The worst idea is "buying sites" with no prior experience. There is an insanely higher amount of value, for every reason, in building your own sites, building traffic, monetizing them, etc. before you get into ever buying an existing one.

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I can give you a site with X traffic and Y rev. Say you paid 12 month multiple on past year's avg. monthly earnings.

If you do not know how to increase either the traffic or rev, you stand to gain little. Furthermore, if things so south, you won't have any clue how to fix them.

Beyond this, starting any site from nothing is incredibly cheap and offers much greater profit potential, especially relative to investment. If you are buying sites, it should only be as a trade off for time. And even then, you should only do it if you, well, know what you're doing. You might get lucky here and there, but that doesn't scale, and you aren't going to turn 50k into 1m. In fact, turning a brand new site into $1m is much more likely than an existing one with a somewhat defined potential since you would assume it is relatively matured/settled by the time anyone is selling it.

I need help finding a wordpress plugin that fits my need.

I'm putting together a website that is basically a reverse store front. Instead of people buying items off me, I'm buying items off them.

What I would like the software to do at a minimum is let customers choose from a variety of items that they want to sell to me (at this point only 3), input their quantity, and then submit the form to me, along with their email for payment via paypal. I want the customer to get a copy of the submitted form so they can use it as a packing slip, and I'd also like to get a copy generated for me so that I can keep track of what I have inbound.

Does any of this make sense? I know it's possible to code, I'm just wondering if there is a good plugin already available that does this.

Seems like a glorified contact form would do the trick? Also this wouldn't be too difficult to code yourself. Look into the WP_mail function. You could easily pre-populate a select list of your aforementioned items, using a custom post type to add them separately in the backend. Then just have some other input fields for quantity, email, etc and have it all sent to the you and the sender. You can modify the email the sender receives so it's different to the one you receive.

You will almost certainly need this custom built. Anyone experience in building shopping carts should be able to handle it.

This is a bid message I got on a freelancing site and I thought you guys would find it amusing.

Yes, it's an American woman who ended up bidding about 2-3x more than everyone else.

How easy/hard is this to do if I have no html or other computer language knowledge?

I know enough html to set up the most basic of webpages. I guess there's even programs (i used dreamweaver in the 90s lol) to do that.

Aside from changing banner links, which I can do, to be successful do I need to be able to do much more?

Successful in doing what? buying and running websites? You don't need to know a lot to get started, but you should expect to have to learn a lot quickly.

She wrote this after losing your bid? What was this in response to?

She would been much better off just offering straight collusion on how much bid jobs for.

i still need to read through the whole thread. i guess to make money in online advertising you basically do have to buy and run websites. thought maybe there'd be another way where you could put ads on someone else's site for a commission. i'm super new, and don't have much seed money or much technical knowledge. i think i can learn it to an adequate level somewhat quickly. just need to get my feet wet.

I posted a project and this rant was part of her bid.

Did she send this before or after losing the bid lol?

Edit: just realized it was part of her bid. Good luck to her finding more work. She could really say exactly the same thing in a complete different tone.

You can do this. A lot of websites run advertising networks. You could place an ad on their site using the network and then show ads for a product that you think will do well pocketing the difference. This is not an easy thing to do, but it can work.

So how have you guys been affected by today's Google update? I don't have any sites right now. I just finished one but it only got indexed yesterday so need to wait and see what happens. It's a site that should have ranked in the top 10 easily but not sure about now.

Google updates have actually been consistently helping me. Many of our competitors have used black-hat tactics in the past, which are obvious using ahrefs and other backlink trackers, and they are continually being punished as new updates come out.

One lost >3 mozrank points from 7.X to 4.x, overall it has me pretty happy I go 100% white-hat.

Google updates consistently help me too, since it's a blog and website that has 0 blackhat activity.

One of my sites went from 1500-3000uv/mo to basically zero after the first Panda update.

However, I never did anything shady for the site. This site was not being updated at all anymore and I guess the Panda updated means a more strict 'content freshness' criteria... maybe...

When google updated the way it displayed image search results in Feb, my traffic crashed.

Yeah mine too, but I also had a huge uptick in traffic that was basically undeserved directly from image results, so it didn't bother me much.

Has anyone read this article:

http://customerdevlabs.com/2013/09/2...i-mturk-press/

Would you pay for a service that does this for you? This would probably be marketed more towards existing businesses/startups looking for PR; but I could also see it as decent SEO juice as well.

This looks like it might be a good place to ask.

What's the best website builder out there? taking into account creating a new domain, and cost/design.

What is your budget?

I like squarespace, it allows me to focus on the content of the site 99% of the time without any hassles.