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I am interested in this too, as the third of my blogs has fallen completely by the wayside and I need to post more regularly on my second one.  I am especially impressed with those who write long, thorough posts on multiple sites.

Still waiting for a good answer to this…. I am interested too since I'm ready to jump into the multiple site world…

BeatingBroke said:

I know there are some of you who are actively juggling multiple sites and doing it well.  I've been trying to do that for years, but always end up focusing on one of the sites while the other ones get neglected.  I'm wondering how those of you who are doing it successfully do it?  Can you share some tips, tricks, and methods that you use to do it without leaving sites behind?

Here's a couple points that seem to work for me…

Hire work out. Even if you work from when you wake up to when you go to sleep (which I do), there's still only so many hours. But when you hire staff writers, community coordinators and outsource some link building, then you have something that is scaleable one site at a time. As you grow, you hire more help, then continue the cycle.

Create systems. Submit to a few social media sites each day? Save the submit pages in a bookmark folder so you can open them all in one click. Weekly carnivals? Use a spreadsheet to track what posts you've submitted, what got included, etc. Twitter? Schedule tweets and retweets in Hootsuite or one of the 10+ other options.

Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog said:

All of the big, really successful bloggers like Pat Flynn and Darren Rowse only have 2 (maximum three sites). And keep in mind that they are full time bloggers, whereas many of us Yakezies are part time.
 

I would just focus on 1 or two sites (all depends on how much time you have and how much $ you can spend on outsourcing).

Tony, both of these guys have a few more sites than you might realize. But for the sake of making a point, lets say their biggest sites (Smart Passive Income and ProBlogger) are the only ones they have. The income from those sites is far from typical and chances are none of us will have that type of single-site success.

As a random example… what if you can make $2500/month on one site? Then $1500/month on another? Then you start/buy another site an it starts pulling in $2000/month? Maybe a hundred 5 post niche sites making $50/month each? All of a sudden you're looking at some decent income, without having a goal of one site making $10,000 a month.

Dollars aside, there's also a form of diversification in having multiple sites. Some guys with multiple sites would have one get nailed by the Panda update, but still had others chugging along just fine. Much better to just have a portion of your "online portfolio" get wiped out than have all your eggs in one basket.

As far as I know, JD and Trent don't run any other sites.  JD does write several columns though, and he has a staff for GRS.  Darren (Problogger) has three sites that I'm aware of that he actively participates in, but Problogger.net is the only one that he's on regularly.  The other two he has staff to manage.  Even problogger.net has a pretty heavy staff ratio.  Pat has talked about his use of VAs and such before, but I don't think he makes quite as extensive use of them.  I think the real trick here is to figure out how to go from a one person show to being able to afford to expand to several staff members.  I've started that process, but can only do so much with my budget.  It's tricky expanding from there.

I am all about diversification of income (I only mention it close a thousand times on my website)…but if your income isn't where you want it on your original site you aren't really diversifying anything. Rather you are just putting another speed bump in your way.