Last year I created a tonne of different websites. Some still do OK with zero promotion, but others are just sitting there collecting dust. I am starting to think whether I should try and consolidate what I have and selling off the sites I have no interest in.
It is not really like I need the money and it is hard to know if anyone would be interested in buying them. One such site that I would consider selling is barandeventguide.com. It is a listing of bars and taverns in the US. The site is running on Joomla with the Mosets directory component. I bought the data and imported it into the directory.
I might list it on Sitepoint and see if I can get any interest in it.
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Hi Mike,
After following your experiences last year in creating these different sites, it would be interesting to know which ones are doing well and which are struggling.
A post-mortem outlining your thoughts on why certain sites fared well, with or without promotion, while others did not would be a good read.
Thanks for the comment. I would say generally all of the sites that I neglected doing any marketing, or adding new content to are not performing. A future post on this is a good idea.
I am not sure if you remember my dating site http://www.wealthypeopledating.com but people are actually signing up to the site.
Any stats on the February websites? Where you were creating 1 a day… That could be interesting. Though if you haven’t been promoting them then it would be interesting to see if they ever got any organic traffic.
Yes I was also wondering which of those webs “28 sites in 28 days” project started to generate some traffic. I assume you will most likely hold on those and run some clearance sale on the other ones?
I wrote a post today. I hope it answers your questions!
Yes running a web site without giving any marketing to it or new, relevant and interesting content is very difficult and wasteful. I have my own one, a commercial one and i’m constantly working on it, attracting experts in web design and lots of others… If you mean to make money with a site, be ready to invest much into it.