I have been really keen to build up EnglandWide.com into a substantial England portal. So, much of my time over the last few weeks has been devoted to thinking a little ‘out of the box’ to try and develop something a little different. Currently exploring a few ideas including:-
blogging about UK tourist resorts
UK visitors social networking site
Travel forum
Not particlulary new – still thinking though 
Not sure how to progress and I will write up what I have decided shortly, hopefully.
Geodomain development – Ive been working hard on developing the network. Nine sites, so far. Decided on a basic template – and plan to take things from there. Everything connected to www.EnglandWide.com. Plan to make that site into an England travel and tourist blog. In the meantime its just a basic site. Plan to develop around 150 geo domain websites. After that I’ll start on the generics. Lots to do, so little time.
I have made an important decision – NO MORE DOMAINING! Well at least thats the plan. Now its development time! With a portfollio of over 500 domains I need to start building sites. Even single pages would be better than parking pages. Lots of thoughts about how to progress. http://www.LiverpoolWide.com and http://www.BristolWide.com are online with a single article each. Enough to get a little interest from Google, so its a start at least.
Hoping to develop about half of my portfolio over the next 18 months. Probably want to concentrate on a small number of geos and then work out from there.
So that means no domaining – for the moment. But I don’t think my domaining days are over, but a transition from domainer to domainer developer.
The latest addition to my slowly growing geo network is SheffieldWide.com. At the moment it is little more than a one page site, but I plan to develop it into a fully fledged minisite in the coming months.
I’m slowly forming a geo network of sites targetting major English cities. ManchesterWide.com was the first. Over the last few months sites for Birmingham and Leeds have been added to the network. Bristol, Newcastle, Liverpool and Nottingham will follow in due course.
In addition, I added Manchester Breaks to the network some time ago.
Except for my Manchester site, they are all basically pages that need to be made into robust sites.
I think a mistake that many geonetwork developers make is to fail fully build out their network before moving on to the next site. There are lots of reasons why this is a good strategy. However, I believe the money is in development, so I want to build out the existing nine sites before moving on to the next ones.
The revenue goal I have set for myself is $1 per day, per site. Is this achievable? The way I look at it, if a $1 a day is achievable, so is $5 and $10. How easy that is, and whether I think its worth the effort, is something I will discuss in future posts.
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