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LadyRLR
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:31 pm
Post subject: Reasonable Goals for Mini Sites?
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| Is $3 per day a reasonable goal for mini site if done correctly? Thanks... |
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InternetMarketing_IQ
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What does done correctly mean? And how do you come up with $3 and what is your revenue model.
Pick any arbitrary number, it just doesn't mean anything.
And the reality is this. If you are not ranking on PAGE 1 for a Keyword with any reasonable monetization potential you are competing for 30% or less of the potential traffic.
So what is the point of setting a dollar amount on a minisite?
What is the use of a minisite? You going to build a hundred of them?
Look at your site as a site, and work on it or walk away from it. The days of just cranking out a huge number of sites to make a few dollars from each is long past. It doesn't work anymore.
Google is measuring so many variables that your chance of ranking is very slim. But a "mini site" may still work if you can drive non organic traffic and you have optimized a presell for a set of products or services.
Ask yourself when the last time is you found a mini site in your search efforts that made you want to take an action of any kind, beyond closing the window and moving on.
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LadyRLR
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Thanks for the comments. I have several sites for my main business, one of which is has well over 20,000 pages indexed by Google and makes a significant amount of money (ecommerce rather than affiliate). This is a broad topic site with many focused areas within, but mini sites also intrigue me.
I don't agree that mini sites are useless. Just because a site has a lot of pages doesn't necessarily make it useful either. There are plenty of junk sites with mega pages of content. |
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John LA
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 10:15 am
Post subject: Re: Reasonable Goals for Mini Sites?
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| LadyRLR wrote: | | Is $3 per day a reasonable goal for mini site if done correctly? Thanks... |
Mini sites are those domains which have only 5 to 6 pages. They are monetized with adsense and can have an income of $5 per day consistently.
If you done this correctly, it is possible to have an income that everyday. The goal is to have lots of this made in order to have a large income through submitting lots of article in article directories.
This is somewhat a cascade type of advertising. The main page is targeted by more articles and the next pages have few number of articles but the front/index page have links to them somewhere on the page.
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InternetMarketing_IQ
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 7:14 pm
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And the model for this?
Are you doing it correctly?
Most of the people who are making money with mini sites are doing CPC or they are using them to feed links back into a hub site.
The reality is Google is NOT rewarding quantity. And if Adsense is your revenue model you won't make much money per click on a site that doesn't rank well.
So the whole "mini sites" thing really needs to be defined. There is nothing wrong with small sites that are relevant to a topic. But the use of the term mini sites generally refers to throw away sites that are mass produced to feed another site or to try and make a few clicks per day or an occasional sale.
And that strategy is now seriously flawed. It came it went.
I received another pitch offer yesterday of two wanna be marketers spewing the virtues of using Wordpress to make mini sites. The problem is they can always show a short burst of traffic growth but it is never sustainable.
The reason is people encounter these sites and bounce.
So load up Google Analytics or any Analytics of your choice. Then analyze what you already have. And always put your visitors experience first.
Marketing is not about you... unless you don't want to make any money.
And no I don't know everything, but I do know a lot of people chime in on topics they have no experience with or they have not profited from. And that's fine, I have a lot of opinions myself.
But what I would really like to see is ANY EVIDENCE that building MINI SITES still generates enough income to make it worth the while.
Make your site worth visiting, small or large.
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean by mini site. To some people that's only a handful of pages. To others, a site that has 30 or 50 pages is still a mini site.
Someone once asked me how to build a website that would make $1 a day. I replied, "I don't know how to build a site that makes so little."
Your experience may differ, but my experience with small affiliate websites built to attract free traffic (not PPC) is that they tend to either work fairly well or not at all. I've never managed to find a middle ground. My small sites tend to generate either almost nothing or at least about $300 a month.
Once you put in enough work to create content and attract traffic, you should earn considerably more than $3 a day. If you try to put in only enough work to earn $3 a day, in my experience you're likely to fail.
As more and more junk sites pour on to the Internet, I think the affiliates who do well are going to be the ones who build sites that, as quest says, are worth visiting. To be successful on the Internet the way it is now and the way it's heading, I think you should be aiming to build a site that will generate thousands of dollars a month. We're working on several new projects with that aim in mind.
The higher the quality, the less real competition you have. Aim high, and you're much more likely to succeed.
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It depends on what you've done with your mini website. Is it an Adsense website? Or is it an affiliate website? Is it both?
If Adsense, then yes, $3 is a good start. It will take some time to build up to thousands of dollars in clicks, so I recommend you seek other sources of income as well. If it's an affiliate site, $3 is way too low. Promote another product that will give you a much bigger commission.
Most people do Adsense sites as an extra way to make money or even a hobby, not necessarily a livelihood (unless you're Joel Comm).
Size doesn't matter. A micro niche within a niche may require just 5-6 pages to cover the topic.
The key is to make sure your webpages are properly SEO'd for the right keywords that already draw decent traffic, or else you will be ranked way behind page 1.
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