I hated English class –almost always got nailed on papers for plagiarism. And I know you’re not supposed to start a letter or a blog post with an apology, but hey this isn’t English class so I can do whatever I want. Besides I started this post with a slam on English class –so there.

Sorry I haven’t posted in a month, I have been very busy. I am still working with a group here locally on a new jobs site called ENG.com which is taking up some of my time and I am trying to finish up the initial draft application for Alliteration Plus. Anyway…

What if you have an idea which I usually do, but you are totally booked like the list I mentioned above plus a few other things that I didn’t mention. Wouldn’t it be nice to see if your idea had any merit?

Depending on the site you are thinking of building it may take you a couple hundred hours in development time, and then you have to hire out someone to skin it and make the site pretty for you. Not a lot of time there, but there is money spent –unless you skin it yourself which takes even more time. I suck at graphics and I rarely come up with a color palette that looks good –so I don’t do this anymore.

Building a new website like this is a waste of time especially since you have no idea if the site will work or not. Now you may think well if I don’t build it first class and pretty then no one will use it. Not true there were plenty of sites out there that sucked and they made it. In fact even after they made it the sites overall functional flow and look just blew. But it satisfied a need that people had and provided value –so they overlooked the obvious flaws. (I knew some girls like that –you know had obvious flaws but they satisfied a need. Just kidding –or am I?) So my point is that a simple website that performs the unique functions that separate this site from another is all you need to test your idea and determine the sites potential.

So knowing that doesn’t it make a lot more sense to build a web site as plain Jane as possible and get it online? Make it functional and get some backlinks to it, perform some SEO on it and then go back to your other projects. Don’t wait for the result or you will be waiting a while. But at least this way the concept application or website is up there and if it works it works and people will come and do whatever they are suppose to do on that site. As your member base grows you will see your profits grow. Then you can take “new” money and use it to put a face-lift on that web site.

What have you accomplished? Two things: you built a new website quickly, usually in under a week and you have had your web site tested by the market. They will decide whether it’s a good idea or not. If the market likes it, upgrade and optimize it. Then move on to the next one.

This may sound like a simple question. But how fast can you build a web site with 1 page, 10 pages, 100 pages or 100,000 pages?

See the last one is where I get set back. But in all reality all websites now a days are database driven websites. So all you really have to do is have a database full of content that you can build a website around.

Let’s say you get a database with 30k records. Now you need to plan out what the flow will be and how the users will navigate through your site. Basic site stuff I know, but with a lot of data in the database it will require you to not just dump out the db data on screen but to present it to the users in an organized way so that they can make sense of it.

This is what I have been working on. Last month when I got some money from my other sites,  I bought 9 domains. Then I bought a packaged deal of some databases. This package had about 5 or 6 databases in it. Not bad, since it only cost me $12. I also bought another db package. And there are a lot of people out there selling databases. Be sure to search around or you will pay way too much for the data.

The second db package included a lot of 1,000 miscellaneous databases for $100. Not a bad deal, since most of the db’s had around 60k records each. Oh yeah, I also bought two more -kind of a two for one deal. Total record size of that was 14 million, but it was all the same type of data. So the 14 million would go on one site as opposed to the 1,000 I mentioned.

Ok, so now I have a ton of data and only 9 domains. Well, its only 9 new domains right now. But after I build those I will expand and I have the data to do so.

So back to my original point -I can build a 100,000 page database pretty fast considering the same amount of work will go into building a 100 page site as it would a 100,000 page site. But now I have more site pages that can be indexed into the search engines. And I can put links to other sites on those pages or I can sell links on them.

How many sites do you have? Are you selling links on those sites? Are you using your indexed pages to put links on them to point them to your other more important sites?