I have a site that I guess I could call my "writing as a hobby" site. It covers whatever interests me that doesn't quite fit within another site. It's a "no pressure / no pressure to succeed" site. I can throw anything I care to on it: affiliate stuff, politics, whatever. It's like a small retreat, a do-nothing, an escape, i.e., like a hobby.

There's work involved, like there is with a hobby, but it's not work-work, if you know what I mean. ;)

It makes a few bucks but I try not to worry/focus on that.

The danged thing is, probably as a result of not worrying about the money (or much of anything else) the site will probably end up being my biggest money-maker after a few years . . . and then I'll have something to worry about. :P

Heh. Thanks Webwork.

Do you keep it in the form of a blog, or regular website (i know the differences are few these days).?

Otherwise, with domains being relatively cheap, I was thinking of building a 'site' for each article. That way, if for some reason one of them showed promise, it could be developed. Developing a site which has a mixture of content can be confusing.

I wholeheartedly agree that a site with no focus will probably not be productive of much of anything, unless it's simply a personal hobby undertaking, as Webwork mentions.

I would give serious thought to doing, say, a small site a week, toss AdSense on top and sprinkle in some Amazon for any products, books, DVDs, etc. that may be related. Get a little revenue going, and six months to a year later you'd be surprised what you can sell sites like that for, especially if they're done on WordPress and can demonstrate some revenue.

Thanks Go60Guy.

Thing is, these 'sites', would only have a couple of pages on them (Unless I get some downtime and have chance to add to them). Is that too small?

Regular website . . built using WP.

For now I choose to "not interact", i.e., engage or allow comments, so it's not quite a blog.

Thanks.

Indeed, I no longer interact on any of my sites. Forums especially got too much work for too little 'results'.

Starting a site for each topic would also give you something to 'play with' at low risk, if you wanted to test some technique before you 'risked' a money site.