oldtimer

Thanks for everyone***8217;s Constructive opinion, I just got into making mini sites very recently and I am still learning the ropes. I understand that people here operate at different levels of development as far as the quality and quantity of the websites are concerned, but I have great hopes for the few mini sites that I have made so far and will probably make some improvements later on as I learn more.

These are some of the things that I have learned so far:

1- It***8217;s better to develop a domain that targets an exact product or service that people usually search for.

2- The more targeted the niche is for the domain the better it is as long as there are sufficient number of monthly searches for the exact keywords.

3- The less results there are on the search engines for a certain niche the better it is for getting on the first page.

4 ***8211; It***8217;s best to choose an extension that relates to the market that you are targeting, I have noticed that .US has a pretty good chances for being indexed for the U.S. market.



PS:
Sheldon, I appreciate your constructive comments, but I have also sensed a little bit of a negative vibes in all your posts in this thread as if you like to see others fail. I don***8217;t think it***8217;s good for you to just join the forum and start putting down others hard work in your first few posts. IMO


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Sheldon

oldtimer, I've been in this game for 9 years as a full time domain investor and developer. I've seen it all with regard to Google Search. I sent a little bit of tough love your way, if you interpreted that as wanting to see others fail, then you couldn't be further from the truth. You're a sitting duck with your current setup the way it is, I could coat that with sugar if you'd like, but I would be doing you an injustice. I'm an honest straight shooter, and I take money and business seriously. That is the only way to survive in this game.

Learn from others mistakes, and don't take critiquing so personally, learn something from it. I seemed to be the only person in this thread willing to be honest with you regarding the current status of your network. I'll leave diplomatic affairs to those in the lesser know, as it does no one any good.

oldtimer

As I said before these are my first mini sites and I am learning more everyday, although I have been domainning for awhile too, but like many others I have just started getting into mini sites. Perhaps this was a misunderstanding on my part, nevertheless I still appreciate hearing everyone***8217;s positive and constructive opinion.

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Sheldon

My advice to you would be to start over with one website or minisite, and really put your heart into creating some useful organized content, and a well designed unique template. Make sure it's a website that you yourself would want to visit again for a second time. Once you lock down that one high quality minisite prototype, then use that one as the basis for minisite #2, obviously making sure of course that #2 stands alone with a unique batch of high quality content.

Picture these minisites as a small vineyard. To get nice juicy grapes to grow, you can't just throw grape seeds everywhere, and hope one takes. Getting these little sites to pump continual long term revenue is a delicate art, I know that sounds cheesy, but it's true. You can't rush it, you can't take take shortcuts, you have to buckle down and publish quality work. The great news is after you finish the first quality prototype, it's going to be much smoother sailing from there.

I'm not speaking from a high and mighty position, I'm simply someone who made the same mistakes years ago, and eventually learned some very hard time wasting lessons. If you wouldn't want to visit your site, or your friends and relatives wouldn't want to visit it, then chances are it's going to get deindexed, and you're going to have to start all over at square one.

These are the exact words I would tell myself if I had a time machine.

oldtimer

Thanks Silver, I think that one of the advantages of using geo targeted domains for a network of mini sites is that even if they use the same template and share some of the content they can still be considered unique since each domain targets a specific geographical location and most people usually only see the site that relates to their city and so to them it is still a unique and useful site. Although I don’t think it’s a good idea for a network like this to be interlinked internally since the sites might then lose some of their geo uniqueness. IMO

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Pichichi

I've got most of my minisites using .es (or .com.es). For example, these are some of mine:

· miniURL.es
· GPageRank.es

And the last one, eMarcadores.es

sam

Isnt noomle designed so that you WRITE your own UNIQUE content and not copy and paste someone else's content? Google ain't stupid, revise your content or its gonna get the google stick pretty soon. I doing a few names with noomle, but I ADD my own articles, by manually typing information.

oldtimer

I don’t claim to be a know it all when it comes to making mini sites, but I think that although it might be okay to write your own articles when you are just giving some general information about a certain subject, but when it comes to providing expert info you either have to be an expert on the subject yourself or have the money to hire an expert to write an article for you (expert on the subject not just the article writing), short of that it’s probably better to reference information from authoritative public sources rather than just making up inaccurate articles yourself. It seems like a lot of people are sacrificing accuracy of the information for the sake of uniqueness of the articles and I don’t think that that’s a good idea in the long run. (just my opinion)

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barefoottech

Minisites and ccTLDs are a Perfect match
Small targeted sites aimed at smaller geo-targeted niches

BTW G'day from Aussie Land