How To Flip Website

What’s your most ideal type of websites to have in your portfolio?

We webmasters, website publishers, website flippers, Internet marketers, or whatever terms people like to call us, or you’d like to be called, usually run more than just one or two websites at any given time. In fact, we sometimes run more than 30 or 40 websites (some people up to 100 websites and more) at a time, sometimes on several different servers across the Internet.

Some people like to diversify the kind of websites they own, like maybe 5 websites are CPA-based websites promoting Commission Junction products, another 5 maybe are micro niche websites for Adsense, another 5 maybe are community forums or portals, so on so forth. Always, in managing this many websites, your only enemy is time. Sometimes you have all the big ideas in the world for one or two websites in your network, but the time spent maintaining all the other websites prevents you from implementing these big ideas.

Managing 40+ websites across your network and to contribute every little time you have for each and every one of them is not easy. This is why people usually prefer a set-and-forget website (good selling point in selling websites!) rather than a website that needs sitting the entire time. Sure, if you have 40 websites, and 35 of them are set-and-forget websites, you then only need to think about your 5 other websites. So much easier, right? Then you can start spending your time implementing your big ideas on that one or two prioritized websites. This is why “set-and-forget” is a very good selling point in selling websites!

Now, the question is, can you really have a truly set-and-forget website? Is this possible? You set it up, and then totally forget about it (while it’s still be making money of course, otherwise there’s no point in the whole thing).

From my past experience, a website could get to a stage where you could slow down (or stop) with its growth and the website will still be making money day in day out. This will be achieved after all that initial hard work (or initial investment if you buy the website from someone else). But to completely “forget” about it after setting it up, I think it’s not truly possible. Any website needs some level of attention through time somehow. What we gotta know is the LEVEL of attention that certain types of websites need. A website that needs the most minimal level of attention is probably the closest to being termed as a “set-and-forget website”.

So, that brings us to the question; what kinds of websites need the most attention and what kinds of websites need very minimal attention? Read more »