Parking Versus Mini Sites - Page 3

tetrapak · 07-25-2008, 06:03 AM

We are now making the minis in Xsitepro2, it is a bit buggy, but the development is much quicker (possible 2 sites per day with unique graphics and content if you have a writer).
The latest two that we created:
www.LakeTiticaca.org
www.AboutStrasbourg.com

(my favorite is the Top Attractions page

)

Billy! · 07-25-2008, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by siga

Great Thread guys Thanks for sharing,
Repping the OP (Billy) as Its got me thinking that I should realy give it ago.
Will let you all know.
Cheers
SiGA

Cheers bout time I got some Rep ... its not good getting infractions!

Check this good thread out to guys http://www.namepros.com/affiliate-ta...rss-works.html

Originally Posted by tetrapak

We are now making the minis in Xsitepro2, it is a bit buggy, but the development is much quicker (possible 2 sites per day with unique graphics and content if you have a writer).
The latest two that we created:
www.LakeTiticaca.org
www.AboutStrasbourg.com

(my favorite is the Top Attractions page

)

Very very nice! Well done mate!

advaita · 07-25-2008, 11:19 AM

Billy - good thread - are you making more money from Adsense or from Ebay commissions ? Or from something else ?

Jackie · 07-25-2008, 08:38 PM

I just made a minisite out of one of my L-LL.coms and I'm happy with my work. I wrote all the content so it's 100% unique. If you're wondering where I got the template from, it's http://free-css-templates.com/. I discovered the site today and many of the templates look quite good and just as important, versatile for any kind of site.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/495173-parking-versus-mini-sites.html

Want to check it out and give me some comments?
"Incorporate in Australia - Proprietary limited company"
http://p-ty.com/

As the Aussies here might know, a proprietary limited company is a common type of business structure [in Australia] and such companies are known with "Pty Ltd." at the end of their business name.

If you come from the US, a Pty Ltd. like an LLC structure in Australia.

RTM · 07-25-2008, 08:47 PM

99.9% of our our income from domains that are not fully developped has always been from mini-sites (or slighty) bigger that we then do some viral promotion with (no, not spam) using methods that the major search engines like.

Parking has been dismal, although we don't generally manage typos.... perhaps typos are easier to monetize through parking (as it wouldn't work with real content ?)

Great thread.

Rob

Billy! · 07-25-2008, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by advaita

Billy - good thread - are you making more money from Adsense or from Ebay commissions ? Or from something else ?

Adsense at the moment, but ebay commissions are paying well, e.g. $50 from a $1200 sale.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=495173

Originally Posted by edjackiel

I just made a minisite out of one of my L-LL.coms and I'm happy with my work. I wrote all the content so it's 100% unique. If you're wondering where I got the template from, it's http://free-css-templates.com/. I discovered the site today and many of the templates look quite good and just as important, versatile for any kind of site.

Want to check it out and give me some comments?
"Incorporate in Australia - Proprietary limited company"
http://p-ty.com/

As the Aussies here might know, a proprietary limited company is a common type of business structure [in Australia] and such companies are known with "Pty Ltd." at the end of their business name.

If you come from the US, a Pty Ltd. like an LLC structure in Australia.

It looks good mate!

Billy! · 07-26-2008, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by yandig

Nice job turning all those parked domains into minisites. How many of your sites have original content? Is it very expensive to pay for hosting on that many sites?

yandig.

I only pay around $10 for all sites, that is only $10 for $180 as I have the sites as an addon through my main site DNBoard
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=495173

I host through Hostgator Baby Plan

See here: http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml refer to Addon / Parked Domains and Subdomains they are unlimited with is great.

You host one name and all my other 180 names are hosted for free under DnBoard

joexbl · 07-26-2008, 06:37 PM

Im all for dev, but can someone tell me the difference between a 'minisite' vs MFA?

Standout! · 07-26-2008, 07:27 PM

MFA themes and templates are designed with adsense ads in mind: strategic placement of ads on the home page and subpages.

You can still put unique/original content on an MFA theme but it'll look spammy. Splogs take advantage of MFA themes.

Minisites can use MFA themes too, but the idea of a minisite is to be (or appear to be) less spammy and actually have some useful content and be more SEO/Google friendly and use less obvious keyword stuffing...

barefoottech · 07-26-2008, 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by scriptfordali

Im all for dev, but can someone tell me the difference between a 'minisite' vs MFA?

Than there are BFT Minisite's http://thefat.org

irishmat · 07-26-2008, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Barefoottech

Than there are BFT Minisite's http://thefat.org

what does btf stand for

Standout! · 07-26-2008, 08:44 PM

If you want an example of another species of MFA site, then take a look at what this guy is selling:
http://www.namepros.com/turnkey-webs...ow-6-each.html

These were hot last year... database created sites based off yellowpage scrapers.

Billy! · 07-26-2008, 11:04 PM

Thanks will check em out.

domainer50 · 07-26-2008, 11:10 PM

Originally Posted by irishmat

what does btf stand for

BFT=Bare Foot Tech. AKA the guy who sent you the link to www.thefat.org (he owns it

)

joexbl · 07-27-2008, 05:16 AM

Originally Posted by Standout!

MFA themes and templates are designed with adsense ads in mind: strategic placement of ads on the home page and subpages.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=495173

You can still put unique/original content on an MFA theme but it'll look spammy. Splogs take advantage of MFA themes.

Minisites can use MFA themes too, but the idea of a minisite is to be (or appear to be) less spammy and actually have some useful content and be more SEO/Google friendly and use less obvious keyword stuffing...

Cool. Yeah, i get that. Just seems the goal is the same :imho i.e. 'useless content' to get people to click adsense ads that will generate more rev than parking does. Hey, ive done it as well, so not criticising. Just questioning the legitimacy of it all...all imho

Standout! · 07-27-2008, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by scriptfordali

Cool. Yeah, i get that. Just seems the goal is the same :imho i.e. 'useless content' to get people to click adsense ads that will generate more rev than parking does. Hey, ive done it as well, so not criticising. Just questioning the legitimacy of it all...all imho

How legitimate it is is usually decided by Google when they ban you from the SERPS...black or white hat, it can work either way, it just depends on your skill set and what kind of business you want to run... me, I'm no good at either, lol!

domainer50 · 07-27-2008, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by scriptfordali

Cool. Yeah, i get that. Just seems the goal is the same :imho i.e. 'useless content' to get people to click adsense ads that will generate more rev than parking does. Hey, ive done it as well, so not criticising. Just questioning the legitimacy of it all...all imho

Define useless content? Most mini sites contain very keyword rich articles, which search engines love. Its not like the info is fake. Granted a college kid might not use one of my info sites for a resource when writing a college term paper, but that does not make it, not legit.

Standout! · 07-27-2008, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by domainer50

Define useless content? Most mini sites contain very keyword rich articles, which search engines love. Its not like the info is fake. Granted a college kid might not use one of my info sites for a resource when writing a college term paper, but that does not make it, not legit.

Peter, how did the forehead sale go???
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=495173

There are just too many domains (this is a domain forum) for Madison Ave and the professional designers of the world to tackle... even if every domainer could afford their services...

If I can at least make a minisite which helps me not get banned in the SERPS instead of endlessly comparing parking landers, then that's probably all I can do.

GreenGambler · 07-27-2008, 12:01 PM

I think that min-sites will always do better than parked pages. You don't have to do a whole lot of promoting or advertising if you do well with the SEO. I like to write my own content, even if it is not the best, it is still unique and that is better than something copied 1,000's of times, IMO.

r72gs · 07-27-2008, 03:02 PM

I like using Wordpress for Mini-Sites. You can do a lot with it and it fast and easy to get up and going.

I just got started on Tarotlovers.net. I'm using content from ezinearticles and Wiki because it has expired traffic and I'm not too worried about SEO to get traffic. I had a pretty decent CTR so I think the traffic may convert better as a mini-site.

Chef Patrick · 07-27-2008, 08:41 PM

wow, great information everyone. this is a great thread, i have learned a lot just by reading it. thank you!!!

joexbl · 07-28-2008, 12:55 AM

Originally Posted by domainer50

Define useless content? Most mini sites contain very keyword rich articles, which search engines love. Its not like the info is fake. Granted a college kid might not use one of my info sites for a resource when writing a college term paper, but that does not make it, not legit.

Useless Content is spammy content that has a lot of keywords to get ranked well, but you feel cheated when you read it because it doesn't actually tell you anything useful, basically goes around in circles repeating the keywords, hoping you'll click on one of the ads. Heck, i should know, ive done a few in the past too lol
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=495173

It just seems there's a lot of garbage on the net and very few sites worth visiting. My fear is that with the dying of domain parking (lets face reality guys, parking is dying - except maybe for the big guys), domainers looking for a quick buck will flood the net even moreso with massive amounts of useless MFA type sites that dont add anything constructive to the net, just garbage really :imho

just my 2 cents worth, and im just as guilty as anyone in MFA type sites.

domainer50 · 07-28-2008, 01:10 AM

Originally Posted by scriptfordali

Useless Content is spammy content that has a lot of keywords to get ranked well, but you feel cheated when you read it because it doesn't actually tell you anything useful, basically goes around in circles repeating the keywords, hoping you'll click on one of the ads. Heck, i should know, ive done a few in the past too lol
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=495173

It just seems there's a lot of garbage on the net and very few sites worth visiting. My fear is that with the dying of domain parking (lets face reality guys, parking is dying - except maybe for the big guys), domainers looking for a quick buck will flood the net even moreso with massive amounts of useless MFA type sites that dont add anything constructive to the net, just garbage really :imho

just my 2 cents worth, and im just as guilty as anyone in MFA type sites.

I understand where you are coming from. But

most mini sites are not like that. Most people try to use original content, and even if its not, sites like ezine articles.com will allow you to use their articles, and they are very well written, and not keyword happy.

Billy! · 08-02-2008, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by Billy!

Parking Versus Mini Sites
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=495173

About three weeks ago I came across a thread on Mini Sites and I decided that I would turn all my parked names into Mini Sites.

My names were not earning much at the sedo parking program, so three weeks later I have around 160 developed mini sites with another 30 to develop. I have noticed that my revenue has increased four fold.

Any other domainers out there who have turned their names into mini sites rather than relying on domain name parking?

If so please show us your Mini Sites and let us know if your income has increased from developing Mini Sites.

Here are a few of mine using the Niche Store program

AFL Gear
Backpacks
Motocross
v8 Engines

Since I have been using the Mini Sites and Bans, in the last 3 weeks I have made $154 which is fantastic... My adsense earnings are on a par at the moment to what I earned the same month when parking.

But my earnings from Ebay using my mini sites are great ... pretty happy so far.

Heres My article on using BANS

The Stealthy One · 08-03-2008, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by yandig

Nice job turning all those parked domains into minisites. How many of your sites have original content? Is it very expensive to pay for hosting on that many sites?

Hosting for that many sites should not be a problem. In fact, there are many providers which offer unlimited domain hosting or hosting for many domains under one plan now.

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