Why shouldn’t you buy ready made affiliate websites? For starters they’re incredibly expensive. A profitable website can set you back thousands of dollars. If you don’t know what you’re doing, your website can stall too. This is very likely if you don’t know how to keep an affiliate site profitable, and/or build it up and grow it. A website might be profitable today, or when it sells, but is your investment solid, or built on shifting ground?
There’s a temptation to purchase a pre-made affiliate website and I can definitely see why. I spent years trying to build my own niche websites and following a lot of bad advice. Learning how to build a niche website and get free traffic takes time and effort. There’s a skill to it which can take a long time to attain.
Even after months of hard work, your site can fail, too. So if you’re going to buy an expensive affiliate site in the hope of it remaining profitable, it’s worth investing in your education too. If you do, you’re more chance of adding value to your investment. Alternatively, you can also build an online business from scratch. (See free video series on this website).
Ready Made Portfolio Websites
Buying a bunch of ready made portfolio websites is surly an investment too right? Not necessarily. A website owner can spend a lot of time building it up to make it profitable. When that activity stops, it quickly loses value. This is especially true if the traffic is built up organically.
One of my portfolio websites was built around the niche of mushroom harvesting! It wasn’t a success ultimately but it taught me a valuable few lessons. I had taken an online course which taught how to build a niche site and get it ranking.
I picked my niche because it offered a good amount of traffic and very little competition. Unfortunately there was a reason for this – it was a difficult niche to monetise. Add that to my lack of passion for the niche and I can see now why the site failed. It did get traffic and it did get to the top of Google. In fact I should have sold it when it was at its height! Unfortunately after that I stopped working on it and it dropped off the rankings.
There were other gardeners who knew much more than me and had much more passion for the topic. They soon took over the top place.
Alternatives To Ready Made Affiliate Websites
The shifting sands of Google’s algorithms and in particular organic traffic make buying ready made affiliate websites a risky investment. So what’s the alternative? Invest in yourself and your own knowledge and build a ready made online business model using a ready made sales funnel.
Having your own online business can be a better proposition for a number of reasons:
- You can learn the skills while building your business (earn while you learn).
- You’re investing in your education, not a website you may know nothing about maintaining and growing.
- Use existing affiliate products which offer the best value (Using high commission affiliate programs)
- You’re in charge of your business and it’s not left to the whim of Google’s ranking algorithms
- You can build your business around existing work
Ready Made Affiliate Business
Click the image above to see how you can easily create a website which is pre-made with your own personal affiliate products within it. This business system also allows you to choose a number of high ticket and subscription products for your own personal “digital store”. With digital products you can earn up to 50% commissions on sales you make.
Access the video series on this website for more information.
Where To Buy Ready Made Affiliate Websites
If you still want to buy ready made affiliate websites, choose carefully. Make sure you do your due diligence first before you commit to a purchase. Sites like Empireflippers and Flippa.com are the places to look.
Weed Out The Scammers
Make sure you buy a website which is at least 2 years old. Most spammy websites which offer little value don’t make it to 2 years. A 2 year old domain will also have a higher authority straight away with Google.
Use the last 12 months of earning data to make a value decision on a website. Don’t trust a few months of data which can easily have been inflated to increase it’s value.
Remember it’s pretty risky buying a website based on someone’s value of it. Make sure you do your due diligence and research the site thoroughly before committing to a purchase.
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