Anyone Developing at the moment?

[philiporchard]

For our site: Spag dot com, we made sure the design was smart - from the layout of the tests to the graphing.

I think it's added huge credibility.

Flights dot co.uk, makes use of the front end design from our car hire site. It's responsive and looks clean and smart.

So for me, design is very important.

 

[Admin]

I don't think anyone will argue that design and user experience is important for a website, but when you are starting from scratch maybe you have limited time, budget and resources to see if your new site has any traction.

So my advice would be start with a simple design, don't spend too much on it and focus on content and ROI, how will this site pay your investment back?

As you see it grow you can invest more in its look.

Admin


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[philiporchard]

How old is this site Phil?

We launched it just over a year ago. Currently 1,600 primary schools have a yearly licence.

 

[SF]

Prefer not to share all my 'money' niches/targets but I've got my brother working on FlyingLessons.co.uk. Long way to go yet but he's doing really well, esp. for his first site, with pretty minimal guidance really.

Anything you can build in a week can be copied in a week, I'd say you're much better off focusing on 4 or 5 big content-rich sites with regular updates than 50 minisites - that approach doesn't cut it any more.

Lovely domain mate, killer name to be honest.

Thanks for advice, its the regular money thing because years ago parking was really good into the thousands of month for me, I thought by doing around one site a week and start getting them ranking I can add some adverts and try and get a bit of regualar income coming in.

 

[Retired_Member38]

Lovely domain mate, killer name to be honest.

Thanks for advice, its the regular money thing because years ago parking was really good into the thousands of month for me, I thought by doing around one site a week and start getting them ranking I can add some adverts and try and get a bit of regualar income coming in.

How are you going to get them ranking? Its not possible to build and rank anything of value in a week. imo you're going to end up with 52 crap sites at the end of the year, with probably at least half of them penalised or filtered. I'd rather have 2 decent sites than 52 turds.

 

[SF]

I understand what you mean, Ive got domains in all areas what area would you pick to start developing in?

There is some good advice in this thread,

 

[SF]

How are you going to get them ranking? Its not possible to build and rank anything of value in a week. imo you're going to end up with 52 crap sites at the end of the year, with probably at least half of them penalised or filtered. I'd rather have 2 decent sites than 52 turds.

I would use an seo company ive used before for ranking they did a great job on another site a few years back, was costing me 250 per month took about 6 months to get me to the top of google and it was a huge search.

 

[max99x]

I understand what you mean, Ive got domains in all areas what area would you pick to start developing in?

There is some good advice in this thread,

Pick an area that interests you or you have contacts in. Then work on it and work hard, there's no easy way like it was 5-10 years ago when you could put up a basic site and rank and make money.

If you want to make anything more than beer money you really need to treat it like a real business, invest time & money into it and you can reap the rewards.

 

[Retired_Member38]

I would use an seo company ive used before for ranking they did a great job on another site a few years back, was costing me 250 per month took about 6 months to get me to the top of google and it was a huge search.

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[boxfish]

I understand what you mean, Ive got domains in all areas what area would you pick to start developing in?

Why not work out an actual, viable business idea first and then see if you have a name to match? If not, look at buying one.

The difficult part is having a solid idea that you are able to execute and market yourself and then doing it. The domain name and website are the easy part.

 

[SF]

Pick an area that interests you or you have contacts in. Then work on it and work hard, there's no easy way like it was 5-10 years ago when you could put up a basic site and rank and make money.

If you want to make anything more than beer money you really need to treat it like a real business, invest time & money into it and you can reap the rewards.

Hi Max.

Thanks for the advice, and good advice aswell. Picking an area that already interests you is always a plus. I will have a good look through and see what ive got.

There is one name i would like to do but its more a traffic name its like train spotting .co.uk and a killer name at that and this area its in gets thousands of searches world wide.

 

[SF]

Why not work out an actual, viable business idea first and then see if you have a name to match? If not, look at buying one.

The difficult part is having a solid idea that you are able to execute and market yourself and then doing it. The domain name and website are the easy part.

Thats a good way of looking at it, and from another angle aswell hmmm

 

[Retired_Member38]

If you're going to build a site every week, hire an seo company to work on them, and then wait 6-12 months to see rankings and profits.... how are you going to finance this?

It sounds like a disaster in the making. If an seo company can rank a site that only took a week from start to finish.... then why do they need you at all? Wouldn't they just build the site themselves and keep all the profit?

 

[SF]

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Okay, Can you go into detail on how things have massively changed from 5 years ago?

 

[suggs]

Okay, Can you go into detail on how things have massively changed from 5 years ago?

Where have you been hiding mate?

 

[boxfish]

Okay, Can you go into detail on how things have massively changed from 5 years ago?

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/497048-post20.html

 

[Flushdraw]

That's great, how have you marketed it, do you have a sales team?

I'd also be interested in hearing about how you market to schools Phil. We're currently moving towards targeting schools for a completely unrelated product and are going through a few marketing techniques.

Rob

 

[SF]

Just read monkeys post and that was the direction I was heading...

 

[SF]

Can anyone else confirm what Monkeys saying is he on the money?

 

[Retired_Member38]

Just read monkeys post and that was the direction I was heading...

It really doesn't sound thats the direction you're heading in if you're talking about developing a site every week