Michaela Cernescu’s Blog

Let’s come back to my favorite subject traffic. What is the role of Mini Sites, and why we pay attention to them. They make any good or we waist our time?

We already know that sites can be:

• Large content
  • Those are usually focus in information
  • They get better search traffic and are better ranked
  • These sites are called traffic gathering
• Mini Sites (we call them Satelitte Sites)
  • Those are focus on selling something
  • It is harder to obtain good traffic for them
  • They have a better conversion to sales as they are unilaterally focus just on sell

Then it is a logic question which of them are better to use. Hi! this is a million dollar question as well.

If you do research you will find that the majority of marketers still relay on  the old path: Forums, Ezine, Directory sites.

I remember when I was a kid my father told me: “Stop saing NO all the time, say YES but you know…  and explain…”. I’ll apply his tactic now.
I am not suggested to eliminate those from your routine especially if you are prolific on them, but I suggest to combine Large Site with Mini Sites and use both.

This is what I mean:

• Decide which site can be your Main Site for a specific niche, this is good to be a large site but can be a squeeze page as well
• Make a list with all your Mini Sites per that niche
• Then link them as I did in the picture:
  • From each Mini Site point with a link to main site
  • From each Mini Site point with a link to other Mini Site in a way to avoid double linking

Tell me after one or two month how your traffic is doing. I am a big believer in experimenting methods. My way is not the only way, and some method which are great for me, can be less efficient for somebody else.

The tricky part will be how to choose the Main Site and Mini Sites.
Usually a Main Site can be: a Web Site, a Blog, and a Squeeze Page.
I typical Mini site can be: a lens, a hubpage, a tweet, a redpage post, or any other social media site in which you are allowed to put links, and other blog.

If you really want to have the biggest traffic possible you have to take in consideration a lot of other factors related with the trends on marketing.

I recommend a very good reading about Consumers and Marketers.

Until the next time all the best.
Michaela

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They’re Changing the World Through the Power of Social Media and Twitter!

The concept of Twestivals was born on September 2008, when a group of Twitters from London UK decided to organize an event where the local Twitter community could get together, and socialize offline. The event was organized using Twitter as a communication tool, and financial support of the local Twittersphere. 

It turns out to be an exiting experience to meet the faces behind the avatars, tiny pictures, or not picture at all. They get some entertainment, a few drinks, and the most important a food drive and fundraising effort for a local homeless charity.

Since Sep. 08, the globalization of  Twitter made possible similar events to be organized and other local Twitter communities got together and took action for a variety of great causes.

Twestivals was born and they had a spectacular impact to bring awareness to global crisis. 

This is one more proof that Twitter can be a powerful communications tool.

It can

• Connect, mobilize and inform people around the world instantly,
• It has the ability to create targeted communities from those people who find and follow each other,
• It is extending your virtual community into the real world, and doing  it  can help a lot of good causes.

Starting Thursday, February 12^th, fans of Twitter.com are coming together for Twestivalsf – in San Francisco branch of an event happening simultaneously across the  world, so far 175 cities are coming together to benefit charity: water.

The mandatory $20 donation (i.e. the cost of a ticket) goes to Charity: Water, which lends a hand to some of the 1.1 billion people in the world who don’t have access to clean drinking water. Organizers for the event are all volunteers, find out more on the twestivalsf  link.

Be Part of a Revolutionary Event.

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