Originally posted by safesys
I tested the water by ordering some of these and got the first one a few minutes ago - its going to take a lot of work to get the site into anything approaching a usable form though as it looks to be some kind of automated article selection that doesn't always marry up the heading/link with the article content.

I quite like their header graphic designs though and to be honest, thats worth the money on its own to me.

Let us know how you do and what you think about these sites?

Thanks.

Thanks for sharing.

I can't believe the look and feel for the price...
I know that doesn't make the pages rank nor perform better but I am so glad there is choices/hope for those of us holding some good keywords with minimal traffic,
I think is a step on the right direction for mini-sites.
Question: is the content dynamic ? and if so how often does it get updated ?

Like its been noted already, this might provide an option for pure type-in domains where you don't care at all about how SEs will treat such repetitively regurgitated content, whether dynamic or not.

Originally posted by Speculator
Like its been noted already, this might provide an option for pure type-in domains where you don't care at all about how SEs will treat such repetitively regurgitated content, whether dynamic or not.

I was thinking the complete opposite...
whereas domains with nice key-words but very little traffic or none (of any kind) were better suited for these minisites, more of an effort to build value than expecting better CPM.

BTW: The example domains provided by Artful seem to be getting paid crumbs...

We know of people that after tried this route (mini-development) and were desenchanted with the results only to revert-back to PPC (or a Hybrid) and I can see why (I know of a monster that crashed and burned >back to PPC> after 2 years of expen$ive development and hard work), so I don't think domains with type-ins (and/or nice any kind of traffic) will be suited for these pages unless of course the CTR or revenue is nill or very low...

*I still don't know much about development other than:
Content is king , Links, Meta-tags, Title/description, Keywords, User's acceptance (not in that particular order) .

Question: is the content dynamic ? and if so how often does it get updated ?

No, its hard coded html that is pretty clearly auto-selected from a central article db.

Originally posted by safesys
No, its hard coded html that is pretty clearly auto-selected from a central article db.

..lost you at " it's hard-coded..."

but understood the "No"part.

Thanks.

Safesys: Any update on your experience with ppc sites so far?

Any increase in visitors or revenue?

Is it worth it?

Thanks for sharing if you don't mind.

Here is a summary of my results so far with PPC-Sites.com mini-sites.

As of today, I have had my 2 PPC-Sites: ShopsInLasVegas.com and GolfAndBeer.com up live for 6 days.

I have had a total of about 165 domains parked at: iMonetize, NameDrive and 1Plus for about 5 months.

The 2 PPC-Sites in just 6 days have achieved 63% of the views, 14% of the clicks, and 41% of the revenue that were accumulated by the 165 domains in 5 MONTHS.

I'd say that's HUGELY impressive!!

BTW, they are both already listed in Google.

I'm still reworking the content side of it (hundreds of pages) as theres a lot of content that really isn't suitable for what I want (eg adult headings on a mainstream term like "showbiz") and the content looks a bit too machine made.

The 2 PPC-Sites in just 6 days have achieved 63% of the views, 14% of the clicks, and 41% of the revenue that were accumulated by the 165 domains in 5 MONTHS.

to give that some kind of context - are you talking single digit traffic per day or hundreds/thousands?

Originally posted by safesys
to give that some kind of context - are you talking single digit traffic per day or hundreds/thousands? [/B]

At this point it is double digit traffic per day on the 2 PPC mini-sites. Most of the parked sites were either zero or single digit.

Thanks safe.

Artfulwebsites: were your 2 domains getting zero traffic before you moved them to ppc-sites?

Originally posted by DomainEngineer
Thanks safe.

Artfulwebsites: were your 2 domains getting zero traffic before you moved them to ppc-sites?

Well, yes and no. ShopsInLasVegas.com was newly regged by me. So, it had no prior history or traffic. GolfAndBeer.com I picked up from a dropped list. So, it had prior history. I don't know what it's traffic stats were.

Hi Artfull,

I bought one using your affiliate code. Did you get a credit?

I'm curious because that seems a good way to limit the costs.

Originally posted by DickV3636
Hi Artfull,

I bought one using your affiliate code. Did you get a credit?

I'm curious because that seems a good way to limit the costs.

I sure did. Thanks for the referral, DickV3636. Much appreciated.

Good luck with your site. Did you get it yet? Let us know how it works out for you.