Browsing the web you will see that a lot of sites have no content, they are parked and for sale. Others have very good content but they are also for sale. Why do people do this? Why they register domains or buy websites, and sell them after? Well, because www is very similar to real estate!

There are brokers who will help you sell your site or domain and they earn pretty well! If you are new into this kind of business, domain brokers are a good resource for selling premium domain names. A good domain broker has contacts at large companies in the industry for your domain. For example, if your domain is about some sort of software then your broker should have contacts at software companies.

Most of the people who sell websites or domains do not need brokers because there are a lot of free resources on the web. In this article I will give you a general idea about how and where to sell your site/domain.

So, you decided to sell your website or domain?

Great! But when the first customer will come and ask you how much you want for it what are you going to tell? Are you sure that your asking price is the right one? In order to come up with the right price you have to know what you sell.

One of the places where you can find out a lot of information about your site is Foco.us. There is a domain evaluation tool that will give you useful information like:

- Google and Alexa Rank
- Domain Age
- Backlinks
- Indexed Pages
- Social bookmarks
- Directories Listing
- Traffic stats
- Domain whois

Based on all these free information you can compare your site to others and come up with a price. When selling a website PageRank can be very important, that is why you should improve your pagerank continuously. Domain age is also important because older pages tend to rank better in search engines and usually have better rate of visitor returns. Backlinks are a great source of promotion and PageRank improvement.  It might be a good idea to contact fellow webmasters and exchange links. The number if pages indexed by search engines is not that important but if you have a lot of content it might be! Also, more and more sites are using social bookmarking sites for promoting (most of them spaming about) their sites. This is not such a good idea. Social bookmark sites, like Digg for instance, will bring you some visitors but in most of the cases they will not click on ads or buy stuff you are selling on the site. I recommend using social bookmarking only if you want to inflate your visitors number.

Another thing that you have to know before going out to sell your website is that people will ask for traffic/visitors stats and proof of your earnings with that site.

Now that you have a general idea about what you sell and managed to come up with the right price, you are ready to list your site on the market.

You can list your site on forums and websites. One of the most popular places to sell websites is DigitalPoint’s forum. Listing is free and the forum is popular.

You can also list your site for sale on websites like WebDomainsBroker.com. That site is also very popular and offers you the option to promote your listing on their homepage for only $10! Go give it a try!

All in all, if you are selling, sell something valuable. Build up some content, promote it a bit and sell it after. Don`t ask for to much! If you bought a domain for $10 and someone is giving you $50 for it, consider selling! Yes, you could maybe sell it for more, but it is better to let the money flow. It will help build up your business and your psychological energy!

Don`t forget: Even a small amount of money that came out of a sell is a victory!

Resources:
WebDomainsBroker.com - Buy and sell websites and domains. It is 100% free!
Free domain evaluation tool
List your website at FullTraffic.Us