If you are thinking of selling your internet business it will be worthwhile going through these points below as you will get more money for your website.  Having an internet business that makes a regular income can be sold very easily but there are many other factors that a buyer will look for that you can implement to get more money from the sale of your internet business.

1) Make sure you have proof that your website has made regular income for at least the past 6 months

2) Make sure your website ranks well for its main keywords. If it doesn’t spend a couple of months building up your backlinks which overtime will increase your websites position within search engines and also increase your websites page rank.

3) Make sure you have a unique design for your website. I highly recommend having your website built on wordpress as wordpress rank very well on search engines. Also many webmasters know how to use wordpress due to how easy the interface is.

4) Make sure you have unique content on your website, having duplicate content on your website just lowers the value of your website to both the buyer and also to search engines.

5) Try to build up an email list on your website.  The more emails you have on your list the higher the value of your website.  The value of 1 email address is $1 a month. So if you managed to build up an email list of 1,000 leads, you can get at least $1,000 extra for your website.  I highly recommend using Aweber as an email autoresponder as they provide cusomised templates you can insert into your website to make the optin forms look very professional. Its also a recognised leader in email lead capture.  A very good way to build up your email list is to give a way a free ebook related to your websites niche.

6) The addition of a forum to your website can be very useful also if you can build up a large community of users, as a buyer can see this as a great way to market to this large community of forum users, which will increase the value of your website.  Not only that it will also increase the amount of traffic to your website. The more traffic you have coming to your website the more valuble your website is.  Because any internet marketer looking to buy a website also looks at the amount of traffic coming to your website. The more traffic you have the more opportunities your website will have for your buyers to monitiese from.

7) Age of domain – Its important to have a well aged domain, i would say at least 12 months, the older the domain the better.

8.) Social networking followers. Another good idea is to setup a Twitter and Facebook fan page and try and get as many followers as possible because this is another very good way to get traffic to your website and also increase the value of your website because its another avenue the buyer can market to your followers.

9) Make sure you have as much statics as possible, potential buyers love to see as much proof as possible when deciding to purchase an internet business.  For example – Google analytics, Income stats from any affiliate accounts you have, any transaction proof you have from paypal. Maybe even creating a video of you logging into your accounts to proof your website has made the income you state on your listing.

10) If your website doesn’t have a blog, get a blog setup with at least a months unique content. A blog is very good for optimisation on search engines, and a buyer will be looking to make sure the site has a blog.

If you are thinking of buying an internet business that is already established from the many website brokers like – sitepoint.com or websitebroker.com then you need analyse the sellers site to make sure the offer you bid is correct and that the site they are selling is valued correctly.

You should check the following:

1) How long has the domain name been registered:

2) Number of hits the site gets a day

3) At least 1 years accounts of sales

4) Cost to run the website

5) Page rank of website

6) Number of back links the site has

7) Whether the site has any subscribers or forum members

Reason seller is selling the website

9) Whether the seller will offer any support for the initial period so your on your feet

10) Try to see where you could improve the website to make more income or traffic

 This is just a starting point to see what the website is worth and if you feel you can make a success on the website

Alternativley you could buy a turnkey website for sale from websites for sale

To run a succesful internet business you need to work hard. By working hard i mean keeping your website upto date with correct information and content. Making sure your website is user friendly with easy navigation

The key to driving users to your website is making sure you work on your SEO (Search engine optimisation).

Your website needs to be unique and different from anyone else and offer decent products or a service which they will want to come back again and tell their friends.

Having a blog attached to your website is a good way to keep your high rankings on google, as google likes websites that are updated daily with relevant content that matches the website

Drop ship internet business

A drop ship internet business is great if you don’t want to keep any stock.  Drop shipping basically works like this:

1. Customer buys a product on your website
2. You then order the product from your supplier at trade price
3. Your supplier then delivers the item directly to your customer
4. You pocket the profit on the order without having to see the product

You need to find a niche, e.g drop shipping electrical items from a seller in a different country could be a good idea.

You need to be very careful when dealing with suppliers in different countries as there are alot of scammers out there. I personally have been caught out on occassions loosing money from fake sellers.  When searching for a seller, do your research on the company and check their reputation among the community they are advertising in.

Another thing to look out for is if the products you will be drop shipping are real and not fakes.  If you are dealing with a seller in China then it is more then certain the items are fake, as this country is the number 1 place to find counterfeit items