How A Minisite Can Make You Money

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

Minisites are coming back into vogue. In the early days of the Internet, most websites were small sites – 3-10 pages. People were learning to build websites and optimize them for search traffic. In the late 1990s, supersites starting gaining more power and by 2005 it was pretty well established that large supersites were the way to go for massive traffic and niche domination. But savvy Internet marketers and now starting to understand that you can accomplish the same goal with hundreds of minisites that dominate a niche.

Here’s what you do to make killer minisites that make you money:

• Do great keyword research as part of your on site search engine optimization.
• Identify long tail keywords that have little competition but are growing in search popularity.
• Create your minisite using your long tail keyword and 2-5 related keywords; make sure each page is optimized to one keyword.
• Drive traffic to your minisite with a blog, articles, Twitter, social bookmarking, pay per click advertising, and social networking sites.
• Be sure to track everything with a solid analytics program.

If you build one successful minisite for your niche, you can go on to build more minisites that make you money and dominate your niche.