Desperate Website Flippers - Why your websites don't sell?
People where looking answers on a questions like:
Why my sites don't sell? Is market saturated? Are there to many website flippers?
My friend sold quite a few websites on sitepoint marketplace in a past year. What he did with great success in the PAST is this. He created good looking blog or website and then filed up that website or blog with PLR articles. To build one site from scratch, he spent no more than one or two hours. Then he just put site on the sale at sitepoit. Almost all of his websites went for BIN (buy it now) price in two days, sometimes in hours. But, everything has changed in the last two month.
He complained, that he hardly sells his sites and nobody puts BIN on his auctions anymore. I asked him what is reason for that in his opinion. He said that recession or market saturation is his problem. After some talking I realized that he is still making same sites in the same niches like he did a year ago.
And here is the big problem. It is not recession or market saturation. He just doesn't build sites that people want and look for. He builds sites which he thinks people are looking for.
Did you know that more than 70% of website flippers never sell their websites or they get a lot less than they ask for.
When they make few sites and don't sell them, they go around screaming that website flipping doesn't work anymore and they go onto their next great idea. Believe me flipping websites still works and there is nothing wrong with website flipping market.
So, what did they do wrong?
- They created wrong type of content sites
- They put wrong price on them.
- They didn't research the market.
Wrong way!
What they should do, is to spend ten minutes going through the auctions that other flippers are selling on sitepoint or any other marketplace, and they could easily figured out what kind of sites are selling and for what price.
It is so simple!
Before you go and spend time creating your website, you should visit market and see what websites and for what price are selling. Then you should create your website.
Stop building websites until you don't know what people want. What do people want? If something is selling, then you know people want it.
Here is what you should do it:
1. First go to sitepoint market place and spend there around thirty minutes. Search for sites that were sold in the last few weeks. On sitepoint market place, you can see what kind of sites were sold and for how much.
2. When you already know what kind of sites are selling, decide in which niche you will build your new website.
3. Go to Google free keywords tool at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and search for around 20 keywords with not too big competition. Don't go for general keywords like "weight loss", look for long tile keywords like "how to lose belly fat" (these are just examples)
4. Write 20 quality and unique articles or get somebody else to write them for you.
5. Search for good looking and simple blog or website template.
6. Make unique header image with your logo. You can do it online for free.
7. Add articles to your blog or website. Don't forget about basic SEO
8. Add few great images to your website.
9. Promote your website. (social networking, forum marketing, ezinearticles...)
10. Monetize your website with your own product, affiliate products or adsense.
11. Get some back links. Here at warrior WSO section are few great offers on how to do it.
12. Get at least few sales. It is not necessarily, but It will help you to sell your site in no time
13. Write great sales letter and put your site on auction.
14. Wait for a buyer.
If you do all the above, you should sell your site at BIN (if it's reasonable) price.
You can also keep site for few months, make some money with it and then sell it for even more money.
I know that you already heard all this many times before. Flipping sites is not rocket science. Anybody with basic computer skills can do it. You have to realize that this is not "push button" business and if you want to be successful, you have to put some hard work into it. If you are willing to do it, you can make a lot of money with website flipping.
Believe me, if you build websites the way I described above you will never have a problem with recession or market saturation. Your websites will sell like hot cakes.
Don't worry about competition until you sell unique and quality websites. There are always more than enough website buyers for good websites.
PS my PM system is broken. Sorry I can't help anymore.
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