Mini Sites Effectiveness

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Hi all,

Not sure if I am in the right forum, but am curious if there is still a place for mini-sites anymore with the newest updates. I am talking more about product based websites like Commission Junction rather than Adsense. I'm not sure if I am crazy but what i've done in the past is make a specialized websites with about 10-20 posts of content and promote a few different products.

In the past month i've seen quite a few larger websites featuring the products in sub-categories ranking higher and higher. It seems to me like the larger e-commerce sites are becoming harder and harder to beat. I was never a BMR user but I am curious if others are still able to rank these specialized sites anymore?

Thanks!
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    Those larger sites have entire categories totally themed out on the keywords.

    You can still do the same for a single product, but to make life easier I would suggest you do create an authority on the subject/niche.

    Small sites usually have the same flaws, very few pages, which means that the landing pages have no relevant supporting pages to help get them ranked in the SERPs.

    I hate off-page SEO so I max out the on-page in a logical way, no keyword stuffing/density crap, just straight up hardcore internal linking of 100% relevant pages/content. I try & suggest Wikipedia style on-page SEO because it's a solid foundation for any site, so long as you have at least a couple dozen or so pages worth of relevant content to work with.

    On-page SEO isn't the end all solution, you still need quality external links to get the site noticed by Google SERPs/bot, still I can usually get my page in the game with quality on-page SEO & a few hand picked quality external links.

    Remember you rank pages in the SERPs not sites, but the catch22 is additional quality internal pages & on-page SEO will lighten your work load when you start doing off-page link building.
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    • Yukon,

      Can you suggest how I should restructure my Adsense sites for each micro niche I'm in. What I have now for each site is an EMD with the home page post (that is static) on the EMD keyword and then I have 15 more pages on related keywords within that niche as well. For each of the other 15 pages I have link back to homepage using that pages keyword. For the homepage I link back to homepage url and a link to wikipedia using home page keyword. On the homepage I also have links to my internal pages from there.

      What should I do differently to really optimize my onpage SEO even further?
  • I agree w/ Yukon. On-site optimization is the way to go.

    I'm having a debate with myself in writing more pages for my own website. Either me or outsourcing to a writer - I need to get more pages on my site along w/ internal links.
  • mini sites centered around one topic are still effective.
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    Mini Sites Effectiveness

    Hi all, Not sure if I am in the right forum, but am curious if there is still a place for mini-sites anymore with the newest updates. I am talking more about product based websites like Commission Junction rather than Adsense. I'm not sure if I am crazy but what i've done in the past is make a specialized websites with about 10-20 posts of content and promote a few different products.