Sunday, July 25, 2010

Website Flipping: Easy Methods To Flip Your Site?

By Annette Lode

Site flipping is nothing but real estate on the web. The site flipping market is not as volatile as the real estate market making it a safer bet.

Moving forward, you'll find just two genuine ways one can enter into this marketplace in other words two methods that one can use when site flipping. One of them is to create a website from day 1 then do all of the ground work which includes the style, content material, Search engine optimization and other promotion or buy an established site then sell it at a larger price. Now, you could either want to sell the website before it makes any earnings (While using the first technique) or you could want to sell the website once it starts making you some decent money. Some people who aren't good at monetizing select the first option (Read as: Can not earn money with their site), whereas, some people who are either in quick need of cash or due to the declining revenue, decide to sell their web site. The second method of selling web sites which is lesser followed by people and well elaborated in the course Killer Flipping Secrets is choosing an established site and selling it instantly or making small changes and selling it at a more expensive price. Each of these methods have their own benefits and disadvantages. Let's discuss them:

1) Making a website from day 1:

Benefits:

Build it making use of your own design, thoughts and ideas.

Build it exactly the way you want it to look.

You will know the growth of the internet site right from its beginning which makes planning, editing and changes to the site easier.

You know the internet site in and out leading to better efficiency and running of the website.

Usage of your own SEO and promotion strategies helps you understand your site better and you'll be able to analyse and know exactly what steps that should be taken in the future.

Disadvantages:

Time consuming.

May lead to wastage of resources if the web site is not successful.

You could lose lots of money if not planned and strategized well.

ROI and earning rate (per hour) is quite low in comparison with flipping established internet websites.

Requires certain amount of technical knowledge.

Your site might not rank after all the work and money you put in.

2) Buying and selling established sites:

This process is well-explained in the Killer Flipping Secrets course. It involves buying a website and selling it right away or within a few days (Can be done long-term as well) after adding a little "oooh-la-la" to it.

Benefits:

Demands very little time.

Return on investment as well as earning rate (per hour) is significantly larger than that of the former technique.

Does not require a lot of technical knowledge.

All the work is done for you.

You aren't taking too much of a risk as you know where exactly the internet site you're buying stands in terms of ranking, earning, traffic, etc...

If smartly done you'll at the least build back the money you spent on buying the web site and expenses that you incurred in its promotion.


Disadvantages:

You just can't customize everything as to how you want it (If you do, you would end up spending lots of money and time on it-You'd rather produce a new web site).

You wouldn't have worked with the web site right from the beginning which would make it a little tough to plan the future decisions for the site.

This is a small comparison between the 2 techniques used by site flippers today and you can quite easily figure out that the second method trumps the first by quite a margin. At the end of the day it's your pick and you could work in whatever manner you feel most comfortable with and which you feel will be more profitable to you.

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