How do you keep multiple site's updated?

[TWD-Tony]

I have just been bitten my the internet marketing bug.. Well actually the adsense / affiliate bug.

After launching a website that went WAY past my expectations in terms of visitors, traffic and ranking - I was able to make a bit of money in adsense and affiliate marketing.
When I say a bit of money - the figure probably stands at a few hundred pounds, which is no retirement in Ibiza but still the idea of creating multiple Niche website's and making money from them is starting to appeal more and more...

The trouble is - the site itself took a lot of time and effort to setup (it's a community type website) and I don't want to try and create multiple communities as time is just not available...
So how do people go about managing multiple website's? I have managed okay upto now with the 10-15 site's that I own but I am looking to rapidly expand this into hundreds (hopefully) spanning accross different niches and hosted across different worldwide locations.

I first thought of RSS feeds - letting other webmasters update my site's for me... but surely that would trigger a penalty with the SE's (wouldn't it) it can't be that easy!

How can mulitple website's be updated quickly and easily with good content I suppose is the bottom line question I am asking!

[An Oasis]

Good question T and one we should have asked many months ago. Here's to hoping someone is generous enough to come up with an answer.

[Brian Turner]

I personally think you've answered your own question - you spent time and effort on the site to make it successful paid off.

Although you could probably set up hundreds of other sites, I think this is a case of playing by numbers in that junk sites won't generate so much profit, but even a small income from each over time from a few hundred could add up.

As for updating them, though - you can certainly get autogenerated content for blogs and forums and similar - but it's basically junk content that I personally wouldn't put much faith in. Personally I'd recommend making the effort with a few sites in different niches, and taking it from there.

I used to create a lot of junk sites, but the problem is not only is there a problem with getting them to rank for anything, there's also the issue of constantly maintaining any kind of presence once established. The result is that I'd have to autogenerate new sites on a pretty regular basis on it just wasn't my time, so now I focus on trying to build quality content sites which can better exploit revenue possibilities in the longer term.

Simply my 2c.

[LazySEO]

Yeah, it's better to have a few good sites that a bunch of sites with junk content. I try to set a weekly schedule where I update a certain site every Monday, then a different one on Tues, etc. It keeps me from getting bored with any one project and also keeps relatively fresh content on my sites.

Now, other than my main site, most of my content sites are just articles, so they don't need constant upkeep. This would probably be a lot different if you have a lot of community-type sites.

[Mark-UK]

I use a cms system, works well.