by Curtis D. Tucker

Flipping websites can be very profitable for those that are in tune with Internet real estate. Flipping domains and websites is very much like buying and selling "real" real estate. You buy or build low and sell high.

Building websites from the ground up can make you the most profit but it takes some web building knowledge and does entail man hours. Buying small websites and flipping them is much faster but less profitable.

With the popularity of Wordpress this has become much easier than in the "old" days of the Internet. A small amount of web design knowledge can be turned into a high profit business.

Why would someone buy a website from you? Because they want to invest in real estate property but they do not have the time to build sites and wait for them to rise in the search engine rankings. High traffic websites full of original content can make big bucks. A popular website that is full of advertising is a great little profit center.

The more traffic you get, the more ads are clicked on and the more products get sold. Most profit from today's websites comes from advertising and from subscriptions. If you have a large user base and email list you might have a site worth some money also.

Simple subjects can actually be the best sites to sell. I know of a simple niche website that listed nothing but names. These name lists combined with some related articles created a decent amount of traffic. With nothing other than these names and the traffic, the site sold for an amount in the five figure range.

You can build smaller, low traffic sites and flip them for a few hundred dollars here and there. Great domains can also be purchased and sold.

Another route that I will get into later is to build yourself a collection of these sites and live off of the advertising dollars. A few dozen websites making $5-$20 a day can add up. This is where you might become the buyer instead of the seller. More on that later.

Be an Internet mogul today!!

Labels: Ideas, Internet, Make Money, Websites

by Curtis D. Tucker

The greatness of the Internet is that you can become an expert overnight. Use your knowledge and expertise to write articles, write blog posts and upload how-to videos. Fill your website with as much original content about your niche as you can. Your pages will get indexed and people will start linking to you. All of this leads to you being thought of as an expert in your field.

There are many websites and blogs with photography tips. These sites are very popular and garner huge amounts of traffic. If you are in a niche field it will be even easier for you to rank higher and look like an expert.

Let others use your articles as long as they link back to you. The free publicity and link juice in invaluable. Don't share all of your content, but just enough to help market your site.

Free marketing online can help increase your sales and client base. Use every resource available online. Create your own website, your own blog, a Facebook business page, a Twitter account, get LinkedIn, build a Squidoo page and enroll in all free sites related to your business.

My personal blog and personal photos recently helped me find myself on the homepage of CNN.com, which included a photo, article and link to my site. This same photo will be used in an upcoming national magazine. Other unrelated photos were used on a statewide TV news station with the printed address to my blog.

Put yourself and your business out there in any way that you can. The more information and content you have online, the better chances you will have of being found. You can never have enough content online. Get in the habit of writing at least one new article a week. Submit to article websites and ask about writing for related magazines and blogs.

Tag every photo you put online with the best possible keywords. Your images will get picked up on search engine image searches which does increase traffic. The Internet is the ultimate marketing tool and in most cases it is absolutely free!

Labels: Internet, Marketing