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Minisites have become a common word in the field of Internet Marketing. A minisite is generally a site which is composed of a few pages and is made especially for advertising a product or a service and depends on visitors to perform actions on it. Minisites are made especially to advertise any particular product or services that are related to any particular niche. Minisites are nothing but a website which is made up of few pages which are mainly created to guide the visitors in an attempt to get them to buy a product that they sell on that site and also help the visitor to understand more about the product that is being sold.

Minisites have four main benefits; they are flexibility, visibility, profitability and liquidity. More in depth details about the benefits of minisites can be found below:

• It’s Small – As the name implies, it is a small site that contains a few pages covering any particular niche. The content on those pages mainly describes a product or a service that is being sold. These Minisites contain adequate information that tends to relate to the niche, which may be created using WordPress or using HTML codes.
• It’s Streamlined – Minisites are similar to a tunnel, directing the user in buying the product or the services. The user starts from the home page and will go through the pages that the minisite is composed of. Each page will focus only on a specific product or service. Each page will take the visitor to the next page and finally lead the visitor to the end of the tunnel, which ultimately is to convince the visitor to buy the product that has been advertised in the particular niche. Some minisites use advanced techniques like up sales, off the shelf sales and other kind of sales.
• It’s Search Engine Friendly – Minisites are used in places where we invest small and yet want to get more benefit. Minisites are built mainly to drive traffic to your main, staple site and hopefully earn a lot of money from the sales that they make. When creating the minisite, the owner of the site should make sure that the content on the minisite is keyword optimized for the minisite to appear in the search results when it is queried.
• It’s Sexy – Minisites may be small, but designing it powerful can yield you more profits. Once the visitors view your site, they should make out what you are trying to sell. The themes used to create the site and the pictures used in the site should be attractive and should explain the niche and the product(s) that you are selling on that niche. These make your minisite a powerful marketing tool.

Basically, by creating a minisite that has got the potential to attract lots of visitors, there will surely be lots of benefits to be had. Minisites are helpful in advertising small scale products in cheap investments and yet get lot of profits. Minisites, once created will earn profits for a potentially long time. Contact Bonk Media today, or visit our minisite page to have a minisite created.

Social networking has become a day to day activity on the internet for many people and has established a pretty substantial mark on the internet. Social Networking is not a new concept, it is just the activities that we do on the internet such as IM, blogging, listening to music, viewing videos, online gaming, chatting, marketing, advertisement, group discussions, news, coordinating among groups and all kinds of other virtual activities. If you want to get recognised, social networking is one of the best ways to do it.

Social networking is provided by many different websites, where people gather and have a chat about something or a business may offer a special. Every individual will have his or her own profile in which he or she can update their profiles whenever they feel is necessary. The profile page on the websites will contain images, personal and professional information and a variety of other information dependent on the certain social network at hand. Every status update done by an individual will be known to all the other people in the network which in turn, keeps them updated about what their friend (you) has in mind. You can also throw neat, little web applications to your profile such as games, a music player and all kinds of other things. You can even change the theme of your profile when you want and as much as you want.

Your profiles can be linked with other profiles to form a network of friends which is commonly referred to as “Adding Friends.” When you network with other people, or become their friend, they will be thrown into the mix, being able to see your profile, pictures, status updates and anything else you do (you will also be able to see the same with them). Generally, this network would be formed among friends, relations, colleagues and mates, but you can also add others whom you do not know. Usually, social networks will call the option of adding someone to your network a, “Friend Request.” The Friend Request is sent out to a person and it is up to that person as to whether or not he or she wants to add you to their network.

Listed below are the most common benefits you get after establishing a social network of friends:

• Communication is so easy. You can communicate your ideas through blog posts, sending a public note or bulletin, or sending a PM (private message) to an individual or group of members.
• You can be updated with the status update feature. You can know just when your friend changes something pertaining to his or her profile. Status updates will update you if your friends have posted any photos, videos, public messages and just about anything else that your friend does.
• Networking allows you to share images, videos or other applications and even allows you to play games with your friends.
• You can update yourself or update others about the latest news or happenings in your local or international area.
• Lower costs. Social networking is absolutely free usually, so rather than paying a hefty phone bill to communicate with your long distance buddy, simply communicate through a social network.
• Reliability and belief. When you are connected in the network, you create a belief and trustworthiness among people in that network.
• Known surroundings. The people in the network are none other than your friends, so you can act freely and communicate comfortably within the network about your ideas.
• Affordable visibility, refined search and expanding your network easily are other common benefits of social networking.

Many businesses have recently been taking advantage of social networking, as it acts as a communication, entertainment and marketing tool. Bonk Media has mastered the methods of taking advantage of Social Media. Contact us today to take advantage of the social networking platform.

The world is changing at an incredible speed, and so is the technology surrounding it. Every now and then we get to know about some new kind of technology hitting the market. The internet has changed the concept of various things; completely changing the way we used to look at the ways of communication, marketing, and many other things. Internet marketing is key to a successful online business. The platform provided by internet is so huge that it can even make the most popular marketing platform a meek one. Mounting numbers of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) expert companies is the proof of the rising popularity of internet marketing. As we know that there are various factors associated with the success of internet marketing. Therefore it is always better to follow the right methodology by taking help from the SEO experts.

We know that there are many aspects which affect the SEO of a website, which means that it ultimately affects the ranking of the web page. Website speed is the latest to join the existing set of factors. It means the speed of your website now will be a prime determining factor in the ranking of your website in the search engine, what we generally call the SERP (Search Engine Result Page). There is a very easy and apparent reason behind this fact. It is quite obvious that internet users do not like to spend much time behind the slow sites. Websites with a slow speed are usually disliked by most internet users. The web pages take too long to load; the slow websites annoys them so much that they terminate it and start looking for some better option. This leaves a very bad impression in the mind of the users. This not only mars the reputation of the website, but also of the search engine. No search engine will ever like to promote websites with slow speed. For more information on this, search “Google Caffeine”

For the above stated reason, Google has introduced this new factor, Sitespeed in determining the ranking of the website in their SERP. Google has brought some changes in its algorithm which will filter out the websites with a poor site speed. The algorithm will push up the ranking of the websites with higher website speed, and will send down the websites with lower website speed. Therefore, it means that if your website is suffering from low site speed, it will adversely affect the ranking of the website. We know that websites with a low search engine ranking are never displayed in the first page of search results. Also, internet users do not take the trouble to look at the second page of the search results. Users love to surf through the websites which are quite fast and can be easily comprehended. Hence, for these reasons Sitespeed has become an important factor in the SEO of a website. So, next time if you find your website’s speed unusually slow, consult Bonk Media immediately and get the things done as soon as possible. Otherwise it can hamper your business a lot.

We have been given approval to announce the completion of LocalTanningSalon.com.   Local Tanning Salon is a niche website tailored for people who are in search for tanning salons in their area.  Searches can be made via state, city and state, or zipcode with a given mile radius.

You can get directions for the tanning salons on the site, and also read information about tanning.  Local Tanning Salon is only 1 of the many niches being tackled by Local Company Search.  To view a list of niches, you can go to http://localcompanysearch.com/advertising.php.

We are very proud to have Local Company Search as one of our clients.  We are also very proud of how the completed website turned out.

We have just finished the redesign of MexicanFighter.com.  This is a WordPress CMS site with E-commerce functionality, as well as news posts, and a photo gallery.

Our new site is now live!  We are very excited of the changes that this new site has brought.  We are still implementing the new members section, as well as the billing sections so please bare with us on that.

We have moved out of Las Vegas and are now in Orem, UT.  We will still be providing the same quality service as before.  Our phone number will remain the same, but we are now moved to Mountain time.  Our new address will be updated soon.  If you have any questions or conerns, please let us know.