How many websites do you own?

I've got around 50 sites. Thinking about downsizing a bit to focus on the sites that are doing better. Some of them are just project ideas that I never really implemented, so it's probably better just to get rid of them and make room for new projects.

That means you are working, kudos to you :-)

Outsource, outsource, outsource!

And if you can't justify outsourcing, even laying down a short-term investment in outsourcing, then by your own assessment the website isn't profitable.

So in this scenario, sell, sell, sell!! Bring that number down to an easy 10 to 30. If they're decent websites you're selling, you should bring in $40 to $100 each in sales on Flippa.com - that's 70 sites x $70 each, which is a $4,900 return you can use to invest in the other websites!

More than I can count! I would say well over 250 at bare minimum.

About 150. 125+ for SEO blog network, the rest are money maker niche sites.

Ooops
How did u manage em'
I have only 1

I have about 150 domain-names (I buy and sell them a little) but only about 50 websites of my own. And at the moment only 8 of those are "proper money sites that require regular updating", and I update those only once a week each ... so it isn't quite as "full-time" as the numbers suggest.

Or the most honest

We all have to start somewhere, when i finally got my first site up and running it took me about 1 year of research, tweaking, installing useless plugins, perfecting, hesitating and general time wasting and I'm sill not totally happy with it, it no good trying to be a perfectest in this game.
It was then another six moths before i got another site up.
Also some people make a nice living of just one site.
So don't get discouraged, keep up the good work.

I continue to be amazed at the figures coming in here, your workload must be enormous just to set theses up never mind maintaining them, expect you outsource a lot?
I imagine you have been doing this a long time, one of the questions i should have asked originally, i think that could be another good idea for a poll.
Respect.

Another perfectionist, its so difficult trying not to keep tweaking things.
I need to be able to set a site up, tweak a LITTLE and leave it be to move on to the next one, also I'm not 100% sure adding distractions to my adsence sites like stores and ebooks are such a good thing.

I always try to make sure my sites are useful and not just rehashed junk so i always write some content myself, however some of my sites do use auto content and this can be hit and miss, but the idea is to save time and concentrate on building new sites, but as i said i keep going back a tweaking things to make the sites better and more relevant so this could be holding me back.
Its a tough balancing act i guess.



Anyway thanks to everyone contributing, keep it coming its really fascinating to see all theses figures coming in, reading your comments and stories and to the people who have over 500 sites up (REALLY)
Wasn't expecting to see that figure for a long time, admire your commitment.

I have 55 Domains and 75 websites and I am at my limit.

As of the moment I have 8 sites. 2 of these are niche sites, 1 is a clickbank product site, while the rest are websites touching on general topics.

we Own More than 200 sites including a network of Travel portals.

I own 50 .com domains and about 10 .co.uk's. Every domain I'm not using has got my own designed adsense page thats is promoting the domain for sale too. I have two live income generating websites, one of them has only just started earning an Adsense income of about $2.00 per week with only one article and its had a PR3 score for a couple of months now so I'm going to start adding more content every day to that site. The other site earns me about $50 per week. Other than that I'm currently working on three different websites, each offering a free online service with plenty of ads in key spots.
By all accounts, if I keep putting the same level of energy into my online work, 2012 should hopefully start turning things around and I might get close to giving up my day job. Fingers crossed. I just bought some pretty good domains so I'm fairly optimistic.

Oh yeah, I've also got an Adsense income and an Amazon income from UNKNOWN sources. Honestly, I've got Adsense channels that earn a small but consistant income and I've no idea where the ads are placed. The same with Amazon, I must earn about $30 per month from Amazon and I have no idea where its come from. My guess its from long forgotton articles I've written on places like HubPages and long forgotton Blogger blogs etc etc.

I have about 4 or 5 domains with only a couple of them making money.I have content written for close to a hundred sites though. Just have to find time away from my J O B to do the correct keyword research on them, buy the correct domains and then market them. I have some great niches in mind that should bring in some great income. its just a matter of finding enough time to work on them.

Its amazing how slowly my day goes by at my boring day job at a metal shop making barely over minimum wage but yet when i am off on the weekends, i shut myself in my room and write content for two days straight and the time flys by. I acually look forward to being able to quit my day job so i can spend more time on IM.

Between IM and my day job I dont have much of a social life right now but i have learned a lot since the begginning of this year which is when i first started getting my toes wet learning about IM and while I have not made a substantial amount of money yet ( i have made a little) i feel that i will be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel very soon.

I have made a lot of mistakes along the way but I have learned a lot from each and every one. I have an enormous amount of drive to make this work. The fact i hate my job and dread going everyday is a big part of it. I am determined for this to happen. I hope to be able to quit my job by the end of 2012

Work harder and harder to own more websites? (Not so much an ambition for me - I already own too many). Or to build a bigger/better/more stable business with fewer? (I can see many potential advantages of that) ...

Very interesting thread, it must be said. I'm slightly surprised that some participants seem almost silently to be assuming that "the more websites you own, the better" - not really a perspective I share, myself.

I do see that there are some advantages (diversification, risk-spreading, and so on) but there are clearly many disadvantages, too - perhaps especially for people whose businesses are Google-dependent - and I don't for a moment imagine that "owning more websites" is, in itself, a corollary to "making more money" ... :confused:

I just topped 100+ with building micro-sites lately. But it really is not how many you have. I have 1 site only that averages what I consider a lot per week, if I had 10 more of them I would sell the others, lol.