When you are looking to buy websites, see if you want an established site (expensive) or a new site (cheap) and work on it. Don't get fooled by fake claims and screenshots. Page rank is also faked easily.

If you want to buy website, a lot of factor that you consider, among of them are :

1. Age of website
2. After sales service. This is very important if some times your site any error.
3. Is there any warranty?
4. Price offered. Is reasonable or not.
5. Fast loading of site.
6. SEO friendly or not.
7. Ask for seller, what kind of hosting that used.
8. And many more factor that you must be to know.

Lots to learn. Here is a good starting point.

flippa.com/blog/category/buying-websites/

Also check out this section if you plan to buy on Flippa:

flippa.com/help/buy

I always look for potential - I can't afford some of the ready made businesses, wish I could!

But I have recently purchased 2 high traffic article directories simply for advertising use. between them they have 20,000 users and currently 5K-7K uniques per month which I'll be increasing shortly through SEO.

Bonuses with this is that I get a ready made email list of 20,000 users into article marketing and SEO

For the price I got them for I don't think anybody else looking at the sites thought about the potential of buying a ready made niche list of subscribers.

Look at what a site can do for you.

Hi,

All those recommendations were great. But 1 important thing is to *cover your butt* at all times. Use an escrow service when doing the transfer and DO YOUR RESEARCH. There is A LOT of fraud out there. Just do your homework.

One other thing, invest in what you know.

Good luck

Depends on what you want to use it for, really. If you are going to try to funnel traffic to another website, then you should look for:
1. Traffic (make sure it's documented).
2. Search volume.
3. PR
4. Backlinks (make sure they're quality and not bought).
5. Be sure to check SiteAdvisor so you know it's safe as is.
6. Proof of income (You generally will pay 12 months worth of income).


IF you are going to mold it into a site that you will publish onto (if it is a blog, for example), look for all of the above factors and, in addition:
1. Proof of a community.
2. Make sure the quality of pre-existing content is to par of what you can create.

In general, just DO YOUR RESEARCH.

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You must check the quality of the website like it's page rank,quality of the site content etc before buying any website.

You should check the cache of the website.

Hi,

you can check the website popularity here:Alexa. the Web Information Company

this site will give you accurate information about the that particular site's popularity

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