When you start flipping sites, you need nothing more than a willingness to succeed and some entrepreneurial skill. The secret isn’t so much in being an expert in website design or SEO it’s in knowing how to develop an idea. Like anything, a little knowledge goes a long way, and when it comes to site flipping there are a few essential tools that can both save you a lot of time and also a lot of money.
SeoQuake – SeoQuake is actually a Firefox extension that is without doubt one of the best SEO tools and also coincidentally, incredibly useful for checking the sites vital statistics on Google, Yahoo as well as MSN. It can also tell you how old a website is as well as give you other information such as Alexa Pagerank which is useful in gauging just how popular a website actually is.
Domaintools.com – is a tool that can be used to check up on a domain name to see who its current owner is as well as any previous owner information, and so much more. It also gives a brief rundown on SEO history and other facts which can be useful in determining the value of a site.
Archive.org is a great tool to check how old a site is and also what the previous versions looked like. You can really go back in time with this tool, as it mirrors almost every change done to a website.
Aboutus.org can be a useful tool when looking for more information on a site. It’s generally a good place to look for information on large volume sites as this is like the Wikipedia of websites – people can post comments and other things about a site on Aboutus.org.
The tools you need to start site flipping really are quite basic. The list above is a very small one, yet it is also infinitely powerful, and some of them such as Google and SeoQuake are great tools to use in order to give you an idea of how much your site is actually worth.
Google tools are amongst the most powerful and the list can be broken down into keyword tools, analysis tools and stats tools. If you are building a website, then it’s important to use an accurate statistics package and Google Analytics is one of the best in the industry.
When it comes to flipping your website, one of the best places to go to is flippa.com it’s the most popular place to sell websites these days and you can use it to check up on everything as well as a get a really good idea of how much your site is worth.
When it comes to selling, flippa.com takes a 5% success fee, but it’s worth it. They have successfully sold sites from $10 up to $600,000 and all without a problem. In our opinion, it’s the single best resource for buying or selling any website.
