Most frequently a mini-website is a one page site comprising a sales letter for one product and its aim is to convert visitors into paying customers.  Because it contains just one or at most a few pages the site can be highly focused and created in just a few hours or a day at most and begin making sales and growing a mailing list just hours later.

Also, because they are so small and usually tightly focused, mini-sites can be grown quickly around a small number of commonly used key words and phrases and quickly begin driving traffic from search engines like Google and Bing.  So, for example, for a high frequency phrase like ‘train a dog to heel’, it’s very easy to write content for one to ten web site pages containing that term but very difficult to create several hundred for a maxi web site.

These are the main steps for creating a high profit mini-site:

*  Find a popular niche, one that is searched for hundreds or better still thousands of times every day.  The greater the number of searches made for the subject of your site, the more people will visit your site and the more money you will eventually make. 

*  Find a product or service to promote at your site.  Choosing a niche is just one step on the way to making a living from mini-sites and arguably the most important early step.  But regardless of how good a niche you pick and how many people are interested in the subject of your mini-site, you’ll still not make money unless there are products at the site for those people to buy or advertising links for them to click on to generate commissions for you.  So we’re looking at finding products to promote from the likes of ClickBank and Amazon, and commission generating links from Google AdSense and similar pay-per-click promoters.

*  Create content for your mini-site.  Content is information, preferably quality information to interest potential buyers for whatever products or promotions feature at your site.  It’s content, in the form of articles or blog postings, that tempt Google and other search engines to lift your sites higher in search engine returns than sites based on similar niches but without useful information to benefit Google customers.  So you need quality articles based on high frequency keywords and phrases that are commonly keyed into search engines to locate sites similar to yours. 

*  Design a landing page for your site.  Your landing page is that part of your site where people arrive as a result of your chosen traffic generating techniques.  It’s called a ‘landing’ page because that is where people ‘land’ immediately they decide to visit your site.   Your landing page can be a simple sales page or somewhere for people to sign up to join your mailing list for news of current and future product offers.

*  Upload your site to the Internet, determine what traffic generating techniques will best attract potential buyers and pay-per-click users to your site, then develop a plan for attracting as much traffic as possible to begin making money for you.

Make sure you do not include banners or other advertising since these might distract the attention of your visitors. Your only focus should be on selling your product.

Design a Mini Web Site

Each site should feature only one product or mailing list and be optimized for just that one feature.  Select keywords based on your product that are popular enough to attract the amount of traffic you will need to make your site profitable, and always use your keywords in the title, heading tags, and graphic alt tags. Create an easy to order form, one that is fast to fill out, you do not want to lose customers because it takes too much time or is trouble to purchase your product – or join your mailing list.

Whatever you sell, start by quickly describing that particular product and remain permanents focused on that product. Try to pre sell your product by including several endorsements from people who are happy about using your product. After the endorsements, include several free bonuses to get your visitors even more excited about buying. To host your site look for a reliable hosting service, one that has a good track record for minimal down time. Select a domain name that includes your keywords this will also help your search engine rankings and get you more traffic.

Some benefits of Mini Sites are:

- Easier to optimize for search engine rankings.

- Inbound links to your sites will lead to a higher Google Page Rank.

- You can be an expert at whatever you sell or whatever service you offer.

- Higher traffic generated than regular web sites.

Mini sites are the easiest way to make some quick money because they do not require a large setup cost, and they are easy to design.  All you need is a great idea and you are ready to make some money.