Are you thinking about purchasing a website?
23/11/09 13:28 Categories:Buying Websites
There are many factors that should be considered when buying a website. One factor is whether you should create your own site or purchase an existing website. Both options have advantages and disadvantages and your decision will depend on your own individual preferences, budget, skills and time. Building your own site can be expensive, time consuming, and requires technical knowledge. If you build a new website with a new domain name, it can take a long time before it generates consistent traffic. A faster way to establish a lucrative online business is to buy an established website.
As an entrepreneur or more specifically an internet entrepreneur you will want to purchase a website which has targeted traffic for products or services the website is offering as this way the conversion rate will be appealing. Finding out where or whether at all a website is back linked or more simply advertised on relevant sites to the one in question isn’t simple. It is if the owner has any paid advertising as this information will be available to you but most back links these days are forms of free advertising e.g. forums. The purpose of this is because for example you have two websites which are very similar and both get 1000 visitors per day. Website A has most of its advertising on relevant websites but site B has its back links linked to its forum. Obviously sites A conversion rate for traffic to sales will be much higher and therefore will be the preferred site to buy, or will it?
Although sites A conversion rate is higher, both have the same amount of income. Why? Websites carry out many purposes but they can also be used to generate advertising revenue. One method of monetizing your traffic is by selling advertising through PPC (pay for click) advertising networks such as Google Adsense. After you have placed their source code on your site, the advertising networks display advertisements on your site, and you will be paid each time your user has clicked on the advertiser’s banners. Another way is advertising through a Pay Per Impression (CPM) program, where you are paid based on the number of times the advertiser’s banner is shown on your site. One more way you can earn money online is by affiliate marketing; that is selling a product or service for another business in exchange for a commission. There are more ways to market your website and create an income stream but you should have a well thought out business plan that fits your personality, goals, ability and knowledge.
If you are a web designer/web developer or may be even not you could purchase a website ‘do it up’ and then sell it for more money. When I say ‘do it up’ you could either re-design/improve the site itself in terms of layout or content for example or improve the number of hits/the websites Google page index. This will increase the websites worth.
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