Make Money from a Mini Website – A Step by Step Guide

Part 1

In this series, I give you step by step instructions on how to create a mini website and make regular monthly income from Google AdSense. There are Mini Websites that make couple of thousands of dollars every month! While this kind of income is achievable you have to work very hard towards it. Realistically speaking $100 per month is the average. $100 per month does not look like a great income. But once you have successfully implemented one mini website, you can easily replicate the same technique to create more sites. This series is composed of 7 parts. Today in Part 1, I look at why Mini Websites are a great source of passive income.

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What is a Mini Website?

A Mini Website is one that has content on a very narrow topic or niche. For example, take the website Carpet-Cleaning-Tips.com, in this site all the materials are specific to the topic of cleaning carpets.

What are the benefits of a Mini Website?

• Mini Websites are easy to create and they require less skills.
• Mini Websites require less maintenance and administration.
• For the initial efforts you put into your site, you will reap the benefits for many more years to come. I like to call this as passive income!
• With Mini Websites you are not putting all of your eggs into one basket. You can easily build a dozen Mini Websites. This way you are not dependent on a single site for your income.
• Usually Mini Websites do not require great content. Any average content is good enough for Mini Websites.
• Usually you do NOT put your name or brand behind a mini website, this means you can get away with average quality content without affecting your brand or name.
• Once you create a successful Mini Website you can replicate the same process as many times you want!
• It is a great revenue option for those who are unable to commit regular time for their online ventures. For example, maintaining a blog takes regular commitment and effort.
• Mini Websites are great if you find it hard to stick to a particular topic and your passion for a topic changes frequently.

What Makes Mini Websites so Special?

Mini Websites are special because it is relatively easier to create a mini website and rank high for a given set of keywords in Google. For example, Carpet-Cleaning-Tips.com ranks at number 1 position for the keywords “carpet cleaning tips”. It is interesting to note that Google decided to rank this site as the number 1 site for “Carpet Cleaning Tips” even though there are many larger websites covering the topic of Carpet Cleaning. This is because the above site focused on a very narrow niche.

I hope that the above benefits of Mini Websites has convinced you to create a site by yourself.

In Part 2, we’ll look at the Google AdWords Tool. A basic knowledge of this tool is essential to perform the keyword research for your mini website.

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