big site or little sites better for money

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Do most people on this site make more money from having a lot of smaller sites or a few big sites. Met a guy if Florida last year who had like 50 sites saying he made about 100 bucks a month on 25 of them and about 200 a month on the other 25. At first I thought big deal who wants to make that little per site until I thought 25 sites at 100 a site is 2500 bucks and 200 from the other 25 sites adding up to 5 grand for those for a total of about 75 hundred a month. That is when I started thinking the way I was doing things could be wrong. So how do you make your money.
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  • Profile picture of the author cyberzolo
    It really depends, sites that are in small niches can make decent amounts of money, and are easy to scale up in comparison to a big site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Al amin
    It really depends. You can make good amount of money but creating an authority blog. And you can even make money with niche mini sites as well!
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  • Profile picture of the author JensSteyaert
    First of all, the people who make the most money are the people who have a big responsive email list. Unless you have a very big authority site, it will be hard to make more money from a site.

    This doesn't mean obviously you should refrain from building a site, if you do, then i think focusing on one big site would be the best option. he may be making that much today, but it's nt certain he'll make that much in the future. If you have one big site you can pay your full attention on, then you can build an audience, email list, social media profiles etc.

    Plus, how do you maintain 50 sites? It's not realistic to think you can do that if you're working on the project alone. You would have to outsource a lot of things to make it work.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    By doing both. Start with smaller sites and build them consistently. Once anyone starts showing promise, develop it into an authority and maximize it's earnings. Bloggers like Spencer Haws (who owns nichepursuits.com) is doing the exact same thing and also started out with small low-income sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author sugaonline
    it's also hard to make real money with Tons of sites i recommand you have few that you can be able market with good marketing plans or budget because when you tons of sites and no one visits them how can you make money
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    • Profile picture of the author parena
      From someone on the other side of the fence, working as an affiliate manager in the gambling industry, I'd have to recommend that you focus on quality over quantity. It may be different in other sectors but that is what I have experienced.

      Working on less sites and putting more effort in on a few quality sites rather than spreading yourself too thin seems like a better option.

      I've seen some affiliates that buy up 30+ domains with pretty much the same content on all of their sites that don't make a fraction of what someone with 1 good site can make.

      Resist the urge to splurge buying up domains because as others have mentioned you need to find the time to develop them all.
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  • Profile picture of the author yordanov
    So one site with 3000 plus articles is the best choice for one or two person support. The traffic will come soon, but you have to write all days long!
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  • Profile picture of the author jgant
    I prefer bigger sites. But you can do well with a smaller site promoting lucrative products assuming you attract targeted traffic.

    Generally though, more earning and traffic opportunities arise with one larger site. You can invest time in building up social media properties, an email list, and with higher levels of traffic and web assets, it's easier to swap traffic with other big players in your niche.

    One simple example is when you get loads of traffic, more display ad networks are available to you.

    You can build domain authority over time for more organic search traffic.

    As you spend more time and go deeper in a niche, you'll get a better sense of keywords to go after that other sites don't go after because you discover more search terms people use.

    If it were easy to rank for $5k per month keywords with a five page site, I'd say go for it. However, for most people ranking like that isn't going to happen.

    But, if you choose a niche that has good earning opportunity and it's one you enjoy and are willing to learn more, you can build something great that can end up very financially rewarding.
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    • Profile picture of the author kavitaverma
      It depends upon the material you put into your website and the google ranking of your website for keywords related to your .I depends upon the popularity and advertisement of your website.
      But still I want say that bigger websites better for money because website becomes gradually bigger not at once so website becomes more popular up to that time and earns more money.
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  • Profile picture of the author imogenhobbs
    The general rule is... test small. If it works, expand. Doesn't work? Test and tweak. Still doesn't work?Move on.

    That's there all is to it.

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