Anyone making good AS money from small content sites?

Anyone making good AS money from small content sites?

by small content sites I mean 10-15 pages, niche site, without any updating;

 

I make over $10,000 per month from 120 sites and I have only 7 pages each with updates only every 60 days.
http://www.layouts.com is an example it makes over $500/month.

 

Wow, I find it amazing that the site makes over $500/month.

Let's look at the stats for this:
Alexa ranking: 2,030,949
Marketleap backlinks: Google:1, Hotbot:0, MSN:8, Yahoo!: 15
Google AdWords impressions: 0k - 10k per month

So we'll be generous and say you get 10,000 impressions a month.

To make over $500.00 you'd need a eCPM of over $50.00. That seems really high to me. Is the niche really that lucrative?

 

how do you market these types of mini sites ? directories ?

 

I can not yet really believe, because this is only a LINK Website!
The only good one on this site is the domainname.

???

lg Wally

 

Another Content for Adsense site

 

There is one thing that I can not understand. Let's say you have PR5 website. Why should I make 120 different websites with new domains instead of using my PR5 site with new subdomains or new html pages with targeted keywords ??

 

Forget about the layouts.com example, that is a very specific case where the domain is a perfect dictionary word that attracts type-in visitors.

However, to answer your question, yes, you can make money with what I call "minisites". Just put in some valuable information so your visitors can have a good time reading it, and then once they are done they click on an ad and move on.

And protesto you are right, I use subdomains for my minisites. That way I can name them whatever I want, instead of having to settle with some crappy domain like this-is-all-I-could-find-not-registered.com

 

what if the topic of your sub domain site has nothing to do with your main domain?
Would that be viewed as making a 'for adsense' site?
Or do all your sub-domains relate to the topic of your main domain site?

 

Different subdomains can certainly have different topics associated with them. Look at all the Blogger subdomains on *.blogspot.com as an obvious example. The AdSense patent even talks about web pages "contained in a host" as being related but doesn't mention anything about cross-hosted relationships except through normal linking...

 

So maybe thats a good place to use 3-4 character domains and save length for the subdomains.

 

hey, how do you know how many adsense impressions a site had...

 

OK .. So you're running with 100+ "mini-sites" ... How do you do all the hosting so as to keep your so-called fixed costs down?

And how do you keep your risks down?

eg. Have them spread across multiple hosting companies etc ...

I saw http://www.hostgator.com/ advertising you can have unlimited sites hosted ( with some obvious diskspace and bandwidth limits) from $6.95 per month ... from a single "hosting account" ... Sounds great in principle ...

Logon to one hosting account and see all the details for all your sites in one "control panel" etc ...

But then if you look at the downside ... what if you had all your sites hosted here ... and the servers went down .. or even worse the hosting company went belly up ...

So you are weighing up between low cost $6.95 unlimited sites vis risk reduction and mitigation ...

The gambler in many of us might favour the low cost ....

So how do you experts do it ...?

 

I'm no expert by any means, but I get by...I personally use a hosting company that I trust (my partner owns the server)..

There are very reputable hosting companies out there with very good pricing structures that are very unlikely to go "belly up" any time soon. If this is a concern, which I guess should be for anybody, make sure you keep back-ups of your data. You will be down approx 3 days at most if you get your DNS changed to a new host (unless the new host has a long process of setup).

Now, I am not sure how this will affect rankings though, as that is still a topic I am not too knowledgable of...your links should all stay the same by keeping your top level domains, etc. I just don't know if the different servers will make a difference. Anyone way more adept in this than me can probably answer that question.

Anyway, just my 2 cents (1 click or so )

SPRaven (ScottP)

 

If you do an AdWords site-targeted ad campaign, the system lets you select individual sites and they give you the range of impressions for that site (e.g. 0 - 10K)

 

Yea a whopping .30 a day from a medical site. A crap load of pages and only 2 of them get all the refferals..go figure

Building content pges is great if the search engines actually index them where humans will find them.

 

well if you're with a decent host you shouldn't have to worry about downtime too much.
Sounds like a reseller type account you're talking about with Web Host Manager (WHM), which is all well and good, but every site in that account will have the same IP address which I believe is not a good thing.

 

Nice!! Now that's a GREAT example of 'make an ugly site - get them to leave through AdSense!!' By the looks of the site, the only high quality links are AdSense!!! Not a single caped link... except in AdSense!

What CTR does a site like that get?!

That looks like it can be a 'Get visitors to the site through AdWords and get them out throught AdSense.' site. Google shows only one back-link for the domain!

 

I had no idea about that.. NICE one tlainevool

Cheers,

JL

 

Sorry to jump in, but I am curious,
Where/how did you get that number?

FFMG