Has my site made as much as it can?
 

I've had my site for 3 years now.. and seem to be hitting the ceiling in profits.

How do you know when it's time to start a second site or if you need to get more traffic to your existing site?

If your site is uploaded it's time to make another one.

:glugglug

I think that answers your own question.

As long as it's making the $$$$ it's all good... :glugglug

I thought the same thing.. but by creating a second paysite.. I'm looking at double the updates and content.. also double profit :)

What do you guys think of archiving a site.. letting people no that no more updates are coming.. then starting a new site? I haven't seen it done before.. and an archived site will still bring in those who haven't seen the content before.

Agreed. :)
Why NOT start another one? There's no reason not to. This one will continue on, so baby a new one for a bit and get it going.

I appreciate you input Evil1.. but same goes for paysites? Original content sites like mine take a lot of work to get the material and maintain.. what do you think?

More good quality sites = more good $$$ if you do it right!

jDoG

You already have the traffic now you can further filter it to a new site and so on...what's your site(if you don't mind)

i don't think an archived site would do good, obviousley not as good as a the same site you are currently updating. so expect a loss.

and as for that ceiling, i dont believe in it.. diversify your advertising. theres more customers out there.

Get as many sites as you can and create a way to link them all together.. If you get just one listed well, then the others will get on the s.e. band wagon soon after..

Thanks for the input Jdog and Brad ! My only concern about a second site is shooting twice the content. My current setup is weekly updates.. that means 52 models a year.. so two sites is 104 models a year. A lot of work.

Can I still be successful and not update weekly?.. maybe monthly? I have more hookups for a new offshoot of my site..but the workload is daunting.

Finding really good advertising sources seems to be a problem. Any contacts?

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That's great advice ! I'm definately going to do that if I start a second site..

This is a big business decision.. with a huge commitment.

I don't own paysites but I've heard that it may be hard to completely close down a paysite.
You will not get new subscibers, but you will have chargebacks and your chargeback ratio will be probably to high for the creit card companies.
I simply had read somewhere about it.