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Flippa Starter Websites with duplicate content - advice pls

by Nickym7
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Hi, I'm a newbie looking for advice on flippa starter sites with duplicate unoriginal content. I've been looking at a music affiliate site, the developer has basically cloned and changed the domain name. I can see at least 5 of these music sites that he's sold in the last few months. Am I right in thinking that it will be impossible to rank organically and I'll need to drive traffic through Facebook and pay per click? The cost is not huge - around $250 and I am just looking for something to cut my teeth on before I create my own site. Is it worth the investment?
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    That makes no sense. For $250 you could be sending traffic to your own website.

    No - to me, it's not worth it - and I wouldn't call it "an investment".

    Jump in and 'cut your teeth' on your own site or blog. Learn as you build - and end up with something worth having. Spend the $250 either to outsource UNIQUE articles for your new site - or use it to send traffic with ppc or other ads.
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    • Profile picture of the author EricBernard
      Originally Posted by Nickym7 View Post

      Hi, I'm a newbie looking for advice on flippa starter sites with duplicate unoriginal content. I've been looking at a music affiliate site, the developer has basically cloned and changed the domain name. I can see at least 5 of these music sites that he's sold in the last few months. Am I right in thinking that it will be impossible to rank organically and I'll need to drive traffic through Facebook and pay per click? The cost is not huge - around $250 and I am just looking for something to cut my teeth on before I create my own site. Is it worth the investment?
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      That makes no sense. For $250 you could be sending traffic to your own website.
      Kay has said it well, it really makes no sense to buy that site.

      Spend $20-$30 bucks and buy yourself a domain and hosting. Take $100, go on fiverr, and have someone create a site for you.

      Spend another $25 on fiverr sellers who will write you 2 articles per gig. Now you have a website WITHOUT duplicate content that you can call your own.

      Take another $5 and buy yourself a bing ads coupon from fiverr for $115 worth of ad spend. Set yourself up a Bing Campaign and drive traffic to your site!

      Use another $10-15 and have someone else on fiverr create your about us page, privacy policy page, etc

      There ya go, just saved about $100 bucks and created something that's your own.
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    Thank you for the sound advice - I'll have a go at pulling it together myself
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  • Profile picture of the author tahoecale
    I dont think that this site is worth $250 if it is just a clone, had duplicated content all over it, and he has sold a few other of the exact same thing. If you are just starting out on your own, you can start off with a blog, get the basic feel for how things work and then jump in and create your own website. There are plenty of resources on the web to create your own blog or website. You can also continue to read threads here and ask questions if there is something that you need help with.

    As said before to use Fivver, Fivver has its ups and downs, pluses and minuses. Make sure you are both in understanding of exactly what you want and expect. Other samples of similar sites are Freelancer or Odesk

    Good Luck to You
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      The risk in buying a cloned site (or any site that's not unique/well done) is this:

      You spend money
      You work hard to rank the site
      You create content for the site
      You pay for advertising
      You spend time

      The site sits on google like a lump of coal and goes nowhere.. You give up thinking "I can't do this" - and you'd be wrong.
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    It makes no sense to buy those clone sites UNLESS the content's been proven to be viral and has staying power... From your description, I doubt it highly though.

    You're better off spending that $250 on your own site.

    Find viral content. Curate it. Recreate its viral channels. Push it to less saturated channels. Rinse and repeat until you have reached $100 in revenue and flip it for $800 to $1200.

    Better yet, do this with a news site (you'll need original materials though). Google News-accepted sites sell for WAY MORE than $1200.
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