I originally started off with two sites as an experiment. One site was hardly ever updated, and not promoted (just directiry submitions etc). The other site was SEO’d greatly.. That’s where I spent my time on.. fresh new content every day etc..
When all is said and done… the SEO’d is better and receives 10 times more visitors per day BUT I spent 100 times more work on it.. So in retrospect I’ve come to the conclusion that the best way is to have multiple sites of which you’ve have original content, BUT don’t spend too much time on other than the minimal.. They will eventually get listed and clients WILL come.
Yea, it is mediocre, but it’s getting the most traffic per time spent.