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15 years ago

Originally Posted by jrod014

One thing I did do was made sure I ran the blog for at least 30 days to be established. I would them schedule my content to post once every few days, freeing me up to promote the blog via social bookmarking and link building.

Congratulations Jerry!!! You done good!

I'm curious i you meant te above as literally as you typed it.... It reads as if you created the blog and let it sit for a month or so BEFORE you started to add content or develop backlinks.... Yes?

If so... did you do this on purpose or was it just the way it worked out

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jrod014

15 years ago

Hey Chris,

Sorry about the confusion. I would set up the blog and schedule the postings while promoting the blog for 30+ days.

Within the 30 days I wanted to make sure I got the blogs indexed and promoted well for the new owner.

I hope that helps.

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Karen Blundell

15 years ago

yay! congrats! I think your strategy is a very good one...plus you had some really good domain names there

I'm very quietly working on a few sites myself...and your post confirms I'm on the right track

here's to our mutual success!

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Kay King 15 years ago

good work! Nice looking blogs, too.

What template did you use on the nichefree blog (if, of course, if was one available)? I really like that layout.

kay

Psst: If you'd rather not give that info out, I understand.
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Kay King

15 years ago

sorry - duplicate

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Makabongwe Maseko

15 years ago

That's great Jerry,

I'm still working my way around sitepoint. My first flip was a flop.

Now I currently have a blog Home Renovation Designs on auction: ++ Home Renovation Designs + Unique Content + Videos + Sales Page + 28 Page Ebook + Premium Theme + Clickbank Ready at sitepoint.

People are PM'ing me with interest but they are just not bidding. I don't know why. Tried to contact them again through PM but no response.

All the best!

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Alan Petersen

15 years ago

I think the .info domain is the problem. There has been a lot of rumor and debate about .info's--right or wrong--I think it scares potential customers away. Stick to .com's.

Originally Posted by Makabongwe Maseko

That's great Jerry,

I'm still working my way around sitepoint. My first flip was a flop.

Now I currently have a blog Home Renovation Designs on auction: ++ Home Renovation Designs + Unique Content + Videos + Sales Page + 28 Page Ebook + Premium Theme + Clickbank Ready at sitepoint.

People are PM'ing me with interest but they are just not bidding. I don't know why. Tried to contact them again through PM but no response.

All the best!

Great OP! I have a lot of niche sites just hard for me to part with them but your post makes me want to try it out.

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ExRat

15 years ago

Hi jrod014,

I remember your scope site from the BANS forum. I can't believe the price you got for it - just like most BANS sites, none of it's pages are in google. Nice work.

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jrod014

15 years ago

Hey exrat,

The rifle scope site was indexed when I sold it. I don't think the new owner added any fresh content, which is key for BANS sites.

Originally Posted by ExRat

Hi jrod014,

I remember your scope site from the BANS forum. I can't believe the price you got for it - just like most BANS sites, none of it's pages are in google. Nice work.

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Makabongwe Maseko

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Alan Petersen

I think the .info domain is the problem. There has been a lot of rumor and debate about .info's--right or wrong--I think it scares potential customers away. Stick to .com's.

Great OP! I have a lot of niche sites just hard for me to part with them but your post makes me want to try it out.

Thanks for clearing that out for me, at list it gives me hope on my next flip. But the funny thing why I thought of the .info is because I came across some guy who is selling sites using the .info

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TeamGlobal

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Makabongwe Maseko

That's great Jerry,

I'm still working my way around sitepoint. My first flip was a flop.

Now I currently have a blog Home Renovation Designs on auction: ++ Home Renovation Designs + Unique Content + Videos + Sales Page + 28 Page Ebook + Premium Theme + Clickbank Ready at sitepoint.

People are PM'ing me with interest but they are just not bidding. I don't know why. Tried to contact them again through PM but no response.

All the best!

I have to agree with Alan on this. In many cases the .info domains don't have the same percieved value as .coms, or even .nets or .org.

All The Best,

Tony

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jrod014

15 years ago

@ Karen, Thank you , I wish you the same!

@Kay King, The theme is a customized revolution music theme. I played around with it until I got the results I liked.

Jerry

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Biggy Fat

15 years ago

There definitely is money to be made from site flipping. I know this because I'm doing it myself. But I'm going to get an established site flipped one day since I'm doing startups.

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jrod014

15 years ago

@biggy fat,

I agree, the established sites is where the real $$ is at. Im going to try to run 5 sites, promote them, then flip them. We'll see how it goes?

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DotComBum

15 years ago

Congrats on your good result, it shows that there is definitely money to be made in site flipping if you can produce good quality sites, the reason is simply, most of the people are just too lazy to make a site or don't know how to, they rather pay someone to get a site.

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ExRat 15 years ago

Hi DotComBum,

the reason is simply, most of the people are just too lazy to make a site or don't know how to, they rather pay someone to get a site.

If you think about it, one of the reasons that people do buy sites is because they need to invest some cash rather than giving it to the taxman - they might be building a network of virtual real estate that produces income. Sometimes laziness is not the reason.
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mackz 15 years ago

S-w-e-e-t way to go Jerry.

Nice looking sites.

I've heard a lot lately about blog/site flipping becoming over saturated.

Any thoughts on that?

Hate to jump in on the tail end of a trend.
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GeorgR.

15 years ago

Originally Posted by DotComBum

Congrats on your good result, it shows that there is definitely money to be made in site flipping if you can produce good quality sites, the reason is simply, most of the people are just too lazy to make a site or don't know how to, they rather pay someone to get a site.

getting them and making them is not the problem.

The problem is getting them up to some PR2 or PR3+ and being able to say "this sites makes me XXX a month"...THEN they sell halfway "ok".

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Desmond Ong

15 years ago

That's some pretty awesome flips during the bad market. Give yourself a pat on your back. Even top site flippers are not selling well on SitePoint lately.

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GeorgR.

15 years ago

they sold since you got PR3 and did a lot of promo (i assume) before you even listed them.
I still say its hard to even break even with PR0 domains which dont have any revenue yet - thats how i define "flipping": Making sites with the purpose to resell them *quickly*-

Just no one is really interested in "new" sites without PR and without revenue. Flipping "just made" sites is not easy. ESPECIALLY right now.

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Allegro

15 years ago

flipping will never get old. the seasoned flippers will always make money, and the newbs who produce shitty sites will stop trying after a few tries. the market is over saturated with ugly sites, yes. but if your site is good, it will sell.

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EzyTrader

15 years ago

Well done jerry

Nice post... it gives me encouragement so thank you

Im currently working on 2 sites to flip at the moment, i will work them for 2 to 3 months because im paying for a top writer on one of them and a quick flip would probably lose me money.

Thanks for sharing

Mark

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tommygadget

15 years ago

Yes, a few notes are in order. First, crappy sites will always sell around DP for $39 or so. If you throw them together fast, you'll do well. Now the real flippers start with a domain that already has PR, they can be obtained relatively inexpensively, and if you invest in a writer, you almost have to do this to get more income from the flip. A combination of short range and long range flips is the rule of the day until you have enough cash and a long enough list for long range (60+ days) flips only.

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Desmond Ong

15 years ago

For some reasons, "crappy" sites + revolution church seems like an effective combo. Of course I won't say that revolution church is the best theme to invest now as we can see it's pretty much saturated.

I agreed with TomG over domains with PR. I personally have purchased over 30+ domains with PR and they work very very well as a selling point.

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Desmond Ong

15 years ago

One of the lessons that I have taught some of my followers is that NEVER EVER get domains name like .info or .mobi. Always go for .com, .net and .org only. People's impressions on .info sites are usually cheap, lousy, worthless, short term sites. Although they're cheap, but it's a big turnoff for the buyers.

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Paul Buckley

15 years ago

As we say in the Marine Corps "Bravo Zulu"

(The letters BZ, phonetically pronounced bravo zulu in the military, is the Naval flag signal combination for "Well Done")

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dmarze

15 years ago

Congratulations!

It is not hard to sell blog or any other QUALITY site with unique content. People always searching for good sites.

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perfecthomebuz

15 years ago

That's a great job man, for anyone who will learn and take action, there is certainly money on the net.

To your success.
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jrod014

15 years ago

Thanks to all for your support!

@ Tommygadget

I agree, buying a domain with PR would be the best option. I've also transferred the niche free domain and google has not dropped the PR, and its been months since the transfer.

I know there has been some buzz about buying domains with PR. I just wanted to make that clear to all. Buy a domain with PR!

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gary varga

15 years ago

Jerry,

Congratulations on the sales! Great achivement!

I just started flipping website! I mean trying to flip websites! I have currently one website listed on sitepoint, EXTREMELY HOT Ice Fishing Site - 100 % Unique, Brandable, Memorable, Keyword Rich Domain! Make $$$$ Right Now!, but there seems to
be no interest in it!

The website has unique content! I see a lot of people are selling sites with PLR articles, and people do buy them!

Can somebody tell me what am I doing wrong?

Thank you!

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TiffanyLambert

15 years ago

Hey Jerry I'd love to do this too. I have several blogs and I put unique content on them, a wordpress theme, etc. But what I get tangled up on is the technical aspect of the transfer.

I had a friend do it once and it was a months long nightmare. How do you transfer the domain and its content intact to the new owner? I use godaddy for my domains and hostgator for my hosting, fyi.

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jrod014

15 years ago

Originally Posted by TiffanyDow

Hey Jerry I'd love to do this too. I have several blogs and I put unique content on them, a wordpress theme, etc. But what I get tangled up on is the technical aspect of the transfer.

I had a friend do it once and it was a months long nightmare. How do you transfer the domain and its content intact to the new owner? I use godaddy for my domains and hostgator for my hosting, fyi.

Tiffany,

I always offer to transfer the site for free. These are the steps I take.

1. Transfer the domain to the new owner.
2. ask for the login info and set tne DNS servers to the proper hosting account (or the new owner will do it)
3. download all site files via FTP.
4. Download sql database file.

Once the domain name is transferred and propigated. Once the domain is propigated I do the following.

5. Create a addon domain (if on a shared hosting account)
6. upload all site files to proper directory (or root directory if reseller hosting)
7.upload database via myphpadmin in cpanel
8 check the site and login.

I hope this helps.

Jerry

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jrod014 15 years ago

@SHIRVANIAN,BERJ SARKIS

Try a good looking custom logo. Also do you offer an e course?

Another thing is to try typing "ice fishing" in google and email some of the adwords advertisers on the blog opportunity.

Those are just some ideas.

Jerry
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Carol Owens

15 years ago

Congrats on the flips!

I have several old blogs that I am no longer interested in and flipping them sounds like a great way to pass them on to someone else who can put them to good use.

Thanks for the info!

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IMChick

15 years ago

Good job. But if you keep the sites to age the content and get rankings for 30+ days now, what if you keep them for longer? Are you keeping any off the flip site for yourself because you see a greater potential?

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jrod014

15 years ago

Hey everyone,

I just sold another blog for $1,560! If an Iraq war veteran who is new to flipping can do it, SO CAN YOU!

Here is the link to the latest auction:
**Established Ebay Affiliate Blog | 3.5k Unique Visitors | $150 month | Top In Google for MANY Keywords! |**

Go out there and make some $$$

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