Many of you may be wondering with a niche mini-site is. A niche mini-site is a website that focuses on a very particular topic and it has only a handful of articles on it. The point of a niche mini-site is to make it quickly and focus on a specific keyword / topic that is very profitable with publishers. When trying to make money this way there are a few steps you need to consider before you start building your website.
Keyword Research
Before starting your niche mini-site you need to do a bit of research on the niche you are going to focus on. There are many niches out there but it might not be the right choice for you if there is too much competition and the niche doesn’t pay very well. The whole point is to make the website very quickly and then market it and then repeat the process with another website. One great tool for keyword research is SEO Tools. What this allows you to do is search for a keyword you are interested in and see how much traffic it receives. If it doesn’t have enough WordTrackers that have traffic over a 100 daily searches it might not be worth your while.
Once you have found your keyword and it has plenty of searches a day you need to check if it pays well. You can do this by going to Spyfu. You take your keyword and you put it in the search at the top and check what the Cost/Click amount is. If this amount is at least a minimum of a $1 a click then it is most likely worth your time.
Buy A Domain Name and Hosting
It is important that once you’ve picked your niche that you get a proper domain name and hosting for your website. There is nothing worse then seeing a website on one of those free hosting company websites where they advertise all their own stuff on the website. What you need is a catchy domain name that people can remember and that is easy to spell. A good place to get domain names is either NameCheap or GoDaddy. Once you have got that you need to get some hosting for your website as well. A good place I use is HostGator. They have cheap hosting that is reliable.
Creating A Website Design/Template
This part can be a little tricky if you are not familiar with web designing or programming. If you are then this should be a breeze and you should be able to setup a template that you can use multiple times with different colors for most of your niche mini-sites. If you are unfamiliar on how to do this I recommend possibly purchasing a template or maybe using a blog program like WordPress.
Creating Content
Next step after having your website all setup is creating quality content for your mini-site. Do some research on your niche and spend the time to make quality articles. If your articles have no real value to the readers they won’t be very inclined to stay at the website for a long period of time or ever revisit the website. So for this step take your time and do it right. Spell check your articles and get a decent number of articles on your mini-site (7-15 articles should work).
Putting Ads On Your Site
Once you have created content on your website the next thing you will need to do is add some ads to your mini-site. This is your source of revenue and most likely the reason why you are making this mini-site in the first place. There are many different ways to advertise but probably the easiest one to start with is Google Adsense. It is very easy to signup and it only takes a short period of time to be accepted. All you need to remember is that you follow their policies and guidelines so that they do not shut down your account.
Advertising Your Niche Mini-Site
This step is very important. If no one knows about your site they will not visit it. You cannot expect to put a website on the Internet and have it automatically become a smash hit. It takes months of SEO and online marketing to generate traffic for your mini-site. Unfortunately with a mini-site you don’t spend that much time working on the site so what you need to do is market your website for a few weeks and just let the site sit and see how the traffic slowly builds with the website. The older the website the more likely it will get traffic because of various factors such as: links to the site, site age, indexed in search engines, etc. When advertising your mini-site there are numerous ways you can do this such as: article submissions, social networking/bookmarking, posting on blogs/forums, link exchanges, etc.
Final Step
Just wait a few months and hopefully if everything is done correctly money will start coming in. Don’t expect to see money right off the bat because you need traffic before you can generate income. In the meanwhile you can work on creating other mini-sites and do the same process on those sites as well. If you can create a whole group of these mini-site eventually you will get better at the process and start to see the returns you are looking for.
So try it out for yourself. Do the research and create yourself a niche mini-site and see how it goes. Remember to not give up and keep at it and eventually you will become very successful making money online!
Good writing. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed my Google News Reader..
Matt Hanson
Hi Matt.
Thanks for the comment to my post! I will make sure to keep my blog updated on a regular basis with posts.
- Michael
Thanks for all this great information! Can see there’s no end to what is available to us on the internet in creating additional income! Keep up the good work!
Your welcome Beverly. Thanks for the comment on my blog! Yes there are tons of ways to make money online. You just really need to keep at it and never give up.
Yes Michael
first your site’s Design and products should be interesting for visitors. and it is better to update quality and interesting content in our sites and just promote your site so you can get very good traffics on your site.
and follow the Rules of Google Adsense so you will get very good Return on investments.
Keep it up, it will help to many visitors.
Eric
Thanks for the comment Eric Paul.
I do follow the rules of Google Adsense as far as I know. Hopefully this post helped you unless you knew all this already and if that is the case maybe you can give me some pointers then!
Thanks again.
Hi,
Thank you for the information. I am thinking of doing a niche site and this information is very helpful.
dyamondrose
@dyamondrose – thanks for the comment.
Glad I could help you with the information!
Nice article. btw.. what template are u using? looks familiar. I wanna use it with different color. thanks
@babygirl – glad you like my article. The template is from dailyblogtips.com. Go to their blog and check it out. It is free and comes in different colors.
Few factors which i consider to be essential for a site to earn decent money
1. Have excellent content, so that your visitors give you more pageviews and less bounces
2. Need to add fresh content
3. Need to age the domain and content, traffic increases and time passes by, there is no overnight multimillionaires that google likes to create, rather google likes to create more webmasters who are interested in this business
Then you should see the money trickling down and increasing slowly but steadily
Mini sites and good create and forget and earn some cents everyday (not guaranteed though!). Over a period of time they looses its value whilst you move on to new sites.
I would like to stay with few sites build them, optimise, promote, market, rank them well in serps and make some decent money and then move on to the next one without neglecting or ignoring the ones you already made
My 2 cents…
@Ryaner Chandler. Thanks for the comment.
You bring up a lot of good points! Thats the whole idea to create the site and then forget about it and see how it does. Good luck to everyone trying this method. Hopefully they will have lots of success.
Hi,
Really good article. Im starting my blog and im struggling to get traffic to my site. This article is just what I needed to boost my confidence again and dont give up.
@Andres. Glad this article motivated you to keep at it. Blogging is very difficult but if you keep at it and optimize your blog you will be successful. I’ve taken a lot of time and effort working on this blog but it is paying off.
With hard work I have increased traffic, Alexa rank, and got a Google PageRank of 2. So if you keep at it you can do it as well. Then with all that hard work you will get the income as well!
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
@Earn Money Online – thanks for the comment.
I am happy you added me to your Google News Reader. I will do my best to keep up the good content on my blog. Happy reading!
As a Newbie, I am always searching online for articles that can help me. Thank you
Very good and informative site, but it seems to me that you’re not attracting enough traffic.
@Stephen – I am attracting decent amount of traffic. I am still working at it though. It is difficult thing to do with such a tough field that a lot of people are in. However I find I am doing pretty well and can only see it growing expontentially in the future
The style of writing is quite familiar to me. Did you write guest posts for other blogs?
I did do one guest post for one guy awhile back but I haven’t done a ton of guest posts no. Not sure why you would think my writing style is similiar but maybe that is just a coincidence.
Its also a good idea to have an article writing service do the first lot of articles to get started.
@Matt – that is turn. However make sure if you are using a article writing service that you modify some of the content or add to the content to make it original as possible.
Never really looked at the information like that before. Thanks!
I must say that overall I am really impressed with this blog.It is easy to see that you are impassioned about your writing. I wish I had got your ability to write. I look forward to more updates and will be returning.
Hello just thought i would tell you something.. This is twice now i’ve landed on your blog in the last 3 days looking for totally unrelated things. Spooky or what?
mini site with high quality content. Coz content is the king
What are the best SEO Tools on the market today? i have some off page optimization checker in hand.`-~
Old post, and still valuable content.
Added to my Google Reader.
There are lots of SEO Tools out there but the good ones cost 100 dollars or more`.-