How many developed sites are you running?

[Ash]

Hey all,

I saw Chris' post about productivity tips and it got me wondering how many developed sites everyone is running?

I'm working on laptop-computers.com.au at the moment and I also did computer-games.com.au a little while ago, plus a few others in varying states of development but getting them finished is proving a pretty lengthy process, not to mention keeping them updated!

I'm guessing a lot of you outsource? What about updating them? Any tips for a novice? I think I'll continue down the DIY route for the meantime but I'm interested to hear how everyone else goes about their business?

Cheers.

 

[zhenjie]

I have about a dozen but only 3 that I run passionately. the 80/20 rule. I aim for 80% of rev to come from 20% of my sites.

 

[Shane]

I have around 40 that are developed, of which about 15 are profitable, of which about five I actually put time into.

The way I've gone about my business is to have built a reasonable number of sites, and as time goes by I work out which ones are the most profitable (or have the potential to be) and then I concentrate on them. Not exactly rocket science!

 

[snoopy]

4, of that 3 are part of the one business.

 

[joe]

I've kind of lost count but think I have about 80 "developed" sites online. I use the term loosely as some of them just have a single html page with 1-3 paragraphs of content, others are wordpress blogs with 2-5 pages. I'm lazy so tend to develop in batches and pretty much forget about them.

I only have a couple of sites that I update with any sort of regularity and these are my consistent moneymakers. I'll probably merge a bunch of sites soon and let their domains drop as a lot of them aren't paying their own rent and I couldn't be arsed putting the work into them.

I only outsource content production at the moment but have developed a system I could get others to follow. In terms of updating, I do it all manually atm but in future will import posts into the wp database with random publish times so it can drip feed content.

 

[Ash]

Hmm, yeah I'm at the stage where I try and just put a week or so into design, get some posts up and see what happens - very much trial and error.

I suspect I'll try and churn out a bunch of sites and see what floats to the top and then concentrate on them. Just a bit overwhelming looking at the queue of sites I have waiting for development!

 

[whiterabit]

3 including digital lead network, most of my time is spent working on DLN connecting advertisers to publishers and so on.

 

[djuqa]

Over 600 Minisites

 

[James]

I think close to 40~ .com.au sites...most now developed...

I have around 75~ global TLD...selling about 15 soon as I don't work on them any more...

I use to have around 100~+ global TLD at one point

 

[shags38]

I currently have 15 developed sites, some with up to 300 pages and as of 3 weeks ago I am on a program of adding about 3 per week, small sites of about 80-100 pages. I recently let drop over 1000 .com domains but have about 400 left of which about 300 will become developed. Kinda using a mini-site principal in the sites being copies of each other in groups (movies, laptops, games etc) but with much more content (80-100 pages) and slight modification of content between each in the group to avoid duplicate sites.

I figure getting a site up even before it is "finished" (is a site ever finished?) and let it attract natural traffic, natural links and importantly let it "age" in the bot's eyes.

Trying to manage hundreds of parked sites and 15 live by adding content, changing content (plus 3 per week being launched) = 10 hours per day 6 days per week.

I am thinking of driving a bus instead

 

[neddy]

I am thinking of driving a bus instead

Any cliffs nearby?