How to Make a Profitable Mini Site

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Decide what niche or product you'd like to make money with. You can have a physical product of your own, or you can just make a clickbank account. If you don't have a clickbank account, just visit clickbank.com. It's free to set up and use, and they pay via paypal! For the sake of this article, we'll say we chose 'Learn To Play Guitar'.
2. Create your mini site. In google, once signed in to your account, click 'sites'. From this point with google it is pretty self-explanatory. Their templates are fantastically easy to use. Just write a good article about your product or your niche, add some reviews, add some great pictures pertaining to it, add testimonials if you have any and then link to your clickbank product or to your own product's site [if you have one]. To give credit where credit is due, I strongly recommend you also try viviti.com to set up free mini sites. Google will not allow you to put a paypal link on your site, and viviti will. With clickbank products, this doesn't really matter, but it's good to have if you need it. Viviti is very paypal friendly, and even has a widget to help you make a 'buy it now' or 'donate' button with paypal. Both sites also allow adsense to be used on your mini sites, with is great to add extra revenue. Just having adsense on your site will make you money as long as you get traffic flowing in!

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Backlink and bring in traffic. Now that you have your mini site set up and looking pretty, you need visitors. The more visitors you have, the better chance you have at getting SALES. Backlink to your site by visiting blogs, articles and other sites related to your product or niche where you can leave open comments. Leave comments that compliment the writer of the blog or article, or compliment the usefulness of the site. Leave ideas and issues for others to comment on, then leave a link to your mini site stating 'check this out for more resources' or anything along those lines in your words. Make articles on other free sites such as hubpages.com and squidoo.com. Write about your product or niche, and leave behind more links to your mini site. Next bookmark your site on a massive scale! I suggest trying onlywire.com or socialmarking.viviti.com. I use onlywire and socialmarking.viviti.comto automatically bookmark my sites to the top 20 social sites like de.lici.os, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Jumptags, just to name a few. There are MANY more sites you can add to your onlywire account, then just click ONE button and it will bookmark your site to all of the ones you've chosen!
4. Upkeep! Now you're set up with a profitable mini site! Use trial and error. Adjust your settings, pictures and wording. Make several mini sites. They can all be the same product or niche, or totally different ones. I suggest bookmarking your sites daily using onlywire, but no less than 2-3 times per week. Keep writing new articles on Hubpages and Squidoo, adding new content and always linking back to your mini site! Track your Adsense account, as you might be suprised with it too! Keep that traffic coming, have some patience, and within a few months you'll be reaping the reward of your hard work!