It’s been a bit over three weeks since I started my new set of sites. I really would advice people developing to start with 2 or 3 three sites at the same time if you are developing yourself. My first 3 sites & settings were a little bit different. I noticed one site in particular took off well. After three weeks & now 7 sites I duplicated the settings for the best site to the others.

I’ve been busy so this weekend I have no time to create new sites. I am seeing orders come in & my sites being added to search engine results.

This week during the week I
1. fixed my mobile analytics
2. fixed my mobile version of the sites (still working on that)
3. Put in ValueCommerce instead of Adsense in one site.
4. Added new products to a few of the sites
5. Fixed my PC sitemap

One of the reasons why I keep writing that it’s good to start off small with development is because most of my changes that took time you’d never notice them.
Also sometimes you use new versions of code that might not work. Just take the code from an older site that works & see what was the difference.

Now I’m up to 7 sites, few products being sold already.

The biggest thing I observed was that adsense doesn’t make sense anymore when starting a site. I’m taking all adsense ads off of my new sites. It actually slows the pages down, & I might be penalized for that.

Goals for next month:
1. at least 7 new sites
2. Test a new system with a few sites
3. Get a new server (Dreamhost sucks it’s big but it’s not too good) before getting this I only used Verio servers at over $100 a month for a VPS. I’m thinking about what hosting company I want to use.
4. Buy one of the SEO gerls at work lunch to give me some tips on getting into Yahoo or what I can improve on. Long terms my sites are OK but I do want to get them in a bit quicker & have a bit of advice.
5. Tweak my Japan mobile & iPhone versions a bit more.

The current sites I have up are OK but next month I want to use some better domains. I purposely didn’t use the best premium domains. September, October, November, December. I have 4 months till Christmas. During one of these months I have to work solely on the design. Probably in November. September & October will be about creating new sites. I want to see if I can have at least 30 – 40 up by end of October with new products being added daily.