Approach for Development?

[Grrilla]

OK, you've got a couple of really good names that seem to be sure winners that you are currently developing full sites for. You sift through your other names and find the 10 or so that have the most potential but they need a "little" development to kick start them so that they can be presented to the world in their best light. I need help w/ defining the various degrees of "little".

1) How deep into development does one go. ie a showy one page site? A 5 pager w/ interactivity?

2) Is the mindset to create an actual operating site that you become involved w/ on an ongoing basis until sold, or is it a "set piece" that acts more as a demonstration of what the site could be? Obviously the latter takes up less of ones time.

3)After submitting the site to search engines, how long should one expect to wait before the name gets any play? ie if after 2 mos, the site is barely getting hits, is it time to pull the plug and fry other fish?

4)To get the ball rolling, (looks like a cliche' day for me),is it OK to put up a few quick one page sites for search engine submittal and than go back to the sites for completion or is it better to have the site fully developed first.

I know that's covering alot of territory, so please feel free to respond to a single question (or any part thereof).
I believe I know most the the procedures necessary but have been overly tentetive and have had a block in moving forward because of the loose ends and uncertainty.

Any help will be greatly appreciated! :o :?

 

[Tippy]

1. I do the showy one page usually

2. Demo mainly for me

3. Not sure...

4. I guess fully developed is better but I tend to do the " Go Back " when time permits.

 

[meljr]

My thinking is this, if you have anykind of domain name, it needs to be working for you. I just finished setting up over 60 websites with my total name inventory. The sites are all the same content for example http://www.Bestme.com , but they feed into my bigget site at http://www.BigDog2.com . I have been getting about 200 unique visits a day to BigDog2 since I started this 10 days ago. This has really surprised me, how all these little site mount up in hits. I will pick, as time permits better sites and develope different content, and submit them to the search engines.

Any one else doing something like this?

meljr

 

[Anthony]

Originally posted by meljr
My thinking is this, if you have anykind of domain name, it needs to be working for you. I just finished setting up over 60 websites with my total name inventory.

That's a really good point! Since you had to pay to get all of those domain names, you might as well have them pay off somewhat. I think I may do something similar with mine.

 

[Grrilla]

Hey there Meljr (aka Big Dog). Like what your doing!
Just curious about what your hosting costs run per month or do you have your own server? Not sure what the dynamics are of having your little sites feed into the big one? It doesn't appear you are using a sub-domain system. Is there a way you are tying them together so as not to get hit w/ 60 individual hosting pmts?

 

[meljr]

Hi Michael, thanks for the question. I got a great lead from another namepros forum member on a place to host for $160 per year. The link is http://www.symplexity.net/deals/special1.htm It was hard to fork over the $160 bucks up front, but I thought the deal was worth it. Also I am interested in your opinions about sharing "Trade Secrets" like this one, and invite your comments at http://bigdog2.com/forum1/index.php?showtopic=7

Let me know how these ideas work out for you, as I am just trying them out myself right now.

meljr