All minisites are created equal.. Or not? Pt.1
I’ve been getting a lot of inquiries from existing clients and potential clients as well asking me about the ContentMinisites.com offering… Why is it so cheap, is it any good, etc. Well, I’ll just let the following screenshots / results do all of the talking and just summarize things real quick once and for all because somebody has to.
As you can see, the very first example domain I used is banned over at Google and only one or two of the actual “content pages” are indexed at the other two engines, Yahoo and Bing. If you also visit the site itself, Google AdSense ads aren’t displaying either. I highly doubt any traffic is being generated, and obviously no revenue earned.
Why all these problems? Because the content is not unique. It is scrapped / syndicated from 3rd parties. The search engines do not like these sites, and why should they? There is nothing special or unique about them whatsoever and besides MFA (made-for-adsense) sites are so 2005. That is when they were hot. These days, they are not. They are old news, and only get you in trouble as you can see.
So sure, the price for 1 of these “content minisites” is dirt cheap, only $49 and with 10 the price drops to $34 or 50 – 100 as low as $25 or $19 per site… But really, it’s a waste of time, money and resources. I don’t understand for the life of me, why would somebody buy one or 10 or 50 of these sites.
Don’t believe what I say? Visit all of the homepage showcase / demo sites… Query them in Google and the other two search engines as well. There is your answers, my friends. I could go on and on about this stuff, but there really is no point. The results are all there for you to examine.
These content minisites do more harm than good at the end of the day and you couldn’t even pay me enough $$$ to put up any one of these on one of my own domains. Nope! Not $10, $100 or $500. They are no good unfortunately and not sure why they are even being offered for sale. Two words; buyer beware.
Robert
June 27, 2010
Yep did not finish all the show case sites but from what i see they are completely de-indexed from Google. I had this problem with Whypark in the past. The majority of my portfolio just got hit all at once and had to do something about it. I had to submit all kinds of Reconsideration form using webmaster tool then took my time reading about other services. Right now i got few of them developed using Devhub pakage, and about 70% of them build using the Noomle system. I am happy that i acted fast or i would end up with a sick portfolio that i can’t develop or even put it for sale because of using wrong services…
Good Read.
Cha
June 28, 2010
Great Read! I’m new to domaining.
Is it safe to use Noomle and Devhub?
Thanks.
Mike
June 29, 2010
They all suck and I wouldn’t endorse any of these.
Only sure way to succeed and do so long term is to install WordPress as the CMS and create unique content.
J. K.
July 2, 2010
I will say this, developing your sites is the smartest thing you can do in todays world. The old parking companies aren’t doing as well as they have because everything is changing. I would recommend Noomle over any other system, I’ve had some incredible returns through them and I honestly wouldn’t bother with any of their clones. They are constantly updating and taking into consideration and implementing any ideas which members come up with to give you a better edge on your competition as well.