Comments on: aeiou.com is now live. Mini-sites done the right way, here's why... http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/08/01/aeioucom-is-now-live-mini-sites-done-the-right-way-heres-why/ Rick Latona's personal blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kevin http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/08/01/aeioucom-is-now-live-mini-sites-done-the-right-way-heres-why/#comment-847 Kevin Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:24:20 +0000 http://www.ricklatona.com/?p=171#comment-847 I've been working on a variety of site development concepts this past year for my own portfolio and a handful of clients. Several dev systems we've created and tested have worked great as I expected, a few have not. Development is going to be the primary choice ahead for domainers soon and many who have had the lazy man's way to riches experience with domains are in for a big surprise when the parking page industry leaves town, which many are expecting to begin happening in 2009. It's going to be a whole new dynamic. For those who have already seen Google's writing on the wall and plunged into developing, the rewards will be immense. I think it's important to recognize though, that development and then growing and marketing web sites, even on a small scale, is a very complex and challenging process. Anyone who tells you its easy and quick to develop a profitable small site network is blowing smoke up your ass. It's 24/7 work and there is no way around it. You can't just snap your fingers and have a skyscraper appear. I've spent an entire year writing and coding software, testing software, re-writing software, testing again, buidling advertiser network relationships, customizing servers, and on and on. What originally looked so simple to many of us who have led the charge into developing, has become a major industry wide group of projects that every day gets improved and tweaked. All of us are trying to figure out ways to automate, ways to innovate, ways to manage, ways to handle the development of thousands of sites at once. It's real pioneering and then some. LOL The most important thing I've learned is you've got to go beyond a few pages if you plan on getting any serious cash flows and SE benefits from mini sites. Don't get me wrong, you can make money with small sites, especially on sites with no prior traffic or revs, but it is a limited cash stream if all you plan on doing is a few pages on a site and it's possible to get deindexed also if you don't grow it further. I know of 2 big name companies that have had this happen to their entire site network because all their mini sites looked exactly the same and had limited content. So mini sites are a good start, but definitely know you'll need a long term growth plan for your domain developments if your objective is generating lots of cash flow in the future. It's time to invest the money you've made from being a domainer into building sites to protect your wealth going forward. Rick, myself and a few others pioneering innovative development concepts have had the experience of being web site operators long before becoming domainers, so that decade of developer, operations and management knowledge is a valuable asset to have with the exciting dynamics and challenges ahead for our industry. Kevin Kevin@BigTicketDomains.com http://www.BigTicketDomains.com I've been working on a variety of site development concepts this past year for my own portfolio and a handful of clients. Several dev systems we've created and tested have worked great as I expected, a few have not. Development is going to be the primary choice ahead for domainers soon and many who have had the lazy man's way to riches experience with domains are in for a big surprise when the parking page industry leaves town, which many are expecting to begin happening in 2009. It's going to be a whole new dynamic. For those who have already seen Google's writing on the wall and plunged into developing, the rewards will be immense.

I think it's important to recognize though, that development and then growing and marketing web sites, even on a small scale, is a very complex and challenging process. Anyone who tells you its easy and quick to develop a profitable small site network is blowing smoke up your ass. It's 24/7 work and there is no way around it. You can't just snap your fingers and have a skyscraper appear. I've spent an entire year writing and coding software, testing software, re-writing software, testing again, buidling advertiser network relationships, customizing servers, and on and on. What originally looked so simple to many of us who have led the charge into developing, has become a major industry wide group of projects that every day gets improved and tweaked. All of us are trying to figure out ways to automate, ways to innovate, ways to manage, ways to handle the development of thousands of sites at once. It's real pioneering and then some. LOL

The most important thing I've learned is you've got to go beyond a few pages if you plan on getting any serious cash flows and SE benefits from mini sites. Don't get me wrong, you can make money with small sites, especially on sites with no prior traffic or revs, but it is a limited cash stream if all you plan on doing is a few pages on a site and it's possible to get deindexed also if you don't grow it further. I know of 2 big name companies that have had this happen to their entire site network because all their mini sites looked exactly the same and had limited content.

So mini sites are a good start, but definitely know you'll need a long term growth plan for your domain developments if your objective is generating lots of cash flow in the future. It's time to invest the money you've made from being a domainer into building sites to protect your wealth going forward.

Rick, myself and a few others pioneering innovative development concepts have had the experience of being web site operators long before becoming domainers, so that decade of developer, operations and management knowledge is a valuable asset to have with the exciting dynamics and challenges ahead for our industry.

Kevin
Kevin@BigTicketDomains.com
http://www.BigTicketDomains.com

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