Theme: Creating Small Content Sites
April 30, 2007Mini Sites…That’s the name that is given to sites that are small content sites. They are websites that are created with a total of maybe twelve articles and they are just left there to potentially earn. Maybe they make you a dollar or two a day, maybe not even that. That’s not a problem really. The reason being is because if you have five or ten of them each making two bucks a day, that’s ten or twenty dollars a day. You’re bound to get an adsense check at the end of the month because of those twenty dollar days. But, how exactly do you create a small content site? A mini site?
It’s rather simple. You go to a domain register company (click here if you don’t know what that is) and get a domain name. You get hosting as well and make sure all of that technical stuff is out of the way. Now, the slightly more difficult part is making the website. This can take some time and if you have no PHP skills or HTML skills, it’s damn near impossible. Fortunately, there are a series of scripts and templates that you can use to make your website. I will write a blog post about them in the future, but for now, let’s stick to just these sites.
The next step is to create the articles. Write unique content. There are people that use free articles and just try to populate the site with as many articles as they can get. However, unique content does better in the search engines, so try and stick to that. Write as many as you want. The more articles you have, the more potential visitors you can get because each article is about a different topic. You upload these articles and then plug in some adsense codes and voila, you have got the content site. However, how do you make money from no traffic?
Write another article about the site topic and give it to article databases. When someone uses the article, you get a link back to your site. This could drive traffic to your site, thus making it potentially earn money. I will write a blog post all about different ways to get traffic to your site. Now, the final thing you need to decide is what you want to do with the site. Do you want to make those couple of dollars a day (maybe) or do you want the quick money? There are loads of people that are willing to pay money for these content sites, no matter how new they are. You could sell a twelve article site for probably $130 depending on the topic. So, you need to decide what you want to do. Content sites are the bulk of the web. Is there money to be made? Yes. But you need to just try and get it! Good luck.
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