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Hello! As mentioned yesterday, im going to start a series of “how to create a mini site”. I have covered this subject a few times, and showed you how to create them using some scripts or software like Commonsense CMS, Rssmini 1.3, HyperVRE (which promised to be a great tool but in fact sucked).

I have 2 new tools to try out. But for now let’s stick with one. I really hope this new tool is way better than the previous ones. This tool takes in consideration that it helps you creating a mini site easy and fast, but it does not help you create the content. It’s up to you to create the content. Don’t fall in temptation to copy other site content and don’t use rss feed to fill you pages. Use your own created content, your own words.

So, what tool am i talking about?

19pages. Have you ever heard of it? It’s a software created by the guys at 45n5 that will help you deploy a mini site real easy, real fast!

So 19 pages? yeah, the software is limited to 20 pages and 19 articles. It’s a mini site…. it is not supposed to have many pages! :p

Here is a quick presentation of the software:

19 pages
So what’s good about it?

1. It’s easy to install. Just upload to your host, edit the config.php file and there is no need for a database.
2. It’s easy to use. You have only what you need for. A place to write your articles and a place to add tags.
3. SEO friendly

All right now that we have a software to use, the next step is finding the niche mini site we want to use. And for that we need to do some keyword researching.

That, my friends, i’ll leave it for Creating mini sites - Part 2. Stay tuned

About 1 month ago i initiated the first phase of Hypervre evaluation and today i decided to show what traffic i had with these minisites:

so for the site: www.procurarcasa.info

in october i had a total of 311 hits, and none came from search engines, the traffic was basically from bots, or my own visits. Google shows the site is indexed, but there’s no traffic coming from it, maybe, because the site has no tags!!! This means, Hypervre failed to create tags! or was my own fault? Visitors came from US, france, portugal (this means me!), and even seychelles Conclusion: i will terminate this site and create a new one with a different program, or i will create myself.

For the site: www.cars.dahh.net

the results were even worse. only 134 hits from US traffic, and again no meta tags on site, and google hasn’t indexed the site. Conclusion: i will contact someone with the gold version of Hypervre, to see if the results are better.

For the site www.hairloss.dahh.net

IN october the site hat 385 hits, and this month the site has 85 hits. Again no meta tags, not indexed on google, the only results are of this blog. The traffic comes mostly from US. Conclusion: i think this site deserves a new chance, maybe with the gold version of Hypervre, or of my own creation.

Long story short: the free version of Hypervre isn’t good. I give the benifit of the doubt for the gold version, but it fails to generate meta tags as the free version, then the program fails instantly on what we really need.

On the other hand, maybe it was i, that mess something up while creating the mini-sites. If you know another program that allows us to create mini sites in a easy and SEO friendly way please tell me and i will do a review of it!

In this summer i have mentioned a software that creates mini sites easily, but i never showed you live content created by hyperVRE.

I haven’t used it yet to publish mini-sites, but now i have decided to do a little test on hypervre using the free version available. The test will consist mainly in creating 3 different mini sites, one with an .info domain, and the other 2 using sub domains of the dahh.net domain.

So after thinking a little bit the 3 sites i will create are:

1st: real estate;

2nd: cars

3rd: hair loss

Notice that the first 2 are difficult niches to get an high ranking in search engines, and the third one is a little better but not much. i want to see how well hypervre does in this aspect.

Using the free version has some disadvantages in getting articles, and it seems to be somewhat very slow gathering them. but after a few minutes of patient you can have a real live mini-site working.

So after a few minutes the results are these:

www.procurarcasa.info

www.cars.dahh.net

www.hairloss.dahh.net

has you can see, the software fails to create proper links. this could be a real pain in the ass, because if you want the site to be fully functional you will need to edit by hand all pages…. this can take to much time. The procurarcasa.info is working well because i tokk some time to manually edit all links…:(

I will give some time to let the search engines index the sites, but the question is: will they index the sites the way i wanted? because most content comes from articles, and it is more likely to be a very repeated article, and google specially, does not like to index replicated content… Let’s see how this will work.