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Once you have a niche, what would work better for marketing? Having just one site that you put all your effort into to get lots of traffic, or several smaller optimised sites that can be cross-linked to give you a boost in search results, and transfer a customer to your other sites for ad views...

There area huge number of sites now that only do their tutorials as videos. I often find them really hard to follow, and I can't always read any instructions they've put on the screen. I like text instructions since I can follow them line by line. As a site owner I like them because each extra...

Is it worth coding and releasing an App to go with your website to drive traffic? I did consider it, but even with the AppMakers out there it looks like a lot of work, and the custom builders are not cheap.

Some of the larger sites I've seen have popups that trigger and hide content if they detect an adblocker. I don't like doing that because it loses traffic, so I coded integral ads that get round the blockers, but I've also seen sites that replace the ads with links to their patreon or flat...

Facebook, Twitter, etc are definitely premium, but there's a whole host of smaller networks like Plurk. Is it worth targeting these for traffic, since there won't be as much competition and it's likely to be cheaper. I'm just not sure if it is effective.

If you have a domain with a small site and don't want to go to the trouble of setting up a mailserver for it, who would you use to provide an email address? I used to use gmail, but I've seen people say that a gmail address puts them off a site, so what alternatives are there?

Which approach do you take? Some sites code their entire site to be mobile-friendly which means sacrificing some of the more advanced featrues of the web and having a rather plain layout in many cases. Others have alternate systems that reskin the site to be mobile-friendly, removing the...

RSS feeds are inbuilt into most sites, but they don't seem to be used by visitors anymore. A lot of dedicated RSS readers have vanished from the market. Now it seems to be used mostly to feed data to external sites, like updating twitter and facebook. Is RSS still relevant to your visitors? Do...

Which server management software do you prefer? I used to like cPanel because it makes things easy to manage, but after an incident where the hoster didn't keep it updated, resulting in hacking (on their root server, not our site), I've moved to a barebones server. It is more work, but it is...

For the small sites I am building at the moment, wordpress is a bit overblown and slow. Do you know any lightweight free CMSs that work as alternatives? I looked at Ghost, but that seems to have gone commercial and Acidcat isn't being supported anymore and has security holes.

Alexa is well known for ranking websites by traffic, but since it changed its recording methods it has been very inaccurate about traffic outside the US because the new ranking method relies on a browser toolbar that's primarily installed by US users. With Google Pagerank gone, are there any...

These guys keep emailing me about putting their ads on one of my sites. They say they're a good CPM network, but they would, and there's a lot of scams out there. I've never heard of them, so I am wary. Does anyone know if they are legit, and what their CPM rates are like?

I'm cheap. I like my traffic organic and free, or at most 3 US cents a click. How much would you normally pay for traffic, and does it make a difference to you whether these are sales leads or content views?

I know youtube gets the most hits, but they've also got problems with false copyright claims and spam. I know Blip has vanished, but there's DailyMotion, Vimeo and other video hosting sites, so which do you use to host videos for your site, or do you stream them off your own site?

Do you do your own website promotion, or hire an agency or marketer to do it for you? I've hired designers through Fiverr before because I can't draw at all, but I still do most of the marketing myself. Which approach do you think works better?

There's here, of course, and I know a lot of people use flippa, but are there any other places you'd recommend to sell a site or domain. I might be trimming my portfolio back and aside from flippa I haven't seen anywhere else really to sell them that handles escrow.

I know most people go for the free tools, but what do most of you use to develop sites? If I'm coding I use textpad or Notepad++, but I do a lot of small changes through Wordpress front end now, because it is just so quick.

I've begun to avoid using coding libraries after finding some issues with conflicting libraries, or a Wordpress site that ran slowly because Wordpress and its plugins were loading four versions of the entire JQuery library (for effects that basic Javascript can handle in three lines). Has anyone...

Most people use Adsense or Affiliates to monetise their sites, but has anyone tried some of the other methods out there? I've heard of Patreon and Flattr, which let users sponsor content for example. Do these ways of making money actually work?

Rather than hosting your own sites, does anyone use website builders like wix or webbly (or wordpress.com) and just repoint the domain at them? It looks simpler and cheaper, but you don't have the same control or flexibility as self-hosting. Any opinions?