Monday, November 28, 2011

The 4 Ways To Flip A Website

By Paige Thompson


It can be difficult to determine a profitable website if you are looking to flip it to make a higher profit within a short period of time. But you can do it easily even if you are a beginner if you know the right steps and procedures.

Firstly, you'll know if a website is worth it if it has good income streams. Websites usually have several income channels, like Pay-Per-Click advertisement, Pay-Per-Action programs, or selling of their own products. So this just means you must consider the current profitable channels and see if you can add or expand the sources of income. A website should never have only one source of income.

The second step: find out where visitors are coming from. Most websites have good traffic from search engines, social bookmarking sites, or from regular visitors. If the traffic mostly comes from search engines, find out what keywords are responsible for this. You should try out the keywords in search engines and see the search engine rankings of the site.

Also ask the owner which top search engines direct the traffic to his website. You can then check the on-page optimization effort of the site and think of more ideas for improvement.

Third step: emphasize the areas in the website that can have possible improvements. If you can come out with at least two quick fixes to the site that can increase the value created to the visitors, the traffic to the site will increase to the next higher level eventually. For example, if you can include an online tool to calculate the financial net-worth of a person in a financial blog, that would most likely benefit all your readers in a long run.

The last step is to check for any back links to the site that you are interested in. You should use the Yahoo backlink analyzer since it can display almost all of the pages linked to the site.

With the above four steps, you should have no problems choosing a profitable website that can generate a stable income for some time. It's also very important to check the seller's history before you finalize the transaction.




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