The winner of the small contest in the last post is Richael from Domain Marvelous. Congrats! Please email me your paypal address at swwastik@gmail.com (yeah, with the two w’s). Also, I’m sorry for the lack of updates – was traveling again and got busy!

If you’re seeing regular zero dollar days in Clickbank, Paydotcom and other networks; If you’re unable to sell your own product then this post might be of some interest to you. I’m going to talk about my forte – site flipping. Flipping sites, you can generate instant income starting on a shoestring budget and when you climb up the ladder, you can totally rely on other competent professionals to do the work and you rake in the profits; i.e. outsourcing.

First, there are several types of site flipping. You can flip a startup site with absolutely zero traffic, you can flip an amazon blog where you don’t even have to write the content (although you’ll have to do it en masse) or you can flip a well established blog. I’ll categorize site flipping into something like this -

• Startup Flipping
  • Niche Wordpress Blogs,
  • Amazon Product Blogs,
  • Clickbank/Paydotcom ready websites,
  • Review sites,
  • Custom script sites.
• Flipping established sites
  • Niche sites,
  • Authority blogs,
  • Forums,
  • Memberships.

That was a general categorization but you get the idea. We’re targeting the startup section, niche blogs because we can get started today and be in profits as early as tomorrow! So, without any further ado, let’s get started -

Market Selection

Our first step is selecting a market to build the blog. There are tons of niche markets around, you just need to take a careful look. I’m listing a few markets I’ve built and flipped sites in -

1. Fat Loss

2. Muscle Building

3. Tattoo

4. Tattoo Removal

5. Panic Relief

6. Cure Hemorrhoids

7. Yeast Infection

8. Grow taller

9. Increase your jump

10. Lose Man Boobs

11. Acne

12. Mole Removal

13. Make money with surveys

14. Make money online

15. Blogging

16. Internet Marketing

17. Adwords

18. Search Engine Optimization

19. Article Marketing

20. CPA

21. Twitter

22. Xbox 360

23. Playstation

24. Registry Cleaners

25. Find jobs online

26. Forex

27. Reverse Directory Lookup

28. Satellite TV

29. Save energy

30. Get your ex back

31. Dating

32. Wedding

33. Sex

34. Catch a cheating spouse

35. Government Records

36. Foreclosure

37. Credit Repair

38. Debt Consolidation

39. Dog Training

40. Parrot Training

41. WoW (World of Warcraft)

42. Spyware Removal

43. Golf

44. Music Production

That list should give you some ideas. Once you’ve picked a market, our next step is to select a domain name and grab some hosting.

Domain Name and Hosting

You can grab a domain name from Name.com. There are other options but honestly, I think name.com tops all. You may also use Instant Domain Search for real time lookup of domain names. It’ll make the process a whole lot faster.

For hosting, I’d recommend Hostgator. If possible, you should buy their reseller package. It’ll help you manage the sites better and you can even offer your buyers to host with you for a minimal fees.

Once you have both, you can proceed to the next step that is building and configuring the site.

Building and Configuring the Site

For our blogs, Wordpress is the king.

Once you have your cpanel details, you may go inside, find fantastico and install wordpress in a few clicks. Next, you should change the theme, add some plugins & add content.

For themes, I’d recommend you go with a premium one. The ones at Studiopress and Woothemes will do. You may also go for free themes but it’ll make the value of the site go down drastically.

Here are the plugins I’d recommend you install -

• All in One SEO
• Google XML Sitemap Generator
• Sociable
• Feedburner feedsmith

That will do for now. Next job is to load up some good quality content. If you can weave words yourself, you can do it for your first few projects. After you have a few flips under your belt, I’d recommend you outsource the task. This way, you can concentrate on other important stuff and get more done in less time which will mean more profits.

Okay… now, all the basics are done. But almost all the blogs put for sale out there have these things with them. You’ve to make your offer stand out… you’ve to make it special. That is – you’ve to add more value to the website.

You can do that by adding different things such as -

• An absolutely gorgeous design
• Autoresponder series
• Unique/PLR eBook
• PPC ads
• Keywords List
• Extra articles
• Article Submission / Basic Marketing (Like Feed submission)

Once you’ve the site ready, with all the addons and value added stuff, you can sell it over at different marketplaces.

If it were a couple months ago, I’d have definitely recommended Sitepoint but for now, I’d recommend you go with The Warrior Forum’s marketplace. From my experience, it’s a better place and has got some buyers with pretty good pockets. And then most of our buyers are newbies or established Internet Marketers anyways.

I’ll expand more on each sub topic in the coming posts, so stay tuned.

Oh, and this is the first time I’ve posted 15th post on a single blog YAY!

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