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How to make a website or what kind of website to make can sometimes be a problem. Somedays what type of site you want to make can be a very hard decision. Let alone what you want the topic of your site to be.



I have lots of different sites and even different types of sites. Everything from the outdoors, fish, hunting and lakes to learning how to use your mind to get what you want. Some are free sites such as at blogspot and myspace, others are on different acounts for the different class c ip address and others are on my own servers.

As an experiment all of my sites have AdSense on them somewhere or plans to add it soon. You don't really want to design a site and submit it to directories and have it get rejected as the directories see it as a site designed for adsense traffic only. They won't list you.

Here is a list of all of the sites I currently have.

  • Fresh water fishing tips
  • Fishing Eastern South Dakota Lakes and Rivers, Forum
  • Hunting Eastern South Dakota for pheasants, ducks, geese, deer
  • South Dakota Hunting and Eastern SD Game Forum
  • South Dakota Lakes, Maps and Vacations
  • Information about buying a boat and boating

    As you can tell, all of those sites are outdoors related. The forums are SMF forums and as far as I'm concerned aren't very good at generating clicks to AdSense ads. The fishing, hunting and lakes websites all generate more money from AdSense than do the forums. Even tho the forums get arond 2500 page views per day and the sites generate far less traffic.

  • How to use your mind and mental power
  • Increasing mind power
  • Very Cynical, Thoughtful and Intelligent Peoples Opinions
  • Old Dude with a Bad Attitude Politics, Idiots, Stupid People
  • Hope Arkansas motels and attractions
  • Clinical depression statistics, how to fight depression
  • What is Anger Management
  • Stress relief and guided relaxation
  • Stressed and Depressed a study of depression in one man
  • Myspace blog about anything and everything
  • Stress management and dealing with stress

    The sites above are about many different things yet have a common thread, for the most part. How to use your mind, stress, depression and relaxation.

    The sites once again do better than the blogs do. You may have noticed that on the fishing site I've also added Kontera. Seems to be working okay, not great but okay. Most of this last group of websites all need more incoming links and I will start submitting them to directories now that I have the whole network setup.

    I suspect part of the problem with the blogs is lack of traffic but the hunting site gets less traffic than the blogs and makes more money. I find all the little things like that highly interesting and I'm curious to know why.

    For one thing it's much easier to get different things into sites than it is into blogs. Placement means a lot when it comes to ads. For sure having your ads in the proper places will generate more clickthrus and make more moeny.



    My conclusion is blogs and forums are much easier to setup and manage but handmade sites seem to do much better when it comes to generating money. I'll know more about which is true when I can get the same amount of links to the blogs, etc. as I have for the outdorrs sites.

    It's a simple matter of testing, changing and then doing more testing. MOF that's an ongoing process for any websites you have. However what you learn in your testing of websites can probably be applied to other sites of the same type.

    What's the best way to make a website? Whatever works best for you and is within your abilities and means.

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