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Mini Sites are Mighty Powerful

By Michael Sumner • Jun 19th, 2009 • Category: Web Development

MiniSites.com is proud to announce the addition of free forums to every package.  The main reason we chose WordPress as the CMS for our mini sites is the incredible power of the platform.  It has a massive community of developers creating exciting plugins that allow you to take your mini site to the next level without paying an arm and a leg for “full scale” development.  Now you can have a fully featured forum on every mini site you order from us at no extra charge.

We proudly use the Simple:Press forum software on our mini sites, check out their site for a full list of features.  Some notable ones include:

  • Pretty/SEO Friendly Permalinks
  • Powerful User Permission System (allows moderators, etc)
  • Private Messaging System
  • Built-in Search Tool
  • Fully Customizable Skins and Icons
  • User Profiles, Signatures, and Avatars
  • Optional Spam Prevention Tools
  • Powerful Admin Panel
  • Forum Statistics – Including Who is Online
  • TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor
  • Post Ratings and Watched Topics

A forum is a great way to keep your using coming back day after day.  Not only that, they will be generating tons of unique, search engine friendly content that will help you maintain a solid ranking in the SERPS.  You are also building brand loyalty and trust by offering a way for users to not only interact with each other, but also your new business.

Look for a number of extremely useful plugins to be added in the coming weeks to help you turn your mini site into a mini business.  Some of the things you can already do on your MiniSites.com mini site at no extra charge include:

  • Lead generation through contact forms.
  • Direct banner sales through Google Ad Manager or OpenX
  • Affiliate banners and hotel/travel search boxes.
  • eBay and Amazon eCommerce sites.
  • Embed videos from YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo, Daily Motion, Flickr, and many more.
  • Create up to 5 free email forwarding accounts.  Do business as you@yourdomain.com.

If you have any questions or comments, please let us know below!

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  1. Very nice plugin. I never knew Wordpress allowed ‘forum’ type content.

    I plan on adding this to a few of my sites in the next few days and seeing how it goes.

    Thanks

    J.R.

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