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What exactly is site flipping and what would I have to do with my site (the first link in my sig) to be able to flip it?

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  • Profile picture of the author Rajul kaushik
    Site flipping is nothing but creating a site or buying a readymade site and then selling that site to a buyer.

    You must ''grow'' the site in your signature by adding more posts into it, make it a bit more attractive by adding an attractive header title or a logo.

    This should be your starting point.

    You might also step into visiting sitepoint marketplace and see which sites are selling there, whats their lyout structure and how they are priced.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Williams
    Originally Posted by Dylantk View Post

    What exactly is site flipping and what would I have to do with my site (the first link in my sig) to be able to flip it?
    It can be done in a few ways. But the basic way that I teach is building a site and get it making a little money each day, then sell it off for 10-12 sometimes as much as 36 times the value the monthly income.

    It's a fantastic way to put some quick cash in the bank but for it to be worth the trouble you want to be sure the site has some Page Rank (a kind of quality score that Google gives your site) and is making some money.

    People seem to love my WSO on the topic:
    http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...tml#post128292

    So you might want to check that out.

    Best Regards,

    Mike
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    • Profile picture of the author Dylantk
      Hm, So I should update my site and make it prettier and resell it? It doesn't get much traffic though. I also don't know how to monetize keywords for my site. I got into A highly competitive niche without thinking because I'm new so I'm still trying to work with it and see what I can do.
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      • Profile picture of the author axeray
        My understanding of site flipping was to purchase a site, fix it up, increase traffic etc and sell it.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Williams
          Originally Posted by axeray View Post

          My understanding of site flipping was to purchase a site, fix it up, increase traffic etc and sell it.
          Yes. That actually is the most accurate description of site flipping (same concept as house flipping). But the phrase has come to include any short term period ownership of a site and selling it off to cash in on the long term profit, now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lindsay Brynn
    Basically if your site is already making money it could sell for at least 6x monthly earnings. Watching the sitepoint marketplace will help you get an idea of what sites sell for.
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  • Profile picture of the author MasonRamm
    FYI. You should know some people involved with flipping websites
    get most of the work done ie. creating the site for sale by somebody else
    and still make a profit.
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  • Profile picture of the author rarebiz
    You have two ways.

    1. Sell start up site.
    Keyword research and SEO must be skills you're expertise at. Research and build. As soon it get indexed and shows traffic from SE, sell it. Describe the potential of your site as good as you can.

    2. Sell established site.
    Affiliate marketing should be your main weapon. Buy site with good traffic but no income. Ramp up. Put some banner or affiliate links or "call to action" or any method to monetize this site. Wait until it generate incomes. Sell, or wait again until you feel it's already at its peak. Sell.

    Sounds easy?
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    • Profile picture of the author Dylantk
      I'm starting to see exactly what I have to do and how to optimize my site better for traffic. Make it easier on the eyes would not be so bad either lol. Thanks for the info so far everyone.
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  • Profile picture of the author Arine Mark
    Here is the easiest site flipping method.

    Spend 1 hour to build a site. No research needed. Just buy domain. Copy paste articles and graphics. Fill it with affiliate offers. Then, sell it.

    Here comes the tricky part. You must be able to convince your prospect about this "business opportunity". Say for example, Making $5000 per month Autopilot. Easy bucks. Instant cash. Ew, everyone loved this words. Make or fake your statistics, bluff 2 - 3 pages long. That's it you're ready. No need to wait for couple of days until traffic comes, or domain getting indexed.

    This works. Believe it or not. I've a lot of examples, ppl are doing this. Do it or not? The answer is in your heart
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    • Profile picture of the author Dylantk
      Originally Posted by Arine Mark View Post

      Here is the easiest site flipping method.

      Spend 1 hour to build a site. No research needed. Just buy domain. Copy paste articles and graphics. Fill it with affiliate offers. Then, sell it.

      Here comes the tricky part. You must be able to convince your prospect about this "business opportunity". Say for example, Making $5000 per month Autopilot. Easy bucks. Instant cash. Ew, everyone loved this words. Make or fake your statistics, bluff 2 - 3 pages long. That's it you're ready. No need to wait for couple of days until traffic comes, or domain getting indexed.

      This works. Believe it or not. I've a lot of examples, ppl are doing this. Do it or not? The answer is in your heart
      Haha That sounds like something I would not be able to do yet. I'm still into basic HTML. But I have really good people skills and I can talk my way out of situations if I have to lol.
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    • Profile picture of the author Gamer12
      Hi Arine,

      You comment is to the point. Do you do it on Ebay or SitePoint?
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    • Profile picture of the author CurtisN
      Originally Posted by Arine Mark View Post

      Here is the easiest site flipping method.

      Spend 1 hour to build a site. No research needed. Just buy domain. Copy paste articles and graphics. Fill it with affiliate offers. Then, sell it.

      Here comes the tricky part. You must be able to convince your prospect about this "business opportunity". Say for example, Making $5000 per month Autopilot. Easy bucks. Instant cash. Ew, everyone loved this words. Make or fake your statistics, bluff 2 - 3 pages long. That's it you're ready. No need to wait for couple of days until traffic comes, or domain getting indexed.

      This works. Believe it or not. I've a lot of examples, ppl are doing this. Do it or not? The answer is in your heart
      I believe this is called dishonesty. You could get away with selling a site with fake stats on Ebay, but not Sitepoint. And even if you do sell it anywhere, you're going to get burned really quickly. Even the stupidest noob would smell something fishy if youw ere selling a $5000/month site for $50.

      As for learning HTML, you really don't need to much of that knowledge. Just use WP, use the proper plugins, and you're good to go.

      Btw, another great place to sell your content sites is DNForum.com. Even though they're more geared towards selling domains (obviously), people there also buy developed sites as well. Also, people who hang out there usually have huge budgets

      Check out this WSO:
      http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-friendly.html

      Good luck,
      Curtis
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  • Profile picture of the author dail
    If you are new to HTML then try some outsourcing then analyze what they have done. Won't take long to work out the best ways to do things.

    After outsourcing you probably won't even bother learning HTML.
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