How to Make Money with Minisites?

How to Make Money with Minisites?
Why do you limit your chances of making money online by writing for clients or building your own website? Here’s another avenue for online entrepreneurs to make good money: write for minisites.

Defining Minisites: A mini site is a small site, about five to 10 pages which is easy to set up. Minisites are small sites of information on a certain topic, written in SEO style to obtain the highest results for a specified number of keywords to attract the largest amount of traffic.

Such a site is a marketing vehicle for a product that you’re selling or launching or a service. These products are sold as an affiliate or on commission basis. Usually, these sites are linked to Google’s Adsense program. Anyone clicking on the ads on these pages earns the site owner money. This is how these sites make money. Such site owners have a number of minisites at a time.

Why MiniSites are attractive: This is perhaps due to the following reasons:
•    Lack of patience: Usually, it takes years to build a site and make it a cash cow. People can no longer wait for this to happen, and so resort to minisites which show results much faster.
Lesser competition: Expecting to make money off the Net is tough enough, but it’s not that tough for owners of minisites.
•    Simple-to-use technology: Anyone can operate a minisite, technology being so advanced and easy to use.

Topics for a minisite: It’s easy to locate topics for your minisite. Choose a service or product which sells well and whose affiliate program can make a good topic for a minisite.

How to make money with a minisite: At the outset, you will need to research the most popular keywords by doing a Yahoo, Google search. If you get a high demand for a particular word and a low supply, it is the idea word to use in your minisite. You could check out Wordtracker for this. Once this is done, you need to choose your niche for your minisite and find a free web host, say Squidoo or any other. Now, it’s time to choose the product you wish to promote on your minisite. Go to Clickbank.com or any other site and choose a product in your niche area. E-books are very good to sell since the commissions are very high. When you find such a product, become an affiliate of that website.

Just sign up and become an affiliate. Companies having products to sell might want to check out your credentials before approving you. So, let them see a busy and well designed belonging to the niche area that the company works in. Next, the company will direct you to the page on their site which bears the product code which you will have to copy and paste onto your minisite. Now, this new product will be seen on your site. Your personal ID will be embedded into that code which will be tracked to you each time there is a sale. This is how you receive your commission.

Lastly, now that you’ve got one minisite operational, move on to create the next one. In fact, this could be your business model—creating minisites, marketing them and making money on them. Your money making capacity rests in your creating more and more minisites.
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Article by Mithi Chinoy