Flipping Minisites anyone?

pbryd · Sep 25, 2010

I'm thinking about trying this out.

Currently I reg a domain, build a mini site and try to get an income from it.

I know some people flip sites and I'm wondering if it's going to be worthwhile giving it a shot.

What experience of flipping site have you guys had?

A worthwhile add on to domaining and site building

or

A pain in the backside trying to find and get an old site for a decent price.

pbryd · Sep 26, 2010

Well I was hoping someone would come along and give me some real world advice.

I'll a different question.

I want to reinvest some of the cash I get from my affiliate sites.

I have £50 per month to invest, I'd like to get an income from it so I don't think buying and sitting on domains is the right option.

Should I

Try to flip sites?
Pay for articles [content writers] to raise the profile of my existing sites?
Carry on registering a building mini sites myself?

What you invest £50 per month on?

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Admin · Sep 26, 2010

I'm finding sales very slow this year so I think you would struggle to flip many sites.

I'm sure a domain is more attractive to a buyer with an existing website and some history can it can only help but I don't see much selling unless you are thinking like DL where most sales are £30-£50 to domain traders?

I have an issue with mini-sites too, what's the purpose of them? - you build a mini-site to bring traffic and visitors when really you don't want people on your site, you want them to click-through your site to an affiliate link of some sort, as quickly as possible - so this was the beauty of a parking page, it was a route to a destination for the surfer, where as with a mini-site you become the destination.

I am thinking around that now....

Admin

stender · Sep 26, 2010

Usually a minisite sells for it's monthly revenue x 12/24/36 months. so without one your not likely to make much unless it's a good name or a nice site.

I would suggest you improve/add to your existing sites and dev your names. Stop buying anymore unless you see a gem. Either say to yourself "i'm not going to buy another name until I sell one" or until my first site makes a constant £x-£xx per week/month.

Many on here start off amassing numerous names then you find they never get dev'd. Me included! Stick to quality and not quantity. Once you have a site making good money, invest in a good name or buy an underperfoming site.

And when you say minisite, what do you mean? a few pages of content or affiliate ads?

pbryd · Sep 26, 2010

stender said:
And when you say minisite, what do you mean? a few pages of content or affiliate ads?

I like to try mini sites with a few pages of content with some links to amazon.

http://www.homewaxing.co.uk

is my latest one.

I don't want to register loads domains and sit on them, I't would cost too much to renew them if they're just going to site there waiting to be developed.

I was thinking buying a site/domain with a bit of history might be better than registering from new.

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pbryd · Sep 26, 2010

admin said:
I have an issue with mini-sites too, what's the purpose of them? - you build a mini-site to bring traffic and visitors when really you don't want people on your site, you want them to click-through your site to an affiliate link of some sort, as quickly as possible

Well that's it, you build a few pages of content in the hope of attracting visitors and with luck they'll go onto purchase something through an affiliate link.

I'm trying to add tool to the websites I have that will help the customer.

My laminate flooring site has a calculator for working out how many packs and I have a garden pond website that tells you what size liner you'll need for a pond.

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pbryd · Sep 26, 2010

admin said:
I'm sure a domain is more attractive to a buyer with an existing website and some history can it can only help but I don't see much selling unless you are thinking like DL where most sales are £30-£50 to domain traders?

I'm not sure what you're getting at. What's DL?

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