30 Days to a Kick Ass Foundation: Day 10 – MICRO SITES
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Day 10 sites can really be either foundation level sites or White Hat sites. I call them Micro sites because they only need 5 or 10 pages to work and they are targeted to a particular product, service, or something fun.
The goals for these sites are either just pure link bait (fun stuff) or to sell individual products. The types of affiliate networks you want to be dealing with are things like walmart, sears, or merchants.
(It helps if they also offer a feed since you can use the day 9 stuff to crank out large sites on top of these mini sites.)
I tend to use a number of different things to make them.
1.) FUN SITES:
If I’m making a fun site I just use dreamweaver. I end up with something like this: http://www.yesitsfunny.com or SEO SUCKS . Don’t spend a lot of time on these – make them good enough to get stumbled or dugg and just let them sit. Make sure you put some links in there – and you can always monetize anyway you want.
If you are looking for ideas for a funny type site there are dozens. The easiest way though is to take pictures and throw funny words up on them. Then you digg, stumble, etc.. and just let the social networks do their jobs. Think of LOLCATS – or even just pictures to put up when people ask stupid questions on forums.
The important thing with these is to just get a kick out of them – and just have some fun for a few minutes. If it’s something that takes off put more effort into it then.
2.) Article Sites to Promote Products
If I’m concentrating on articles and I’m in a hurry I’ll use Xsitepro. Usually when I use this method I make the sites about 40 pages bigger because I use the method and scripts we gave you in Black Hat Xsitepro. When I do this method I just take other peoples articles, and well pretty much do just what I teach in BH Xsitepro. If your a NSS 2 member it’s in the “black hat section”.
3.) Product Sites:
Think toasters – a site all about toasters. Toasters from walmart, sears, etc… Custom toasters, painted toasters, etc.. Your goal here is to rank for brands and model numbers. Of course it doesn’t have to be about toasters – just a single type of product. Want some link bait for it? Make a PDF or page with the prices of toasters in 1911 or something - I’ve got a site that lists all the “old time” computers we had when I was a kid – it gets linked to all the time by folks. Took me all of 20 minutes and a forum post to make. (thanks to all who answered my question about their first computer).
4.) WordPress MU – And Parasite Pages
However, my favorite way is to use WordPress MU, squidoo, blogger, and my existing sites to rank VERY well for individual products. Instead of re-writing it all – I’ve already wrote it in another blog. Here is the link: WordPress – Squidoo, Blogger = $$.
The wordpress MU method gives me dozens and dozens of micro sites. The promotion is done fast – and you end up with sales through blogger, squidoo, and your own sites. The best part is you are using OTHER sites to increase the value of your own while you do it. Game up your squidoo site and you will probably make a couple sales before google even ranks you.
Final Word on it:
These sites can all be made in a matter of minutes. With a small amount of link building and some smart “bait” for each one others will be building links back to you for years. That means affiliate sales for years – it’s a good thing. While some of them might only take you 15 minutes to a couple hours to build and set up you will benefit from a place to link from, and affiliate income for a LONG time. Doesn’t matter if your promoting toasters, paintball gun, fishing rods, lures, hats, gloves, spices, etc… people are searching for that MODEL number. You don’t need PPC to get traffic for those items either.
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Eric Gehler says:
March 29th, 2008
2:08 am
The only thing I would add to this, is when you are linking to your other sites, make sure you link with several different keyword phrases. If all your links are for the “Same Keyword Phrase” it can be more detrimental than helpful in the long run.
You may also want to do some deep-linking, instead of just to the Homepage, go deeper into the site.
admin says:
April 1st, 2008
2:18 am
Please note – that the day 10 mail just went out – sending all our readers here. Problem is some of the links in this post are down.
Server decided to take a nap and I’m working on it.