2010 Plans & Direction

Posted on 8th May 2010

Hey guys, it’s been a while since I’ve updated the blog and for good reason. I’ve not only been extremely busy buying new websites (my total website count is now up to 150) but I’ve been spending huge amounts of time restructuring and reworking a large part of my portfolio.

All of this work combined with me moving into a new house made 2009 a spectacular year and 2010 is set to keep up with this rate of expansion. So to kick things off I’m going to spend a little bit of time talking about my strategy for 2010 as well some of the things I’ve been busy with lately. Hope you guys enjoy the updates!

2010 Direction

One of the biggest problems of carrying so many sites (despite the awesome income associated with them) is the time needed to keep them updated. 2009 in terms of content development and promotion wasn’t the best, it was always full steam ahead growth, growth, growth and some of my sites suffered which means 2010 has to be a year of restructuring and redevelopment of my existing sites.

Oh and with over 100+ undeveloped keyword domains just sitting there I’ve got no shortage of new projects sitting on the conveyer belt. I’m hoping to work through atleast 30-40 of these in 2010 (of which I’m probably already through 4-5).

Anyway thats what 2010 is going to be all about so let’s get stuck into what I’ve been buying both this year and what I picked up at the back end of last year.

Getting Into Anime

Ok the first site I want to talk about was one I purchased maybe as far back as 2008 but pretty much sat doing nothing for me until around the summer of 2009. It had maybe a few dollars worth of income trickling in but nothing special so it wasn’t until last summer that I spent some time redesigning it and pushing it forward as a mainstream anime news and forum community.

The site in question is animeMB and one that I purchased for around $200. With a full redesign and some clever marketing (all of which took around 2 weeks) I managed to bring the site and community together and traffic has since continued to grow daily. You’ll have to keep your eyes on this one because I think it’s set to get bigger.

Now one thing I like to do once I pick up a site within a niche is to try to pick up other related sites which can work off and grow from the main sites success. So Naruto Wallpapers was a purchase I made in January 2010. Costing me just under $600, it’s steadily growing and now brings in almost $110 per month. I’d say since I purchased the site (only 4 months ago) I’ve pulled in almost $450 meaning i’ll probably have recovered my initial investment in a month or two. Overall a really good purchase and one that’s set to grow.

Two other anime sites I purchased include One Piece Wallpapers and Bleach Wallpapers. Both doing well but not bringing in as much income as I’d like. It’s on sites like these (i.e. ones that are getting decent traffic but not enough revenue) that I really want to spend time on in 2010. These sites are not only under performing heavily but fixing them shouldn’t take too long.

Travel Network

I’ve never been too heavy on travel within my portfolio so just 2 months ago I decided enough was enough and started to work on a domain and site I picked up almost 12 months ago. The site in question is GoTravelGo (the name’s pretty catchy don’t you think ?) and was purchased with high hopes but ultimately sat out most of 2009 on the bench.

So to kick things off (last month) I finally found some time to complete a fresh new newspaper type layout for the site and added some fresh new travel content. It was a mixture of me writing articles and some article writers on my team writing up some well researched articles.

Obviously the whole project is still in it’s early days but I have a feeling this site will do extremely well thanks to it’s clean layout and high quality articles. Obviously I’m new to the niche so I’m probably not promoting it correctly right now but by the end of the year I’m expecting this one to be big.

Final Words

Ok so I’ve given you all a really short update on what I’ve been up to as well as some of the sites I’ve been working on over the past 12 months. Obviously the above mentioned sites weren’t the only ones I’ve been working on but they do at least give you an idea of what I’ve been doing (which I’m told many of you find interesting).

So for now so long and keep working on your little web empire. Just remember it doesn’t matter how small it is, over time it will grow and over time you’ll achieve the goals you’re aiming for!