I want to start selling one or two products which I know will convert. My question is this : Is it possible to get good rankings in the search engines from 5 or 6 page mini sites just concentrating on these two products. I have looked at PPC advertising but it is just out of my budget for now.........the bids needed being far too high. So I was thinking of making at least 2 or more of these mini sites with related terms in the domain name and highly targetted keywords,promoting them in the usual free way. Could this work or would I be wasting my time? Thanks MK
Anything is possible if you set your mind to it. But in all seriousness, yes it is possible. The route to get there will simply be harder. One thing I have noticed is people usually don't take 5 page mini sites as authority sites and thus there is little word of mouth/linkage.
If you are selling products then yes for sure. Some people sell products on just one page. The size of the site does not really matter if you are selling something, as long as you can get the sales pitch done over a page or 2 then there is no point creating a heap of pages.
I use this strategy alot. I use "mini-sites" of 5 or 6 pages for keywords that have little or no competition.This way, I'm guaranteed a #1 in MSN within a week and a top #10 in Google within a month. (Work still has to be done on directory submissions, articles, on-page & off-page factors etc. It's no easy ride!) Doesn't work for all keywords mind, but I have 6 up at the moment, 5 are exactly where I want them and 1 is a turkey. For competitive keywords, wom and other good stuff, it's a crap idea, but my idea was to bring my Adwords spend down and it's working for me.
William how do you get "a top #10 in Google within a month." ? Do you use any tehniques to skip the google sandbox ? Thanks
I've never been affected by the sandbox so don't really accept it exists. I do however believe that, if there is one and i've skipped it, it's because i'm going for keyworsd that are under represented and not competitive. I don't apply any techniques aimed at bucking the system. Good hard honest graft I'm afraid.
Yes, if your keywords have little competition then it is very likely you will be able to avoid the sandbox. Having a couple of incoming links from very high PR sites doesn't hurt either.
No idea about that. I get about 20-30 visitors a week from Google and about 40% of them buy so it's worth doing for me.
More specifically, the Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool, which helps you determine how many searches specific keyword phrases receive.
It's all in the keyword. Wordtracker etc is great for sites that that simply require traffic, however, if you need turnover and profit, then keywords should aimed at those people with a mindset to buy, not just looking for information. Lots and lots of niche keywords has always worked better than one juicy one in terms of keywords. If I ever find myself looking for traffic though, I'll be back to Wordtracker!
I agree with William. If you dig deep enough into a niche market you can do this very quickly. I once built a website that had about 15 pages of content on it which then had product links to an affiliate program that I'm a member of. I spent about a week doing link building and got about 40 links to the site. I then just left the site. About 2 weeks later I started getting sales notifications. I checked the site, it ranked #1 on Google and MSN for a dozen or so terms each. In 2 weeks it shot up to over 100 unique visitors/day, converting at about 2%. So over the period of a week I managed to get about 8 sales. Total time spent was about 10 hours of work. Microsites do extremely well if you set them up properly
Many people would argue that large sites are loved by the search engines, but the fact is is that sites are ranked per page, not on the site as a whole. You can succeed with small sites (even one-page sites), just as has been mentioned above. Allen