Web Design & SEO For Small Businesses

Buying a Existing website is very lucrative if it is done correctly, since theses sites are already build and is bring traffic. You are benefiting from the efforts of others who have worked on this site. You can buy these existing websites from different websites, forums and auctions like eBay etc. An existing websites are sold from $10 to more than a million.

Buying an existing website has many advantages but it doesn’t mean it will guarantee you success. One of the top reasons to consider buying established websites is because of the traffic flow from various links and referrals, as you all know traffic is key for any online business. I have come up with strategies and things to look up for while buying established website, in the quest for buying existing websites if couldn’t find the right website would be a nightmare.So consider the following steps below before buying an existing website to make money online.

Traffic – all Internet entrepreneurs knows traffic is vital for any online business. The sole purpose of buying an established website is because of the traffic the website is generating. There are several ways to find traffic of an existing website. Before negotiating with the website owner you need to get website stats or raw log from the website host. Although there are several online tools out there to give you an idea of what kind of traffic and an approximate amount of visitors it is receiving every month, asking the owner for more details is important. You need to get at least 6 months old data to come to the conclusion weather the website is receiving consistence traffic. Also these data will give you more details about the website weather the traffic is coming from search engines, referral links or directories. Even if the established website is generating traffic you need to know from where it is coming from some of the website owners try to create fake traffic from link farms and other kinds of black hat techniques which will get the website banned from search engines. The Quality visitors which you need to look up are search engines traffic, traffic from authority sites and Directories. This traffic is genuine and targeted traffic, so if you buy this established website there would be potential of generating more money online.

Domain age – Domain age of the existing website is important to not only since it is established but also in the eyes of the search engines. An older domain has value because it has been online for a longer period of time. Usually it is hard to find older existing website for sale because it is costly as well as hardly anyone sells because of their effort they have put into it. But if you are lucky by chance and able to grab one check for the domain age you can do that using who is of their website. But some time the domain owner has the option to make who is information private. In this situation you can either ask the owner or check the website in way back machine tool to find. Usually this would help you to determine the age of the website domain name. An Idea old domain should be at least 3 years old.

Unique content – When you buy an existing website you need to get the ownership of the content as well. One of the reasons you are buying the website is because of this unique content. Always looks for quality and good content with lots of pages. If the website has quality content you will have the potential to grow, it will have loyal and regular visitors.Also before you buy you need to check weather the same website content is been duplicated elsewhere. You can do that by typing the content within “content” in the Google search box. If it is unique the search results will show only one site who is the original owner of the content. Also make sure the owner has the full ownership of the content otherwise in future you will be trouble.

Page Rank – Page Rank is very important for a website; it shows the authority of a website in which ever niche it is. A website builds up its page rank via links from other website. My advice is to go for a website which has a page rank higher than Five. A PR 5 website should have good quality links from other authority sites from the same niche. This gives you an advantage in future selling of your site or its growth. A website gains its page rank through quality links as well as if it is older domain the chances of getting higher page rank is high.

Link Popularity – Link popularity is important for any website to rank higher in search engine results. Google, Yahoo and MSN algorithms is build with link popularity the more quality links the website has the chances of ranking higher in Search Engine Result
Pages (SERPs). You can check the links of an existing website by typing this “link: www.domainname.com” command in the Google or any other search engine search box. Right now MSN has stop allowing showing the Link popularity command. There are also other tools which will show you the link popularity like www.marketleap.com or if you do a search in Google you can come up with different tools for link popularity.

Monetization opportunity – You need to check weather the existing website has the monetization opportunity. If the website is in a good niche and has good amount of traffic you can monetizes. There are several ways to monetize like advertisements, paid links, reviewing products and affiliate marketing. The whole purpose of buying an existing website is to make money online through website monetization.

Amazon associates program has launched a version of Amazon Widgets. This Widget is a configurable tool which will allow showing featured Amazon products on your blog, website or social networking pages. This easy to use widget comes with features like post your comments about the products; choose colors to match with your blog or website. For me this widget looks like another extension of their Associate program since it is offering 10% referral fees if someone purchase products through this widget.

The Option of Amazon Widget 1) Slideshow – You can choose product images from the Amazon catalog and show that as a slideshow in your website, this also allows to add comments on the selected products.

2) Make Favorite – This option allows you to recommend certain products which you like to your visitors it will show the images of the product, price and rating also you can resize the widget length and width.

 

3) Quick links – This option allows you to build links to Amazon products without visit their associate central page. Just by adding a custom HTML tags it will allows you’re to write your own content, Amazon recommends to all associates and bloggers to use this tool since they write their own content.

4) Wish List – This Amazon wish list allows your friends and family members to let your know what you want.

5) Product cloud – You can create tag clouds choosing a particular category or theme related to your site. This will display all the product titles in that category also you have the option to resize and color pick.

6) Amazon Unbox Video Previewer – This widget shows movie and TV network previews from a wide range of new release, old and classic movies and TV shows available with Amazon Unbox video down load service. Amazon associates can choose from attributes, genre, to preview it on their website.

For more detail your can visit their Amazon associate blog. Also they are planning to add more widgets in the future. Also you think you can certain idea about the new widget or feedback your can write to them as well.

 

 

A new blogging tool called blogrush has been recently launched by John Reese, a renowned internet marketer. This tool will help bloggers to drive more traffic to their blog from other relevant bloggers. You need to place the code of the blogrush widget inside your blog which will display 5 blog titles relevant to your blog category. 

How this BlogRush work with your blog and bring traffic

When ever someone visits your blog the widget will be displayed with a set of blog title links and you will earn credits each time. For example if your blog gets 1000 page view a day, what does this widget does is that you will have one of your post title displayed 1000 times with other category blogs related to yours. This program allows you to have a referral link once you have signed up, by that way you will get a chance to invite other bloggers to join and increase traffic to your blog. 

Each signup will get you more credit as well as you will get a chance to display more blog titles inside the widget if you refer more bloggers to this blogrush. This will really help bloggers if someone with higher traffic blogs signup. If you visit the home page of BlogRush.com there is a cool video about this. 

So why wait signup for BlogRush.

You might have heard about the old saying don’t put all eggs in one basket. If you ask an investor he might tell you to invest the money in different options like stocks, CDs, and bonds. The answer for protecting your online business is to diversify into different fields. By that way if any catastrophe happens to you still will survive. 

So how do you apply that to your online business? Say suppose you are a power seller in eBay, and you supplier stopped supplying with products then you products source is stopped or your market has a slow dying trend then you need to find another way to sustain your income level. It can also happen if you are running a big website with tons of search engine visitors all of a sudden the web host is down or the search engine algorithm changes and your website ranking dropped substantially what will you do? 

Are you prepared to this online disaster and do you have a backup plan. Here are few tips which can help in having peace of mind and also enjoy making money online regularly. 

1) Create more than one website that can generate money for you. I don’t mean to create 100’s of websites but atleast half a dozen website out of them at least 2-3 should be flagship website and other’s can be small ones which can run in auto pilot or the ones require less maintenance. 

2) Invest your online revenue to offline ventures as well. This can help you sustain in the eventuality of big online disasters. 

3) Have a backup of all your files in case of natural disasters or web host failure. 

4) Share the password and username of all your accounts with you spouse or someone who you can trust. 

5) If you are into dropshipping or auctioning have more suppliers for your products if one person stops delivering other suppliers will help you. 

6) Don’t depend on only one employee or outsource partners, If you have the skills to do it, then it is fine or educates your other employees on doing the stuffs which need to run your online business.  

7) Have enough cash flow so that in the event of financial or online disaster you can survive and go through that bad phrase and still build your online business from scratch. 

My inspiration to write this blog posts came from the events me and my other online marketers came across in the last few months.

Everyone has got goals in their life and things which they want to make in their life. Internet gives you an opportunity to achieve all those goals in your life by trying to find ways to make money online. There are several ways you can achieve making money online.

But all methods can’t bring you in money. You can several e-books, gurus, seminars, online courses and blogs out there which will teach you how to make money online. Most of them are just trying to sell you snake oil, they are not trying to create a hype and trying to sell that won’t work or wrong methods. I am not trying to teach you or sell you but I am doing to tell what all methods worked for me and the strategies and techniques online to make money to accomplish your life’s goals.

Making money online is not an easy task it need patience, effort and time from your side. If you think you are good at these then you can definitely make money online slowly but for sure.  In blog posts I am trying to just give an overview about what these entire arsenals required to make you online money making venture successful. These are the basic requirements for an online success.  

1)     Follow one strategy – There are several strategies you can use to make money online, at least in the initial stages you need to follow this method. I will explain this method in my upcoming future posts about online money making strategies. It is easy to get distracted if you jump into several projects at a time. Work on the strategy which works for you instead of having a piece of pie from all of them. If you are able to focus on one strategy you can leverage more from it. That’s the idea behind following one strategy which is working.  

2)     Have patience – Patience is very important for an online business, because you can see the fruits of your labor immediately it takes and effort. Especially in the initial stages of your online venture you won’t find success, the key is to stick to what you are doing and eventually you can find useful results of your hard work. There is several make money with 24 hours kind of products out there but I am sure those won’t help you at all. So focus on what you do and there would be a success following you.  

3)     Decision making – This is the hardest part sometime there would be situations where you need to take decision of your own and there is no much time left if you don’t make a decision. You will find a very few support from friends and family if you decide to go with this. So you need to make money online make your own decision regarding your online business. 

4)     Take action – Opportunity are enormous online but if you are not acting when the opportunity arises you are losing the opportunity to make money online. Also you would be responsible for your actions so keep in mind what ever decision or action you’re taking you are solely responsible for its success or failure. 

5)     Do researches – Online Business needs research a lot. You can just believe what other people say online and take as granted. Time and patience is required to learn about new things. If you are planning to start online money making project without a research about that product or service you may find yourself in trouble. Find what other online competitors do and try to use their similar strategy. Don’t try to reinvent then wheel again. 

6)     Read a lot – Internet is all about information; you can find tons of learning sources online from websites to newsletter. Need to educate yourself with these freely available materials online from blogs, ask question in forums/discussion boards etc. This method can educate your very well for your online business. Sometime this material can be handy for your money making online venture.  

7)     Take Risk – There is a lot of risk involved online. Online business is only for those you can take risks. As you all know failures are the foundation of success. But if you priorities and plan your online money making very well the risks would be minimal. I hope there is no business online or offline where risk is not involved. I don’t think this is going to be a big factor at all. 

     Take advice – Since you don’t have prior experience in online success, it is always better to ask advice with the successful online money making gurus. If you visit blogs and forums related to your industry you can find solutions. It might take few emails to get your attention to them but most of them eventually will give you a reply about your questions.

9)     Spend Money – To make money you need to spend money. Once you setup your online business, people need to know about it. There are several stages where you need to spend money, like promotion, advertisements, hiring people, expansion of your business etc. I always advice to have some saving to start your online business rather than taking loans to do your online business.

10) Motivation – Motivation is key to online business success because, if you are not motivated you will lose interests in your effort to make money online. Some of my tips are to read a lot about success people online and offline through blogs, books and articles. This can keep you motivated to make money online. 

The bottom-line is we are needed to accomplish a lot of things in life.  An online business can get you unlimited earning potential to achieve your goals in life.