Minisite Madness, Mania and Money
by: Kit Allen-Waters
Did you know that you don't need to maintain your website in order to generate revenue from it? That you can for little cost create dozens of these websites each earning constant passive income? You can create a cross linked revenue gathering empire that actually encourages visitors?
The internet is alive. It is a beast that changes and adapts to its environment. When the internet changes, so does the way we work with it. The way we build websites, the way we promote, and the way we generate revenue. New trends and fads come and go, some becoming insanely popular than falling heavily, and others providing sluggish income for the long term.
The latest and most industrious way to generate regular serious cash online, is through the power of, Minisites.
What is a Minisite?
A minisite is a small website consisting of only a few pages or a single page. It is basic in design and usually conforms to an imageless, fast loading attractive CSS styled colour scheme. There are generally no rash, in your face flashing banners, headers or text.
The purpose of a Minisite?
The ideal that drives a Minisite is a fast loading, efficient page that displays useful information for the reader. It is optimized for search engine spider crawlability. It displays relevant, ie: contextual advertisements as well as text links to high quality sites.
So.. Where does the content come from?
All across the internet there are article serving sites that provide access to reprint articles for free. There are many categories in which the articles fit, and several hundred thousand articles to choose from. In return for the use of the author's article, you are required to leave a author information box with a static link intact at the bottom fot the page.
And the revenue comes from?
People will access your Minisite the majority of times through search engines. To get to your site, if it is Optimized correctly, the person is looking for information on somehting to do with the article you have on your Minisite. Hence, placing contextual advertisements on your Minisite provides realted adverts for your visitors, giving you an enhanced clickthrough ratio.
What else can I do to get maximum revenue?
An effective way to maximise on your advertising income is to build a network of interlinked Minisites. Each one is unique in colour and content. You then implement a "Related Links" box into the tag and link to other Minisites that are relevant. Not only does this help visitors navigate their way around your revenue machine, it also enables search engines to crawl your sites and watch for updates.
Minisites are the most effective way to generate and aggresive income stream on the internet today. All you need is Notepad, a Google Adsense account and one of hundreds of thousands free reprint articles available on the web today. Get into Minisites before your the only one who isn't.
About The Author
Kit Allen-Waters is a webmaster and copyright turned WebMixer. He runs The Drinking Dictionary found at
http://www.getdrinking.com.
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