Website Flipping
You wouldn’t believe how easy this is. For the most part, this requires an investment but it’s relatively cheap compared to what you make and can even be done a few times a day if you’re quite quick at it. Like in every profession though, there’s people who fail at the most simple of tasks and there’s people who are champions of the world.
What exactly this is, is you’re going to create a fresh website that will be considered an “opportunity” to make money and will be sold back to the public for a set amount. You create a website, add some content, then sell it.
Getting A Domain
The very first step is to get a domain. Now personally, I ALWAYS use Host Gator. They’ve always been super helpful to me and have always answered any questions on any help that I might need. You can use your own but I’m just referring you to my favorite host.
Now, depending on your niche, you need to choose a domain that’s obviously name-relevant. It doesn’t have to be exact name.info or exactname.org but you get the idea. If you’re doing a website about cruises then try to get something along the line of “Cheap-travel-cruises.org .net” what ever is available, it really doesn’t matter.
The domain name should honestly not need explaining nor help because it’s pretty self-explanatory and is why I put it dead first.
Niche/Keyword Research
Now, this should honestly always be your very first step but before getting a website you should have a niche in mind so that’s why I’m putting this as step #2.
Now, you might have your own software for this, but my favorite website in the whole wide world is https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal so go to it. Now with your niche in mind on what you want to create your website about, look for keywords, long-tail profitable keywords which don’t have much competition to take over. We’re not going to go into farther details because you don’t care how profitable the keywords are for this website.. your job is to make people believe these keywords are profitable enough to make a lot of money when you sell it. Anything can sell if you know what to say to people. So that part is quite purely simple.
Go to the Google Keyword tool and type in your niche/keywords and lookup for some low competition keywords and please dear god make sure they’re at least getting searches.. yes I have been asked if that was a requirement. Write down 20 of these keywords you noticed.
Adding Content
This is the part I personally can’t stand because I only like content being added by me and since I am a very fast writer, I just write it all up myself. However, not every one wants to do that, and since you’ve already invested $25 or less into the domain/website, you can either use the above methods described to find free content (if you can) on your niche or you just have to bite the bullet and write yourself.You can outsource/hire some people to write the content for you with the exact keywords given.. yes that is very important.. please make sure you are using the exact keywords you noted down. However, when someone writes content for you, quality is not guaranteed or usually even delivered. You’ll just profit more by writing the articles yourself, however if you scale this up and do it long term and a lot with a lot of writers doing this for you, it can become quite profitable by outsourcing. So this is up to you. This section doesn’t really need it’s own section but I felt I should chime in with my thoughts anyway.
Selling It
Here is the meat of the package.. selling it.. ah yes here we go.
You can sell this on marketing forums or on www.sitepoint.com which is personally my favorite place to actually sell websites because well.. a lot of business goes down on that website whether it be small or big.
In case SOME HOW you are behind and still have no idea how to set the website up and are not to this point yet.. I would advise you to re-read this section but I will break it down for you.
#1 – Choose a domain name related to your niche, it doesn’t matter if it’s .org, .net, .com, w/e. Register it through your own preferred hosting.
#2 – Go to the Google Keyword Tool and find 20 keywords whether they be long-tail, or short. Think
Bum Marketing and find 20 marketable keywords with low competition but decent searches monthly.
#3 – Either write the 20 articles yourself (they should be around 300-500 words I prefer 350 and add them to your website). This was kind of implied but you never know.. some genius out there probably forgot to do this step. Or, you can simply hire someone to write the articles for you.
#4 – You should be here.
When setting up a listing on Sitepoint, first impressions are EVERY THING! These people buy
websites for a living, so you must convince these people that your website is the worth the price tag you put on it.
Remember to include some main pointers inside your listing. It covers profitable keywords, it’s
relatively cheap for the traffic it will bring in, It’s an amazing business opportunity. Now, you will
almost always be asked why you’re not just making money with it yourself instead of handing off such a wonderful opportunity and the response that usually works for me is “I just don’t have the time to run it. I can create these in no time at all, but I simply don’t have enough time to add or manage the content there.”
You can use your own excuse but what ever works. Be professional and present this website like it’s been raking in thousands of dollars per week for you. Don’t flat out lie, but you have to make people seriously believe this website will make the money.In site flipping, people really do love the kinds of opportunities like this and they usually jump at it the first chance they get. It all just depends on the niche you’ve chosen, hopefully you’ve selected great keywords and the articles/the website it’s self is presented professionally.
Now while there isn’t a lot of information or steps needed to site flipping, I know that some times it can be confusing for new people and if there is anything you didn’t understand or any thing you have a question about, please don’t hesitate to ask me.
