Where is the Best Place to Buy a Website?

The purchase of websites is a good way to make money online; either by flipping the website and reselling it at a higher profit or by fixing up the site and using it to do things like affiliate marketing, selling products and/or services and/or blogging, or both!  Purchasing a website allows you to save a bit money of money because you can buy the domain name and hosting at a bit cheaper and you can start out with a built website which saves you money on programs or designers to do it for you.  The site you buy may even already have products and customers and be well indexed in the search engines.  It’s a good idea to buy a website if you want to save time and money or you just have no expertise in website building!  But where is the best place to buy a website?

This isn’t an easy question to answer; many sites online specialize in the buying and selling of other websites, however there are some features to look for:

Ÿ  Does the site allow for the buying and selling of established websites, new websites and domain names?

Ÿ  Does the site give information about the buying and selling of websites, why to do it, how to do it and what to watch for?

Ÿ  Does the site screen its buyers and sellers to make sure that the sites are actually any good at all?  (most marketplaces cannot be completely sure of listings, but the market should at least have a place to report possible frauds)

So, what are some website brokers to check out?

www.websitebroker.com

Features:

-11 years of experience in brokering between website owners and buyers

-Free to browse website listings for sale (registering gets you perks)

-low price to list websites ($9.95 for 90 days)

-Informative articles on the process

www.websiteauctionsales.com

Features:

-Free to register and bid as a buyer, uses credits that you can purchase with your PayPal account as a seller

-$7.00 listing fee for thirty days, plus upgrades if you like (Front page listings, highlighted, etc)

-A few articles of information

-clean interface

-currently running a ‘welcoming’ sale where you can get free listings

www.sitepaw.com

Features:

-free to list, free to browse (though depending on your site, you may have to buy credits to list; go through the process yourself to check); listing stays for 30 days

-quick listing

-Options for Buy it Now prices to end auctions quickly

-feedback and verification systems

-lots of extremely cheap sites and domain names to choose from

These are just the three which float to the top of the search engines; there are plenty of other site marketplaces to peruse.

Whether you are buying or selling (or buying and selling), it is important to find a good marketplace to handle your transactions through.  Make sure to do a bit of browsing before settling on one market and then you can start enjoying the prospects of making money online through buying and selling websites and domain names.