{"id":32,"date":"2009-05-29T06:16:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2019-10-23T08:16:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:16:47","slug":"how-many-sites-do-you-need-to-succeed-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/2009\/05\/29\/how-many-sites-do-you-need-to-succeed-online\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Sites Do You Need To Succeed Online?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BWMagic&#8217;s Internet Marketing News!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nContents:<\/p>\n<p><b> How Many Sites Do You Need To Succeed Online?<\/b><br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>As I put the finishing touches on my 10th site,<br \/>\nit suddenly occurred to me, do I really need all<br \/>\nthese sites to earn a living from the web?<\/p>\n<p>I answered my own question with a firm <b>NO!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Actually, some online marketers don&#8217;t even have a site of their<br \/>\nown and instead they promote other affiliate sites and products<br \/>\nwith their marketing. While I don&#8217;t personally recommend this<br \/>\nroute, many successful marketers have taken it and are quite happy<br \/>\nwith not having to bother with the whole business of running<br \/>\nan online site of their own.<\/p>\n<p>But you should have at least one main site, your flagship, your<br \/>\naddress on the web where people can find you. This also gives<br \/>\nyou an online identity. It tells everyone this is the area or<br \/>\nsubject matter you&#8217;re promoting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For years I had one main site which kept me extremely busy and<br \/>\nearned me a modest online income. I still have this site and yes<br \/>\nit still keeps me busy and it is still profitable.<\/p>\n<p><b>So why build more sites?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mainly because as you proceed with your online marketing, you<br \/>\nwill find niches that require their own sites. You have to expand<br \/>\nand branch out from your main site. The new sites are connected<br \/>\nand supported by your old one. It is a very effective way of<br \/>\nbuilding more quality traffic and business.<\/p>\n<p>But the main reason to build new sites is to prepare yourself<br \/>\nfor the future. You must stake your claim in all those<br \/>\n&#8220;keyword domains&#8221; that still can be had at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain further, having your main keywords in the domain<br \/>\nname of your site is important for SEO reasons &#8211; search engines<br \/>\nwill clearly know what your site is about. More importantly,<br \/>\nand this is why I build new sites, your visitors will CLEARLY<br \/>\nknow what your site is about because of its keywords.<\/p>\n<p>I will explain further, my main site is entitled www.bizwaremagic.com<br \/>\n&#8211; for the life of me, I don&#8217;t know how I came up with that<br \/>\nname, just wanted something to do with &#8220;bizware&#8221; since the site<br \/>\nis about marketing\/business tools. When I created that site around<br \/>\n7 or 8 years ago, I was totally unaware of what keywords were or<br \/>\nhow they worked on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I have developed niches related to business tools<br \/>\nand services. It&#8217;s no big secret that one of those niches is &#8220;Internet<br \/>\nFax&#8221;. Now since those keywords are not in my original site&#8217;s name,<br \/>\nI really needed a domain\/site that had those keywords and thus I created<br \/>\na new site that has my keywords and also tells exactly what the site is<br \/>\nabout, a guide to online fax.<\/p>\n<p>It is much easier to promote this domain\/site on the web because it&#8217;s<br \/>\ndirectly and only related to the subject of Internet Fax. Just by<br \/>\nglancing at the URL &#8211; visitors will know exactly what the site is<br \/>\nabout.<\/p>\n<p><b>Why is all this important to you &#8211; you ask?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well, if you&#8217;re a webmaster or marketer on the web, you should be<br \/>\ndoing the same thing. Staking your claim in the keyword domains that<br \/>\nare still out there. Never underestimate the power of a domain name&#8230;<br \/>\nimagine having &#8220;hotels.com&#8221; &#8220;cars.com&#8221;&#8230;  those domains are priceless<br \/>\nfor earning revenue on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Getting domains with valuable keywords should be your goal. These are<br \/>\nthe keywords web surfers are using to find your product or service.<br \/>\nThese keyworded domains will make your marketing simple and easy.<\/p>\n<p>And as you probably already know, most of the shorter keyword domains<br \/>\nare already taken. Marketers have jumped on this concept years ago and<br \/>\nmost of the valuable domains are already staked and claimed. In the<br \/>\nfuture, as these keyword domains age, they will become very valuable,<br \/>\nespecially if you build up your links and connections with other<br \/>\nrelated sites. Your site will be in the mix of things and all that<br \/>\ncommercial activity.<\/p>\n<p>Since most of the good shorter domains are already taken, what I like<br \/>\nto do is to add a third word to the main keywords I am targeting, like<br \/>\nin the case above, I added &#8220;guide&#8221; to &#8220;internet fax&#8221; since most of my sites<br \/>\nare also about educating potential customers about a particular product or<br \/>\nservice. And since it&#8217;s about education, I don&#8217;t mind using an &#8220;.org&#8221;<br \/>\ninstead the one you should always go with &#8220;.com&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This gives me the opportunity to do comparison pricing, to build a list<br \/>\nof contacts, and to more easily market to people without actually<br \/>\nselling them anything since I am heavily into affiliate marketing and<br \/>\nthe major vendors that I am promoting do the actual selling, not me.<\/p>\n<p>But even if you have your own product or service, having your keywords<br \/>\nin the domain is just as important. It will make your marketing job<br \/>\nmuch easier to do. And if you have a service or product that has a lot<br \/>\nof sub-branches or related products, you just might want to build<br \/>\nnew domains\/sites directly related to those products.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something you should be seriously considering &#8211; while there is<br \/>\nstill time to get some of those valuable domains. You will discover<br \/>\nlike me, two is much better than one. Actually, in my case,  ten is<br \/>\nmuch better than one!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards,<br \/>\nTitus<br \/>\nwww.bizwaremagic.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BWMagic&#8217;s Internet Marketing News! &#8230;&#8230;. Contents: How Many Sites Do You Need To Succeed Online? &#8230;&#8230;. As I put the finishing touches on my 10th site, it suddenly occurred to me, do I really need all these sites to earn a living from the web? I answered my own question with a firm NO! 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