What is a mini site?

A minisite is a small either single page website or 1-4 page site that covers a specific subject on it's own domain name, when doing a mini site the domain name should be as close to the mini site title as possible.

What types of mini sites do you get?

 --> Product based mini sites
These would deal with a specific product and could use affiliate links or Adsense to monetise the traffic and aim to rank for the one very specific term.

 --> Information Based Mini site
An information based mini site would contain articles and information on a specific topic, a good source for articles are websites that sell student essays, that way you get well researched information that will not be duplicated for example an information based mini site would be belief.

 --> Tool based mini sites
These have by far the largest appeal as a tool or calculator could get picked up and become viral with other sites linking to the site and people recommending it via social networks, a tool based mini site could be something like Printable Calendars or Tattoo Tracer

Can mini sites make money?

Absolutely, mini sites can make anything form $1 a day upwards to hundreds in the right niche.

Minisites are a valuable way to monetise type in traffic, domainers are increasingly realising the value of taking their domains away from parking pages and putting the domains on mini sites with unique content which can increase traffic through long tail search engine keywords and further increase profits through monetisation using traditional contextual adverts like Google Adsense and Yahoo.