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Begin a Mini-Site Before You Start a Mini-Site...Say What?
Previously I have looked at the all the variables that go into deciding the best size for your business website. I eventually came down to the insightful answer, "It depends."
Now I'll look at the appropriate place to begin after your decision that creating a mini-site is most appropriate for your online adventure. We must look at the most important steps in planning prior to designing the first element on the first page of your website.
The most important research to perform before you undertake anything else, including before purchasing your tentative domain name, related to the relationship between your niche and its keywords. To be successful with a mini-site, you must be willing to focus on a few relatively low traffic keywords, especially long-tail key phrases. You also need to make sure that the small list you select for a given site are quite similar semantically.
Providing my definition of some of the most important terms in that last paragraph will help me clarify. Much of niche research is simply a combination of analyzing the competition and conducting thorough keyword research. Keyword research is discovering what words and phrases your prospective customers are likely to use when they are searching for information, products or services similar to what your business offers. Keywords are said to have long tails when the phrase entered into a search engine has multiple words. I'll use this as my example: "Television" could be a keyword for your niche--a high level, highly competitive keyword, at that. "Panasonic HD television" is a longer tail keyword. "Buy Panasonic high definition 46 inch television in Omaha" is a very long tailed keyword. The last example phrase has the benefit of signaling commercial intent. The person who enters such a keyword is very likely to be ready to make a purchase.
Competition research can be broken into two parts. On the one hand you will gather information about what your top competitors are doing by visiting those sites in the top twenty results of a seach for each of the words and phrases you have selected for your website. You want to learn what keywords they are using, how many external links are directed toward that landing page and, while you're there, a bit about their marketing strategy. The second meaning of competition research is to get some sort of measure of how much total competition there is for each of your chosen keywords. A quick way to gather that information is to see how many sponsored ads appear on google for each of the keywords that you plan to use. Google, for example, places eight to ten advertisers on the first page of search results; if there are eight or more advertisements appearing in the search results, then you have chosen a competitive keyword. Ironically, in this instance, high competition is a good thing. You probably wouldn't make any money promoting a keyword that nobody else is interested in.
Remember that I also insisted that there be a close relationship among all the keywords that you select for your mini-site. Using our example, if we take the example of the last key phrase I made up, we could simply substitute other cities and those different key phrases would still be substantially the same. Alternatively, we might want to keep everything except the "46 inch" part, and substitute "42 inch" and "54 inch" and "36 inch" and so forth. Or we might want to change the beginning word of the phrase to "purchase" and "deliver" and "best price for" and so on.
This early effort is vitally important. Some enterprises choose to hire out keyword research to experts who have the experience and the necessary software. Some will also outsource the competition research. Clearly that decision is yours. Your business belongs to you!
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