On: How to become rich even if nobody is following you...

[vijayr]

Interesting article.

I guess there is definitely some money to be made, if the site is useful ("tool" based). Some examples:

http://selfmademinds.com/200811/mini-site-case-study-update/

http://www.calendarsquick.com/printables/index.html (don't know how much this site makes, I'd assume more than $1 per day)

[joelhaus → vijayr]

Curious, how important do you feel a good domain name is for these mini-sites?

Imagine that a highly relevant name could significantly reduce your marketing investment and get you more traffic.

[vijayr → joelhaus]

not sure if domain name is that important, for such tiny sites. Most of your traffic is going to be from search engines, so I guess you'll need to worry more about SEO than coming up with a memorable name (as people aren't going to remember it). From SEO point of view, keyword rich domain names are important, not sure how much though.