The ultimate question: Should you focus on one site, or many?

[enhanted]

Lately I've been noticing that I can't focus on one site and bring it to the "dizzying success" I was hoping it would reach.

Some of you may relate to the feeling, having your individual limited time and resources to invest,
and choosing whether you should invest all of it on your next site, making sure it reaches the goal you set,
Or diversify it between X different sites.

On one hand, spreading the investment is spreading the risks.

You can find some niches working better and some not as you thought they will be.
Some old domains will rank faster, and some slower.
That helps to draw conclusions and get more insights going forward.

On the other hand, the amount of attention to details + resources (backlinks, content, etc.) each site gets is significantly smaller and this can affect success.

What is your agenda regarding this? Do you use the shotgun or the sniper?

 

[homeriscool]

I have multiple sites so I don't put all my eggs in one basket.

Managing them all is a bit of a pain, but it's nice when the money rolls in from each site.

Oh and it's not cheap either.

 

[kshatriya]

Dude, I wish I knew the things I knew now before I had setup my websites. I should have looked into product lifecycles, having multiple websites for the same niche to take up the front page of google, and geographic limitations.

Obviously if you've got one semi decent website, you can make multiple websites with similar or bigger niches or those without geographic limitations and then take over the front page.

Get one website semi well done (at least 3-4K in profit per month), then do others and then always keep multiple niches.

Go multiple as soon as you can. Once you get even 2-3 websites semi well done, then you can start hiring your own freelancers to get things up and running quicker on other sites

 

[fg43085]

Dude, I wish I knew the things I knew now before I had setup my websites. I should have looked into product lifecycles, having multiple websites for the same niche to take up the front page of google, and geographic limitations.

Obviously if you've got one semi decent website, you can make multiple websites with similar or bigger niches or those without geographic limitations and then take over the front page.

Get one website semi well done (at least 3-4K in profit per month), then do others and then always keep multiple niches.

Go multiple as soon as you can. Once you get even 2-3 websites semi well done, then you can start hiring your own freelancers to get things up and running quicker on other sites

YOu mean having multiple websites for the same niche and not for different niches is better than having multiple niches with one domain in that niche?

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

Multiple sites, but not too many.

Need to diversify, but not spread yourself too thin.

 

[gioker92]

Yes multiple is better, I started with one but after 1 year I realised it is better to diversify

 

[OlafRustle]

Have one main site where you put most of your effort in and multiple smaller ones as backup where you post less often.
After google killed my main website for no other apparent reason than "not helpful" I was very glad I had backup income from the smaller sites

 

[varules]

It's better to go with multiple sites, you will face tough time at the beginning, after few days it will go smoothly. If one site doesn't work, next one will works.

 

[Seopreneur01]

As a beginner I would stick to one site, because the shiny object syndrome is real. And if things aren't working out initially (which always happens), its easy to be distracted thinking "it's the niche" when in fact it's their methods that are not working.

To be more specific, don't start another site till you reach atleast $1k monthly revenue in one.