My First Mini Page

I was reading about the creation of mini pages over at Quick Who Is and I got inspired to try a few out. I will be updating this post over the next few months with progress updates.

What is a Mini Page?

Mini Pages are websites that contain only 1 content rich page. They depend on purchasing a good generic domain name and succeed because of their extremely unique content. The copy on a Mini Page should be between 500 to 1000 words.

Why create a Mini Page?

The idea behind a mini page is to try with a minimal amount of effort to create a site that makes about $2 a week. Mini Pages are a compromise between a full blown website and the ubiquitous parked domain that just tries to gather PPC money without any real content. A mini page looks to be a good idea because you can generate some cash flow while waiting the year for google to really start to trust the content on the page and to trust the page’s back links. What I like about the mini page is that after a year you can come back to the site once it has a bit more authority to try and expand the site to garner more click troughs.

My Mini Page

Being that this was my first mini page it took me some time to get the infrastructure set up. In total it took me 11 hours to get my first page going. I already have ideas for other mini pages and I think my next mini page will not take more than 2 hours to get up and running. For this project a breakdown of my time spent goes like this:

1. Picking Niche: 2.5 hours
2. Picking and Purchasing a Domain name: 2 hours
3. Installing and Styling WordPress: 4.5 hour
4. Copywriting: 1 hour

I do plan on revisiting the copy once I get a few dozen hits and can see what the search engines are picking up on. I only hit about 600 words so I will have room to add another 400 words to further capitalize on the long tail. Or if the site is a complete dud the 400 extra words will give me enough room to try a different angle in the copy.