Site Flipping

Is there really money in this and where can I learn more?

 

It used to be a big thing, but I think it has slowed down a ton because what people are doing is trying to sell sites that don't make any money. No one wants to do that. So generally, you have to take a site not making money and turn into one that is before you can ever see a dime. Most of time you are better off just creating that original site yourself and building it up from there. That's my personal opinion.

 

Yes this niche is still profitable.
Actually this kind of skill must be learn by ownself and learn from mistake.
There is nothing better than own experience.

 

Well, its profitable if you work a little bit hard and make your site extremely good.

And you will learn everything by yourself once you start flipping.

- Digital -

 

I've had only moderate success. It's such a competitive space that good opportunities are rare and few between,

The few times it's worked has been when I've found a site outside the traditional money making niches with some reasonable traffic and added some reasonable monetisation channels (affiliate offers etc)

Once there's a little bit of cash coming through an established website it's much more profitable to flip (but hard work for the return for most of us!)

 

The more traffic you can generate on your site, the more you can flip it for. If the site is good and has good content (etc) then here are a few things that can increase its value:

- Lots of backlinks to related sites, directory listings and SEO submissions.
- Setting up related social network accounts like squidoo, hubpages (etc). This way the client will be getting a set of related accounts with their main site purchase.
- Articles & videos posted to directories with the site URL.

Essentially, the marketing of a site is pretty full on - so if you can do a lot of this and prove that traffic is coming in, you should be able to flip sites quite nicely.

 

Do it like you do real estate - take a website that does not have "dry rot" (black hat SEO tactics, links from bad neighborhoods) that is "structurally sound" (plenty of age, unique content, etc) and improve it. Make more quality backlinks, increase the traffic, do whatever you can. When the site is earning more money, it is worth more. Then, you can sell it for more money.

 

Buy an aged domain with some backlinks, add unique content with nice design and you are on the way.

 

If you can do it right, there are good money.

 

Hmm...
I think that are the domain or web value factors :

- SERP
- Age
- Name
- Content (Unique or not)
- Backlinks
- Web revenue

 

Your site sells or not it depends on niche you chosse. I see a lot of new site flippers creating sites in hot niche which sells well.

 

Site flipping is still good business - and will continue for as long as the internet is around - it's been around since the internet started - just that it became very popular in '07 and '08- thanks to Internet marketers : )
I used to be very easy to sell/flip turnkey websites with no traffic or rev for upto $500 each - but not any more - people have become a lot more savvy and unless u have some decent traffic or rev - it's gonna get a lot harder to flip that site of yours. Knowing where to sell a particular type of site is quite important now days - there are many marketplaces that cater to a specific type of visitor/ customer - and understanding that will play a big role in your flipping success. a thread i read here on the different places / marketplaces that you can sell your websites for might be a good starting point for a lot of newbies.

 

well site flipping is not as easy as it was some years ago. It's hard to find good sites to buy but of course you can still make money out of it if you know your business. I don't know how you could learn it. My way was to read DP and to try my luck ...