How to sell the website and where it can be done

There are different types of websites on the Internet. For example, the online stores that are meant as a tool of the goods sale or the business-cards websites that have the purpose of the provision of information on the company. Such online platforms involve clients to make calls and also to visit the corresponding offline shops, restaurants, beauty shops, etc.

The informational platforms which are not tied to specific business are a class of its own among all known digital resources on the Internet. For example, news portal, thematic forum, blog, etc. In this case, the owner of the website gains the main income from advertising, which cost depends on the audience of the portal.

The website popularity among users paired with the attractiveness of the online resource for advertisers is a result of the put efforts into the project, spent time, and the funds for the promotion and other necessary procedures to be done.

The website with the accumulated traffic and weight has its age. All the peculiarities and characteristics the website has is the way to get passive income . So any resource for its owner is a business object which can be bought or sold. The market of the willing sellers to put up the ready website for sale differs from the process of average offline business purchase and sale process a little.

There are several overspread causes why owners make a decision to sell the website. Let's highlight the main of them:

The finished site has its own design, structure, paired with its own age and weight in organic search.

If the potential buyer is close to the subject matter of the site, its functionality, other visible options, and this willing purchaser does not want to spend time and effort promoting the web project from scratch, the purchase of the finished site can be a good option. The seller is compensated for a large amount of work done, and the buyer gets a resource with content and rating that can generate passive income from the very beginning.

The site for sale comes complete with the domain because the pages if the online project of interest and URLs have a developed rating and link mass.

Selling domains process which is run separately from sites occurs when the resource itself is not valuable to the buyer, but its domain may be useful to another owner. It happens when the domain of the online platform corresponds to the theme of the site and has its own significant history. Moreover, search engines consider old domains as more authoritative and trusted than newly created ones. It is one more reason to purchase a domain separately.

There are several options for selling a web resource. For example:

• a specialized exchange;
  
• a section of the popular market place;
  
• a forum of webmasters.
  
  

The sale of the site can be carried out at a fixed price or in the auction format.

A domain is the unique name of an Internet resource needed to identify and search for it. When creating a site, business owners usually want its address to correspond to the theme, the name of the brand, preferably to be short and memorable.

However, a suitable domain name has been often already used, and selection a similar free domain in another zone (.com, .biz, .org) is not available.

To get the suitable name of the site, you can search for offers among those wishing to sell the domain purchasers. Often owners who put the domain up for sale have a low-activity site and outdated content. Such a category of people does not aspire to change something in there left online project.

Domains are often sold on an auction basis. For example, those who want to sell a domain in the USA can use the American domain names for exchange or visit a specialized forum to run the auction.

All interested buyers and purchasers have the special online space on the Internet where all of them could get the desired results – ones are trying to sell their project there, while others aspire to buy interesting variants rationally-priced. Let's review the most reliable platforms that provide an opportunity to buy and sell websites:

One of the most top-ranking platforms on the Internet. The great quantity of offered websites to sale is a notable feature of the online project provider. Purchasers are able to count on the lowest fees as well.

Besides the websites' buy and sell option, the applications, domains trading is also possible. The Flippa service range also includes financing and broker activities online for platform visitors.

This platform is notable with the affordable price policy and easy navigation capabilities. The costs for the two-week website listing starts with 59 dollars. The company provides all intending purchasers and sellers with the contact telephone numbers. At the same time, it is possible to complete an application online in one of the sections of interest:

1. Websites for Sale.
   
2. Sell Your Website.
   

This platform is considered as one of the most reliable ones. But at the same time, users could feel the hardship because of bad browsing capability. All the sections of interest are presented at the top of the homepage. It is a separate category for website selling. One more positive feature of WebsiteAcquire.com service range is a cheap listing option (only five dollars for a website listing).

The sites buy and sell process is a common phenomenon, and the number of such offers is growing together with the development of the Internet. The basis of a successful transaction is a competitive analysis of the resource, assessment of its cost, and selection of the corresponding site.

Today there is a big number of exchanges and platforms that offer a wide selection of sites on different topics and conditions for a safe deal.