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100 Times Zero Is Still Zero
I feel bad for the people that take up those challenges, like creating 30 sites in 30 days, or creating 100 sites, etc. I am not trying to target any one campaign, because I don’t remember the details of any of them, but they all involve creating a large number of sites in a short amount of time.
The only thing these challenges accomplish is to wear people out and discourage them. If you don’t know much about creating moneymaking websites, how is repeating the same mistakes 100 times going to help you?
I could understand it if you created one site, learned from your mistakes, and did better on the next one. Then creating multiple sites could actually help you. But if you are just mass-producing sites, and they are all the same, then creating a huge number of them will not help.
The theory is that if you can earn $1 per day from each site, then creating 100 sites will get you $100 per day. Well, I have news for you: it is very hard to get $1 per day from each of 100 sites, unless you know what you are doing. 100 times zero earnings is still zero.
So what should you do? I suggest that you should concentrate on one site at a time, until you become accomplished at creating moneymaking sites.
Once you know how to create successful money-earning websites, then you can start to produce more of them at a time. But at first, while you are still learning, create one site, and get it to earn some money.
You will learn more doing one site than you will from burning yourself out on 30 sites at once. With one site, you can keep trying different things, and watching the results. You will be able to promote one site better than you can promote 30 sites.
When you are commenting on blogs, you will know which site to put in the “website” field of the comments. You will get attached to your “baby” and be happy to promote it to others.
You will have time to make a decent site that others will want to visit. You will be able to participate in social networking and promote the site. You will be able to concentrate on creating content and getting links for one site.
Just try this for a month or two. Pick your favorite one of your sites, or if you don’t have any worth building on, then create a new one. In either case, just focus on that one site. Post to it as often as you can. Get as many good links as you can. Test out different ad placements. Test out ways of getting more visitors.
Even if you are in the sandbox, work on the site. Unless you are in a competitive field, you will probably be out of the sandbox within 3 months. Meanwhile, you have built a solid site. After a while, you can put AdSense on the site, if that is your business model. You will start to see money coming in, because you have built a good site and are getting visitors.
Won’t it give you more confidence to have one good site that is actually earning you money than 30 or more sites that are not earning anything?
Once you have figured out how to make money from one site, then you can start to build more of them. At least by that time, you will know what you are doing. Instead of repeating the same mistakes with each new site, you will be building the new sites on a strong foundation of knowledge, and they should do well also.
What do you think? Agree, disagree? I think there will be some strong opinions on either side of this issue.
Have you been spying on my earnings? Actually I totally agree with you. I know that I have several sites that need work and it’s very overwhelming. I think just focusing on one site at a time, especially while getting a grasp on the fundamentals is an easier more focused stress free way to go. Once again, another great post.
I agree with you also. I have been tempted to try a challenge like that but I am glad I didn’t… I currently manage a handful of websites and it’s hard enough like this.
Could not have written a more timely article, Pat. I was stewing over this very issue just moments before I decided to take a break and look at Google Reader to see what was new and interesting. Focus, focus, focus.
Hey, even the Hubble telescope is a success _now_, once NASA figured out that focus was their most important product
What’s this – everyone is agreeing with me? I thought we would have some controversy going here.
I created 200+ websites and earning more than when in Park.
I totally disagree with you.It all depends on your niche.
I totally disagree with you.
I have created as many as 300+ websites and getting more $$$ than just parked.
Like any money making sites, they are all full of BS..same old content
By creating many websites,it gives you the opportunity the find out the flaws and the strength..what works and what not.
Bottom, it depends on the domain name and the niche.
Any monkey can create a website, it is MONEtization…making money
I keep track of my 300+ websites by creating a directory list www .BullShitWebsites .com
and since inception 4 mths ago, it has 1 million submissions and the #1 B2B website in the world!!!
i am a new blogger. i want to add some advertisement in my blog please suggest me how to do it.
Thank You Pat.
i agree with this theory, as long as its zero, no matter what you do to it, it will still be nothing.
I agree with you. If you’re earning nothing for a single site then there’s no reason why you must build more sites. You’ll just be following same mistakes that make everything useless. It’s absolutely a waste of time and effort as well. Learning is really what you need.
Mydomain, I’m glad it’s working for you. As you said, you figured out what works and what doesn’t, so you learned from creating all those sites.
One question though, how many sites do you have, 200+ or 300+?
I guess when you get so many, it’s hard to keep track 
Just kidding.
Hi Janu,
I took a look at your blog about software testing. It looks very good and informative. If this is the blog you want to advertise on, then I would suggest Google AdSense. AdSense does not work on every blog, but it does well on highly targeted blogs such as yours. I entered the keywords “software testing” into the AdWords Keyword Tool ( https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal ) and they are pretty high paying keywords too. So you would do very well with AdSense. You can sign up at https://www.google.com/adsense/.
You do need to get traffic to your blog in order to make money from AdSense, so be sure to get some links to your blog. Write some articles and distribute them to article directories, ask other blogs for links, comment on other blogs, submit to blog carnivals, etc.
You could do really well with your blog once you get some good traffic to it.