Having built strong foundation that includes high quality content, high amount of traffic, is highly optimized and monetized, this kind of site is one of the most highly demanded sites that people are ready to buy. If you don’t have time to manage that site then this is great opportunity to earn money from.
Depending on the site quality site price can range from $100 – $500 000 or even more. So it can be quiet rewarding. In this article I’m going to give you some tips to build strong foundation to site that you might want to sell or just to know how to build strong foundation. How to get traffic or how to optimize your website is not the main subject of this article. So if you want to know different of methods to get traffic and how to optimize your website/blog then I highly recommend reading following articles.
- Get Traffic From Social Networks
- Get Traffic From Video Marketing
- Get Traffic by Writing Articles
- Get Traffic From Forums
- How To Optimize Your Website? – Part 1
- How To Optimize Your Website? – Part 2
Building Strong Foundation
Any site that has bad foundations is going to fall apart. It’s like a when you build building. As long as you have no good foundations nothing will grow up to positive way. So to build strong foundation we need following ingredients.
- High quality content
- User-friendly interface
- Necessary pages
- Meta Tags
- Images
- Clear links
So those are the main ingredients. Let’s get into them briefly.
High Quality Content
Most important ingredient and most effective one too. Providing high quality content keeps your site healthy and fresh. More content you provide more people will like your site and visit more often to get new information. Avoid all typos and provide useful information.
User-friendly interface
I have done lots of research about different style of sites and to be honest the most successful were those sites that have simple style i.e. navigation is simple, template is not full of graphic and it consist only from few elements, colors are picked up correctly and important links are indicated clearly.
When I was working in few companies that had websites they got lots of good feedback about user-friendly interface of their website. One big part of this was to have easy navigation menu and they were very happy.
Necessary Pages
If you want to optimize your website to get more traffic and ease connectivity between you and your visitors then you need at least following pages:
- Contact page
- Disclaimer page
- Privacy Policy page
- Sitemap page
Those pages are necessary especially when you want to submit your site to Google. Google requires those pages in order to have high rank page. I highly recommend adding them. Here are some sites where you can see how to write Disclaimer and Privacy Policy pages.
- Disclaimer – Free Business Forms
- Privacy Policy – Hoover Web Design
Meta Tags
I have spoke about this tags before and you find more information about them in following article “How To Optimize Your Website? – Part 1”. Main point that I want to stress out is that add Keyword and Description Meta Tags. They are very important part of optimization but also very necessary even if you don’t optimize your site.
Images
I added this section because I want to stress out that importance of having images in site. They will ease reading and understanding your content more. It feels so boring to read something without images. It has been proved that people can concentrate more when they will see images that help them to understand content more. It also keep them awake, lol 
. So add images because they will effect to your site quality. Also Google like them.
Clear Links
This is very important part of site. What I mean with clear links are links that have good and clear names that correspond their meaning. They are easy to find and clearly visible. Add only necessary links that are related to your site subject. When you have “healthy” links this will grow your site pagerank. This is also important part of selling your site but still though crucial.
What’s next?
Now that you have a site with strong foundations and you want to sell it then next thing is to prepare all the necessary statistics of your site. Then you need to find websites where you can sell your site and place your offer. Before I give you those sites where you can sell your site on marketplace let’s see what are necessary statistics that you need.
- Description of your site.
- Traffic statistics (unique visitors).
- Page Rank.
- Domain name.
- Is your site earning money? If so then how much and what are the income streams?.
- Age of your site.
- Screenshot of your site or at least give possibility for visitors to visit your site.
- If your site has won some awards, add them.
After you have gathered that information it is time to put your site on sale. Here are some sites that you might consider to sell your site in.
So here you have it. I hope you will be successful in selling your site and that you will get good reward from it. Share your thoughts and opinions.
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