Tips on how to buy a website on the internet
If you are looking to buy an established website of business on any forum or Ebay, you will be amazed to see how many “websites” and “businesses” are listed daily. They all promise to make you a millionaire fast or that you can earn $xxxx a month starting right now. Don’t get fooled by them. Here are some of the tips I would like to share with you and hopefully they will keep you away from getting mugged if you know what I mean =)
1.It’s really important to find out how established a website is. There are lots of people out there who would claim that they had been running the site for a quiet a long time even if it’s not. This means that the seller claims that the website has been around for some time and has regular traffic and customers. You need to look into the source of the traffic. The seller might have purchase “guaranteed” traffic just to make it looK like an established website which isn’t much of a big deal now a days.
2. Now, you need to check why the seller is selling his websites. If there is a website that makes a solid $200 or $300 per day then you need to ask yourself first “why the hell is this guy selling a website that makes that much money”. You will find excuses like”I build them so I can sell them” or “I don’t have time to update it. Honestly, if you had a website that’s making you money, you would Find the time to run it and improve it, not sell it off. Ask for as many details as you can unless your satisfied.
3.Page Rank, now you can be easily fooled by this so when you see the page rank of the website, don’t just believe it. It’s best that you check the back-links of the website and verify that these back-links actually make sense with respect to the page rank of the site.
4.It’s suggested that you buy websites that has at least 70% organic traffic i,e Google,Yahoo or any other search engine . You should also check the referring sites sources because it’s really easy to get traffic from social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon. Such websites may not have a good business model to work on in the long run. So make sure that you view the referral stats to see how much traffic is coming from search engines.
5.The final point you need to remember is that you should try to buy website with minimum amount of work required.This way you can invest your money on the internet, buy more sites to get maximum revenue.
6. If a website catches your attention don’t bid on it until you can get a feel for it’s worth. The number of bids on it can give you a rough idea about what kind of an opportunity it is and whether it’s worth your time and money. If a website has 0 bids and has a buy it now price of $59.00 it�s probably not worth your money.
