To make decent income – How many sites?

May 15, 2006

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Source: WebmasterWorld.com

I was just curious, for you adsense money makers, how many “themed” sites do you have?

Decent income: $3 to 5K a month

Thanks,
Al

# of sites has nothing to do with it.

You could have one site with a large number of visitors or a number of sites with fewer visitors each but many when combined (as long as CTR is good ).

I’d say it is much better to focus on one site.

One big developed site can make a lot more than $5k a month. Like Andrew said, the number of sites isn’t important.

It’s the amount of traffic that matters. One site with 15k visitors a day is a lot better than 100 small sites that only get 30 visitors a day each.

Thank Barns! That makes sense.

What would recommend to a newbie starting out:

1) Create your first site and concentrate getting that going strong THEN creat another one.

Or

2) Create a number of sites and work on all of them at the same time.

That is like asking how much education do you need to make $3 to 5K a month. Some would say highschool. Others would say you need a college degree.

If you want to be vague and general, then rather than thinking of # of sites, think # of visitors.

Say you want to make $3000/month, then you need $100/day. If you get $0.10 per click then you will need 1000 clicks per day. If you have a 1% CTR then you will need 100,000 page views per day.

Assuming you can achieve the stats above, you could have one site that gets 100k views/day or 100 sites that get 1000 views/day. The smaller sites will obviously be easier to build but that quantity could be a maintence nightmare. Your best bet is to shoot for somewhere between those numbers.

Find a compromise. You don’t want to be starting out with 75 different sites where you micro-niche each aspect of a widget, but you also don’t want to focus too much on a site that’s way too broad.

I do computer stuff for a living and while I could make all of it nicely into one site, I’ve split it up into 4.

Also, use a Content Management System right off the bat. Don’t bother with static HTML. It’s WAY too much maintenance later on when the site gets bigger, and if you set up a CMS right the end user/bot can’t tell the difference anyway.

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