Comments on: Getting traffic to your mini-site http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/18/traffic-to-mini-site/ Finding the domain names of the future Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:44:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Barry http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/18/traffic-to-mini-site/comment-page-1/#comment-13189 Barry Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:47:42 +0000 http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=952#comment-13189 Thanks Richard. Glad you found it useful. Thanks Richard. Glad you found it useful.

]]> By: Domain Development Articles http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/18/traffic-to-mini-site/comment-page-1/#comment-13184 Domain Development Articles Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:19:39 +0000 http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=952#comment-13184 Barry, Great post, you pointed out some great tips here! - Richard Barry,

Great post, you pointed out some great tips here!

- Richard

]]> By: Barry http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/18/traffic-to-mini-site/comment-page-1/#comment-13179 Barry Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:59:44 +0000 http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=952#comment-13179 Mike, 200 a day is a lot initially but it can be done by combining sources of traffic. What I find key for mini-sites is that you need higher revenue per conversion to compensate for lower traffic. That means AdSense isn't the way to go in many niches in my experience because it doesn't pay well enough per conversion. Johan, AdSense or any ads on a site with no or minimal content is a spam signal. It is a good idea to get your content on there and then put your ads on the site. Also make sure you have a link or two because this helps "validate" your site and you are less likely to be bouncing around in ranking on the search engines. Take ads off those sites, add more content and get some links and you should be able to rescue those sites. Robbie, Sounds like you are on the right track. Not every one will succeed. For those lower traffic sites, again, check your revenue model and see if you can get more revenue per conversion. I really do believe that's the key to having a successful mini-site model. Mike,
200 a day is a lot initially but it can be done by combining sources of traffic. What I find key for mini-sites is that you need higher revenue per conversion to compensate for lower traffic. That means AdSense isn’t the way to go in many niches in my experience because it doesn’t pay well enough per conversion.

Johan,
AdSense or any ads on a site with no or minimal content is a spam signal. It is a good idea to get your content on there and then put your ads on the site. Also make sure you have a link or two because this helps “validate” your site and you are less likely to be bouncing around in ranking on the search engines.
Take ads off those sites, add more content and get some links and you should be able to rescue those sites.

Robbie,
Sounds like you are on the right track. Not every one will succeed. For those lower traffic sites, again, check your revenue model and see if you can get more revenue per conversion. I really do believe that’s the key to having a successful mini-site model.

]]> By: RegFeeNames.com http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/18/traffic-to-mini-site/comment-page-1/#comment-13177 RegFeeNames.com Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:07:57 +0000 http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=952#comment-13177 I have recently got into minisites using noomle.com - I put CheapRims.us on there on the 6/2/09 and I now rank number one spot on Yahoo for "Cheap Rims" - Im seeing 100+ UV per day and 90% is from Yahoo - We are ranking higher than CheapRims.com currently at number 2. Im happy with these stats - I have also got EastScotland.com ranked number 2 for "East Scotland" put the term there isnt search as much and traffic is much lower. Im building more minisites and hoping for more sucess stories like Cheap Rims. Regards, Robbie I have recently got into minisites using noomle.com – I put CheapRims.us on there on the 6/2/09 and I now rank number one spot on Yahoo for “Cheap Rims” – Im seeing 100+ UV per day and 90% is from Yahoo – We are ranking higher than CheapRims.com currently at number 2.

Im happy with these stats – I have also got EastScotland.com ranked number 2 for “East Scotland” put the term there isnt search as much and traffic is much lower.

Im building more minisites and hoping for more sucess stories like Cheap Rims.

Regards,

Robbie

]]> By: Johan http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/18/traffic-to-mini-site/comment-page-1/#comment-13176 Johan Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:07:03 +0000 http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=952#comment-13176 Good stuff! I agree with Mike that the conversion rate on a niched mini-site should convert really well if you have good content and related ands on your site, since the people visiting probably are looking for what you (and your advertisers) give them. Your posts are great, they really match the stuff I'm learning about and doing right now! Keep it up! Have you ever had any minisites removed from Google index, and if so, do you know what went wrong? Minimuin amount of pages and/or content etc? Last year I had numerous sites removed and banned. I was sloppy, created many empty pages with adsense on and liked to them in my sitemap.xml - what developing iteratively - took a break and left the sites hangning. Bad idea. :-\ Good stuff! I agree with Mike that the conversion rate on a niched mini-site should convert really well if you have good content and related ands on your site, since the people visiting probably are looking for what you (and your advertisers) give them.

Your posts are great, they really match the stuff I’m learning about and doing right now! Keep it up!

Have you ever had any minisites removed from Google index, and if so, do you know what went wrong? Minimuin amount of pages and/or content etc? Last year I had numerous sites removed and banned. I was sloppy, created many empty pages with adsense on and liked to them in my sitemap.xml – what developing iteratively – took a break and left the sites hangning. Bad idea. :-\

]]> By: wannadevelop.com http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/18/traffic-to-mini-site/comment-page-1/#comment-13175 wannadevelop.com Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:18:03 +0000 http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=952#comment-13175 Most properly optimized mini-sites with AdSense convert at 10% to 20% CTR. To expect 100 or 200 visitors per day from organic search is a lot with a ministe setup :) Getting 20 or 30 is a good start, as long as there is growth... It's all good. You have to be realistic in that it won't happen over night. There won't be money pouring in no matter how hard you try. It is a process. Usually takes a few month's to break even. From there on, if you choose to re-tweak and continue to optimize you can capitalize. Mike Most properly optimized mini-sites with AdSense convert at 10% to 20% CTR.

To expect 100 or 200 visitors per day from organic search is a lot with a ministe setup :)

Getting 20 or 30 is a good start, as long as there is growth… It’s all good. You have to be realistic in that it won’t happen over night.

There won’t be money pouring in no matter how hard you try. It is a process.

Usually takes a few month’s to break even.

From there on, if you choose to re-tweak and continue to optimize you can capitalize.

Mike

]]> By: Domain Superstar http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/18/traffic-to-mini-site/comment-page-1/#comment-13174 Domain Superstar Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:48:35 +0000 http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=952#comment-13174 "I have several websites where the major source of traffic is from other websites and not search engines. So do not overlook this valuable source of traffic." Very good strategy. While optimizing for the search engines is a very smart thing to do it is also very smart to never depend too much on any one traffic source. “I have several websites where the major source of traffic is from other websites and not search engines. So do not overlook this valuable source of traffic.”

Very good strategy. While optimizing for the search engines is a very smart thing to do it is also very smart to never depend too much on any one traffic source.

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