Flipped my first site...well pleased

Hi Jeff
I received your message but will answer it here so all can see. I will not reveal your domains but will give some advise on what I think is needed from site flipping.

Now if i created a site to flip which I didnt in the first place then the procedure as far as I can think would be somewhat like this.

• Firstly find your market and your targeted audience
• choose a domain name - with a domain I would restrict it to 2-3 words so for example if i was to target the health niche then I would be looking for a domain such as goodhealth.com or ahealthylife.com - using hyphens is also ok but try to keep them to 1 at max - Just remember that the person who will be buying the site will want their visitors to remember the name so look for something catchy - Its also very advisable to have a good keyword in your domain.
• Get graphics for your website - a good header and logo will go along way to making your website look professional. Just remember the old saying dont judge a book by its cover - the reason this saying exists is because so many people do the exact opposite. So when they look at your site make them think WOW
• contents - contents on your website is very important. The more content the more urls which means more doorways for visitors to find your site with and google loves contents - they will reward you.
• Monetization- how will the new owner of the site make money - will it be by selling products or their own ebook or will it be affiliate linked like with CPA campaigns.

Personally I feel that the key to a good flip is to set up a website as if you wanted to keep it yourself and do all of the steps above - In reality you have set up a business which includes a business plan. A bonus will be to give the customer ideas of where the website can take them to.

If you do all of the above then I cant see there being a problem for flipping your site at a nice price.

A good thing to do is to go through the flippa website and have a look at the sites for sale and what ones are selling. Then go for it and create one.

For my website I gave some extra touches and took the domain out of the google sandbox and built backlinks to it. I was lucky to get a page rank 1 in such a short time - to be honest I was lucky with the timing as google updated the pagerank days after I created the site.

OOps I forgot to mention that I have only tested out flippa to sell websites on but know that this forum also supports website sales and so does digitalforums

Thanks for the great posts guys.

Oh yes I will make sure I keep hold of my customers emails and give them the first opportunity to buy my sites before they go up for sale. Thanks for the advise.

Ive got some sites that I will be working on soon to put up on the market.

The best thing about site flipping is that you enjoy it. If you enjoy doing something then go for it.

Now that ive made a sale I am happy to work on more sites and if they dont sell then i will not be at a loss. well I would have lost my time however I will make sites to make money so worst case scenario will be to make money from google adsense which isnt all that bad.

I feel that people who can give a website a good start off are the ones who will make it in the site flipping industry.

From now on my sites will be sold once they start to make money so they increase the value.

Just to clarify that the site I sold never made any money whatsoever - however the design was ok and so was the landing pages that I created. This was the key for the sale. If you looked at the website then it was easy to see how you could make money from it and the future prospects of the site.

One thing that came to my mind today was how to increase the value of a site when your flipping it. I think it would be a great idea to give a future growth plan or a future tactics plan showing where the website can be if they continued to build on it.

Some buyers would like a site they can keep and just inject them with backlinks to maintain the position and increase the serps - other may like a website they can grow with a clear way forward plan. If you give one to with your site anyway its not gonna hurt.

When creating a site with the intention of flipping it then its vital you know what way you are heading in as you will need to explain this on the listing.

A well thought out plan will go a long way to becoming a successful plan

Thanks for the prompt reply!

Which brings me to my next question: How important is the ranking of the site on Google for the sale of the site?

Jeff

Hi swiftdeal
The way I see it is that the more you can give with your site the more you will make. Just go a few extra miles or add a little more value then other website sellers - once you build a name in the market your customers will buy of you blind folded as they know what to expect.

Only sell quality sites or at the least make them look appealing