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Website Flipping Guide – How to Start Making Money Online Buying and Selling Websites

June 12th, 2011 by Ed | No Comments | Filed in Selling Website Tips

Do you want to know how to start making money online buying and selling websites? This short website flipping guide will help you to get started. But first, what is website flipping?

It is simply a system of building websites or blogs, optimizing these websites, posting content on it regularly, monetizing it according to the site subject theme, promoting it and making money from it before selling it to a buyer at an arm’s length transaction. Another way is to purchase an existing profit making or traffic generating web site at an auction market, revamp it and resell it at a higher profits.

The whole idea around site flip business is about buying and selling already profitable web properties on the internet and making profits from those transactions. In short, you will hear site flippers referring to domain name and website flipping business as virtual real estate business because it is akin to buying and selling real estate in the physical world.

Whether you are a webmaster or internet marketer, you can start selling web sites with start-up capital as low as $20. What you need is a proven site flipping plan and the time to dedicate to promoting the website or blog.

Sincerely, website promotion is the hardest part of making any blog to become profitable online. But if you have been in the internet marketing game for any length of time, you will know legitimate, smart and stealth ways to generate targeted free traffic without breaking the bank.

For me, the website flipping guide or plan I usually adopt to build a profitable blog is:

Research in-demand niche markets to confirm that there are people in the market searching for solution to a specific problem. There are abundance of free and paid tools and resources to do this.

Determine whether the market demand is sufficient to sustain any market player when he or she decides to invest his or her time, effort and money to build a website in that niche.

Analyze the market competition to make sure you have a chance of market visibility. Otherwise, your blog will take longer time than is necessary to make you money or be entirely buried in the dot com graveyard!

Register a keyword rich domain name. I will advise you to look out for exact search terms domain names if you can. For a comprehensive course on how to make money online in domain flipping business go here.

Sign up for a dependable website hosting service provider like Hostgator. I highly recommend you to go with Hostgator through this link and use the Hostgator coupon code, HGCPNCODE1, to enjoy $9.94 discount.

Install WordPress blog, install free tracking script, optimize the blog, post unique but quality articles on it, appropriately monetize it and aggressively promote it.

Make money consistently for at least three (3) months before flipping.

That is actually a synopsis of trading in virtual real estate business. But there is a simple website flipping guide I have put together for you on this subject when you click here.

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A Simple Case Study of How to Make Money Online of at Least $1,000 Per Month Flipping Websites

August 9th, 2009 by Ed | No Comments | Filed in Domain Name Tips

To make money online of at least $1000 per month is easy if you do your due diligence expeditiously. This article has provided you with a simple strategy of making money online without doing much work. You don’t need special skill to rake in regular passive income with this simple method.

 

Internet entrepreneurs who are serious about their online business must register a domain name; build website and then upload some webpages with quality articles on a web hosting server. The reason(s) for this is/are not far fetched.

 

-        Web visitors will see you as a professional businessman and take your recommendations seriously.

 

-        You are not restricted as to what you do with your website; unlike having a free blog on Blogger.com and WordPress.com with terms of service (TOS).

 

-        You can promote as many and diverse affiliate programs as you can from your domain name cum website professionally and using PHP/HTML redirect if you like.

 

-        Consistently writing and uploading good and quality content on your website, you will create trust and credibility for yourself and business. These are important success elements in online business ventures. Ultimately, this will increase the value of your internet business via your domain name in case you want to sell your website in the future.

 

-        You can sell your own product or service and/or sell advertising space if you are generating enough quality targeted traffic on a regular basis.

 

Now that you are aware of some of the many benefits of having a website, let’s work with a simple case study of how to make money online of at least $1000 per month by buying a cheap website and turning around to sell it at a higher price for profits.

 

This is a simple strategy to make quick cash per month assuming you don’t have the time and skill to build a brand-new website from the scratch.

 

Go to popular forums where internet entrepreneurs are desperate to make a sale at unbeatable prices like DigitalForum.com. Look for the sales section of the forum. But make sure you read their terms and conditions of service.

 

Search for websites for sale that are cheap, say $100 or less, and meet all the requirements of a good profitable niche website. For example, weight loss, acne treatment, etc are popular niches and will sell fast. Check if any of the websites or blogs that picks your interest is attractive enough to sell off when you are ready to flip the website. Or, alternatively, is the site already making money for the owner? If the site is selling for more than $100, bargain with the seller. When he sees that you are a serious buyer-to-be, the site flipper will consider your offer.

 

After buying the website of your interest, decide to upload additional 10 unique articles as HTML web pages or post them on the blog to promote it. Let the blog be a sub directory of the domain name. Write another 10 quality articles and submit them to free article directories of your choice to get backlinks.

 

Thereafter, you can take the website to SitePoint.com or Flippa.com and list at the auction market to sell it. You will be amazed how much you will flip the website.

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How Selling Websites Can Make You Money Online

July 18th, 2009 by Ed | No Comments | Filed in Selling Website Tips

Selling websites is no longer news on the internet. How much fortune you can amass flipping websites is the big deal today. Many internet entrepreneurs who have foresight have quickly diversified into the selling websites niche and they are making a killing from site flip business. This article discusses briefly the tips and tricks used by successful flippers.

 

Selling Websites is a Business

 

If you are planning to go into the business of websites flipping, you need to treat it as such. To that end, register a keyword-rich domain name and build website for it solely to communicate to your prospects from time to time that it is one of your lines of businesses. Prospective buyers will take you more serious when dealing with you.

 

 

Build Attractive Websites to Sell

 

Selling websites fast is like love at first sight. Buyers are wont to be attracted to websites that are pretty to the eyes. From there, they will have the mind to probe other variables that will inform them whether to buy or not. My advice is that you either outsource website design to a professional if you don’t know how to construct one or use easy-to-use website design software.

 

Use Quality and Unique Content on Website to Sell

 

Successful site flippers have long discovered that websites and blogs that sell fast are the ones were quality and unique articles are used. Website buyers want to be different and unique in the niche market they wish to pursue. These days it is cheap to outsource article writing. You can get quality articles written with as little as $5 per article. And better if you are good at researching and writing articles yourself.

 

Monetize the Websites

 

Selling websites business is all about proving to a buyer how much traffic and revenue it consistently generates now and in the foreseeable future and at a profit too. What this means is that a site that make consistent sales/profits from own product or service, affiliate products and advertising will always have eager buyers more than “plain vanilla” websites.

 

Drive Quality Traffic to Your Site

 

Another point to note about successfully selling a website is getting targeted traffic regularly. Yes, website visitors are the people that will deliver on your site objective of making money online. No web visitors, no sales! To this end, you must drive targeted traffic through article marketing, posting in forums, making blog comments, using pay per click (PPC) advertising, social bookmarking, and other creative means.

 

Think Long Term Rather than Short Term

 

Majority of beginning site flippers think short term instead of long term. They quickly build website or blog, post PLR articles or public domain content and then list the site for sale at auction. No wonder you see bids and sales at $100 or less. That is not a good option of selling websites. Plan to sell a website after 3 months. You make more money because you would have built a solid foundation in terms of revenue and traffic.

 

You can learn how to profitably sell websites by reading my selling websites report here

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