Review Minisite alternatives to parking

[Timmy11B]

I've been working on two hosted minisites as an alternative to traditional parking. Thought I would see what people think of the templates.

Browns Gear - This is a free commercial template that I tweaked to fit the necessary elements. Focus is Cleveland Browns football merchandise.

Big Game Seats - This template was created from scratch. Focus is on sports tickets.

The goal of both is to create hosted pages that incorporate affiliate links, standard size banners, adsense and other features/scripts/feeds/widgets related to the domain keywords.

Any input or advice is appreciated.

 

[smashfactory]

YES
Most Newcomers to Adsense for Content assume that they can create their own park page using it to replicate a commercial parked page. Parking services use Adsense for DOMAINS which is a different service and has a Different TOS contract. One major difference is the content requirement.
iSNARE.com

is adsense for domains just for parking companies?

 

[Timmy11B]

is adsense for domains just for parking companies?

Not necessarily. You can apply to Google if you have a large portfolio of domains. http://www.google.com/domainpark/

 

[smashfactory]

Google is not currently accepting new partners for the AdSense for domains
program. However, we'll be sure to keep your contact information on file
and will contact you if and when Google opens the program to new
partnerships and/or new products become available.

;-(

 

[tonyfloyd]

were u looking to start your own parking co. Smash?...

 

[smashfactory]

hehe- ya never know!

 

[tonyfloyd]

any other feedback for my mini-site creation?

 

[harkster]

Thanks , I pay a guy in India to write for me 45 bucks for 10 original articles. 300 words that are optimized for the keyword I give him.

Better hang on to that one. I have been trying to get a content writer since, it seems forever. They either don't respond after advertising for work, say no problem and then disappear or the writing is so bad that...

Last one was great samples, a couple nice articles and then became so badly written that were unusable.

 

[smashfactory]

is that the going rate to write original content? 4.50 per article? that seems so cheap!

 

[mrizos]

He's my first affiliate mini site.

Get a loan online

 

[GILSAN]

He's my first affiliate mini site.

Get a loan online

Nice Mrizos. How did you get it to look like that. Did you use Dreamweaver?

GIL

 

[mrizos]

Nice Mrizos. How did you get it to look like that. Did you use Dreamweaver?

GIL

Thanks Gil. I just used a whypark template, then basically ripped out thier[[mainbody]] and [[related]] tags and inserted my own content. I kept their style sheet because it looks so nice.

 

[tonyfloyd]

nice....so is that still a parked site at whypark?

 

[firefly]

He's my first affiliate mini site.

Get a loan online

I get taken straight to a DS landing page mrizos. Don't know what is going on there

 

[mrizos]

I get taken straight to a DS landing page mrizos. Don't know what is going on there

dns issues. It seams like a slow propagation process with moniker.

 

[thetruman]

He's my first affiliate mini site.

Get a loan online

Very well done. looks very professional also if quick and dirty
:hehe:

 

[mrizos]

Very well done. looks very professional also if quick and dirty
:hehe:

Thanks man. They are very easy to setup. I have a saved template, so I can crank sites like this out in under an hour.

 

[firefly]

Can finally see it. Looks good, and straight to the point. I like it.

 

[mrizos]

The site is working now. Moniker finally changed the dns.

 

[soggyindo]

You NEED way more content to satisfy Google's TOS
Get a couple of articles (NOT RSS Feeds) real good old fashioned text
I have been doing Adsense Friendly Minisites to replace a park page for years.some
examples below in signature and at MiniSite.info and equitycredit.info

hey, cheers for the info...
one thing i noticed was the minisites one was showing ads about mini cars, which would probably get less click thru than ads about blogs, websites etc (which i think have a higher CPC, too)...
tough if you want to SEO for minisites not webpages, but i'm sure the guys in the SEO forums here would have the answers to this!