Beginner Dilemma
Hello WA community,
I'm just a few days into my WA journey. And plan to spend quite a good bit of time with all of you. My first dilemma is one that many if not all of you have faced, so I welcome any feedback that you can provide.
The dilemma: How many websites should I work on simultaneously?
BTW, I almost spelled simultaneously right, first try. Anyway, here's the deal. Considering that it will likely take 3 - 6 months to see any love from Google, if I'm lucky. And I focus all of my attention on one website, only to learn 6, 8, 10 ,12 months from now that it's just not working.
The disappointment may be too much to bear. I don't know for sure, but I can see that happening, right? So, the thought being, work on multiple websites and increase your odds of being successful.
This will certainly slow things down. Creating content for 2 or 3 sites, will take twice or 3x as long. Now, I have read the blog post, I have heard the success stories, with most warning against working on multiple sites. And, I expect to hear much of the same in the responses to this post.
So, humor me and convince me that being singularly focused is the right path.
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I assume you haven't yet retired Glenn. If this is the case, then you'll be sharing your WA day with your JOB day. The digital skills included in the training will likely go very quickly for you so that is a great advantage.
So at the EOD it comes down to your ability to maintain a high quality, refreshing stream of content. If you were a newbie my answer would definitely be the one site at a time approach.
But, you are not a newbie so working two sites might be a productive way to maximize you ability to generate fresh, interesting content. When the writing task for the one site sort of drags and you find yourself not being as productive as you would like having a 2nd site to move to might allow you to be a more productive writer.
I also recommend you give yourself more than six months to decide of this is going to work for you. Patience grasshopper ... patience.
Work on one give it your undivided attention , se how it shapes monetize it and then begin your second website but before your site meets all the requirements
Ok so if you have followed me and read my posts you know I'm a no BS guy. I'm going to tell you like it is.
Your estimate for success is right on. But how many should you do so that you don't fail is a really good question.
My answer is this. You are going to need to do at least one good post a day to each site you create. The answer to your question is how many good posts can you create each day and put it on your blog.
Now the nitty gritty of a post is not just the writing of the post. It's the research finding good keywords that have decent traffic and competition that you will be able to beat. Jaaxy will help you find those. Target each post to those keywords and make sure the post is optimised. This all takes time.
I can do a good post with all the research in about an hour. A good post will have at least 5 headings and 1000+ words.
Each of us have different strengths so it really depends on how many you can put out each day.
Additionally you need to follow the training and do the social and other aspects of getting those pages ranked. So add more time to each post.
I have always taught to do just one site. But take your time and make sure it's one that will have success. If you follow the training and pick a good niche that you are passionate about you should do well.
The prior research is the important part of any site.
Hope this helps,
- Glen B
Hello Glen,
My name is Glenn and we have similar backgrounds. Although I was more of a hardware guy with average programming skills. So, I'm feeling a certain synergy here, hope you don't mind.
I'm not at your level regarding content. A 1000 - 1500 word post takes me about 4 hours at this point. I'm really hoping that improves. The research, which I have a better than average feel for, does not concern me. In that, I can research 5, 10, 15 keywords in a couple of hours and have plenty of content to build.
At this point, I'm planning on focusing on using the nrollins84 approach below. Focus on one site until it is rich with content, then move on. If I'm writing 5+ posts a week, this should put me in the website every 90 days range, until I have 2 or 3 to work on.
I'm committed to making this work, because I know it can. And I'm just barely smart enough to know that I don't know everything.
So, thanks and good luck, Glenn
I tend to fall somewhere in the middle... Maybe leaning more towards the one-site-at-a-time camp.
I say to FOCUS on one site at a time, at least until you've got a decent base of content built up. Say 30 posts.
Once you have that base set up, if you can continue to post at least once a week to keep the site fresh and relevant while working on a second site, go ahead and start the second site.
Just don't try and start 2 or 3 all at the same time!
Trying to build up that initial base content on more than one site at a time will burn you out and you are much more likely to give up.
Just remember this when you are trying to decide which route to take:
No matter how many sites you work on your content needs to provide real value to your audience. Trying to keep up on creating content that is detailed enough to do that for multiple sites at the same time is a TON of work!
OK, so as you can read above, I've dubbed my new approach the "nrollins84" approach. No offense to Glen or Clay, they both helped as well.
I'm not going to rehash my previous reply, but I will say that hard work might burn me out in the short term, but I will regroup and push forward. Repeated failure, however will make me quit. Investing money with no return will make me quit.
So I have to weigh those factors.
Thanks and congrats on the namesake, Glenn
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One website until its seeing decent traffic and making good money. You say it takes 4 hours to do a post of 1000 words. That's pretty typical. The research, writing, formatting, images and social sharing all take time.
I have heard stories from many successful marketers who tried it by doing several websites and wished they had just did the one to start.
Tip:1 Do KGR KW research easier to rank for. https://nichesiteproject.com/keyword-golden-ratio/
Tip:2 I would buy 3 domains though, and do a basic setup and put up maybe 5-10 posts if you can. Basic stuff to hold it there in the sandbox. Then when you are ready to start work on it for real the time will have lifted it out of sandbox and ready for going forward. Those sites will climb a lot quicker plus you will have the experience gained from the first website.