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Bargain Buying And Selling Sites - The Complete Guide

Blogger ViperChill shares with us his experience in buying and selling websites. If you have a desire to profitably sell your blog or website, or you want to successfully invest their money, then this article is for you.

Contents:

1. Buying sites
2. Types sites
3. Which sites I’m looking for
4. The process of buying selling websites

When I work on the internet, I am constantly looking for good offers for the sale of sites. I sincerely believe that the Internet is one of the best places to invest your money and get a good return on investment, of course, if you know what you are doing. Moreover, the mere fact of making money on the Internet means that you can work from anywhere in the world.

Since December I have spent more than $ 100,000 for the purchase of sites, and I gained a similar amount by selling sites. Today I want to reveal both sides of the process in detail. I buy sites that I can develop further with the help of outsourcing and selling the sites that I no longer like or stop growing.

Shopping sites

If you want to buy a site that brings good income, then you are prepared to spend a sum which will be equal to at least 10 monthly income of the site. People often sell these sites to get a decent amount of money and invest them in other projects.

Market

There are several large shopping sites on the Internet that sell websites. People who want to sell their sites to go and put up their own websites to sell, indicating all the necessary information about them. Those who want to invest in websites, browsing and buying websites that they want.

My favorite shopping site are TradeMySite and DigitalPoint.

I do not always buy sites through TradeMySite or the DP, sometimes I appeal directly to the site owners and interested, they do not want to sell your website. For example, if I find a site on TMS, which brings good income, ranking the first place in Google for a particular phrase, and the price of which is clearly too high, I contact the site owners with the issuance of the second page Google and offer them to sell your website.

I know that if I can promote a website on the first page of Google, I can earn a lot of money, and I also know that the site probably does not earn a lot of money so I can buy it for a good price.

I bought so only 2 sites. Most will simply ignore you or appoint an unrealistic price, but if you do not hurry, you’ll find much better offers than you will ever be able to see on the sites selling markets.

Types of sites

If you are interested in this market, you know that there are many different types of websites. Here are the most popular types of sites that put up for sale:

Sites affiliate marketing, Niche websites, Forums, Paid sites with membership fees and blogs

Those sites are in bold, interested me in the first place. Affiliate sites are good if you know your niche, and you have an audience, but the rest of them with a lot of work, and you have to spend a lot of time to get a return on your money.

Although I do blogs, and may well increase the number of subscribers and readers and make money on them, but they require a lot of work and very slowly developing. Of course, if you do not have a great writer who knows the niche. Still, the return of your investment may be delayed.

I like the community, which already have a large solvent audience, because the income they generate, it is safe. You are not strongly dependent on traffic from Google or social networks to keep earning. If you can increase the traffic to this site, you can earn more money.

I recently bought a niche content sites, as I am sure in their SEO knowledge and, as a rule, I can predict that the site can earn even more. If you can improve or maintain a good ranking in search engines, then you can easily increase his income.

What I’m looking for sites. buying process:

When I buy sites, there are a number of things for which I pay attention. The first thing I want to know if I can raise the monthly income from the site. In general, make your network secure enough investment, and if you know what you are doing, you can return your investment in a year or so. I am an expert in this area and therefore I want to use their investments to maximize profits.

For this reason, I generally like to buy sites that make money, but they have several drawbacks. It may be defects in design, SEO, or even in the structure of the site, but I like such challenges, I know and I can fix it. The reason is simple, even if in the current state of the site is profitable, correcting its shortcomings, I can make more money and then recover their investment faster.

There are a few questions that I ask the seller site before thinking of buying:

How much time per week do you spend on the site?

What is the time spent?

What are your monthly expenses to the site?

Did you sign an agreement on non-competition?

Why do you sell the site?

Often there are ads that look too good to be true, so make sure you get a clear idea of ​​how the site will make money. If you are going to spend a lot of money, it is very important. The agreement not to compete may not be necessary, but if there is a lot of traffic from sources owned by the seller, you should take this into account.

If you intend to spend a lot of money to buy, you must demand website statistics, at least for 6 months and documentary evidence of site revenue. If the seller uses Google Analytics, I’ll ask him to add me to your account.

If the seller himself is developing a website, you should also bear in mind that you will have to hire someone, unless of course you are not going to fill the site yourself. Basically, the site cost is the payment of freelancers and hosting work.

Before buying, I always try to talk with the seller via Skype. I usually use two payment options - Escrow or Paypal.

Escrow acts as an intermediary and, in fact, you pay them, and not the seller directly. Once Esrow see that the Whois domain information has changed, and it corresponds to your information, they transfer funds to the seller. Then you get the site files and install them on your server.

My one smart friend taught me a good strategy to buy expensive sites. Offer a little more money than your agreed purchase price, but to divide the payment into two parts. Half will be sent in advance, and the other half after one or two months, provided that the site will still be making money as before.

Not all sellers like it, and I do not always do that, but if the seller is very opposed to such an idea, it could be a sign that the site is not all right.

Selling sites

I sold about 6 sites over the past few years, not very much, but I know enough about the topic to give advice in this area. Most recently I sold PluginID, a blog with 6,500 subscribers, for a five-figure sum. Unfortunately, under the agreement on the deal, I can not give an exact amount.

There are many people who earn their living by creating websites and selling them. I personally do not work. I think there is much more lucrative options to make money using their knowledge.

I know what I want and why I sell site

The words “I want”, I mean the money that I want to get behind the site. For those of you who think that you can sell the site, which makes a few hundred dollars a month for a six-figure sum to get rid of that thought right now.

I never buy sites with “potential” and most people I know, too, so do not, so do not expect that will be able to sell the sites one by one. You must know how much money your site earns and the amount of time you spend on it to get an idea of ​​a fair price for the site.

You must be sure of the validity of your prices, because many buyers will try to convince you that your site is worth a lot less. It is possible that you overestimated your site, but do not allow customers to convince you that their offer true value for your site.

I think that the fair price sale site about 12 monthly income. So the price depends on how much time to spend on it to generate income. If the site is on full autopilot, then you can get a price of 24 monthly income or even more.

There are odd exceptions - BloggingTips.com recently sold for $ 65,000, earning $ 1,000 a month - but this usually happens when the customer already has a large audience in this niche, or he sees a very clear way to make a website a lot more money.

Take out the brackets themselves

The last thing any buyer wants is to buy a site that can earn only by means of links or Seller audience. If you are selling a blog with a single author, and most of the audience read his blog because of its unique style and content, you can not count on a quick sale and a good price - at least, not with clever buyers.

If you are an integral part of your site, think about how you can minimize this side. You should dispel any doubts about the potential buyers, that they may lose traffic or revenue from the site.

Sale site

If you sell the site through any of the popular shopping sites on the Internet, then be prepared to face a ton of questions. Often you’ll get the same questions again and again. Do yourself a favor, take the time and prepare relevant statistics and traffic revenues over a long period of time.

Also, try to answer the questions that I listed above. Many people want to know the reasons for the sale of the site, which required the cost of maintaining the site and do not create a website if you are competing.

I personally think that it is necessary to set a lower starting price, because it attracts more people. If you want $ 10,000 per site, but set a starting price of $ 9000, people will probably think you want a lot more. If you set Bin (blitz) the price, do not write something funny in the hope that someone will buy your website, and you’ll make a fortune.

This may scare most people who were keen to bring you a lot of money. Be polite with everyone who comes into contact with you or asks you a question, but do not give in to those who offer you a lower price and is trying to convince you that this is the real price of your site. In other words, you need to be good and clever.

You can set the auction for 30 days, but I personally install it for 7-10 days. Most of the betting is done in the last few days before the auction closes (if you do not set the price Bin), so you can get a good idea of ​​how many people are really willing to buy the site for your price.

Another way to sell the site not through trading platforms, it is the direct sale of the site to people who you think might be interested in it. This is exactly what I did with PluginID. I put up for sale on the site Flippa and received several offers, but they were a little less than what I was looking for.

So I got in touch with the people who work in the niche of personal growth, and who might like a community or blog like the one that I made. I also got in touch with a few clever entrepreneurs who understood that my site is really worth the money. It works for me and it can work for you.

If you follow the above steps, then you should get a fair price for all that you are selling.

Although I did not create a site for sale, such as I launched the site from scratch and sold it for $ 550 at the end of the month. It was a news site, I updated it 3 times a day, every day, written on a particular topic. I’ve been getting a lot of traffic from Google Blogsearch because I made a lot of content (90 posts per month) and was very popular niche.

I do not monetize the site, so the site was not income. The buyer saw the potential to monetize the site and bought it. $ 550 is not a huge amount of money, but it was not bad for a 16-year-old.

You do not have to hope that the website with no income, you can sell well, of course, if you do not find a buyer who is looking for exactly what you offer. Most often, people want to buy a website that already makes money.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Kelly Wilson .