Thoughts on Minisites?

[Robbie]

So we are a few months into the whole minisite buzz.

What are everyones throughts?

Im liking it - Im using noomle and seeing great results what are you using and what results are you getting?

Look forward to hearing everyones thoughts,

Robbie

 

[sky]

So we are a few months into the whole minisite buzz.

What are everyones throughts?

Im liking it - Im using noomle and seeing great results what are you using and what results are you getting?

Look forward to hearing everyones thoughts,

Robbie

Not all mini-sites are created equal. Frankly a lot of the places that charge between $100-$250 for mini-sites plus content just pump out the most vapid crap imaginable. You can hear that they're getting paid to pump out volume in every sentence. It's just filler crap. Most of them don't take the time, so if you want to really be of use or interest to the customer you have to re-do it.

The nice thing is mini-sites give people a platform to develop and improve content from, so in that regard it's a better format for expanding than a parked page for most people. If people feel pushed by lack of ad response to continually improve their mini-sites and really compete for the business that could be a good thing overall.

But it's going to be abused and web surfers will eventually become immune if people just fill up 5 pages of time-wasting nonsense for adsense, IMO

 

[deleted984054565403]

Waste of time. Doesn't help advance the Web. The content available on minisites is often not unique, and most of the information that people are seeking is available on services like Wikipedia. They're not reliable sources of income.

Throwing together a "mini site" for the sole purpose of stuffing keywords to make a few bucks on Adsense isn't developing a website.

But it's going to be abused and people will eventually become immune if people just fill up 5 pages of time-wasting nonsense for adsense, IMO

:bingo:

 

[sky]

Waste of time. Doesn't help advance the Web. The content available on minisites is often not unique, and most of the information that people are seeking is available on services like Wikipedia. They're not reliable sources of income.

Throwing together a "mini site" for the sole purpose of stuffing keywords to make a few bucks on Adsense isn't developing a website.


:bingo:

I had one mini-site made by AEIOU.com for treadmill.pro, and while the banner was pretty and the layout was nice, the text left a lot to be desired. I had to go back and re-write all of it and fix the content; but the content framework was good. I feel it now says something useful and I've pointed out some valuable things, based on my own interests, observations and experiences with treadmills, and summarized key ares different than some other sites might not do so well, so I really feel I can enlighten people about a few useful things in a very summary way, so in that sense I believe my mini-site provides a service (after hours of my own TLC refining it).

The problem is for that particular site is I'm a very small fish in a very big pond and way out-competed for content. But at least they did the site in WordPress, making it easy to extend. Having said that, Google analytics complains about all kinds of SEO flaws in the site. Not sure how many were there since the site was created and how many I introduced (keyword repetition, title problems, etc...) but it sure doesn't have page rank after several months in the category even with their SEO service.

 

[enlytend]

But it's going to be abused and web surfers will eventually become immune if people just fill up 5 pages of time-wasting nonsense for adsense, IMO

More to the point, the search engines will become fed up with it. Once upon a time, parked pages used to be indexed - now they rarely if ever are. These mass-produced minisites will eventually suffer the same fate - the ones that share a server, nameservers or are otherwise easy to footprint are the most at risk.

I have a lot of small sites and do very well with them, but then all my content's researched and original and I make a point to try to provide something of value for my visitors.

 

[BizBot]

Im liking it - Im using noomle and seeing great results what are you using and what results are you getting?

I am big fan of Noomle. Your domain names have the potential to earn more income than from parking because you use your own AdSense or YPN ads. Plus they can make extra money from Amazon stores, Ebay listings and other affiliate programs and links.

My Noomle pages are getting indexed very quickly at search engines and doing well on earnings. Once you get familiar with the system it is very easy to use. I also create my own mini-sites with Wordpress but it takes me much longer.

I don’t believe you will get much traffic or make any money using “canned” articles or making a one page mini-site. It takes a lot of your time and you need to be creative to write original content. You need basic HTML skills to build profitable mini-sites. They are not for everybody and will never replace domain parking.

I agree that the search engines and advertisers will eventually catch up with the mini-sites and penalize them. Enjoy them while you can.

 

[competentdomains]

I've done a number of minisites, some larger. Own code, own text etc.
So far, on average... just ca 25c a day. In a year, a minisite may pay back about 10 times. Some give more, some less. And as many have said,
the levels seem to have decreased.
A minisite must have a strong content, being updated some times, otherwise, how would it hold its position?
A properly designed minisite gets among the first, in a couple of months or even earlier.