Website Flipping

If you’re working on a quickflip, usually you want to get things done as quick and for as cheap as possible.  Here is a quick tutorial on how to make a logo for your quick flip in 2 minutes.

1. Goto this free online logo maker

2. Enter your Business or Website Name(For this example we are going with “The Logo Shop”

3. Select your Font and Font Size( I’m going with “Agent Orange” font and size “30px”)

4. Select the other options you want for your logo (Color: I did blue & black, Background: White, No Reflection, Output GIF, No Shadow, etc, etc) You get the point, do what you want for your logo.

5. Click the big green “Generate” Button to see your logo

6. Viola, there is your Logo

Now I know this logo isn’t some crazy design, but it’s perfect for a quick web design and flip.  Check it out, play with the settings and create a logo of your own.

I’m sitting here watching the USA vs. Uganda Soccer Match and started to think about all of the events that go on every year and how you can take advantage of them for flipping websites.

The Idea

Build websites based on upcoming events.  For this example I will be choosing the current word cup soccer games.

The Research

The first thing that came to mind for me is creating a website for fans that are interested in their favorite teams jersey.  But if I were to do this I would have a limited amount of time to get ranked high enough to get any traffic so I’m going to pick a sub-niche of my niche.  I’m going to go for USA jerseys.

The questions is how many people are searching for USA jerseys?  Lets check out the Google Keyword Tool.  The first keyword that came to mind for me is “2010 USA soccer jersey” – It’s a bit of a long tail keyword yet I think it will have a lot of search volume and it will be fairly easy to rank for.  Lets see…

Search Volume

Not too shabby, 6,600 people a month are searching for “2010 usa soccer jersey”.  Next step is sizing up the competition to see how difficult it is going to be to rank for this keyword.

The Competition

Great, there is only 221,000 for our current keyword, anything under 500,000 is fairly easy to rank for.

Buying A Domain

Now we need to buy the domain that we are going to build out our website with.  Ultimately I would like to have my exact keywords in my domains.  Head over to GoDaddy and check to see if “2010USASoccerJersey.com” is available.

It’s available!  Awesome!  Now the game just ended and the USA lost so I’m not going to purchase this domain. But feel free to grab it or something similar.

The Conclusion

Now imagine if I started this website 2 months ago because I knew the world cup was starting.  Also imagine if the USA went all the way… think of the search volume that would be generated from this 1 event.  If you start websites months before the actual event happens and prove search volume and revenue you could make a nice site flip that could bring in a big payday.

There are literally millions of ideas to take advantage of, brainstorm and get to work…

• Upcoming Sporting Events
• Upcoming Movie Releases
• Upcoming Car Releases
• Upcoming CD’s
• The list goes on…

Good luck and keep your eyes open for potential upcoming events that would make a good flip!

If you don’t already have Google Analytics installed on your website I highly suggest you taking 5 minutes to do so. When you are flipping a website one of the main factors is the amount of traffic your site gets.  If you can’t prove you site has traffic then you might as well be selling it as having no traffic, and you’ll end up taking a big drop in the sale price.

Google Analytics will also give you insight into what your site is ranking for as well as where traffic is coming from.  This will help in the promotion of your website because you can see what is working and where you need to make improvements.  So watch this quick 2.5 minute video on how to install Google Analytics and gain the insight on how your website is performing.

Was this helpful? Let me know if you have any questions.

This post is to show how spending 5-10 minutes using Google’s Wonder Wheel to turn an highly competitive niche into a simple Gold Mine that you can dominate within days…

The Niche: Tomato Growing
I know this is always used but it is a great example of how you can make money in literally any niche…

Research:
Now lets take a quick look at Tomato Growing in Google

15 Million websites to compete with?!?!?!?! I think not, lets take a look at Google’s Wonder Wheel and see if we can find something more manageable.

Using the Wonder Wheel:
While you are still in Google looking at those 15 million results look on the left hand side and click the “More Search Tools” drop down and click on the Wonder Wheel

Now the Google Wonder Wheel is going to show you similar popular searches to your main keyword “tomato growing”.

Below you can see what the Wonder Wheel has generated, and immediately one of them stands out to me… “tomato cage”

So lets take a look back at Google and see what the competition is like for “tomato cage”

WOW, only 386,000 results compared to the 15,000,000 for “tomato growing”.  Goes to show that 5 minutes of research can help you find your next big niche.

My Challenge to You: The next website flipping journey you go on is dedicated to the gold mines you find using the Wonder Wheel.

Let me know your thoughts and some things you find using the WW.