How Many Sites A Newbie Should Start - My Advice

**accelerator** · 11-06-11

Hi

If you are getting into affiliate marketing, then you may be asking "how many sites should I start?".

My advice is 3 to 5. This advice is specifically for affiliates who will be using natural SEO as their primary promotion method (it's a low cost / low risk technique). You want to try more than one site so you can try a few topics, but you don't want to start too many sites otherwise your efforts will become very diluted. Effort dilution is a real problem because it means you can't focus on getting good SERPs results, and without those, you might as well have no site at all.

Be under no illusion, affiliate marketing can be very tough to make a go of, but I hope this helps.

Rgds

**findlite** · 11-06-11

Ye thats true, i remember back in 2006 when i started it was a steep uphill curve with none of the help thast around today!

I'd plump for 3.... buyt i'd do alot of reading and learning first!

**apg1985** · 12-06-11

Id also say 2-3 but I would add try finding something you have an interest in if you are going the organic route.

I guess once you have found something try and write 300-400 words about it, if you can do that then go with it.

**jam2009** · 12-06-11

I would say best to start with 2-3 in different areas so able to bring in funds all year round. When I started most were in the same sector and were very seasonal.

**Cdr268** · 13-06-11

I would suggest one at a time. Build one site, and before you start marketing/SEOing it, immediately start on the other. and build that while seoing and marketing the first site.

**forexaffreviews** · 13-06-11

Starting with more than 1.. well that's like trying to do everything at the same time and not getting anywhere. But this is very subjective, a full time affiliate with enough cash can manage a few sites, unless they know what they are doing it would be futile.

Not to forget the costs, if one has to go around purchasing the domains/hosting.

Ideally, start with just 1 website.. make use of blogger/wordpress to build sites that can link to yours. Use twitter/fb tospread the word out. It would make sense to add more domains only once you are convinced that your first website is decent enough to work/convert on it's own.

Rome wasn't built in a day!

**Digitonic** · 14-06-11

I agree with the guys who say start with 1 then build up. We launched our first site back in March - it took a while to build and get right, now we're starting to SEO it and are beginning to get a bit of traffic. The big effort was the research and design and build, now we've took the foot off the gas a bit.

We can probably focus on another site by the end of summer in another industry, but we'll need to reinvest some of the cash from the first site to grow the second. It's like making a good whisky - some skill, and patience - but hopefully when it comes good it was worth it. Definitely a long term investment. No regrets though!