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How to Earn $100,000 by Selling Websites

This could be your way to earning cold, hard cash. We all know that everyone is anxious to start this kind of business but remember, fortune favours the bold. Your financial wherewithal to launch this kind of personal business may be too presumptuous. Let me walk you through the steps with a list of starting capital.

 

I have seen a lot of articles that share ideas on how you can start earning an enormous amount of money, like this article – Make $100,000 without a job. Reading the article will still leave you puzzled on how to get started, however, the write up is concise and straight to the point. Anyway, I will unveil some of its core secrets on how to start this kind of business of selling websites.

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Find an Aged and Recently Expired Domain Name

 

Search engine algorithms restrain newly published website manifestations because they tend to provide more importance to aged and well-optimised domains. Competition seems to be abundant in any online business. This is why you need to look for aged, recently expired or in the marketplace auction domains. This website https://www.expireddomains.net/ gives you insights of some domain names that are currently registered, expired or in the auction. They also provide useful SEO metric tools that track the websites history and data information that helps you decide which domain names you would like to purchase.

 

Starting Capital ($10 – $15): It depends on your desired niche, you could either choose expired domains which you can purchase through different domain name servers that offer services like HostGator, GoDaddy, 1and1, etc. Auction domains tend to be expensive since they have a huge chance of profitable results.

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Perform Keyword Research

 

Once you have selected a domain name which you find profitable for your startup, you need to do keyword research. This step gives you many ideas of which keywords or anchor text to target. It will also give you a chance to look for other domain names that relate to your first selection that are also available for purchase.

 

Starting capital (FREE and you can do-it-yourself): you can do keyword research using Google Keyword Planner, Bing Keyword Planner, Keyword Tool or using Ubersuggest.

To learn more visit keyword research beginners guide.

Purchase a Domain Name and a Hosting Server

 

As soon as you get profitable domain names after doing some research, you need to purchase that domain name and setup a server for you to get started. You can buy cheap domains at 1and1.com that offer $0.99/M.

Starting Capital: $1 to $20; See more of their offers at https://www.1and1.com/.

Design Your Website

 

Designing your website could replicate tonnes of existing website designs. Uniqueness and providing a clear presentation of your navigational menus and permalink structures are the keys to getting your site visible in all major search engines results pages (SERP). Having organised hierarchies of tags, product category, and content category could easily index and provide more smooth access and increase user’s experience. Select content management system’s (CMS) underlie features that you could use to set up your design structure. WordPress is a CMS that is chosen thousands of marketers and bloggers online. It is easy to setup and provides tonnes of useful “easy to install plugins” that give valuable benefits in promoting your website online.

Starting capital: If you’re looking for a unique website design, hiring a professional web designer could satisfy your needs. Prices range from $500 to $1000 USD depending on which company or freelancer you choose.

SEO Your Website for Traffic

 

Optimising your website for online traffic should be one of your main focuses. Online traffic varies and can assists you in selling your website at a higher value. This process could take you 1 – 2 years of website optimisation that relies on the competitiveness of your niche regarding keyword rankings on any search engine result page. Proportionally, the higher your website visibility is in search engines, the higher it got visitors, online traffic and increased website trust flow based on search engines algorithm recipes in classifying website rankings.

 

Starting Capital: Hiring an SEO specialist depends on their skills. Some SEO’s offer $800 – $1000 per month. You can also do-it-yourself. Read this article “How to index your new content instantly in Google SERP” to give you extra ideas on how to SEO your new published website.

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Add More Niche Related Content

 

Content drives website traffic, visitors, and converts sales. It is one of the cheapest ways to promote your website. Submitting on different content amplification sites will sprawl and increase your website online traffic and external link resources. Proper “content URL mapping” within your web page content could generate and discover new keywords that will index in SERP.

Starting capital: Hiring a professional copy or blog writer will cost you about $4 per 100 words.

Monetise Your Website

 

Monetising your website increases its website value and can help when you want to sell your website. Your website monetisation monthly revenue plus additional online traffic results could entice buyers to close the deal at your desired price. One of the best ways to monetise your website is by using Google Adsense. Adsense has a minimum of a 6 month wait before you can apply your website for monetisation, which adds to your reputation that your website web pages are indeed safe to transact or safe to visit.

Starting capital: (Free) Apply your website here at Google Adsense.

Estimate Your Website Value

There’s a lot of free tools to check your website value. However, results are not always convincing. Try to appraise your site value here http://www.worthofweb.com/calculator/. This is how we estimate website value: Value Based on Estimated Website Online Traffic Calculation (Current Keyword Volume Estimated Traffic X Average Keyword Cost Per Click / Current Keyword SERP Position) (30 days) – (Website Maintenance Cost) = Website Estimated Monthly Value (CKVET X AKCPC / CKSP) (30) – (WMC) = WEMV Value Based on Monthly Monetisation Revenue + Monthly Estimated Traffic Value Current Monthly Monetisation Revenue – Website Monthly Maintenance Cost + Website Estimated Monthly Value = Website Estimated Value CMMR – WMMC + METV = WEMV

First, you need to list all your current website keyword rankings and get the keywords volume. Determine each keyword cost per click (CPC) and multiply by its current estimated traffic then divide it through current keyword SERP position and multiply the results by 30 as the number of days for the whole month. Let’s say you ranked for the keyword “website optimisation”, the CPC cost for that keyword is 20.82 per click and the current estimated traffic volume based on Semrush is 50 then your current keyword SERP position is at 60 so your total estimated value for that keyword is 520.5.

Let us calculate: Value Based on Estimated Website Online Traffic Calculation: (50 * 20.82 / 60) * (30) = 520.5 Let’s assume; if you got a huge list of keyword rankings on SERP that have a high CPC value, then you have a much better chance to achieve your desired price from your buyer. This is how we appraise website value. Check out our unique calculation, says @websavii Click To Tweet

Sell Your Website

 

After all your hard work of countless hours day and night and getting your website estimated value through our unique mathematical equation, you are now ready to sell your website. One of the most popular selling websites online is at Flippa.com. Flippa sold thousands of websites in various price ranges. It is one of the most trusted buy and sell online marketplaces where you set an auction bidding for your desired website to sell.

For you to build your own analysis, try to explore and do some research here at Flippa Buying and Selling Website. Note: Be aware of how things work on Flippa, it’s better to first read their website terms, privacy and site rules before you get started. To learn more, visit Flippa FAQS.

Your Turn

This whole process may take years before you can sell your website. If you get your website rankings in just a short period, then that is be a good indicator that you could increase your website value. If you find this article helpful, please share and spread the good news. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. - Jim Rhon @websavii Click To Tweet
Joel Cortez: Joel Cortez is the Lead SEO at @websavii (www.websavii.com.au). He's also a Writer, SEO/PPC Blogger, Social Media Marketing specialist and a certified Google Adwords expert. Get a FREE SEO/SEM QUOTE from us.

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