12 Months from Bright Idea to Flippa Sale

Any website goes through a series of developmental stages. Mine do anyway, and there is no way to shortcut the natural growth and development that needs to take place before your site is ready to sell on Flippa.

How to grow your website in a year from zero to $855 sale price

This is the process I have started with my own sites that I am grooming for Flippa auctions. [click to continue…]


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What Kind of Site Attracts Flippa Bidders?

Do you think anyone would really be interested in buying your website? Would putting it onto Flippa just cost you the fees? These were my concerns until I bit the bullet and put one up for auction.

Flippa is a website marketplace. If you have a website to sell it allows you to meet potential buyers from around the world.

How do you know that your website will sell?

You can never actually know in advance, but here are a few pointers:

  • Does it have a Google PR of 1 or better?opportunity for sale
  • Does it have an Alexa rank < 2 million?
  • Does it make a profit?
  • Is the domain name short(ish)?
  • Is the concept in “fashion”?
  • Is it at least a year old?
  • Is there at least 100 article posts?
  • Does it rank in Google™ for a good number of key words?
  • Is the content unique?

The more of this wish list your site can meet the more people will be interested in it. [click to continue…]


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How I Sold My PR1 Site for $855 on Flippa

July 18, 2012
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Do you have a website that only brings in a few dollars a month? Are you fed up with it? Then sell it. Income from most websites is sketchy at best. You may have reached your limit and do not have enough knowledge or money to invest to take your blog to the next level. [...]

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Why Writing Blog Posts is Like Printing Your Own Money

July 16, 2012
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Are you struggling to find time to update multiple blogs? How do you prioritise them and find the time? Since I discovered the potential rewards to be had by selling websites I have regained my writing enthusiasm. I currently have 16 blogs, which I update between twice and five times a week. I plan to [...]

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SEO is Dead

July 15, 2012
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Does backlinking bore the pants off you? Are you sick of reading about how important SEO is? You got your wish, SEO is dead. Penguin Killed SEO Google does not want its results manipulated. The whole point of its updates has been to improve what searchers get in its results. Pre-Penguin many of the results [...]

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Should I Start a Second Website?

July 13, 2012
Can you run 2 or 3 websites at the same time?

Do you have another brainwave? Have you found another group of people you can help? Start a second website in that area. We all have new ideas all the time we are writing. Sometimes you need to put them on the back burner for a while. If your mind is buzzing with ideas on how [...]

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What Do You Write About Today?

July 12, 2012
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Are you sitting there and struggling to come up with a subject to write about? You want something different and with a unique perspective so think about the problems you meet every day. Write to help people solve those problems. Today’s Problem If you have a problem then rest assured that others will have the [...]

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Can Anyone Earn Money Writing Online?

July 11, 2012
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Can anyone earn money writing online? Yes, providing you have excellent English and go about it the right way. English Skills You must be a native UK or US standard English speaker and writer if you intend to aim your work at these markets. People only want to read their own ‘brand’ of English. Even [...]

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Resurrecting Old Domains

July 10, 2012
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Do you have domain names you have never done anything with? Do you plan to let them die? Don’t. I checked my old Bluehost cPanel last evening and found 4 domains that I had intended to allow to die. Some were past the renewal date by a month, so I only just avoided the ‘in [...]

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Selling My Gardening Site on Flippa

July 8, 2012
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Are you planning to sell off a blog you no longer have time to update regularly? Follow my experience with Flippa.com. My plan was to list my gardening website last weekend, but, as usual life got in the way. I have never used Flippa before, so this is a learning experience for me. Listing the [...]

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How Important Are Images?

July 7, 2012
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Are you struggling to get your head around images? I know I am. Is it worth it? Images are important because they make your posts more attractive to your readers. You are more likely to get Pinterest Pins, Facebook likes, etc. if you have images in your posts. What Kind of Images? Photos You need [...]

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22 Trashy Tools You Will Never Need

July 5, 2012
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Do you find programs every day that you think you need? Do you think about buying them, or actually take out your cards to pay? You are not on your own. Every blogger is inundated with daily emails that are extremely persuasive. We all find sites every day that do a  wonderful job of convincing [...]

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Is Your Blog Boring? Boring Blogs Don’t Work

July 4, 2012
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Do you want people to remember and come back to your site? Then you need to stand out like a sore thumb in the mass of mediocrity that is the Internet. Site Design This is the first and most important aspect of your website; if it looks boring and the same as every other website, [...]

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Which Comes First – The Blog or the Visitors?

July 3, 2012
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Which comes first, the blog or the visitors? Ans: The blog Reasoning You need superb content and masses of it on a good-looking blog before you even start looking for visitors or they are never going to visit, read, link or join in. Your Objectives If you have any website your objectives will be the [...]

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Can You Fake Likes and Tweets?

July 2, 2012
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Are you wasting your money and time getting fake Likes and Tweets? Can you Fake Social Signals? You are. I acknowledge that Google says that these are included in its ranking algorithm and that they are valuable. What I doubt is whether bloggers like you or I can ever get enough of them to make [...]

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Pruning My Blogs

July 1, 2012
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Are you under pressure to keep up with all you blogs? I am, too. So, I am reducing the number of blogs I have to manage. Yesterday I more or less gave away BungalowRenovations.com and this week I am going to sell WebGardeningTips.com through Flippa.com. Reducing My Work Pressure I am still carrying too many [...]

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Is SEO a Big Con Trick?

June 29, 2012
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Are you paying someone to do your SEO? The whole concept of search engine optimisation is a big con. SEO companies charge enormous sums for their services, but are they really necessary? We are constantly being told how essential SEO is to our websites’ success. Who tells us? The SEO companies, of course. What do [...]

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Established DIY Blog Needs a New Home

June 29, 2012
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My PR1 DIY Blog HAS to Go – Make an Offer I am going to follow my own advice and cut another blog from my work load. The Site BungalowRenovations.com is updated 3 or 4 times a week with guest posts. It has a PR of 1 and an Alexa rank <600K, but my heart [...]

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How Many Blogs Can Any One Person Manage?

June 28, 2012
One GOOD blog or 6 mediocre ones

Are you managing 4 or 5 blogs? How do you divide your time? You would be better off concentrating on just 1 or 2. Quantity or Quality? We all try running multiple blogs and other writing commitments. I used to have 12 or so blogs plus writing commitments at InfoBarrel and editing work at MyBlogGuest. [...]

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How to Turn an MFA Site into a Proper Blog

June 27, 2012
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Do you have MFA sites in micro niches that are now dead? I have been there and worn out the tee-shirt. Stop stressing and move on. Where to Go from Here Forget writing for search engines and write for people instead. That is what Google was telling you to do all along, but pre-penguin you [...]

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