Fast or slow? Learn as you go…
There’s this girl I’ve been peeking in on every so often of late who is trying to do something similar to what I’ve been doing. She started before me from what I can tell by reading back over her blog, and she’s much more motivated and consistent than I am when it comes to building websites.
I won’t go into too many details here, because I think I’ve been pretty clear that although I run my websites as a business, I think of them in my head as a hobby. Life is busy for me most days and I don’t want to add the pressure of running a home-based business to myself. I know this is self-deception, but I’ve also made clear in the past that I thrive on self-deception when it comes to procrastination and work.
This girl I’ve been following seems to be on the track to really making it with her own website empire as she approaches $28 a day in earnings. However, she’s building sites at the speed of light. Her plan as she’s said is to just get the sites up and then build links to them and push their rankings up. She’s going about that phase of things in a way I wouldn’t but mostly she’s just waiting until she gets all these sites online and filled with content.
This is good for her productivity, it appears, because she certainly has the websites to prove it. However, this all out rush to put up a ton of websites and then go back to them to fix them and rank them and then start earning “real” money from them seems shortsighted.
Here’s why.
I actually toyed with the idea of my own headlong rush to create lots and lots of websites and then worry about generating income.
Then it occurred to me quite suddenly that if I pursued such as path, I would be shooting myself in the foot.
Where’s the opportunity to learn from your mistakes? Where’s the chance to make minute, or significant, changes to your methodologies if you set a course and plow straight ahead?
It doesn’t make sense to me to build site after site without taking the time to learn from the building, ranking, and earnings of each one.
So it comes down to this. I’ll be following each site I build through the whole process of structure, content, ranking, and earnings before I move on. Technically, I’ll probably have more than one site going at a time, but I won’t be holding back on any particular phase of my empire building so I can “batch process” or otherwise “assembly line” my websites.
I prefer to learn as I go.
Can you imagine discovering a key factor in increasing site earnings only after you’d built 100 to 200 websites? What if it was something that wasn’t that easily fixed, like a domain issue? (Remember the still ongoing controversy about hyphens versus no hyphens and .com versus .org versus .info?)
These are very good reasons, in my opinion, to take it slow(er).
I agree with you on some posts. I too am following a “Noteworthy” site as well. :-) However, With all the learning in place, I think the quicker the sites are up the quicker you will know what works and what doesn’t. Kudos for getting your sites up and making $1.00 a day. You just need to scale up, I think. It’s TOTALLY a numbers game. But you still have to use our head when building up the sites.
As we all know the best education is experience. More success and look forward to following your progress.
Yes, I think experience will tell. :) Thank you for your comments. Already I am seeing some interesting results with the sites I put up, and one specifically interesting item of note is that on a few sites I combined some affiliate stuff with some ad stuff and I ended up making a $51 commission on a single sale of a physical product for a product specific site.