Although you might find a sense of satisfaction and achievement when creating your own website, you cannot simply turn
a blind eye to the opportunity of purchasing an already established WordPress site. Learn the skills of how to buy and sell websites online.
Website buying and selling are easier than you think. Here you will be shown how to do it, but first, we need to answer some questions you might have.
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Why Should Someone Buy a WordPress Site?
For some people it is a way to cheat, while for others it is simply a growth hack; either way, it is seen as a normal thing these days.
There are countless reasons you should buy a WordPress site, but in all, it all boils down to a few general points.
- Operating a successful business requires speed
- The work of building the structure of a site isn’t for everyone
- Securing traction on the search engine involves a lot of time
SEO Takes Time to Build
Getting real organic traffic is one of the good features a website can have. There are a lot of plugins that are readily
available for you to improve SEO; this is mainly because they enable Bing, Google, or any other search engines to rank your website in search results.
So when thinking to purchase a website, it is advisable to search for websites that rank higher for the keywords that relate to your business or target audience.
Building a Website Involves Time and Energy
If you have ever tried building a website, then you will have an idea of how tough the very first few weeks can be on anyone; it is extremely tiring and exhausting.
But in the case of purchasing an already built website, only a few changes are required, maybe some updates and deletion of some features are required, but overall it takes the stress from you.
Purchase a Site for Your Business
If you are trying to promote a business by growing its web presence, starting from zero might be really bad for that business. So purchasing a website will be a good call; it not only gets your business to your audience but you are guaranteed more sales and traffic.
Why Sell My WordPress Site?
In the course of selling a website, everyone has their own reasons for doing so. Selling a site can be similar to selling a business.
Here are some reasons most people will consider selling their websites:
- The owner has a lot of projects at hand
- Losing interest in the site
- Money is needed to pursue larger goals and investments.
Lose interest in the website, but not in the capital.
Most times when we start a specific project, we put so much effort and time into it to suddenly lose interest, after a certain period. This happens because it’s human nature.
When we find ourselves in such a situation, the best thing to do is to put it up for sale. Sell it for a price that not only gives you back your capital but compensates a little for the amount of time spent on it.
How to Buy or Sell Your Site
Flippa is the best recommendation I can make for selling your WordPress website.
If by any chance, you place your hands on this content, it is most likely that this is the first time you have heard about Flippa. Flippa has been in existence for more than 10 years now.
It is the easiest place for someone who wants to sell a website. Their payment system is secured and also they have a good customer relationship.
Here are some of the reasons I recommend Flippa:
- Their prices are the best you can get out there
- It has the highest customer base
- The platform is easy to use.
Tips for Website Sellers
Flippa is an online marketplace where you are given the opportunity to list your website without much stress, enabling
your potential buyers to view it. Flippa does not pre-select particular categories of sites, whether it is profitable or not; they all get the same chance of being selected.
If you are not yet convinced regarding the worth of your site, Flippa offers a valuation tool that gives you your site’s worth in a few minutes.
If you get on the web, you will find a lot of resources that show you how best to purchase a site, but a few of them has been selected here:
- Communicate: One of the best ways to get a quick purchase of your website is to communicate with your potential buyers. By doing that, you get to show them how they will benefit from purchasing your site.
- Be ready for transfer: At any given time after you have made up your mind to sell a website, it is essential to always have all your logins, password, and files readily available for you to easily hand over to the buyer.
- Have patience: In selling a website, just like selling any other thing, getting someone to purchase a website might sometimes take time for the seller. The key is to be patient, you don’t know when someone will show up.
Tips for Website Buyers
As someone who is about to purchase a website, the process has never been easier. You just have to visit Flippa and start searching for the WordPress domains that are available, and then pick one that fits your desire and your pocket.
But before doing that, there are a few tips to note:
- See the seller as a friend: In purchasing a website, you are trying to build a relationship between you and the person you are buying from. An unfriendly attitude should ways be avoided when trying to purchase something.
- Go for what you want: Most people go into the market with one thing in mind, and leave with an entirely different thing. If you are going to purchase a website, do your due diligence by asking questions about the website and its features.
you are buying from. An unfriendly attitude should ways be avoided when trying to purchase something.There is an endless list of reasons why you should buy or sell a website. No matter what your reasons are, do the necessary by visiting Flippa to purchase the website of your choice.
If you are not quite ready to buy a website but are nervous about learning how to build your own, then visit my article on how to build your own website today starting free.
I hope this has helped, please leave a comment or like and share. Thank you.
LILY
Hello there, Thanks alot for sharing another beautiful piece of information. It’s always a great pleasure coming across your articles because it is always very educative and informative. Buying and Selling websites online has always not been easy but with the guidelines from this article, I have seen how easy it has become. I really appreciate this article.
Hi Igbunu, I can see that you have taken the time to read the whole article and really get a lot of information that will help you to buy and sell on Flippa.
Hey there! This was such a great read! Thanks for sharing! Selling your site today helps you to avoid the risk of your income dropping. If you feel that the value of your site (your revenue and profit) isn’t likely to increase over time, you may want to consider selling it while the value is at its peak.
An excellent point Esiri about the income dropping and with the money you can buy another website that you feel meets your target market better. Flippa is a great and trusted platform for flipping websites.
Hi Lily
You are very right. Building a website is such a lot of work. Especially if it is your first time building one. It is indeed tiring and exhausting. I am in the process of building one for the first time, and I can attest to that.
Thank you so much for your article information. I have learned a lot especially about where to buy and sell websites. I have heard of Flippa, but knowing that it one of the highly recommended places to buy or sell is good to know.
Thank you
Hi Boi, it sounds like you are on a great journey and will go far in your business. Flippa can certainly offer you a great way to jump into a website but learning how is so important to building a healthy, wealthy site that will pay you for years to come.
This is a very interesting post.
I think that it would be a good idea for anyone who owns a website to get a valuation, just to see how much their sites are worth. It might actually surprise us – hopefully!
I also agree that it is a good idea to buy a website that is already established, as it will hopefully have a good traffic flow established, which you can earn from from day one.
Thanks for sharing.
I totally agree with you, Geoff. It would be wonderful to buy an established website and reap the benefits of someone having done the hard slog. I guess my thoughts are that you really need to already understand how to manage a website before you buy one as you could buy a lemon that someone just wants to offload. There are no guarantees. I do wonder why someone would sell the golden goose.
I initially didn’t even consider selling a site. To me, a site was as a baby, that we give birth to and then nourish. However, as we grow, we also expand our horizon of goals. And there are moments when we know that that old, first site is consuming part of the time we should be putting into bigger goals. And even selling the site could fuel our newer projects.
You have hit it right on the nail Ann. It is definitely something to keep in mind, who knows what we will want to do in the future and like childbirth, the memory of delivery will fade and maybe it will be time to move on. You can really make a lot of money selling an established website. Worth thinking about.