1 website is better than 100, or not?

I recently wrote an article about it on my other blog, Now G Net, but thought I’d share these thoughts and info with this blog readers as well. The article mainly discusses what are the advantages and the disadvantages of having 1 OR many websites. Both “techniques”, if we can call it like that, have their up and down sides. That post also went up on Pixel2Life and Tutorialized, so I guess it was not that a bad article.

While writing I was mainly inspired by my personal experience, and how which technique played to my benefit. Like many, I started off with a small “starting capital”, if we can it a “capital” anyway, and slowly developed a network of websites. First I only had once website and it had advantages (which I discuss in my article), but after a while, when I decided to expand my little empire I realized I need more, much more websites, and moreover I need to “throttle” the subjects to avoid making a messed up huge site that can’t possibly get targeted visitors due to been too busy. This is why this blog is separated from my other blogs and websites.
You can read the entire, very comprehensive overview of the online strategy HERE. Here is a small summery…

My personal opinion? I’d say make a few sites, and make them different. There is no point in making 10 stall sites about articles with similar layout, structure and more or less identical content, because if your visitor did not like the first site, he wont find the others any useful as well, while if he did like it, he will stick with the site he visited first, bookmark it and won’t look further. Some people find bright layouts to be irritating, others love it. Some websites’ content are more targeted to the older audience while others are mostly visited by teens, and if you have a wide variety of website, you can play wise with your traffic and make the maximum out of it, for both yours and visitor’s benefit.

Read the full overview of making 1 website vs. 100 websites .