As I mentioned recently, I’ve got a master plan for
Project B-2 Bomber, which boils down to: keep doing what I’m doing until it reaches a certain point in traffic, then pitch the next phase of it to investors. There’s got to be someone out there who will see the same potential I’m seeing and feel like throwing at least a modest sum at it. If not… I’ll find the money myself.
Either way, I feel very good about that site’s future.
But
Project Mai Tai is another story. It’s doing okay on traffic - steadily growing, though the overall numbers are still pretty low. It’s also ranking higher than I’d expect on search terms pretty much the minute I put them in the title, which is what B-2 did (so that’s promising). I don’t have a master plan for it, though, and I wish I did. I have some scattered thoughts that might lead me to a master plan, however:
Networking blogs together
Something I may want to consider in the future is forming a blog network with some other people. I’m slowly brewing a couple of team projects, which should give me a feel for that style of working with others. If I could by myself write 10 blogs that all fit well with the brand I’m trying to create, that’d be great, but who has time? But if you and some others you trust can assemble a few blogs and network them together… well, I think at first you’d see a big boost for the smaller sites, and then the whole network would gain momentum and hit a tipping point.
Monster domains
On the other hand, you can do this all on one domain, which is especially good if you want to keep more control. Set up blogs in subfolders or subdomains for some other writers, let them put their own ads on (or you control the ads and pay everyone according to an agreed-upon setup). The advantage to having multiple domains would be you have multiple chances of getting in good with the search engines - if they fall in love with one domain, that link love spreads to the others. The advantage to having it all on just one domain is the mountain of content it’ll contain, which the SEs generally love.
Hmm.
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