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Originally Posted by Seraphim  Rick, I have / had about 800 or so minisites floating around in Google, and they do extremely well. However beginning in January 2009, I started to notice quite a number of my minisites dropping from Google's index, and obviously that means decent domains are getting banned. I don't know if this is a new policy change with Google, or my own personal bad luck, but once AEIOU.com has "enough" back links, you may want to consider not linking back to your company with your templates (really consider risk vs. reward on that). You seem to be changing your templates around frequently, obviously good move there.
When Google does decide to strike, they take the gloves off, so for anyone doing minisite development, switch your code around, keep your templates varied, keep shaking things up, or you could wake one painful morning to find a chunk of decent domains banished to the dark dreary halls of Yahoo and MSN Live.
2 cents from a minisite guy... |
Can you give me an example of one of your sites that dropped?
We've gone through the Google TOS many times. We aren't violating any of their rules. Our goal is enough content to be "legal" but not so much no one clicks a link.
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Originally Posted by trader Right, but good increases in traffic are unfortunately more than offset by constantly declining income from monetization programs such as YPN and Adsense, which are down big time  overall, starting a couple years ago for many of us. |
Many of our customers ask us to ad CPA offers which we will do.