Parking Versus Mini Sites

[Billy!]

Parking Versus Mini Sites

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

 

[arthurdaily]

Who has the best minisite template to use please ?

I may have a try this weekend......

Arthur

 

[eggymusic]

i think i may do something like this with my huge portfolio of names...not much earnings at sedo...

 

[bigdipper]

Who has the best minisite template to use please ?

I may have a try this weekend......

Arthur

I would 2nd this request...

Can we get some suggestions from guys who have had success on which sites to check out for this purpose?

Who has the nicest and easiest templates?

Thanks...

 

[Standout!]

I think I've got a pretty good template over at my minisite-in-progress: http://IRApros.com.

I've modified a template from http://www.freecsstemplates.org/ into a wordpress theme...

 

[henniemeijer]

maybe you are just better off buiding very few but good content sites instead of putting up all these crap mini sites(with temporary more income than from parked pages), as one way or the other google will come down on those crappy sites as well, like perhaps with digg-help:

http://www.domainweek.com/2008/07/23/is-digg-the-future-of-search/

 

[bigdipper]

I thought Mr. Latona's www.postofficebox.com and www.businesssupplies.com mini-sites both look very nice...

Does anyone know where they got these templates from?

Thanks...

:kickass:

 

[domainer50]

I thought Mr. Latona's www.postofficebox.com and www.businesssupplies.com mini-sites both look very nice...

Does anyone know where they got these templates from?

Thanks...

:kickass:

Those arent templates Rick Latona, owns offshoring.com and hence, he also controls a team of developers. All of his mini sites are made new every time.

 

[timphelan]

Not sure about the other one but postofficbox.com uses AEIOU.COM.

I thought Mr. Latona's www.postofficebox.com and www.businesssupplies.com mini-sites both look very nice...

Does anyone know where they got these templates from?

Thanks...

:kickass:

I like using wordpress. You have thousands of themes to choose from and hundreds of plugins.

Who has the best minisite template to use please ?

I may have a try this weekend......

Arthur

 

[arthurdaily]

I built this mini-site a while ago and used some affiliate stuff...

http://www.joinfreesat.com

Do you think this would be any good ??

Athur

 

[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

 

[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 )

 

[Billy!]

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! 8^X

Check this good thread out to guys http://www.namepros.com/affiliate-talk/496623-good-ebay-affiliate-advice-rss-works.html

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]

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

 

[Jackie]

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.

 

[RTM]

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!]

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.

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!]

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

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]

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

 

[Standout!]

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]

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