What things should I be looking for when buying a website?

12 years ago

When you are looking to buy websites, see if you want an established site (expensive) or a new site (cheap) and work on it. Don't get fooled by fake claims and screenshots. Page rank is also faked easily.

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teguhyuliantos

12 years ago

If you want to buy website, a lot of factor that you consider, among of them are :

1. Age of website
2. After sales service. This is very important if some times your site any error.
3. Is there any warranty?
4. Price offered. Is reasonable or not.
5. Fast loading of site.
6. SEO friendly or not.
7. Ask for seller, what kind of hosting that used.
8. And many more factor that you must be to know.

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Warrior Junior

12 years ago

Originally Posted by teguhyuliantos

If you want to buy website, a lot of factor that you consider, among of them are :

1. Age of website
2. After sales service. This is very important if some times your site any error.
3. Is there any warranty?
4. Price offered. Is reasonable or not.
5. Fast loading of site.
6. SEO friendly or not.
7. Ask for seller, what kind of hosting that used.
8. And many more factor that you must be to know.

Totally agreed. But it is always drill down your purpose for the website.
You can check out at flippa.com or WF > Warrior Product and Services > Website for Sale

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System Wide Solutions

12 years ago

Originally Posted by teguhyuliantos

If you want to buy website, a lot of factor that you consider, among of them are :

1. Age of website
2. After sales service. This is very important if some times your site any error.
3. Is there any warranty?
4. Price offered. Is reasonable or not.
5. Fast loading of site.
6. SEO friendly or not.
7. Ask for seller, what kind of hosting that used.
8. And many more factor that you must be to know.

Well said. you have left nothing more to say.

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nheddi

12 years ago

Originally Posted by teguhyuliantos

If you want to buy website, a lot of factor that you consider, among of them are :

1. Age of website
2. After sales service. This is very important if some times your site any error.
3. Is there any warranty?
4. Price offered. Is reasonable or not.
5. Fast loading of site.
6. SEO friendly or not.
7. Ask for seller, what kind of hosting that used.
8. And many more factor that you must be to know.

Thank you for all the replies. I am wondering if there are any domain transferring problems that you guys are aware of?

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nheddi

12 years ago

Originally Posted by ClickController

Lots to learn. Here is a good starting point.

flippa.com/blog/category/buying-websites/

Also check out this section if you plan to buy on Flippa:

flippa.com/help/buy

Originally Posted by rafijaan

Look whether it suits your business undertaking,what are the modification you can to do does check for the cost on it,ask which language as been used to built all these will be help.

Originally Posted by xtrapunch

When you are looking to buy websites, see if you want an established site (expensive) or a new site (cheap) and work on it. Don't get fooled by fake claims and screenshots. Page rank is also faked easily.

Originally Posted by teguhyuliantos

If you want to buy website, a lot of factor that you consider, among of them are :

1. Age of website
2. After sales service. This is very important if some times your site any error.
3. Is there any warranty?
4. Price offered. Is reasonable or not.
5. Fast loading of site.
6. SEO friendly or not.
7. Ask for seller, what kind of hosting that used.
8. And many more factor that you must be to know.

Originally Posted by Warrior Junior

Totally agreed. But it is always drill down your purpose for the website.
You can check out at flippa.com or WF > Warrior Product and Services > Website for Sale

Originally Posted by Cyberdog1

I always look for potential - I can't afford some of the ready made businesses, wish I could!

But I have recently purchased 2 high traffic article directories simply for advertising use. between them they have 20,000 users and currently 5K-7K uniques per month which I'll be increasing shortly through SEO.

Bonuses with this is that I get a ready made email list of 20,000 users into article marketing and SEO

For the price I got them for I don't think anybody else looking at the sites thought about the potential of buying a ready made niche list of subscribers.

Look at what a site can do for you.

Originally Posted by System Wide Solutions

Well said. you have left nothing more to say.

I want to say thanks to all of you

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rhinocl

12 years ago

Have you made any sites yourself? Building one with WordPress is easy and will teach you things that will make you a wiser buyer of sites built by others.

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nheddi

12 years ago

Originally Posted by rhinocl

Have you made any sites yourself? Building one with WordPress is easy and will teach you things that will make you a wiser buyer of sites built by others.

I am familiar with Wordpress and made some sites.

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RalphManer

12 years ago

Does the url have profitable keywords in it? And do search results for those keywords show the website? Other than that, who cares. If you can get the clients, meaning if you get traffic, all else is easy.

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nheddi

12 years ago

Originally Posted by RalphManer

Does the url have profitable keywords in it? And do search results for those keywords show the website? Other than that, who cares. If you can get the clients, meaning if you get traffic, all else is easy.

Thanks, yes the url has profitable keywords but I have to work on generating traffic to my site.

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ClickController

12 years ago

Lots to learn. Here is a good starting point.

flippa.com/blog/category/buying-websites/

Also check out this section if you plan to buy on Flippa:

flippa.com/help/buy

Thanks
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rafijaan 12 years ago

Look whether it suits your business undertaking,what are the modification you can to do does check for the cost on it,ask which language as been used to built all these will be help.
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Cyberdog1

12 years ago

I always look for potential - I can't afford some of the ready made businesses, wish I could!

But I have recently purchased 2 high traffic article directories simply for advertising use. between them they have 20,000 users and currently 5K-7K uniques per month which I'll be increasing shortly through SEO.

Bonuses with this is that I get a ready made email list of 20,000 users into article marketing and SEO

For the price I got them for I don't think anybody else looking at the sites thought about the potential of buying a ready made niche list of subscribers.

Look at what a site can do for you.

Thanks

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hansdesjarlais

12 years ago

Hi,

All those recommendations were great. But 1 important thing is to *cover your butt* at all times. Use an escrow service when doing the transfer and DO YOUR RESEARCH. There is A LOT of fraud out there. Just do your homework.

One other thing, invest in what you know.

Good luck

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nheddi

12 years ago

Originally Posted by hansdesjarlais

Hi,

All those recommendations were great. But 1 important thing is to *cover your butt* at all times. Use an escrow service when doing the transfer and DO YOUR RESEARCH. There is A LOT of fraud out there. Just do your homework.

One other thing, invest in what you know.

Good luck

I agree with you 100%, these are the kind of guide lines I was expecting. Because, in todays world, you cant trust anyone period, especially on the net.

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WebsiteBegin

12 years ago

Depends on what you want to use it for, really. If you are going to try to funnel traffic to another website, then you should look for:
1. Traffic (make sure it's documented).
2. Search volume.
3. PR
4. Backlinks (make sure they're quality and not bought).
5. Be sure to check SiteAdvisor so you know it's safe as is.
6. Proof of income (You generally will pay 12 months worth of income).

IF you are going to mold it into a site that you will publish onto (if it is a blog, for example), look for all of the above factors and, in addition:
1. Proof of a community.
2. Make sure the quality of pre-existing content is to par of what you can create.

In general, just DO YOUR RESEARCH.

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nheddi 12 years ago

Originally Posted by WebsiteBegin

Depends on what you want to use it for, really. If you are going to try to funnel traffic to another website, then you should look for:.................

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lamzoR

12 years ago

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nheddi 12 years ago

Originally Posted by lamzoR

Hello Nheddi,

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Monty82

12 years ago

You must check the quality of the website like it's page rank,quality of the site content etc before buying any website.

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Monty82

12 years ago

You should check the cache of the website.

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sams_dxny

12 years ago

Hi,

you can check the website popularity here:Alexa. the Web Information Company

this site will give you accurate information about the that particular site's popularity

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12 years ago

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nheddi

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Monty82

You must check the quality of the website like it's page rank,quality of the site content etc before buying any website.

Originally Posted by Monty82

You should check the cache of the website.

Originally Posted by sams_dxny

Hi,

you can check the website popularity here:Alexa. the Web Information Company

this site will give you accurate information about the that particular site's popularity

Originally Posted by proxybuy

unique design

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