How to turn trash into cash

Viewing the DigitalPoint and SitePoint marketplaces shows what an incredible amount of bottom feeding is going on for worthless sites and content.

So let’s take a quick tour of how you can turn your worthless websites into real moolah:

1. The forum

Set up a forum. Spend $100 getting 500 paid-for forum posts over 4 weeks.

1 month later, offer it up for $500, and watch clueless buyers fall over themselves.

2. The blog

Set up a Wordpress blog, add that infamous plugin to auto-publish feeds from another site.

Sell it after a couple of months as a niche site.

3. PageRank

Point a load of Co-op links at an otherwise trash site (see above).

After PageRank update, offer it for sale as a PR6 site for sale.

After sale, kill links and repoint and next site for next mug.

It’s unbelievable how much crap there is on these places. The more astonishing thing is that people are buying.

Here are a couple of indicators to evaluate a site:

1. Traffic
2. Revenue
3. Age of domain

A site with no traffic, no revenue, and less than a month old, is pretty much a worthless site. Save yourself the cash and heartache and just put up something yourself.

If you can’t be bothered to do even that - well, I guess it’s the old saying about a fool and his money.