After reading my article Beating the Recession with Websites, you might be curious how to get started. The first thing you need to do is find a site you are interested in buying. The easiest way to do this is to visit sitepoint.com – the eBay of websites. Once you are on SitePoint, click on the marketplace. The marketplace is divided up into different sections, but you will probably want to be looking at Startup Websites or Established websites. Although SitePoint is a great resource, there is a lot of competition, which means higher prices. To avoid this you want to try to find sites where less people look. The ideal situation would be finding a site owner that wants to sell their site and dealing with them directly. You can try to either search around the internet for these sites (some will have a message on the top of the site announcing it is for sale) or you can look for sites you like and ask the owners if they would consider selling. If this doesn’t work you can try Googling “website for sale” and taking a look at what comes up. There are a bunch of sites that have sites listed for sale but not in auction format. Many of these sites are excellent resources for finding sites at a bargain.

There are several things you should be looking for in a site. On the Internet, content is king, so the first thing you should look for is how the content is generated. Preferably you want to find a site where the content is user generated. A forum is a great example of a site where the content is created by the users. A social networking site is another example. If you are looking for a passive income, this is the way to go. I will discuss the next steps to investing in websites in my next article.

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