If you had 2K to buy a existing website that is for sale on Flippa or anywhere else what would it be

Yep I see the same thing....Thing is that I have done IM off and on for several years now. So SEO and all that stuff I understand. Its just now I dont have the time to produce everything without outsourcing it. So I was told by several full time IMer's that I should just buy an existing site. But all I see is sites going for 20k that only make rubish. And not even sure if they will return what they cost. The other issue though to is that people are paying it somehow lol. I am looking for adsense sites making money or a good blog to take over etc. I need the second income within the next year to compensate for what I lost in the divorce I went through. So hoping to find some sort of road to travel on here and get a good income part time. Looking for a 1000 a month overall with my IM venture. I have several thousand I can invest just want to make sure its in the right place.

About 10X of monthly revenue seems to be what the going sale rate is on flippa.

It's not ridiculous. Many buyers that go to Flippa have some serious money to invest. Let say for example, a site is generating $1000 revenue using $500 in advertising. Then, in theory it can make $10000 per month with a $5000/month advertising budget. Do the math and see how long will it take to see some profit then. Plus, the monetization method can be changed to something more productive. Buying such site for 10k would not be a bad investment in the hand of an experienced marketer. Make sense?

You are making the assumption that the new owner will simply sit on the site doing absolutely nothing and just hope for the best. Now, that's ridiculous.

Chris I agree for a established business but for a site thats only been up and running less than a year to go for 8 thousand with an earning of 200 a month is a little nutz in my mind. Maybe ive been out of the market to long i dont know but that seems a bit high to me. I sold a site 2 years ago that paid me big but it was a site that was 8 years old and making over 1,800 a month. Had to get rid of it due to no time to work it and I was losing money or value. If it would have sold for 40 times that hell I could have quit my job and went to work full time in the IM area. But these sites that are being built from scratch and listed for 8 grand is a little nutz. I look at it the same way I would buy a small business and you dont see most small businesses going for that much mark up. Unless its the next great thing to come or something.

Exactly. The ROI would just keep increasing every month after those initial 40 months

But the difference is - online time moves quickly. If you buy a site that gets its traffic from articles and Google changes their algo you can lose your traffic and NEVER get your money back.

There's a lot more risk than most people seem to realise.

Flippa is a great place to buy and sell website, even WF is looking very promising now. The advantage over buying an already established money making site is extremely great, that is why sellers prefer to give away their site for about 5months to 10 years aggregate income......If you ask me, i wouldn't buy a site with more that 2 years aggregate income..

I was looking on there yesterday and was surprised at the prices, pleasantly though because I was just starting to build a website to sell and that's the first one I've built with that intention.

2K would pay for quite a lot of outsourcing so I would use it to build rather than buy.

A word of warning on this, I looked at this two weeks ago but you may have problems with youtubes TOS and also google.

It's a difficult decision overall. It really comes down to whether you're looking at things with a short term perspective or a longer term one. In the real short term video sites may be the way to go and you'll need to create them, market them and sell them as quickly as possible because they WILL fade in popularity over time as more and more site marketers build and sell them. Short term fad type sites are very easy to find on Flippa. Probably 98% of the sites there are built to be turned over quickly. The sellers build tons of automated links to them and increase the rankings quickly then sell them. You'll notice that most sites haven't even been around a year and a site that has only been online for a few months is considered "established".

If you have a long term perspective you'll want a site that you are genuinely interested in. It's tough to spend a lot of time and effort on a site who's content bores you. So, you'll need to find something interesting that can be built up over time. These sites are very hard to find and usually sell for a far larger multiple of earnings then fad sites because everyone who knows what they are doing can see the value.

I've done both and prefer the long term perspective. But, it can get frustrating at times watching 3 month old, cookie cutter, backlink spammed sites selling for decent money over and over. They have a strong appeal to many buyers' belief that they can make money quickly so they are in high demand. Remember all the **** berry sites? Ugh. If you built and flipped those sites you probably made very good money for a while. In most cases they aren't really a long term prospect though. And, the building and flipping is really just a job and not "passive" income.

Personally I would be patient and try to find a good quality site in a good quality niche (not necessarily micro niche) and spend the money on that. A site that has been established for at least a year but preferably more. It will take some time though because you'll be lucky to find one or two on Flippa at any particular time. And, for $2k you'll be limited to smaller sites with lower revenue. But, as has been mentioned previously you can always look for ways to improve the monetization of the site.

No. I stay away from sites that have brand/tm names. It's amazing how many of them there are on flippa. IMO you're just begging to throw your money away.