Is it Possible to make a Good living with Microsites?

Ones I made money with one when the African Mango was still hot in the weight loss niche but that lasted just a month and I spent the next 3 months struggling to rank it after Google had displaced it.Spent the entire money I made from the site to build links and stuff but to no avail . Building a business is definitely the way to go.

Funny story, I have a review I wrote on my blog that was getting traffic from Google for this three word keyword then I noticed after a while that I stop getting that traffic. When I went on Google I found that there's this guy who bought an exact match domain for the keyword, he's using the same theme and colors as my blog and even has a similar background image. He has 3 pages on his blog, 1 review article, 1 article with a video and 1 About me page.


I have no idea if he's making any money from this but I know that he's getting traffic from Google.

Thank you guys for your input on micro sites! You've saved me quite a few bucks! Sure, build a business is the way to go BUT what is the best route for immediate income? How easy is it to start off with CPA's? Or is there anything better?

Cheers,
Jon

I want to believe marketing is all about doing the right things in the right order, the real important thing being putting in the required action to make things work.

It's interesting to think minisites no longer work, and PLR do not work, I have always been of the opinion there are always people who are new to the internet, billions of them, wannabes? You tell me how these sites can not work if you put them in front of the right people??

I strongly believe there is alway someone looking for what you have right NOW!

Listen guys, let's not be fooled or lied to, study how these work and more importantly put in the work? And I mean put in the work, massive action is what is required.

Trouble is we expect things to work because we are simply online, sadly things just don't work that way.

I am in this industry. Have recently put my thoughts to paper and setup a course teaching people how to do it.

There is alot of work that goes into it. In my experience the best sites to get into are ones where there is little to no supply in the area you are targetting. Legal drugs, foreign herbs and teas. They get indexed quickly and the content is reasonably easy to write and make it worth reading.

One of my most profitable niches is in a tea which is almost exclusively bought online, my strategy for each site is to build an overwhelming online social presence while focusing on SEO. It is possible to make money on a site in your first week, you just have to put in the hours on social media to do it.

I do outsource alot of my work now while I am setting up my side business.

BiggyFat: What do you do now?

You can certainly make a good living with small sites (8-15 pages) but if you're relying solely on Google it's probably not the most reliable way. Your $5000 a month income could turn to $500 overnight with just one Google update if you're doing something Big G doesn't like.

Having said that though it's still one of my favorite ways to make money. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a few days of work turn into a relatively passive $500+ a month.

When I say a few days, that includes time to research, write a pillar article for my money page, outsource some more information articles, and get the site up and running.

If you're good enough at doing keyword research you should be able to rank pretty easily in Google without any backlinks, or with just minimal backlinks.

Just as a quick example 2 weeks ago I threw up a review site for an Amazon product - 1 x 1200 word article (top 3 products) and 3 x 600-800 word articles. It was just 1 day's work and I haven't had time to work on the site since.

It has already made $30 and just starting to rank on Google for a number of keywords. Nothing to write home about yet, but until 2 days ago it was only ranking on Bing and Yahoo and they never send much traffic anyway. I expect it to make at least $500 a month and probably more in the lead up to Christmas.

I will of course add some more articles but it's a really small niche so probably won't have more than 10. Also depending on where it ranks in the next week or so I may add some backlinks. The competition is low so I don't expect to have to do much work to get it ranking well.

Just don't rely on small sites to bring in the bulk of your income because if you do you might end up sorely disappointed if anything goes wrong. There's no reason not to build a few though if you come across a hot niche with low competition (they're not easy to find but they do exist). Plus any site can start as a micro niche site but you can always add more articles and build it into an authority if you feel it's worth doing so.