My First Mini Site: Gucci Bags
Author: Dan8 Feb
I’ve briefly mentioned mini sites before, and I wanted to do something about it. So I’ve already created my first mini site, but its not earning me a great deal yet! So here’s a list of what I’ve done to create my first one-page minisite about Gucci Bags.
I picked up the GucciBags.org domain name for just $25 on the Digital Point Forums having done a quick check using the Google Adwords Traffic Estimator to get an idea of what the click payments were like. They were pretty good, with 82 - 102 Estimated clicks per day for the keywords “Gucci Bags”. And since that search term appeared in the domain name, I thought it was a great candidate for a mini site.
I wrote some of the content myself, but also paid an article writer $7 to write 500 words about Gucci Handbags. I then customised a free template that I found on http://www.oswd.org/, added some stock photographs and then added my adsense blocks to the site. I did some SEO on the template too, abusing H1 tags, alt text on images, etc.
To build some backlinks to the site, I started leaving comments on do-follow blogs relating to fashion or style. There weren’t many, but I now have around 14 backlinks showing in Yahoo, but 0 showing in Google still.
So in total the site has cost me $32, but only earnt me $0.10 in clicks so far. I’ll be interested to see how well this one develops! I might only stick with UK domains in the future, but I want to see if I can make anything with this site for now.
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13 Responses for "My First Mini Site: Gucci Bags"
Hello, Dan, wouldn´t you rather like to sell the bags instead of just placing some irrelevant adsense ads?
There are 10s of gucci bags being sold on Amazon.com, with price like $400/used or $2,000/new you should have some succes even with very low CTR.
What´s actually the visitors/day number for that site?
I’m getting around 2 visitors a day on Gucci Bags on average. However, that’s a good idea for Amazon. I’ve got accounts for Amazon US and UK, but I’d prefer to use some kind of geolocation code to optimise which URL is used.
Dan,
Isn’t that a so called MFA site? The Google has clearly stated that these sites are not OK for them.
Strictly speaking, it depends on the site. If the site genuinely provides useful information, then its not an MFA site. The vast majority of MFA sites are based on ripped content, so there’s an issue of copyright infringement too. Admittedly, my site doesn’t offer much useful information (yet), but it will do with my plans for it.
I’ve checked the T&C’s briefly, but not discovered anything relating to MFA sites. Do you know anything specifically stated on their site that relates to this?
Thanks!
Dan
The problem with so-called mini-sites is that most of them are MFA - no matter what their makers say.
Why else are people building them if not to earn money from Adsense?
And most offer no true value to the Adsense publishers network.
This being the case I would be careful.
Smart-pricing will not only mean that you earn very little from these one page mini-sites, but your earnings from any quality websites in the same account will be negatively affected too.
Of course it is easy to build one page sites and the thought of them all earning a dollar a day or whatever sounds tempting. That’s why so many people are now doing it. But it’s a poor long term strategy for success on the net.
IMHO it is better to build one quality niche site with 100 pages than 100 MFA one page mini-sites.
Yep, I would have to agree with you on that one George. Good thing I don’t have the time or inclination to build an empire of MFA sites.
Aside from the quality issue of the site, any small informational site will struggle to bring in significant earnings. A larger more useful site is a much better move in my opinion (as I’ve noticed from my old site Spy Review), as you don’t suffer the quality issue with regards to advertising programmes, and you have no realistic cap on traffic if the niche is not too specialised.
I have also started building mini sites and the quickets way to get links to your sites is to join http://www.3way-links.net
You get 250 non reciprocal backlinks and you get to add 50 sites into the network. Your site needs to be indexed in order to be accepted. It does cost $47 a month but my new site on cellulite that is a couple of months old is already on page 2 of Google for several keywords. It easily went to page 1 on MSN and Yahoo.
It can be a concern that you get low quality backlinks from such a site though Grant. If the search engines don’t like those sites providing links, it might give you hassles later on.
Have you got a “Squidoo lens”?
I’m a relative newbie, but I use squidoo lenses as my mini sites- they get great Google ranking, too.
You could do a nice one on Gucci handbags and link to your mini site- or even replicate your mini site on the squidoo lens.
Hi Alex,
I’ve heard of Squidoo lens, but I haven’t ventured into doing anything with them yet. I can imagine they are useful for affiliate sales!
Hi Dan
There is always a worry that you may have low quality sites linking back to you but fortunately the sites that are listed in 3way are vetted. This is is just one of the methods I use. The slow organic link building process that is used really bumped an old site of mine onto page 1 of google in about 2 and half weeks. Search for gray hair on Google and you should see my site http://www.no-gray-hair.com.
Yeah, there are always going to be low quality sites linking to you, but there’s not a lot you can do about that.
What techniques do you use for your “slow organic link building process”?
Thanks
Dan
Dan the slow organic process that I use is the 3way-links.net process and article submission to ezinearticles. 3way builds about 3 to 5 links every other day
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