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Ugly Quick Minisites

August 9th, 2006How To Courses, Site Building, Uncategorized

Ugly Quick Minisites

If you’ve been following the latest series of posts, then you know I have been writing about domains, web hosts, and html editors. I want to show you a minisite that I put together in Frontpage, using the basic techniques from Louis Allport’s “How to Build a Minisite in 30 Minutes or Less.”

The site is called WebHostingWithDomains.com. Too long I know, but I picked the name up on eBay cheaper than I could register it for, and it had a Google PR of 2 at the time.

I tried it as an affiliate site for different web hosts, but was getting nowhere with that. I did get some Adsense clicks, so I decided to convert the site to just having a couple of affiliate merchants, with the most of the emphasis on Adsense.

So basically I started from scratch. I wrote some very short content, just paragraphs really. I added four targeted pages and set up really simple keyword based navigation. I put 2 Adsense blocks and a menu bar on each page.

I used the basic idea in “30 Minute Minisites” to get this site up and ready. Oh it took me a little longer than 30 minutes, because there are 5 pages, not just 1. But I don’t recall spending more than an hour on it.

http://www.webhostingwithdomains.com

It is an ugly little site. But on day 1 of conversion I got my first Adsense click in ages. I haven’t even blogged and pinged the site yet. It did have a couple of old links left from the previous incarnation and the last Google update demoted the PR to 0. My traffic log showed the traffic coming only from Google.

So you can see that there is absolutely no reason you have to buy a template for an Affiliate or Adsense site, if you’ll just take the time to learn how to use NVu or one of the other free html editors. There is a short list of them at my Web Resources page, b4a.net. While I used FrontPage to make my site, it probably would have been easier to do it in Nvu. I’m just used to FrontPage.

Now I’ll be the first to admit this is an ugly little site, but it will get less ugly as I have the time to make it so. In the mean time it is up and making money. Not bad for a day’s work. It of course would take a few days longer to get indexed for a new site. But blog and ping can get that done in a week or so.

So use that 30 Minute Minisite video to learn how to make ugly quick minisites. Then make them prettier when you have the time.
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