I’m pretty sure i’ve never revealed some of these domains i’m mentioning below, but i do own them all 
Here are the sites i currently have online and ‘doing something’;
- beerchief.com
- smemon.com
- theleavingcert.com
- chromeguide.com
- bluejumpernews.com
- yesnoblog.com
- famousnerd.com
- filterednews.com
- ctrldthis.com
- closelyguarded.com
So 10 in total. Most of them not doing a whole lot although i think 4, 7 & 10 are nice sites and domains to have in my portfolio.
photo credit: macha chile
This month alone, i’ll have added at least 3 new sites to that list. The sky is the limit really… i could create as many as i want.
That golfing site i’ve been working on has been irishgolfer.ie. I have another .ie partnership in the works but we don’t even have the .ie domain name secured yet so it’ll be another few weeks before i can talk about that project. CharityBypass.com will be up and running by the end of the month. I’m working on it at the minute and it’s eating up all of my time but just to prove i’m doing something, here’s a logo i came up with;
This was a tough one… i have to very careful with this site and the sort of image i want to get across. First impressions should be one of fun / humour and a little bit of ‘oh that could actually be pretty cool / useful’… if i get that wrong and end up with stuff like ‘poor form, heartless etc…’ that’s not good.
Intially i had just planned on using text, no images. But then i thought that might be bit too risky – a logo is a great way to add in graphical elements which can lighten the mood or explain what the site is about. So i started off with the little matchstick man as the ‘i’. He has his hand stretched out, looking for cash off the ‘r’.
I’d then left it at that, but after looking at it a few times i thought no, that’s still not enough. It doesn’t really explain what the site is about. The text is self explanatory (i feel), but having just the matchstick man doesn’t explain it well.
So i then came up with ‘angry droplet man’. He sees the matchstick man collecting and he’s not happy. I clearly get that message across in the logo and so i feel it does a pretty good job of explaining what the site is about whilst being humorous and not too serious.
In other news, here’s some domains i currently own and am toying with the idea of completing;
- groundrage.com
- myalloys.com
- captionedimages.com
- friendprank.com
- bloggrave.com
- gameexclusive.com
- desktopsnaps.com
- lolimages.com
Although it seems like an awful lot of domains, all the domains mentioned throughout this post don’t even make up half of the domains i own 
I need to strengthen the 10 sites i do have up and running, yes. But i feel that by building sites, i learn a lot and become much more creative. So long as i’m doing something and learning, i’m never too critical of myself – i can’t be.
Working on new sites, particularly in partnership with someone else, makes sure things get done and get done quickly. There’s also the added benefit of additional input, extra skills and a shared workload. Strength is in unity.
I mentioned yesterday i’m also beginning to mine this ‘jackpot network’ of mine – 19 domains in total…. adrenaline alone will get me through that… if my own recorded stats come anywhere close to google’s, i’ll quite literally drop everything and focus purely on developing those 19 sites – it will be worth my while 
But getting all of those other sites above online and fully functional, would be a nice boost. If i were to develop ALL of the above sites and touch a few up, it would leave me with over 20 decent sites to my name.
That would mean i’d have a lot of experience in a lot of different areas. So many niches, so much SEO, so many open source platforms… you can’t help but pick up tips, tricks and discover new problems when you’re running that many sites, that many themes, on many different servers.
Whilst it’s not something to look forward to, it’s all great experience and once again, i’ll come back to the example of me -v- the guy with the same college degree as me going for a tech job. That’s what motivates me. In order to better myself i can’t compare myself with myself, i have to compare myself with others, others that work harder and have more than me.
So there’ll be AT LEAST 3 new sites in april and if i have my way and don’t get distracted, there’ll be lots, lots more. Who says the construction industry is dead
