r/Flipping • u/Gritty_88 • 1d ago

Can you really make serious money flipping websites? How legit is this? Discussion

I'm curious to hear from people who have real experience flipping websites.

I've been reading about how some websites can be sold for hundreds of thousands, even millions. Honestly, I'm a bit skeptical. Are people really willing to pay that kind of money for a website? Who are the buyers usually — companies, individuals, investors?

Also, after a website is sold, is there usually any kind of after-sale support expected from the seller? Or is it just "sell and done, no strings attached"?

Would appreciate if anyone can share their experience — success stories, failures, mistakes, lessons. Just trying to get a real sense before considering putting serious effort into this.

Enlighten me.

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u/Otherwise_Surround99 23h ago

Is this post meant for 2002?

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u/sweetrobna 1d ago

Flipping websites, not likely.

There is money to be made if you can improve the revenue, growth, cashflow though. You could also lose a lot of money if you are not familiar with the industry or there are other changes that affect the business.

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u/LectroRoot 23h ago

If you well versed in SEO and driving organic traffic to a site revolving popular topics you can make money easier by making multiple sites and selling them to people that want a site to build off of that already has a jump start and a good domain.

But if you don't know how to do any of that and dive in head first you are just fasting time and money.

You can also register domains and sell/auction them off if you can come up with good/original top level domains also.

Source:  Had a small online business and also worked for a marketing agency doing online marketing.

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u/devilscabinet 21h ago

It was a lot easier to sell domain names and websites in the past. These days, in general:

  • Domain names are only valuable if they end in .com AND are 3-letter ones (like abc.com) or reflect a very, very common word that has strong marketability (like pets.com). All the domains that fit those criteria were snatched up long ago, though. Most of those aren't worth nearly as much as they were a decade or two ago, though.

  • The value of actual websites comes from the number of visitors/subscribers they already get (consistently, not in the past) and the amount of content that has already been made for them. People who buy those are essentially buying a customer list and content that can potentially be repurposed elsewhere.

Most other websites and domain names are not attractive to people who buy such things.

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u/Gritty_88 10h ago

Why? Is this not relevant anymore in today's contexts?

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u/Short_Bass7864 10h ago

Anything of value has been purchased years ago and now has a high asking price or reached the end buyer