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Top questions about selling websites on Flippa...

by Dayne Dylan Banned
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Warriors, I'm thinking about selling a series of related websites on flippa. Most of them have ebooks, and are simple HTML sites. One is a bigger Wordpress site with just content.

My main question is this, if I sell all of them on Flippa, what is the best way to move all of the sites over to the new owner? I've never really done this.

Would I just simply save the Public HTML folder of each of the html sites, then when we change the name servers, etc. I can just give them each Public HTML folder to upload?

What about the larger Wordpress site?

ANY help or tips would be greatly greatly appreciated. I just don't want to mess anything up.

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr Joe
    With html sites, just copy the folder to the new server, but with the wordpress one you also need to move the DB. There is plugin that make it very easy to do, search in google for: plugin DB backup

    Hope this helped...
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  • Profile picture of the author Dayne Dylan
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    So if I do that Joe, does that give me a copy of the DB to then just zip up and send to them? And that is it?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr Joe
    Yes, that's it. Your buyer should be able to install the DB in PhpMyAdmin asumming she/he use a cpanel hosting
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  • Profile picture of the author Dayne Dylan
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    Awesome, this should be much easier than I thought. Thanks so much!
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr Joe
    Your welcome buddy, if you need more help, there are some good videos in youtube on "how to move a wordpress blog"
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  • Profile picture of the author Amitywill
    Also checkout these videos on how to transfer a wordpress
    site to a new host.



    It's easy after the first time!

    Will
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    • Profile picture of the author Dayne Dylan
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      For those of you who have sold websites on Flippa, did you use a contract as well, and even had it notarized?
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Here's instructions. For the html sites, just skip the database part.
    http://domainingdiva.com/transfer.pdf
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Barboza
    Outsource the transfer part for a Fiverr. I used this gig when I needed to transfer my WP blogs: beerplz: I will move your website from your current host to another for $5 on fiverr.com
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    The transfer should be no problem.

    The domain names can usually easily be "pushed" from wherever you registered your domain.

    As for the actual content, you could run a backup right from Cpanel and give the backup to the buyer. I myself use a wordpress backup/cloning plugin called "backupbuddy"...it creates an archive of whatever site and you can very quickly restore it to a new host. Also..if i sell a site i usually always offer my help for such matters as a bonus.
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