Writers’ Web Sites: How Many Sites Do You Need?

Last week, I received several questions from Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) students, the point of which was essentially “how many sites should I create?”

That’s always a ticklish question.

In brief, you create different sites for different purposes.

As you may know, I have MANY Web sites, for many different purposes. I have around three copywriting sites for example, because for many years, my copywriting skills have been my bread and butter.

I also have many sites for writers.

To make things even more complicated, I have several sites to sell products, like my Web copywriting manual, for example.

And I have dozens of sites which are my “money” sites, created to sell affiliate products.

Confusing, right?

I created each site to achieve a purpose (or goal) that I had at the time — or to follow up on an inspiration. I love the Web, and whenever I get an idea, I tend to buy a domain name for it; I many never build a site on the domain, but domains are an investment, so they’re not wasted.

Getting back to the writers’ question: “how many sites should I create?”

Firstly, consider your goals. Write them down.

Then…

1. Always have a “name” site. Since my name’s Angela Booth, my name site is angelabooth.com, for example. Your name site is vital, because as you get freelance clients, current and prospective clients will look for you on the Web;

2. Build out your name site. My angelabooth.com site is reasonably small, but I created my Creativity Factory blog on the site, which bulks it out considerably, and gives me more visibility in the search engines;

3. Create other sites as and when you need them. Don’t be shy. You don’t have to create dozens of sites, but if you want to achieve a goal, and feel that a site will help you to do that, by all means create it. You can let sites lie fallow, because AGE counts in sites. A site created in 1997 will be more valuable (all things being equal) than a similar site created in 2007; so remember that you can always SELL a site.

Let’s look at a scenario. Let’s say that you’ve got your “name” site set up, and it’s your primary freelance writing site, on which you sell your writing. You’re starting a new venture, selling Private Label Rights (PLR) material, and will be promoting the PLR heavily.

In this case, dumping your new PLR sales material onto your name site may create confusion, so you could certainly buy a new domain, and set up a PLR site on that. You’d end confusion, and since you already own one site, your new site would benefit from links from your old site, and you’d get fast traffic. (I created a PLR site, for example.)

In short, don’t be shy of creating sites. You can create a site in a couple of minutes on Blogger, and a couple of hours on your own domain. Do what works for you.

If you want to know more about creating sites, there’s lots of information in my Web writing training, as well as in this product on making money from Web sites.

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There’s great money in Web writing. Some Web writers are making $20,000 a month by blogging for a stable of sites. Others are writing articles or ebooks.

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