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 to get managed hosting services. 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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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
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?
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!
I know people making good money in this niche but is also a lot of hassle. Unless you develop a system where you outsource all the work to different persons, it is a time consuming task. I’ve flipped a few websites myself but I never wanted to do this for a living because it takes a lot of time and efforts to develop websites and then sell if I can keep them for myself.
I’m wondering when people buy those mini sites, do they already have to be making some money?
Or is the main purpose of the buyer to expand them? I have few site that I would like to sell, but they aren’t making any money yet!
Do you advice to use a CMS like WordPress or just html/css pages?
Would suggest you to always build a niche site on wordpress blog platform as that it what industry demands.
You will really have a higher chance of earning money through online if you have an effective strategy to use in flipping and building nice sites.
i didn’t knew that mini sites have a gold mine in them, thx a lot, i will try it out soon..
The idea is great. Creating a mini niche site is a good idea to earn money. A $5 dollar mark-up or so is reasonable nowadays. If you were able to create something that can be worth $50, it’s more than 50% earnings!
Its always fun making minisites because I learn many things about the niche that I research. And if I really like the niche and become more profitable than expected I will then develop it into a full website by adding more relevant contents.