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How Much Money Can A 1 Page Site Make?

Scott over at self made minds recently posted a great article about Creating Mini-Sites.  In it he walks you through the process of why you should consider owning and creating a whole network of sites, not just one.   The best part about those sites is that once you have built them you have no maintenance. 

So what is a mini Site? A mini-site is a webpage which only has a single page, or at most a few.  It is designed to get its traffic through viral means, i.e. other people linking to it, as opposed to putting up lots of content and getting search engine hits.   Since a mini site is only intended to be a single page, once you have built that page you are done with the site, and can move onto the next one. 

What do you put on a mini Site?  Because the mini Site doesn’t have a large amount of content to draw search hits, you have to have something on there which will draw blog links.  You need to create viral content to have a mini Site.  One idea for viral content is a very well researched and written how to guide for a common problem which people have but is not well documented.  A better idea for viral content is to create a web based tool which answers a question no other tool does.  If you can create that tool, or many such tools, it can be a good idea to place them on their own page.

 So what are some of the advantages to creating mini Pages?

• Easy To Create - Although most bloggers have experience running their one site, and think that all websites require a lot of work to set up and maintain.  A mini Site is brilliant in its simplicity.  Once it is set up, you are done
• Can Build On Those Sites In The Future - If you have a large network of mini Sites, next time you want to start a new larger site you won’t have to start from scratch.  You will be able to take one of your mini sites and modify and expand it.  That way you will already have a page which is ranked in the search engines, is out of the Google Sandbox, and is getting traffic.   The hardest parts of starting a new page will be done!
• Can leverage your network to each new site - If you have a whole network of pages you will be able to leverage them whenever you create a new site.  If you have 30 mini pages + 1 or 2 larger sites whenever it is time to start a new webpage you will be able to point 30 links at it and direct 30 sites worth of traffic to it.  This is a great way to jumpstart the PR of a new page! 

 The bottom line?  Next time you get a good idea, but think you don’t have the time to start a whole new website, conder creating a Mini Page.  Your bank account may just thank you.