Flogging a dead horse.

When do you throw in the towel on a site?
I am guessing that it is impossible to make a success of every single site, regardless if the site is designed for AdSense or not, there must still be a time when you must admit defeat.

But bearing in mind that it takes a while to have the site indexed and even longer to have it listed all over the place, what rules do you have in place to know that the site is growing according to plan.

If I create a new site today I want to make sure that everything is going ok rather than finding out in 6 months time that it was all a waste of time.

Do you have a plan from day 1 to ensure that the site is growing well enough to continue?
For example, have xx visitors after 1 week and xxx after 1 month or 1 new back link a week
And at what point do you admit defeat?

FFMG

 

I've had plenty of sites that didn't seem to work, so I abandoned them after 3 or 4 months. A year later I check the stats and find they are getting a 100 or 200 uniques a day.

So I guess the answer is that most every site has some value even if you ignore it for several months.

The "instant" appeal of the internet can sometimes make us impatient for results. An internet business business takes time to grow in the same way as a traditional b&m business. If a site doesn't seem to be working, just stick it on the back burner and work on something new. It may surprise you.

V.

 

Probably a big waste of time.

 

I got a site I am about to disable, I haven't checked it in months. My decision is based on its adsense perforamnce.

 

The coast to maintain an underperforming site is basically the cost of the domain. Even the most pathetic site is likely to accidently kick in that much money.

I just can't see why if you were still running and maintaining other sites why you would take an underperforming site down unless you were going to replace it with something else on the same domain or you had seriously extenuating circumstances.

As others mentioned, ignoring it is better than nothing. It at least has some minimal value and it may be very useful to you down the road. I think the worst thing to do would be to take a site off-line.

 

I won't take it offline, just removed adsense from it.

 

when you get bored i guess...

 

Why was I red flagged in this thread? Was my question wrong in some way?

FFMG