When I built my first site I started studying SEO and decided that it would be smart to build a number of sites and link them to mine. I soon had over 12 sites and not enoguh time to develop each one properly. Now I'm trying to decide which to sell and in what order because if I ahd spent all my time on one site and really developed it, I'd be rich.
The other thing I've tried is hiring people to manage sites for me. So far this hasn't worked out too well. I bought ozband.net and hired the previous owner to manage it. When the PHP Nuke got hacked he promised to fix it. A few hacks later and the site still wasn't updated. My hosting was suspended and I sold the site at a loss. The original owner bought it from the person I sold it to by the way.
What I've learned from my experience is to concnetrate on building a couple of great sites. I say a couple because if the revenue from one dries up (say a shift in search engine algorithms or something causes a huge loss of traffic) your revenue is not completely gone.
Posted by James Trotta at September 13, 2005 5:50 PMI have exactly the same feeling. I wish I had spent all my time on one site, even if was a crap one.
I have more than 20, and didn't promote any one seriously for a few months.
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