Sitepoint Marketplace for Money-Making Ideas
Many SEOs are already doing this, but if you’re not one of them, you should seriously consider visiting SitePoint Marketplace a few times per week and having a detailed look at some of the sites for sale. The purpose of the visits is not to buy sites, although if there is a bargain then why not, but to research how successful niche sites are being designed, monetized, promoted, and find other useful stats about them too.
I started doing this last year and since then, SP Marketplace has given me some brilliant website ideas that have generated quite a bit of money. Initially, I tried to keep all the good ideas in my head, but that didn’t work for long! Then I came across ActionOutline, and what an amazing note-making tool it is! After using it for a while, it’s become absolutely indispensable! I recommend you try it for free.
Here’s just one example of using SP Marketplace: I recently bought a bingo-based domain from TDNAM with PR and backlinks for less than $15. I bought it because, other than being an absolute bargain, I remembered seeing a bingo site on SP for sale a while ago which included detailed traffic, keyword, and revenue statistics. So I checked my notes in ActionOutline, found the original bingo site and implemented some its ideas on my new bingo site.
I estimate my new bingo site will bring in over $3k per month from organic traffic once established, which is not bad considering I will spend less than $2k overall on content and promotion (getting backlinks), and probably less than 50 hours overall on site development.
Thanks Brad. Just downloaded the trial for ActionOnline. Coincidentally, I’ve been looking recently for ways to improve my time management skills so this was particularly helpful for me. Thanks for another great post!
I filed the info on ActionOutline in my brain. Hopefully I won’t forget about it. Hmmmm… I feel like I’m missing something.
On a more serious note this is not the first time I’ve heard a similar tip about Sitepoint (or other buy/sell forums). I need to start checking these things out. Thanks for the reminder.
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Brad-seen your posts on BH and have followed your projects and ideas.
I too have used SP for some great ideas, and although not all of them are quite what the seem, a handful are the real deal..
Be wary of some of the sites though..sellers do tend to fib and will bs their stats, income et al…
Brian
Very nice tip this market place.. thanks