There's been a lot of talk lately about whether or not flipping websites is still as lucrative as it was a few years back. The answer is - YES!

In a site flipping business your properties are websites—virtual properties that are, in the business world, exceedingly real even though you can’t walk into them or drive by them! These online properties are built, bought, owned, managed, maintained, improved and sold. Most property concepts that you can apply to the ownership and development of actual real estate for profit can apply to the development and ownership of online real estate for profit. For example, virtual property ownership transfers during a sell. Each virtual property has a distinct value. Virtual properties can be improved. Virtual properties can be high-end or bare bones. Even the notion of ‘location, location, location’ applies to your online real estate.

In site flipping, the proverbial real estate adage that location, location, location determines a property’s value very much holds true for online properties, too. However, the location of virtual real estate may be more realistically viewed as its online connections. A gentle reminder of how the Internet works helps illustrate how simple site flipping is in concept and how you, if you are a site flipper novice, can get a good fundamental understanding of why this works as a profit-making venture.

And, now for that gentle reminder and a few more basics to help lay a simple, but solid foundation of the site flipping concept.

The Internet is a web—a connection between countless and specific sites, sites that are growing and multiplying exponentially even in the time you took to read this sentence.

In such a world, the world of the World Wide Web, a well-connected site is a desirable and profitable site. A well-connected site online is one that is settled into a nice intersection of the web and communicates through its connections with other points in the web. A well-connected site has a higher market value than a less connected site. That’s what I mean when I say that its location determines its value. In site flipping, even a potential connection can be valuable if your buyer understands that potential. Potential in virtual property is similar to developing a physical piece of real estate in a particular neighborhood because you know that some nice things are going to happen here one day and your property values are going to rise. In this ‘real’ real estate venture, you see the future gain. Virtual real estate properties, your websites, have speculation value as well--which leads us to another simple, but key concept to remember in the site flipping business.

Any site that is currently making money is worth money. A site that has the potential to make money is also worth money.
Developing a site to earn money is the online landlord’s equivalent of tending to curb appeal, remodeling, building from the ground up or whatever other actual real estate scenario you can think of. Each similar maneuver in cyberspace has its own profit margin, risk potential and investment requirements. Do a little and you’ll usually turn a profit. Do more and earn more.

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