Buying Established Sites

I love creating new web sites but in recent months I have also started buying established ones from other people. It is working out quite well. I am pleased by the results. Case in point: Instead of TV. I bought this site about 3 months ago. The subject matter fits nicely with my other projects and the major drawing point for me was the list that came with it (around 900 subscribers) and 25 messages in an autoresponder. I went into it thinking that this would be a good site for me to “flip”. It was already great but perhaps not a big priority for the seller so I knew I could make it even better with a little time. 

First I did a redesign…nothing fancy. I just wanted to give it a “family” feel. Here is the old:

Old TV Site

And here is the new:

New TV Site

Looks good eh? I went through it and changed affiliate links and generally did some tweaking. I left Adsense in place but this week I am removing most of it. I would like to highlight the affiliate products I am promoting on each page instead. I also deleted a few of the autoresponder messages and added a half dozen of my own, using recycled content from another site. I really like how responsive this list is! They email me back to let me know what they think and I had some pretty decent Amazon conversions last month. I have already had over 300 new subscribers just since I took the site over.

This site has shown me the importance of fully using autoresponders for online business and list management. I can’t wait to build upon my other ones…which are pitiful in comparision to the volume and content of the tv list.

I might just start buying established sites more often too.

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Natural Child PLR Pack!

Natural Mom Plr has just released a new article pack called The Natural Child.

You can now buy The Natural Child article pack with ten superbly written articles for only $12.97. In a world filled with consumerism and technology it can be hard to parent naturally and raise kids who are connected with the natural world around them. This plr article pack addresses many of the ways that parents can help their children to establish that connection and gives them sound ideas on how to parent more naturally and harmoniously.

Check out the article titles and word counts here. If you have a web site that caters to parents then you are sure to love this new pack!

Resource Lists

This is day 8 of the blogging challenge. The mission for today is:

Day 8. Craft a great resource-list. Resource lists are very popular with social media and can be quite easy to make, particularly if you already have the resources on hand. Pick a topic your target audience is keenly interested in and create a list of resources relating to that topic. You can use your own bookmarks if you have enough. If you’re short on links, a del.icio.us search for your topic will return hundreds if useful links people have saved using your chosen topic as a keyword.

Woot! Another one bites the dust. Some of most popular blog posts are actually resource lists although I never thought of them in those terms before. Not only do I get awesome comments on these posts but I get more backlinks too….TONS of backlinks. Oh and sales….let’s not forget those. My resource pages get daily sales.

They were a lot of work to put together but so worth it. Here are some examples of my resources pages:

Eco Friendly Birthday Party

Eco Friendly School Supplies

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