yep. If only Arianna Huffington had followed your logic. She could have been rich! :rolleyes:

haha... its like.. you have 100 domains which generate One dollar per day.. and other has 1 domain which pays 100 dollar per day.. i

well, it is easy to collect domain but working on them
the traffic, competion and ranking can be a ch.allenge

All you need,that each domain,must be profitable, earn more than 10$ a year.
Any domain can earn such money. If it not earn with 1 page,it will earn with 100 or 1000 or 10000 pages.
If you have 100 domains and each have constantly updates and contents and grow automatically. And each post syndycated automatically to social networks. And if you have some followers at that networks.
It's just impossible not to make money.
It's like bloging on autopilot.

That's not much of a model, but useful in a limited sense if/when you have/buy domain names and whip up a bare-bones adsense site until you have time to fully develop them. That's better than parking those domains offline - especially if you have unlimited hosting, and I think most of us do. The key concept here is 'temporarily' not 'permanently.' Accidental traffic may generate a few pennies, but you're leaving so much money on the table even if you want to rush into some bizarre rendition of 'passive income for life.'

Simply adding an affiliate product could easily double your income with no further time commitment.

Re-purposing one day a week from grinding out these minimal websites to adding fresh, quality content to your existing sites will keep the search engines pacified to a certain extent. That's better than passively allowing the PR to sink further week after week and your hoped for dollar a day average with it.

Soon enough, your bank balance will provide your 'Eureka!' moment and flip 90% of the minimal performers and change your model to the more conventional route for the rest. Add an opt-in and you've effectively transformed the mechanism from reinventing the wheel for each and every happenstance sale to a list of prospects; develop your sales funnel and have multiple products at various price points and you can transform that list of prospects into a list of repeat buyers, even raving fans if you consistently deliver.

I'd rather have one domain earning $340 per day than 340 earning $1

340 domain creates a massive drain on resource. Updating, putting on content, maintenance. = Massive Headache

or how about this ... one domain=

And the Money Comes Rolling In

I have over 100 domains. None of them average $1 day.

It would be great if they did, but that takes time. Even a quick install of wordpress (that I do with a plugin) a bit of theme tweaking, and then setting up the blog takes time. If I want to add content so I can run adsense or other things, that has to be written. So my $10 domain will probably take 2-3 months to get to the $1 a day. And it'll be a few more months before my time is paid for.

100 websites making $1 a day isn't as easy or simple as the math appears on a computer screen.

I have about 100 domains, many of them make money and many of them don't. The thing is that it is almost impossible to maintain 100 domains by yourself. So, unless you want to hire staff to do it, then this model can be problematic.

I've noticed this past year (since all the "Panda" updates) that a lot of my domains that I hadn't done any maintenance to (link building or adding content) have fallen in the SERPS quite a bit. My adsense income has taken a big hit because of this.

Going forward, it only makes sense that Google is going to give social signals more and more weight (this is just my opinion). How feasable is it that you can have a good social marketing campaign for 100 domains? I'm not talking about just setting up automatic software that tweets and posts to facebook, I mean a real campaign with real active followers.

If you focus on a handful of domains, you can leverage your link building efforts. Each domain will have more weight in the eyes of the search engines and, therefore, the pages will rank easier. Not only that but you can build in mechanisms (like social media campaigns and relationships with other bloggers) that eliminate your reliance on search engine rankings almost entirely and not have to worry about the different algorithm fluctuations slapping down your sites.

Having 100's of domains used to work good and it probably still does for those that know how to scale such an operation but for most people today, I think that having only a few domains is the way to go now.

Lee