One large site, or a group of smaler ones?
I'm trying to make $15,000 in the next six months, and planned on buying and building a bunch of smaller sites (Investing a few hundred in each), but I was watching TV and heard that the creator of Bodog, a gambling site, is making up to a million a day, after he initially invested $10,000. Do you think it would be smarter to make one large site with a good sized budget, or a group of smaller ones?
If you are going to do social networking or anything like that, which is driven by user generated content or interaction, then you want one big site, like... um... Digital Point.
Then on the other hand if you are doing something about a topic like basketball or hunting or whatever, then you would want to do a lot of small sites. The reasoning for this is because you can focus your content into niches that can be region specific.
You could have one type of hunting that would be specific to a certain part of the world, like elk hunting or moose hunting or white tail deer. So you target that site as locationelkhunting or location.elkhunting.com or something like that. You build up a network of sites like that one at a time and then you can create one master site to connect them all together. The white tale deer visitor might be interested in elk hunting... but they may not want to read a 500 page site to find it.
Focus your sites specific to a niche and it may only make a few dollars a day or a week, but when you add the sites up that make up your network it will add up. In addition to that you then have a network of sites that you can sell advertising on. $10 per month for one site or $150 per month to be on the entire network of sites.
You can do anything with this, if you have an idea of something that could be narrowed to several differnet niche geographic areas, you could create a template site and then have 100's of sites up and running in matter of days or weeks.
From my past experiences with not only my sites but sites I have done freelance work on and watching other people. It is best to start with one website and have another «side project» website and focus most of your attention on the large one using same with most of money on larger one and if that grows keep expanding and slowly expand other.
From past experiences of when I first started when I had around 10 websites and was making dollars off each one and having to spend almost 15 hours a day working on the upkeep of them and marketing and then I switched up to 2 websites and made a lot more because I did not spread myself so thin and had time to concentrate on the one.
But it really all depends on how big the niche is of the websites because some don't take any time at all to upkeep and others take A LOT of time to compete with others











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