Need some opinions on a "big brand" network

[Johnathan]

Okay, so I started working on a pretty large project for myself and during this time a another competitor did something similar. Only my competitor has a ridiculous large facebook fanpage (in the millions) before they created their .com site.

Now for myself, I began the project with a single site around the same time they created the facebook fanpage. Here's where things fall to pieces. I stopped working on the project for multiple reasons, mostly lost interest for the subject but over the past two years I was grabbing domains with the idea I would create an actual network of websites around the subject.

Example.
celebritynetwork.com (umbrella)
celebritymagazine.com (blog/news)
celebritywiki.com
celebrityforum.com
celebritywallpapers.com

The first site is just a blog/news type that I've been throwing post up for around a year. However, I'm ashamed to say they aren't that great of posts, just the news type that barely break 200 words with about 6 articles that are 1000 words a piece. I do have a few #1 keywords but all in all the site only gets around 3,000 UVs a month.

I just learned today that my Twitter account is inaccessible. Hackers decided to change the email and support isn't a help at all but adding to the problem is unavailability of the facebook page that was taken years ago along with Youtube.

I'm thinking of scratching the first site and restarting. My goal was to get into Google news since the flagship site is already about a year and half old but it isn't that great of a site and lack of social media presence using the brand is annoying me. Social media dominates my niche so I have to be present.

Pros
* I can register a fresh domain with no age but exact social media accounts with name attached.
* I've got a year and a half data from one site to help me launch the next one.
* The network domains (forum, wiki, wallpapers,) are fine but only about a month old per site. I'm still working on them. Some of the domains are years old, like "celebrityforum.com".
* Fresh backlink profile. The site in question has a shit blog-comment submission I stupidly bought with really low-level links.

Cons
* I lost a year and a half of half-ass work with very little traffic.
* I might lose the chance to get into Google news due to being a brand-new domain with little history.

I can't tell if I'm just being emotional or if I'm actually losing a valuable site because I can't get the social media pages for it. Also worried about getting into Google news although I don't believe that would bring a huge amount of traffic as social media is more dominant for my users, but it would increase the value of my site.

Looking for some opinions.

 

[Member8200]

Patch it up, just my 2 cents

Age plays an important factor + the UV you are getting is a bonus already rather than creating a new site

If you will be going for the same niche then just continue what you have and develop everything or create everything else

As an example for the FB fanpage, create and fake it, buy fivver likes so you can jumpstart your campaign. If you find a million likes provider over dripped over a period of days then you have a jackpot. but anyways close to a hundred thousand would do so that most people in your niche will see that you are being liked, so you'll get their likes as well.

Twitter, restart and fake also to jumpstart everything.

Make the old one better and not skip it

 

[Supraman]

Also, I'll throw in my 2 cents.

Re-make the fan page like member8200 said up there.

Buy some likes(But not too many cause then you just look rediculous and FB will most likely ban you, as i've had this happen multiple times)

Start studying that fan page that is blowing you out of the water and just do what they are doing, but better! It will only be a matter of time before you over come them. It may take 6months, it make take a year but in the end it will be damn well worth it right?

You have a site with 3k UV's a month already, why would you even consider dumping it? There are tons of strategies you can use to your advantage with that kind of traffic.

Stop being a little bitch and take action!

Get those sites rolling and going, and get some plugins to auto-post to twitter/facebook. So what if you have to start fresh.

"IF" you get that network of yours going, which wouldn't be hard at all if you would just start working on it then you would blow that competitor out of the water.

You're thinking too much bro, you've got a gold mine on your hands and your debating if you should make it successful?

You got this!