What Are Niche Mini-Sites And Why Should I Build One?

Well first let's define what a niche mini-site is for those of you that are new to the Internet and web design. A niche is basically a broad term subject that is specialized or targeted to one aspect of the general broad term.

For instance, if you went to Google and did a search for dogs the search would result in millions of "hits" or listings. However if you did a search for "dogs barking" you would get significantly less hits and you could even refine the search even more by searching for say, "dogs barking sounds" or "stop barking dogs".

Okay so the idea behind a niche mini-site is to take a specific niche term and design a small website of 4 - 20 web pages around the subject. By doing this and actively maintaining the website and not letting it grow stale, more on this later, when someone does a search at not only Google, but other search engines as well, for the niche idea you selected your website will be one of the listings on the results page. Hopefully near the top of the results, more on that later as well.

The reason why the Internet needs niche mini-sites is much like the idea behind Squidoo, to bring focused information about a specific topic to the front for people that need that information. If for example you were having a problem with your dogs barking all night long wouldn't you rather see a mini-site designed around that particular subject rather than having wade through millions of other websites only to find bits and pieces of the information you are needing? Sure you would and so would millions of other Internet users.

So now you have a general explanation of what Niche Mini-Sites are and why the Internet needs them. So why should you build one?

The obvious reason would be to become an authority on a particular niche and dominate in the search engines. The second reason and the most popular is to monetize the niche subject. In other words, to build a small niche mini-site and have on the pages links to either products or eBooks that associated to the niche that the readers can purchase. One can even have links to external products or eBooks by others that you would gain a commission from the referral sale.

If you were lucky enough to capture a good niche subject early and obtain high search engine rankings a small niche mini-site could provide a steady stream of revenue for months or years. The good thing about niche mini-sites is that they are easy to create since they are small to begin with and being small they are easy to maintain.

Rick Roberts owns and operates a DVD and video game store located in Kingsport TN. The company's website http://www.daelectronics.com is an information source for articles about anything technology.

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