Ready Made Sites

Think about why they are being sold. The seller wants to make money.

Surely if the seller wants to make money wouldn't he just keep the website and monetize it?

No, because it is too much work and time to do.

This is the case with buying ready made sites, usually the actual amount of work involved in keyword research, SEO, content creation, monetization, optimizing conversions, etc. is pretty much about the same as if you just make your own website from scratch.

Best case scenario:

You buy some advertising and send it to the ready made site and make a profit.


Worst case scenario:

You buy some advertising and send it to the ready made site, make no money and get a lawsuit on top of it because the seller did not care about copyrights and just "took it from the internet" and then sold it to you.

Don't expect to make money without any effort. Those ready made site are not making money, but money will roll in if you have traffic and better monetization of the site. There is no money in that ready made site, but it could save you a ton a time if you're a newbie who don't know how to build a site. It also a fast track to take action immediately without messing with the daunting tasks of the initial step of building up a site.

Some ready made sites are complete with a full tasks from keywords research, customizing/creating theme, adding contents/articles with on page optimization, and upto off page optimization/link building. These are are all steps to run money making sites.

Make sure that the sellers know what they're doing. Never expect the money will be there without money or efforts, and also there are no true guarantee that the sites is going to earn money.

If the sites are so easy to make money with, why are they selling them?

From my own experience selling and buying Ready Made Sites and from my client's experience it is not the website that makes money.. it is the person operating the website that makes money.

Jeffery 100% :-)

Those sites are not making $10.00 per day.

Why? Because if they were making $10.00 per day, they would not be for sale.

$10.00 per day is what $3560? They are going to sell you a website worth $3560.00 per year in pure profit for a few hundred bucks?

Yea right..

Put your bootstraps back on.. there is only one real, sustainable way to do this.

Old Fashioned Hard Work

Thanks!

Jeremiah

It takes the same thing that any site takes to make money. Targeted traffic. They don't come with ready-made targeted traffic and it'll be your responsibility to get that. In addition, you'll probably want to do other things such as continue to add unique content, SEO, etc.

I think that buyer has unrealistic expectations, because of those sells letter, that promises a lot of money for very little work.
Something like: " only 30 minutes per day, and we guarantee you 500$ a month per website or money back".

It really depends on the stats of the website that you're buying. If it's already constantly receiving like thousands of organic visitors a day, it means the guy has done his traffic building and the seo for you, which I do think can be a worthwhile investment though its often really expensive. You can just leech off the traffic, optimize and monetize the site with a little tweaking, and you r good to go. Btw you can monetize with your own affiliate offers, and adsense.

But if its just a pure content website with no traffic, i think you r better off outsourcing one yourself especially if you r on a tight budget, as they tend to be overpriced, unless you prefer to get it done once and for all. Make sure the content is unique, not plr or any junk content, or else you should rewrite the content with quality.

If the seller purchases ppc traffic as the main source, i would consider buying the site if the seller can show the traffic converts very well to sales or subscribers, basically the site's income report.

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Yes they work, and no they aren't bought for the right reasons the majority of the time. This isn't the sellers fault and it's the buyer who is to blame to think they can buy a made website for them for under $100 and have it earning even $1 per day, let alone $10-100.

The seller provides them with a good theme, some example content to get users started and driving traffic, perhaps all to serve as template Articles from which to get ideas and refer back to.

If you want a proven converting site, you want to buy Done For You websites from sellers who have a track record of having used the same sort of websites for their own business. After that, it's up to you to carry on with content and to market that site.

For $40-60 here's what you are getting and saving:

Rights to theme which you no longer have to purchase (unless it's free) - $20-120
Premium Plugins if ANY is provided - $7-50 (rarely do I find more expensive)
A set of Articles - $10-100 (depends on quality, price and uniqueness)
Header/logo - $5-20
Optional Keyword Research - $5-10
List of future Articles - $5-10

Atleast, that's what I would provide if I were to do Done For You websites, with an addon guide to getting traffic, and where.

I remember back in the day, (many moons ago) we sold template based websites that were customized, for big bucks, that slowly changed, back then you didn't even need to monetize at all, now that has changed too.

These days if you want to really make money flipping websites you have to add Value...

Everything that you can do to add value, will help increase the price at which you may sell your developed property.

Think of it like you would land, at least in the US undeveloped land is the cheapest to buy, but if the land has been cleared and landscaped, then its more valuable.

It the land has water and power it is even more valuable, and so on...

Everything matters in how valuable a website property is.

Buyers definitely should weigh first these points to ponder stated here.

I'm just getting started. I payed for a theme, some plug-ins, and someone to make changes I couldn't figure out. It took a lot of time and a little over a hundred dollars. I have seen some for sale for around $250. If I would have known that then I would have bought one. It would have saved me time. My vision for success still has to be implemented...I think spending money on useless stuff is part of the process. For me it was a WSO or 2...others probably buy sites that aren't worth it...

IMHO and from experience it is not logical to put all Ready Made Sites (RMS) under the same umbrella. Simply because not all are the same. Some are better than others.

When you browse through this forums "Complete Web Sites For Sale!" there are different merchants selling different RMS. Compare those from long standing members with tons of sales (Quality RMS) to others that have little to no sales. The differences are many, but the main difference is the Quality RMS actually earn money.

^ See For Yourself ^ it is a fact. Always has been and always will be. So, anyone that comments RMS does not make money is just not knowledgeable enough to make the comment.

Some people I think are confusing what a RMS is. Some refer to RMS as a complete website or a turnkey website and others refer to it as a website with a sales page. In fact, all three could be classified as RMS and therein is the root of the confusion...

..."Putting Ready Made Sites (RMS) under the same umbrella."

As I said before ".. it is not the website that makes money.. it is the person operating the website that makes money."

Jeffery 100% :-)