Make Money Online By Building and Flipping Mini Niche Sites
There are many ways of making money online amongst which flipping websites is probably one that gets more attention. And this business is growing larger by larger everyday as more and more people and trying their hands into it.
I know Building & Flipping Mini Niche Sites is something very common and the general opinion is that this method of generating revenue is now saturated. However, you’d actually be surprised at how wrong everyone’s assumption is.
The key in this case is efficiency and quick turnaround. You need to keep in mind at all times that your aim is to make as many mini niche sites as you can, in as little time, while maintaining the high quality and look.
In this post, I will be explaining some key points on which you should focus if you are looking to make money online flipping websites.
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Build Them Quick & Nice
Use wordpress. Yes, Blogs. That’s what we will be making. Register 5 domains to start with. Try to keep them all in a different niche. But make sure the niche is popular and in high demand(for example, during Christmas season you could have made a blog with Christmas dishes recipies, songs etc.). Of course, not too competitive; just enough to interest potential buyers. Get a new shared hosting account. Add those 5 domains. Install WordPress on all of them.
Configure & Customize
From this point, start working on them one by one. Individually, You don’t have to put up custom made themes for any of these blogs. A decent looking theme (If you have developer rights to a magazine theme, that would be awesome) will do. But remember to have a custom header and logo for each site. It helps differentiate your blog from the rest that use the same theme as yours.
For plugins, don’t go on experimenting with every new plugin. Install the necessary ones. Over the top of my head, I can recommend All in One SEO, Google Sitemap Generator, Comment Captcha plugin, Secure Login system, Google Adsense management, and Contact Us plugin.
Content and Pages.
Once you’re done with plugins and theme(s). Your next step is adding content. Remember the key – quick and simple. You don’t need 100,000 words of content in a ‘mini niche site‘. I’d say, 4-5 posts of 400-500 words each will be more than sufficent. And of course, pages. Do NOT forget to edit and change the About page. And make sure you add a ‘Contact Us’ page.
Additionally, try to include (if appropriate) these pages; ‘Privacy Policy’, ‘T.O.S’, ‘Sponsored Posts’, ‘Link Exchange’. They may not apply to every niche, but include them in the ones you feel they would do well in. They raise the overall ‘professional’ outlook.
SEO and Promotion
You installed the SEO plugin. Use that, along with pretty-permalinks and make sure your blog has search engine friendly URLs as well as appropriate titles, keywords, description, etc for each post and page. This is optional, but recommended.
Once you’re done with SEO, you’ll have a mini blog with content, a unique logo/header, a decent theme, and all the necessary plugins.
Now, you can either flip it, or promote it a bit, THEN flip it. Promotion would be simply adding all the posts to the top social bookmarking sites and submitting your blog(s) to a few high PR (but free) directories.
Flip It!
You can price it whatever you want. But an average price of $25 – $50 is optimum. If you promoted it, then mention that in your auction. It gives your blogs an advantage. You can try selling your niche sites made for flipping on websites like:
- Flippa.com
- Sitepoint Marketplace
- Digitalpoint Forums
Conclusion
The idea is basically to create as many mini blogs as you can and flip them for cheap. Since you’re selling them for relatively low price ($25 or $50 for a unique content mini site is quite cheap) you can be sure they’ll all sell quick. And because they’re mini blogs, they should be quicker to construct. If you are ready to jump start any business be sure to get involved in flipping mini niche sites.
So, Have you ever flipped a niche site? If yes, what do you say about website flipping business to make money online? For what price your niche site went for? What is your overall outlook of flipping websites for making money online? Let me know by commenting below.
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May 3, 2010
1:06 pm
interesting post, been reading about flipping houses, but never thought you could flip websites. will look into it.
May 8, 2010
6:30 pm
I’ve been flipping niche sites for years (even before it became “fashionable”) and you are spot on. You can make a little bit on new sites, but the real money is in when you can get them to be profitable and then you can flip them for 10 – 20 times monthly earnings.
One great business strategy is to build a portfolio of sites and then flip the underperformers tus freeing up your time to build more sites that will (hopefully) be more profitable.
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May 9, 2010
6:46 pm
A very useful post. This is the first time i’ve heard about flipping mini niche site and thank you so much for sharing such brilliant ideas. I’ll try this some time.
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May 18, 2010
1:23 am
I keep hearing so much about flipping websites but I guess I am a little timid about because of the whole building the websites and transferring them to people. I am not sure how to do it so I stay away from it, although after this post I may just look into when I get done with my current projects. Thanks for the info.
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May 26, 2010
12:57 pm
I have long been considering the business on flipping websites. But personally I thought the job of creating or buying new headers and themes is just too much for something that would sell around $50. Am I just all wrong in this concept? Please tell me what i should know as this is what’s hindering me from pursuing this.
May 29, 2010
5:10 pm
Good post. I think that we should try to increase the worth of our websites before selling them. I think that make 10 websites and give 3 months to each of them for promotion. As we know that Google PR is updated after every 3 months. Try to get some PR like PR2 or PR3 in three months. Also try to build as many backlinks as you can to increase the search engine rankings. After 3 months you should have about 100 visitors or so per day.
Now your websites will be of good worth like 300-500 USD. And selling all 10 websites will give you easy 1500 USD in 3 months.
May 29, 2010
10:55 pm
I’m planning to do websites flipping soon, thanks for your tips but i always have difficult to choose the right niche, and also i would like to sell on Flippa but there are so munch sellers there, no sure if people will notice my site…
June 5, 2010
7:54 am
I love the concept of flipping website or niche mini sites,I think it could be very profitable!
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June 12, 2010
5:00 pm
I liked your article on how to “Make Money Online By Building and Flipping Mini Niche Sites”. I have been interested in the making websites for the purpose of making some money out of it for sometime now. I really like Flippa.com for its simple and easy to use interface.
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June 15, 2010
5:38 pm
Before building and selling your websites, one must consider doing some market research to checl if their is a need for your website.
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June 16, 2010
5:53 am
But in a quick time, the quality of the website is not high; I think it shouldn’t for the long term run
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June 17, 2010
6:25 am
Especially since lots of the sites on Flippa and the other buy/sell websites are expensive, when you come in wanting only $25 – $50 for your site, it gets your listing a lot of visibility. And as long as you’re good at picking smart niches, someone should be willing to throw down cash for your site.
June 27, 2010
12:45 am
Nice tip Typhoon! I like the idea, but, to be honest, 50 dollars does sound a bit too low. I mean, that’s my hourly rate. I don’t think I can finish in less than 1 hour. Raising the price for a mini niche site is probably very risky right?
August 7, 2010
1:23 pm
I recently tried flipping a site that I’d built and got to number 1 on Google for a pretty decent niche keyword, but the highest bid I got was $21. I think it was because the site hadn’t started to make some good money yet. I think Lee is right, you can sell new sites cheap, but still make a bit of money, however the real cash is in flipping sites that are showing a consistent monthly profit.
August 11, 2010
12:40 am
i have never read about flipping niche sites before, i am going to research this subject a little more and find out whats it about, great article and have bookmarked your site, thanks for sharing info
August 11, 2010
3:59 am
I hope I never have to make my money this way! $50 for one blog which you already paid hosting for and has to contain 5 articles… Do I miss something?
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August 31, 2010
5:40 pm
I am quite trickled that you said: making money by building and flipping “NICHE” sites. Some people would go about and flip any site – obviously nothing wrong with it – but I think concentrating on a specific niche is vital. Why? As you suggest – build websites – flip them, thus meaning that you will need to know a lot about your niche in order to succeed making money with it. It’s obviously going to be easier for you and people will have every trust in you.
Thanks for your recommendation!