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By this time, we all know that if we want to create mini sites, we need to do some keyword research to find a niche where it is possible to easily compete with other existing sites. (if you don’t know how to do keyword research then you should read my mini site creation series Part 2).

But where do you get ideas for keywords to research?

Sure it is easy to find a word. You just pick the first word that comes to your head, write it on a tool that gives you long tail keywords, and do a little study to see the competition and searches these long tail keywords have.

I personally, don’t do this often. 95% of the keywords i research using this method turn out worthless, and this is a time consuming method, although patience pays off. Just pick an afternoon or any part of the day where you have a few hours to research and create your list. Right now i have around 15 keyword lists ready to be studied, but i lack time…

From time to time, and now im heading to the point of this post, a keyword just “pops” in my head! i usually don’t carry some paper to write down the keyword, but i really don’t need it because i use my cell phone notepad for that. Hehe.

Keywords “popping” from your head tend to be better than researching a massive amount of keywords, based on my experience. But we must not forget what surrounds us, or what we see or hear.

The best keyword so far to me, was found while watching a comedy movie! I took note of that keyword and then when i arrived at home, searched for long tail keywords related to that main word. Did a research on number of searches and competition and manage to select some keyword phrases. Did the mini site, and i can say to you that in 10 clicks in 2 weeks, it managed to make 4-5 times more than 50 or more clicks from several other mini-sites in months!

So, don’t forget, pay attention to the “inspiration of the moment” that may appear at any time, and the tips your surroundings are giving to you… you’ll never know when a gold mine is right beneath your nose.

And you? how did you found your best keyword so far?

when i visited the blog i noticed a drop on RSS readers. Although i don’t have many RSS readers the drop was considerable.

I logged in to my account at feedburner to check what was wrong. And with no surprise, the google feed readers where not being counted. Again!!!!! This is not new. It happened sometimes before. I don’t know the reason this happens, but for bloggers like me, with few rss readers it will look bad. Yesterday i had 30 readers and now it is 19. That means a drop of 37%. Ouch! lol

Anyway, it will get back to normal any time soon, but in the mean time feel free to subscribe my Rss feed, or preferably, subscribe by email (down right of the page).

Oh. Btw. For the mini site lovers, i have made a new one.

Well, time to dinner, and then i’ll go to a bar, if in the meantime, i don’t fall asleep….

I decided to write again about the mini site i created. Now that it is 1 month old i can give you more solid results.

According to google analytics the mini site had in one month:

283 visitors

569 page views

49% rejection

1.41 minutes average time on site

and 34% comes from search engine traffic.

As for the keywords researched, the search engine rankings are:

wii finder in store: 12

“where to buy wii”: 19

wii finder locator: 12

wii availability checker: 16

guitar hero wii finder: 6

and i could tell you more searched terms but the volume is irrelevant.

Now, enough this boring talk, and let’s head for the gold… well… pennies is more accurate… lol

In one month the mini site have earned me an exact total of $6. This means that i have “doubled” my investment on this mini site in a month.

With this, i proved that 19pages works pretty well, and in the hands of someone better skilled in marketing than me, the results could be 10 times more than this.

Now, for the challenge.

I invite you to create a mini site with 19pages, create a series of posts on your progress, and i will give you a guest post on this blog.

This is a test that can bring you easy money…. Think about it.

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!

This weekend in Portugal we had an hour change. At 2h AM the clock went backwards one hour. It’s thewinter time…. i don’t like these changes, although i had another extra hour of sleep today! But my point is: i need more time! there’s so many projects i want to do and so little time. Next tuesday i will have my last college exam if all goes well, i have to study, and i really don’t want to! lool anyway, the project: Home Shopping Network is in stand by until i do the exam, and after i party a little bit