What Is Site Flipping Part 4 – Final

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Stage 10: Get Directory Links

For those that don’t know directories are websites that categorize other website on the Internet and contain links to those sites. While their SEO benefits have decreased recently they are still important to Google. So this is another important piece of the puzzle and you can do this while you are posting to your blog or while you are waiting for your Ezinearticles to get approved. You can submit your site and get some quality backlinks for free by submitting them to these sites.

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-reciprocal-links-buy-sell-swap/6751-free-one-way-linkspr3-more.html

If you really want to see your Page Rank improve quickly submit to these directories as well:
Use:
http://directorysubmitter.imwishlist.com to submit for free to tons of directories. These are some of the most powerful directory links you can get.
Yahoo Directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/
Dmoz: http://dmoz.org
Best Of The Web (BOTW): http://botw.org
Microsoft bCentral: http://sbd.bcentral.com/
Business.com Directory: http://www.business.com/directory/index.asp
The Yahoo directory listing is expensive but it is well worth the money for the traffic and page rank you’ll get. Yahoo is still the #1 most visited site and will pass nice pagerank onto your site. DMOZ is difficult to get into so don’t be insulted if you’re not listed there. But it is certainly worth a shot. If you don’t get listed, just keep at it with the other directories and you’ll do just fine. Here is a general tip that applies any time you are doing SEO but it especially applies to getting links from directories. Scope out your competition. See who is ranking high for your keywords.
Just type your keyword into Google and see who is #1.
Then type their URL into https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
That will show you where their links are coming from. Look at what directories they are using and use the same ones plus a few more. You’ll be dominating the spot in no time.

Stage 11: Get More Backlinks from Forum Posts

Here I’m going to recommend a very cheap solution to get many more great backlinks to your site. I would go over to the Digital Point Forum and put up a thread on their Content-Services section:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=102

Tell them that you are looking to hire forum posters. People there will post for you in forums for pennies on the dollar!

Look at what the going rates are. Don’t be cheap or you’ll wait a long time to find posters, but last I checked for 12 cents a post you can get quite a few people ready to work for you! Require that the posts be in readable English and be at least two lines. Require that you get see the links to the posts before they get paid. Do your own research and find the most popular forums in your niche and require that they register and post to those forums. Also require that they use your primary and secondary keywords in the signatures of their posts as anchor text and link back to your homepage and other blog posts on your site. You should be able to complete this step for under $10 and pick up about 40 backlinks. Or you can do this yourself at no cost at all.

Stage 12: Monetize Your Blog

Stage 12 should be done as you are doing all of the above steps. You want your blog to be making money, or at least be READY to make money. Doing this is simple. Find affiliate products related to your niche on Clickbank.com
Create an account with Clickbank if you don’t already have one and get your own unique affiliate links to their products. Then use these links after each of your articles in a way that makes sense. So for instance, after your article about golf tips on your blog you can say: and if you really want to take your golf game to the next level you are going to love this:

http://youraffiliatelinkstosomegoodgolfproductonclickbank.com

It’s also a good idea to actually purchase the product you are promoting and do a review of the product on your blog. This should bring in a few sales as your traffic rolls in. Be sure to use your affiliate link when doing the review. It’s also good practice not to promote garbage. Also check out what the “gravity” is on Clickbank for the product you are promoting. That tells you how many sales of that product are coming from affiliates. The higher, the better. A high
gravity probably means the product’s sales page sells well and those are the kinds of products you want to be promoting. So sprinkle affiliate links in a logical fashion throughout your articles and at the end of your articles. Don’t overdo it. Keep it looking natural and in context and make sure it’s something you wouldn’t mind telling your friends about. That’s my personal test for whether I’m going a good or a crappy job marketing. It shouldn’t LOOK like marketing. It should look like a helpful website that’s not trying to reach into anyone’s pocket but just trying to help people out and when you do that well you’ll make money automatically.

Many of the affiliates you will find on Clickbank.com will offer other affiliate tools like affiliate ad banners that you can place on your site. Get these whenever you can and have someone (maybe your hosting company) help you upload them permanently to your blog in the empty spaces available there. Also put affiliate links as your “highly recommended sites” on your blog. So when you’re all done with this stage you should have a spiffy looking blog with lots of good content and tons of subtle opportunities for you to make money sprinkled throughout. If you really work hard at this you should have #1-#3 rankings on all your primary and secondary keywords and you should have the Page Rank of your site up to 3 within four weeks. Now you are ready to sell your site for a major windfall profit.

Stage 13: Sell Your Site

You want to do this at http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/ . Site Point is known to have loads of serious buyers and they do live up to their reputation. Click on the button on the left which says “Create New Listing” and list your site as an “Established Web Site For Sale” since your site should be over 30 days old by now. I recommend leaving your auction up for the full 30 days to get the most money for your site. What you write to describe your site is very important to how this auction turns out. Before you write anything take a good look at what has been done before you. Look at the sites that have bids. Look at the sites that are selling well and basically do as they do!
Why reinvent the wheel? Look at their subject headlines and descriptions and model after them.Finally, be sure to provide screenshots of everything you think would be valuable to a potential buyer including screenshots of your traffic (which by the way you should be tracking using Awstats) There are instructions for how to create screenshots of anything on your screen here: So if you’ve made any money on Clickbank go into your account and grab screenshots of your earnings. Figure out how much it’s earning per day or month and mention that in your description. Then you can place those screenshots on a post on your blog and link to the post in your Site Point auction. Don’t know how to do screenshots?
You can find some simple instructions on how to do them here:
http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/lookup+1/89C3D7659987ED8ECA25715E0010F331
How much should you set your minimum and reserve bids? It depends on how well your site is doing. You can sell a site for up to 36 months worth of profits. I’d recommend that the reserve should be around 12 months of profits.
e.g. if your site is making $200 month in profit (after costs) then you should hold the reserve at $2400.
Once the auction is over and the final bid is in you will know who the winner is. Be sure to keep in close communication with him or her through the Site Point personal messages and you will just need to ask HostGator to help you do an “HTML Redirect” so the site is transferred to the new owner. Swap out your own affiliate links before you do collect the money and you’re done! That’s it, folks. It’s that easy.

Summary:
So let’s review what we’ve done here and how much we’ve spent.You got a hosting resellers account for two to three months=$72 (you can even get this for cheaper with a regular account if you don’t mind doing all the paperwork)
A domain name=About $10
Content: If you outsourced it, it cost you $60. If you did it yourself it was free.
Hiring Forum Posters: Probably About $15. Or free if you do it yourself.
Directory Links: Free
Site Point Auction fee: $5
Microniche Finder: $67
How much time did you spend? The most time consuming thing was probably the articles. But if you outsourced that this entire thing could be done in a day or two’s worth of work if you are new at this. If you are familiar already with directories, article writing and SEO I bet you could knock this entire project off in five hours. So all in all we are talking about as little as $82 or at most $157 and you have yourself a site that should easily sell for $2,000 but can also sell for as much as four or five thousand dollars if you find the right buyer. Not a bad return on investment if I do say so myself.

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