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.
Article written by Typhoon
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Twitter: @gregee
January 11, 2010
5:30 pm
This is a really good article. I need to try to make some small blogs and see if someone would want to buy it. Greg Ellison
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January 13, 2010
5:01 pm
Do give it a try and let me know the results at your comfort. I recently sold my friends blog which was created on blogger platform with some 2-3 ordinary articles. The only main thing which attracted the buyer to buy is the domain name and nothing more than that. It went for a $40 price.
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January 11, 2010
5:32 pm
I usually prefer to try and build quality blogs that sell for a couple of $100.
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January 13, 2010
5:03 pm
Nice to know that. So what are your favorite niches in which you build those blogs on.
Do you outsource some work to other people for that blog like articles, design etc. ?
Twitter: @bloggerspassion
January 11, 2010
6:10 pm
i do not believe in site flipping….they hamper your image
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January 13, 2010
5:08 pm
Could you please elaborate your opinions about why you are against making money with website flipping?
Twitter: @deepikasuren
January 11, 2010
7:23 pm
Nice post friend.. Definitely you have shared a good information. I will try this method for sure. My friend also started to implement this plan
Twitter: @hotblogtips
January 11, 2010
8:16 pm
$25 – $50? that isn’t worth the time it takes to install WP! I sell them all the time for $300-$500 with NO content on them! Sometimes even more if the client has certain needs, I know sites that have gone for as much as $1500 for WP design.
Getting ready to build 4 more this month, not all of them sell, but if they don’t I don’t have much invested in them!
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January 13, 2010
5:10 pm
Ya, I now that cost is hardly less for many people. But it’s actually sufficient amount for people who are residing in India because that amount converts to a nice amount in our currency.
But yes, you may try selling your blogs made for flipping at higher prices. No doubt in it.
January 23, 2010
5:25 am
Hi Keith, how do you sell sites for $500 with NO content? You got me curious! Is it the domain that is desirable? Thanks in advance.
Twitter: @Muxxex
January 11, 2010
8:44 pm
I’ve been thinking about trying this recently.
I’ve actually did create one mini site before related to a printer, just testing out an arbitrage method with adsense and affiliate links.
I created it specific to the HP Laserjet 4 which has adwords around $9.
The site itself has very detailed info about the printer, toner cartridge, faqs, history, specs and more. I think it may have ranked better using a blog platform but I’ve seen a bit of success from adsense clicks and amazon affiliate sales through it (made roughly $20, not much but not bad for 1hr of work).
I may see if I could flip it
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January 13, 2010
5:12 pm
Nice to know that. Once you flip it, do let us know for what price it went for.
Twitter: @ducedo
January 11, 2010
8:56 pm
The thing about niche sites is that they are practically useless if there’s no backlinks and therefore it gets more difficult for every day to sell them.
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January 13, 2010
5:14 pm
It could be very nice thign if you do some link building before flipping any blog. This increase it’s overall price and importance. It also helps in attracting buyers.
But still I would say you can flip niche sites without link building if you a hard work over other major things.
Twitter: @PressDist
January 11, 2010
9:33 pm
Great post i recently sold a 5 day old website on flippa for $1000 not bad for a site that cost me $9.69 for the domain and 2hrs to set up.
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January 13, 2010
5:22 pm
Ohh..That’s a really awesome job. What kind of website it was and did you worked only on the basic things or did some extraordinary work on that website?
January 11, 2010
10:23 pm
An interesting concept, but once you’ve gone through all the effort of creating content and some SEO, why no just keep it? I would imagine you could make more that $25 – $50 over a years time just with simple advertising earingins.
Twitter: @Dennis Edell
January 12, 2010
9:33 pm
Kathleen – I know this would be my main issue, after all is said and done, will I be able to just give it up? I doubt it for only 50 bucks.
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January 11, 2010
10:47 pm
hmm,
the idea is good. i am thinking to create sites and flip them.
thanks for the idea my friend.
Twitter: @velnet
January 12, 2010
1:21 am
Yes when you flip a website you lose the potential! You lose the audience, You lose the age of the domain and You lose the content…
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January 12, 2010
2:40 am
Nice simple step by step, a good guide line for sure.
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January 12, 2010
8:52 am
I did flip a landing page that comes with ebook and everything, I made some money from there too. I’ve never flop a blog before but I’m on the way as I’m building a blog, but don’t look for quick sales as $50 is too low for the domain name itself, so I’m going to develop it a bit and then flip it in good price, says $500 and above. I’ll be trying to flip it before June 2010.
Between, $25-$50 is kinda low as the domain name itself costs about $10 already. Your effort and hardwork doesn’t worth as low as $15-$40 right? Just my thought.
Cheers,
Lee
Twitter: @smartbloggerz
January 13, 2010
5:26 pm
As I said to Keith above, I know that cost is less for many people. But it’s actually sufficient amount for people who are residing in India because that amount converts to a nice amount in our currency.
The $25-$50 cost is appropriate if you haven’t done much creative work over it and the blog is like “ready to go”.
You can work it better by having premium design and more articles and also could try link building and improve its search rankings for keywords which will give a price boost to it.
Twitter: @myblog2day
January 15, 2010
10:09 am
I have to agree with you, the currency in my country got a good conversion of money from USD to Ringgit Malaysia (RM) as well, about RM3.30+ per USD.
For me, $25-$50 is slightly low for a blog, I would rather keep and develop it until I can sell it in a good price. That’s just my thought and what I will do with my blog.
Cheers,
Lee
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January 12, 2010
10:28 am
Yes, I fully agreed that mini sites are good income generators, you can even outsource the creation of the sites and collect the money.
Twitter: @smartbloggerz
January 13, 2010
5:31 pm
Yeah, outsourcing some part of work in website creation will lower down your work and you can spend that time in some other work for improving that niche site price like link building, promoting it on forums through signature link or blog commenting.
Twitter: @moonheart
January 12, 2010
5:41 pm
This is really very nice idea, I think I should have to try it. Well I think we can also make some small blogs only for adsense also.
January 12, 2010
11:14 pm
This is a fab post!
I didn’t know it wasn’t saturated. I might give this a go!!!
Twitter: @MichelleRAdams
January 13, 2010
11:45 am
You’ve done a great job of summarizing this method.
I’ve sold sites at Flippa.com however I wouldn’t suggest a sell price of $25 – $50, there wouldn’t be much profit left over given Flippa’s minimum listing fee is $19. Perhaps adding a little more content than the 4 -5 articles you suggested and offering some bonus PLR content you could stretch for $67 to $147.
Moving into premium theme niche blogs with quality graphics and unique content could fetch you $197 up to $300.
I agree that this market is not saturated, indeed there is a distinct lack of sites on offer that are built on solid foundations like you outline here with SEO even as a consideration, it’s great to see you included that.
There are also cashed up buyers hungry for established sites so setting up some sites today that you intend to market over the medium term could be flipped for a big pay day down the track.
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January 13, 2010
5:38 pm
Ya, If you are listing at flippa then that price will sound funny. But you can list it at forums having free marketplaces.
If you are selling an established site then the pricing it properly is a must.
If you look at flippa there is a popular site called “BloggingTips.com”. That’s available for sale. The current bid is $15000
I am looking for how much that site goes for…
January 13, 2010
2:59 pm
We can sell niche blog for $100 easily. But it is better that we should do some link building for our blog before selling. It will raise the prices by $500.
January 14, 2010
5:28 am
hey, flip it! haha.
I am super new to computers in general and especially the interntet. I have been hearing from friends about website flipping but had no idea what it was. so, thanks for the info.
January 16, 2010
7:12 am
that’s a good idea. I usually see blogger sell their blog. But i am not understand blog bussiness like that, but i still learn about it. But for now i like to make traffic to all my blog and I am focus at google adsense. thanks you for your intresting article above.
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January 19, 2010
12:40 pm
I have only flipped 2 sites and both of them sold for right around $100. I currently have one listed that I expect will sell for a lot more because I am selling the rights to a product that I have earned over $4000 on. I plan on flipping a lot more this year.
January 20, 2010
9:55 pm
Yes..this do earn…i read a ebook in digitalpoint which guide us to make a clickbank website and sell it in flippa…it work…nice post..
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January 24, 2010
9:52 pm
I have flipped a few sites myself all you need to do is create a little formula that works best for you and just keep repeating it. Its not really got me to a full time income its like one site per month or two months at the moment if that.
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January 27, 2010
7:21 am
I believe flipping websites can be very profitable. In fact, I have only been flipping about a month and I have already sold 4 websites. I do believe you can sell your sites for more than $25-$50 though. You just have to tweak your ad copy to make it more influential or persuasive to buyers.
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