Website flipping is a potentially very lucrative way to make money online if you know how it’s done and as someone who is an expert on that topic, I’m going to share with you everything you need to know about it here.
To start, my name is Vitaliy and I’m someone who makes profitable websites for a living. I also have a lot of experience in many other fields of online business, including website flipping.
Here’s what I’ll be showing you in this post:
- What website flipping is and how it works.
- How much you can make from website flipping (real examples).
- How is a website’s “flip” value is determined.
- How to get started with website flipping if you don’t have a website to sell (or are totally new).
If at any point on this post you have questions, you’re welcome to comment below and ask.
What website flipping is:
The simple definition: Website flipping is the process of buying a website for small costs, raising it’s value, then selling it (flipping it) for larger costs to make a profit. Basically like house flipping, except you’re dealing with websites here.
How website flipping works:
- You buy a website (normally for under $20).
- You raise it’s value (have it get many visitors and make money).
- When the time comes, you sell the website on places like Flippa.com, EmpireFlippers.com, etc…
How much you can make from website flipping? Real examples:
The following is case studies of people who have successfully flipped their websites from essentially being worth $0 to the numbers you see below. They also used a special course I’ll talk about in a moment which helped them do this properly:
How is a website’s “flip” value determined? The simple formula:
A website’s monthly earnings X 24 months = How much you can flip it for.
For example: If a website makes $10,000 a month, it can be sold for at least $240,000 ($10,000 X 24 months).
Here’s one of my personal examples (a real site that was worth $0, now potentially being worth $120,000):
The following is site I run on nature travel:
How much can this website sell for? While the last 30 days earned it $4,586.50, let’s keep it simple and estimate that this website is earning $5,000 a month, and then multiply it by the 24 month rule:
$5,000 X 24 months = $120,000 value for my nature website if I decided to “flip it”.
I personally choose not to do that yet as I like the passive income it’s generating me, and I keep growing it’s value to have it potentially sell for even higher value down the line.
How to get started with website flipping (If you don’t have a website to sell or are totally new):
If you’re totally new to this or have never made a website to flip in your life, that’s totally OK because most people are in that spot when they hear about this business.
The best way to start if you’re in that spot and become a successful website flipper is to use a program that teaches you how to properly do this, specifically:
- How to make websites for little.
- How to raise their value.
- How to sell it down the line.
In my opinion there is no better course that teaches this than Wealthy Affiliate, where it just so happens the case studies you saw above got their website flipping results from.
What Wealthy Affiliate is and how it teaches you to flip websites:
Wealthy Affiliate is an online business training program that helps people create profitable websites on any topic they love in life and then if they choose to, sell it down the line. The training in the program is encapsulated into these 4 steps:
- Step 1: Choose an interest.
- Step 2: Create a website (which WA helps you do).
- Step 3: Drive traffic to the website.
- Step 4: Earn revenue.
- Step 5 (optional): Sell the website once it’s profitable enough which as you saw above, members of the program do (very successfully).
- Step 6 (optional): Rinse and repeat (make new websites, grow their value, sell it down the line).
In short you learn to build websites on topics you love from scratch, grow their value by having them get visitors, make money and ultimately raise it’s flipping value if you choose to do that down the line.
I put the last 2 steps as optional because a lot of people choose to keep their websites earning money because they prefer that type of passive income. There are others who choose to focus on flipping the websites they make. The point is Wealthy Affiliate gives you the flexibility to do either.
More quick info about Wealthy Affiliate:
- 2.6+ million members.
- 4.9 out of 5 star rating on places like Trustpilot.
- It has more success stories than any other online business program.
- High number of successful website flips came from the training there (as you saw above).
- Very beginner friendly program.
- It’s free to join (no credit card required to check things out).
Here are more Wealthy Affiliate success stories making profitable websites:
Want to learn how to do this too? Try the Wealthy Affiliate program:
You can try it for free. The free membership comes with a 5 lesson starter course to help you begin making a website on a passion you have in life, equipped with the tools and help you need to make it happen. While building a website that can eventually be turned into a very profitable flip takes time and hard work, this program will show you the right way to do it.
Here’s how to join:
- Sign up here for free (no credit card required).
- Watch the welcome video from Kyle (one of the main teachers in Wealthy Affiliate).
- Start the training (5 lessons).
This is an introductory course and later on there is an upgraded membership available for $49/month you can try to get even more tools, training and benefits, but you can start for free, see if you like the program/community and then decide if you want to stick around or not!
In any case, thanks for checking out this page and if you have any questions on flipping websites or Wealthy Affiliate, let me know below!