Flipping an Affiliate Website (Blog) In The Low 3-Digits

Good evening fellow warriors!

You may remember my other walkthrough where I described how to build this kind of website. In that example I built a website using the Revolution Lifestyle theme and used PLR content to sell it for around $70.


Today I am here to show you how you can make the jump from high two-digits to low three-digits.

The following technique/blue print/secret can be found in dozens of eBooks, but today I (and you since you watch over my shoulder) am going to test it! (The following has taken place over the course of a little over a month.)

We are going to try the dating niche. I am using a domain i bought a few months ago (http://www.AboutPickup.com). I planned to use that domain for a personal project, but I didn't manage to find the time for it.

I use the Revolution Church theme, just because I have it and it looks good. Generally you want to use a magazine-style theme, they tend to make good affiliate blogs.

First, I began to build my website as usual. The whole technical stuff, code edits and so on. Then I looked up a few popular dating products. I took their URL's and pasted them into Googles Keyword tool - they have an option where you can analyze a website for its keywords. I then took the keywords with more than 200 searches monthly and checked their competition (less than 30,000). From the resulting keyword list (around 70 viable keywords) I chose 10 and ordered a pack of articles on DigitalPoint at the rate of $0.99/100 words. Ten articles with each 500 words for $49.50.

A few hours later I recieved the articles. I checked them on quality and was satisfied. So I put them up on the blog, two categories with each two articles for the small boxes on the top of the page, six articles in one category for the big box at the bottom. After I pasted the articles in, I went over to stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site to get ten free stock photos to use with the articles. I searched a bit and selected ten which I uploaded to my blog. Then I added them via custom fields to the homepage of the website.

Now I logged into my CBProAds.com account (I don't use it to make money but to showcase the themes features) and got bannercodes to use with the integrated banner managment of the theme. I always chose rotating ads because they change every time you visit the page again. That looks good to customers. Unfortunately I don't have a Google AdSense account, but i always tell the customer in the description about the AdSense capabilities.The Church theme has an integrated AdSense manager. At last I go to YouTube and search for a related video. Since the theme has a video placement function, it is easy to copy the „embed video" code into the admin panel.

When that was done, I went over to ClickBank and searched for a couple affiliate offers. I took those that looked good and linked them in the „Blogroll" section.

So far I have the website part completed - there are now TEN UNIQUE ARTICLES with pictures on the homepage, one video related to the topic and two banners advertising affiliate products. Finally the affiliate links in the „Recommended" bar.
IMPORTANT: Now there is not a single link not pointing to a sales letter. The visitor has to leave the website by typing in a new adress in the adress bar of his browser or he visits a sales letter.

Now i went to SitePoint. Since my domain is already a couple months old I created a new listing in „Established Websites". I use a sales letter that came with Desmonds Flipping Spark eBook. I modified it slightly to fit my website better. For your own sake: read a lot of descriptions on SitePoint and take the best from all of them. I am very satisfied with the description Desmond provided - but I still modify it every time.

Now let's do the math:
$50 - Articles
$10 - URL/Hosting (I use a reseller account)
$20 - Listing Fee
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$80 - Total

A good rule of thumb for me has been to double my expenses to determine the height of the starting bid. I usually take the double because the more I spend the higher the quality and the more effort I put personally in the selection and creation of the website. On top of that I am convinced that the website is worth every $$$. Then I add a few more dollars for the BIN.

In my example I use $167 as starting bid (because of the 7 at the end) and $219 as BIN - both proven values. I am very excited to see how this works out!
I usually flip websites in the high two-digits, but i wanted to test out the waters in this price class (and I am short of a few hundred bucks to pay the bills next week ). If this works as good as I hope i will definately try to flip more websites in that range.

Now go out there and try it yourself! If you are good at writing yourself, you can save the $50 for content and do it yourself.

Kind regards,
Karsten Stork


P.S.: For reference - the auction can be found at AboutPickup.com | Killer Blog Concept | Amazing Design