Buying AdSense Websites for Residual Income

If you're building AdSense websites, it usually takes some time before you actually get to the point where you're earning major income. If you've got the available capital, it's often much faster to simply purchase these AdSense websites.

How does buying AdSense websites for residual income work? Let's take a peek.

==> The Market Places

There are a few different places you can look for AdSense sites.

Probably the most active market place on the web is Flippa.com. Flippa creates eBay-style auctions online for websites. Site owners list all their stats just like traffic, earnings, referrers, backlinks and such. Then people bid on the websites depending on how much they'd buy them.

One other high-volume, under $10,000 apiece market place is Digital Point's "Buy, Sell or Trade" forums. There are numerous other smaller market places on webmaster-oriented forums.

For more than $10,000 apiece transactions, check out sites like BizBuySell and sort by "online" or "internet business."




==> How AdSense Sites Are Valued

AdSense websites will usually sell for anywhere between 6 months' worth of its income and 30 months of its income.

This is a pretty big range. What can determine where a site falls on the valuable continuum?

First of all is longevity of the income. If your site's only been making $5 a week for two weeks and the owner puts it up available for sale, chances are it'll only fetch 6 months' worth of income or so.

However, if a site has been earning $150 a month for 2 years, that site would probably get a twenty times or higher valuation.

The source of traffic and the source of the income could also play a factor. On Flippa, SEO traffic tends to be valued higher than other traffic sources. AdSense also gets higher valuation than other revenue sources.

==> How to Come across Profitable, Low-Risk AdSense Websites

First of all, try to always only bid on verified Google Analytics auctions. That'll ensure that when you bid on a site, you're actually getting what the site owner affirms you are getting.

Look for longevity. Stay away from topics that might go out of fashion in a couple of months, such as sites about the latest iPhone. Avoid traffic sources that could dry up overnight. Avoid new sites. Avoid sites that hinge too much on one referring site for all its traffic.

Search for low maintenance sites. Some sites will thrive only when they're routinely updated. That's alright if the work could be outsourced, but if the content was written by the last owner and it's very highly specialized, it might be extremely hard for someone else to maintain.

In other words, look for websites that you believe you can maintain and where the traffic and income will last. Last but not least, buy only one site at a time until you get used to the process.

There are more balls to juggle than the majority know (domain transfers, database transfers, files, etc.) and it takes a few times before getting used to this process.

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