Mini Sites Effectiveness

by adamcm
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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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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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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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    • Profile picture of the author mrtrance
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      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.
      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?
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  • Profile picture of the author bigcat1967
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author misha7878
    mini sites centered around one topic are still effective.
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