Let’s take a look and see.

Why would someone buy an established website?

There are many reasons for this, and also keep in mind that there are different types of sites being bought and sold. It’s abit more obvious why someone would buy an established website, because of the built in revenue and traffic. You could then add it to your portfolio of passive income or resell the site (again) at a later date. Makes perfect sense, provided of course, you do your due diligence and snag a good website.

Why would someone buy a new, not yet established website?

But how about a new website, one that was established recently and has no traffic or revenue. Why would someone buy this type of website? There’s a BIG market for this type of website, and let me tell you why.

Not everyone knows how to build a website, yet. Not everyone knows how to set up basic on site SEO, not everyone knows how to create a blog, not everyone knows Wordpress and it’s back end system, etc etc etc.

And make no mistake about it, as Flippa’s numbers prove above, there’s great demand for site creation, as a whole. Be that a company site, a personal blog, a niche product site, a new site, an established site, etc. And buying a ready made site is the way to go!

Below are ten reasons to buy a website today.

1. Buy because virtual property has value, just like real estate property – Score a good domain name in a hot niche and it might become the next business.com success story.
2. Buy because of the established revenue and traffic, it would normally take months or even years to reach this peak on a new website.
3. Buy because on a new website all has been done for you, then you can concentrate entirely on site promotion and marketing. Or adding content. Your choice!
4. Buy because Flippa rocks as THE online marketplace for buying and selling sites.
5. Buy because the site has a snappy design you would have to pay through the nose otherwise to get.
6. Buy because good site sellers are worth their weight in gold. On Flippa, there’s a handy dandy feedback feature and its used on every auction. Look for feedback as you would on eBay, and find the top sellers.
7. Buy because you want a site that has X number of features and you don’t know or don’t have the time to DIY. What such features? Maybe a forum, a job board, an active community, email list, premium Wordpress theme, premium Wordpress plugins.
8. Buy because the price is right.
9. Buy because you want a leg up on the competition. Maybe you need a vertical market and someone is selling the top site in your particular niche. Buy now, laddy!
10. Buy because “fill in the blank” here. Why would YOU buy a website?

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I buy premium wordpress themes for several reasons, including:

• my site flips
• and my niche Wordpress blogs creation service

Whenever I create a site flip for Flippa, I tend to use a premium Wordpress theme as this raises the value of the site. And because they’re usually much better crafted. But not to dog on free themes, because there are quite nice free themes out as well. And for my niche blog creation service, I usually always go premium.

Below I share some of my favorite Wordpress designers and their lovely premium (a/k/a fee based) Wordpress themes.

Woo Themes – I have several, including Gazette and Busy Bee. I love Woo because of their stellar design qualities and ease of use. Each one of their premium themes has a full “admin options” area, great for newbies and or those who are scared of code. (like me!) But really, I love Woo because they have fancy designs and make any site look good.

Thematic – They recently changed their name, you might know them as PremiumThemes.net, I have several themes from Thematic, including Snippet, Product Folio, iProduct, and Store.

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]]> http://www.g34media.com/2010/01/22/want-to-see-my-private-collection-of-premium-wordpress-themes/feed/ 0 http://www.g34media.com/2010/01/21/ten-free-wordpress-themes-how-to-rebrand-your-feedburner-page-and-a-very-cool-email-capture-wordpress-plugin/ http://www.g34media.com/2010/01/21/ten-free-wordpress-themes-how-to-rebrand-your-feedburner-page-and-a-very-cool-email-capture-wordpress-plugin/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:45:15 +0000 Missy http://www.g34media.com/?p=634 I have a few solid resources for you on important blogging and or Wordpress related issues. These are all from savvy bloggers who know their niche and have come up with the goods. If you have a minute, do give these good articles a read.

First up? Is Erica.

How To Brand Your Feedburner Page, from Erica Mueller of Erica Says.com

Great mini guide on how to take your bland boring Feedburner subscribe page and spice it up abit. Erica gives you a step-by-step on how to brand and format this most important page.

Adam Baker Interview, from the popular Man VS Debt Blog

Young Tanner who runs a lifestyle blog has a neat interview with Adam Baker who runs the hugely successful get rid of debt blog, Man Vs. Debt. Good stuff in the interview, be sure to pay Tanner a visit.

10 Free Awesome Wordpress Themes from Ninja Blog Set Up site

Looking for a nicely designed, but free Wordpress theme for that NEXT site of yours? Have a look at the collection gathered by Shawn from Blog Ninja Set Up. Several high quality themes are showcased, including Amazing Grace and Swift.

Wordpress Email Capture Plugin from the self-titled Rhys Wynne blog

This is a revelation! The email capture Wordpress plugin works as named. Essentially it allows you to collect email addresses from site or blog visitors, and either add them to your list or send them a digital goodie. Or both!

It’s easy, fast and 100% free. Read more and download it, via the link to Rhys blog above.

Cheers!

Till next time.

What is this method, you ask?

Submitting a guest post. Yes! that’s it in a nut shell. It’s simple, free, trusted, quantifiable, manageable and it best of all…it works! It’s not really a novel or new idea, in fact I wrote about the practice of submitting a guest post back in August of 2008, and it holds true till today. Maybe more so! But it’s gained alot of traction as of late. Everyone is talking about it.

Why? Because a link from a similar niche, high PR (anything above PR2 is good) blog site is GOLD. Yes, my friend pure gold. So, treat a guest post opportunity as such. Think about it, for a second? When you submit a guest post, you essentially eat all the ingredients necessary for a smacking good Google meal – relevancy, pagerank, dofollow, naturalness, etc. See? It’s near perfection.

Keep the following rules (I mean guidelines) in mind when submitting a guest post on any blog site:

• find a relevant niche
• the receiving site, should have pagerank (any at all, is good)
• keep the guest post on topic
• ask first
• submit second
• write a killer article and submit only GREAT content
• thank the receiving blog site
• promote the heck out of the guest post

The great thing about guest posting is that you LITERALLY can control what site your “killer article” goes on, because you CHOOSE the blog. Yes! not all blogs will approve or even accept a guest post, but many will.

Ready to try?

Ann Smarty a well known blogger and SEO chick has recently created a fantastic website dedicated to this very topic. It’s free to join and participate. Simply sign-up, then look for guest opps in your specific niche. Remember to recip and also write some, don’t just accept them. This is bad form.

Then there’s Google and Twitter. Each one of these two sites, has great SEARCH features which will facilitate you finding solid opps. You just have to know where and how to search. Below is the where and how.

My Blog Guest.com – a site dedicated to guest post opportunities. Very nice community here as well, since the site also has a forum.

Twitter Search -Perform a simple search for guest post, and watch the madness unfold. In real time, of course. Nice!

Google Alerts – Type in your “niche plus the word guest post” and find blogs that will gladly accept your article.

Guys, don’t underestimate the POWER of this method for traffic and backlinks. There’s a reason all the A list bloggers and net marketers are all touting the benefits right now.

It works!

Below are my top five SEO tips for Wordpress bloggers.

1. Install an SEO plugin on your blog - such as the powerful All-in-One Seo or the newer more robust Platinum SEO. These two take care of alot of the basic onsite search engine optimization you need on your blog posts and pages. (this mostly applies to Wordpress bloggers)

2. Get Backlinks – it doesn’t matter if your blog is a day old or 3 months old, you can never start too early to hunt down for link opportunities. Start with relevant directories.

3. Link To Yourself – Well not exactly. What I mean is make sure you regularly link to other articles, pages and blog posts you’ve written. This creates a spider web effect that search engines know and rely on.

4. Install a Sitemap – Sitemaps are literally maps to the content on your blog, and Google loves them. My favorite way to add a sitemap to my blogs is with the Dagon Design sitemap plugin. Fast, easy and free.

5. Use a Related Posts Plugin – this action produces similar results as installing a sitemap. It lets Google know of the content on your site and how it relates to the overall topic of your blog.

These are basic but powerful ideas, don’t underestimate any of these tips. If you haven’t yet added or practiced these SEO tips, now is a great time.

You’ll rise to the top in no time.

Next Article!

Our next article will touch on the topic of: traffic generation.

What is the most sought after gadget this Christmas season? If you guessed ebook readers, then you would be correct.

If you guessed rudolph the red nosed reindeer, you would be incorrect.

Ever since Amazon came out with its glorious Kindle, all heck broke loose in the ebook industry. And this was in 2007. Since then we have the Sony Reader, several models of the Kindle including Kindle 2 and Kindle DX. And just recently to spice things up Barnes And Noble threw plans for a color ebook reader called (Athena NOOK) into the foray, followed by the electrifying announcement of a solar powered ebook reader from LG.

Yes, the ebook reader industry is mega red hot!!!

I created a new blog entitled ebookreaderguide.com to chronicle the happenings of the awesome ebook reader industry and to provide a guide to the various ebook readers on the market. As I mentioned earlier, lots of people want an e-reader this Christmas but are confused as to which one to buy. This is the primary function of my new blog – to provide tips and information to consumers on which ebook reader is best for them.

The blog is powered by Wordpress (of course) and it features a gorgeous Wordpress theme with a lot of social networking apps built-in, plus a very cool back end (admin options) area.

Want to follow the ebook reader industry?

Go now to EbookReaderGuide.com

Are you in need of a domain registrar? One that is reliable, easy to use and affordable. How about one that has a groovy affiliate program.

Then you will be happy to hear about Namecheap. This is my registrar of choice and has been for about 2 years now. I have all but one domain name registered through Namecheap, so that would be almost 15. Why do I choose Namecheap over others more well known (and marketed) such as craptastic Go Daddy?

Well for one thing they DO NOT bombard me with a bazillion ads and offers when I try to quickly register a domain name. They DO NOT send me a gagoolian emails asking me to sign-up for this whatchamacallit and that whoneedsitcrap.

But what I really digg about Namecheap is their super easy-no fuss interface. It’s all laid out real simple and makes for a nice experience, plus they have several cool features built-into their registration process. Whenever you register a domain name, you can set it up so that it AUTOMATICALLY sets up DNS from your server a/k/a webhost. This makes it nice and quick to register and set up a new domain name for that quickie blog you want to create. (and maybe sell)

Here are some more cool features from Namecheap:

• Easy login
• Easy account set-up
• Easy domain search
• Discount on transfers from another registrar (like craptastic Go Daddy or Yahoo)
• A marketplace which allows you to quickly sell and push domain to another NC user
• Twitter integration (not sure I like this but its available)
• Affiliate program – 15% commission on referred customers
• Monthly discount promo codes on new registrations
• Free Who Is Guard (contact info privacy)
• Quick registrations
• Payment via Paypal is accepted
• Live Support
• Forums
• They have a Facebook fan page and Twitter account
• Cheap domains (less than $9 with coupon code)
• All TLD extensions (including the new .ME)
• Free email/URL forwarding
• Easy as pie control panel

If you’re a blogger, internet marketer or site flipper then you know you NEED a domain registrar you can count on and one that is easy, quick and affordable.

Namecheap is my choice.

Want to sell ebooks, wordpress themes, wordpress plugins or other digital content on your blog?

If so. Have a look at the fantastic new video from Hungry Dog Media and Wordpress.TV, in which a step-by-step is provided on how to set up shop on your blog in under 5 minutes. Yes five minutes!

It’s quite simple really with the aid of the wp e-commerce plugin, a brilliant add-on that extends the functionality of a basic blog. With this plugin you can run a dedicated shop which resides on several pages on the blog and all is handled, including payment, download, etc.

Have an ebook you want to sell directly from your blog? Give this video a quick look and try out the wp e-commerce plugin.

Need help?

No problem, shoot me an email and let me know what you’re trying to do and how i can help you.

Essentially the idea is that you can now nominate tweets (your own or that of others) and have them made into a t-shirt. On Threadless, each shirt featured is always voted on by members, because the only way to get a shirt on the site is through votes, Ala American Idol.

It’s real easy to nominate a tweet on Threadless. Simply follow the steps below:

• Go to the Threadless Twitter section
• Register a free account
• Submit a tweet – yours, your friends, or your favorites, through the included stream built-into the Threadless site (see screenshots below)

Then wait approval, as nominees need to approve your nomination. (for tweets that are not your own)

That’s it. If you’re approved your tweet nomination will appear on the score page, which others will then VOTE on. The most popular makes it to the front page and gets made into a…twitter tee. (Oh! and you earn $500 big ones)

P.S. Also check out the cool twitter t-shirt blog.

1. Name – Every website needs a domain name that’s descriptive and relevant, but what type of name should you pick? There are two rules of thought here. One is to go the brand route and use a name that over time will become relevant. Second is to go the route of a keyword-rich name which will rank well and instantly let your readers, visitors, and the search engines know what you’re about. Which domain name route you opt for is entirely up to you, but deciding upfront which you’ll be taking is what you want to focus on.

2. Structure – You want a site that is search engine friendly and one of the best ways to optimize a site from the get go is to use a blog format, such as Wordpress. With Wordpress you get search engine friendly URL’s, as you get to choose the URL structure within the back-end area of WP.

The URL (or permalink) of your site should have keywords in it, so when search engines spider it – they know what its about.

3. Purpose – Every website should figure out what is it’s PRIMARY focus – is it to capture leads, direct sales, testimonials, or provide information? Determine this early on as it will help when it comes time to develop a content strategy.

The purpose of your site will also determine its layout and design.

4. Design – The look and feel of your website says alot about you. Do you want a standard generic template or a custom design which highlights your logo and unique brand?

With Wordpress you have several choices -

A. Free Theme: A generic template found on the web.
B. Premium Theme (with customizations): A paid for theme you can customize.
C. Custom Theme: A theme created from scratch specific to you.

I recommend B or C. Either will serve the purpose of having a professionally designed blog website that stands out.

Some good premium Wordpress themes include: Fresh News Theme, Thesis Theme, and Revolution Church Theme.

5. Layout – Depending on the purpose of your site (see above) you will want to lay out your site accordingly. If the purpose of your site is to gather leads then be sure to highlight your sign up form. If the purpose of your site is to sell directly, be sure to make it easy to place an order. If the purpose of your site is to be an information portal, set it up so that it highlights information right from the onset.

6. Content – Every website should have the following pages:

About Us Page – What are you about? What is your business about? How are you different? Etc.

Contact Us Page – Make it super duper easy for anyone to reach you. Add a contact form and let people know how and when to BEST reach you.

Services Page – What services do you offer? What are your skills? Any credentials? Highlight your unique offerings here.

Wordpress makes it easy to add as many pages as you need. Think about your sites purpose and fill accordingly.

As for articles – keeping your blog website fresh with new content will keep the search engines coming back again and again. This is a good thing. Think about what your customers (and prospective customers) are interested in. What do they want to learn? What tips would they find useful? What keeps them entertained? Fill your blog with these useful, informative or entertaining articles. You can add as many articles as you like and style your site in blog format or style it in a more traditional format – but whichever style you choose – you want to make it known you have relevant articles available for your audience. Make sure this is apparent from the first glance.

7. Plan – Every website should have a marketing plan. How will you spread the word – online, offline, social media, advertising, family and friends?

Have a plan and work the plan. Incorporate your website URL in all your communications, from your business cards to customer newsletters, mentioning it in seminars, attaching to email signatures, etc.

Decide early on how you will promote your blog website. Have a plan in place.

These tips are meant for new blog websites, but can be applied to any site. If you run a small business and don’t yet have a website, but have been mulling over the idea – it’s never too late to create an online presence.

Follow the tips above and don’t just create a website, create an online presence that will explode your sales, leads, and income.

RSS Readers: What Tip Can You Add?

What tip do you have for small business owners looking to create their first website?