Looking to Buy a Website

I've been looking to purchase a website for some time now, I just can't find a good "website for sale" directory that lists both the income and traffic of the sites for sale. Has anybody else found a good website for sale directory?

Besides SP, nothing really serious

Why buy a website? Why not build a site? You'd be much better off.

For someone who does not have the skills it takes to build a website, it's a hard advice to take.

But....I would love to build one that is professional looking, what is your advice. I have no knowledge of programming languages or anything like that... a total newbie, what's your advice?

There is a plenty of open source CMS that you can use in order to create a site. Using one does not need programming knowledge, but of course you will have to learn how the CMS you are using works.

You can do almost anything with WordPress today. Since version 2.5+ it has become the easiest CMS on the Internet. More than 3'000'000 blogs are hosted on WordPress alone.

Setting up your own website with WordPress will take yo no longer than 1 hour! 10 minutes to sign up for a reliable web hosting account, 20 minutes to read the instructions (optional if your server provides simple Scripts or at least Fantastico you won't even have to read an instruction file.) With the remaining 30 minutes i recommend to snoop around the WordPress Plug in Extensions website to add some functionality like forum or web shop to your site. Installing these extensions and even upgrading them has become a matter of a single button click.

If you are looking for a nice looking and free template for your new site, there are tons of them out there configured to suit your WordPress CMS. Some pretty nice ones are hosted on the WordPress Themes Site but have a look around; I've found many better ones on private websites.

Now if you would like to learn how to set this up and even gain some few dollars instead of paying them; I've written an article a while ago on my Internet Marketing & Consulting blog where i explain how to, in detail.

If you need any help, let me know.

there are very good open source cms'es out there: joomla and drupal

Okay samiotis, I will look into your advice. My area of expertise is accounting, but I am trying my hand at internet marketing, the most I have done so far formally is Information Technology in high school. So these languages (joomla, css, php etc) are quite foreign to me.

WordPress is so user friendly; You'll find it 'a walk in the Park'!
I'm sure You can do it!
If you need help, let me know.

ebay always has auctions for websites, other places sell them often as well.  they are out there if you are willing to pay for them, but you might overpay especially for traffic if you do not know what kind of traffic it is.  anyone can run an autohit program on a site to inflate traffic.

the other way is join a website and become a partner :D

you can do so with me ;)
<< snipped, do not self promote in the forum >>

I would recommend avoid buyinfg web site - buy developed domain name - that is more easy to proceed

If you buy a website, it would be difficult for you to add somethging or to edit. And the other thing is that the web designer might put his link in your website.

Web designer is more preferable in this way. 

@nicesurf - what's wrong with that? i always ask my customers if they don't mind me putting a link on their site, Nobody ever said no. are you a sole surfer or a designer/webmaster?

try site point or digital point both will have websites for sale.

I would recommnend digital point forums too.  I always see websites for sale there in the buy/sell/trade section.  Good luck!

thanks for the tips i was looking for a site as well....besides the ones i already have....

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David
EDIT: stop spamming (place your "spam" links ;) into the signature

oops, someone got banned (again)

well for domains and hosting a great site i use is  godaddy.com!!!

In which type you find a website? Which theme related and in which budget range? Many websites of good quality are always available on internet. As you are saying you are looking to purchase a website for some time and can't find a good website for sale. How is possible?

Try Sitepoint or digital point forums , they have some serious trading of websites going out there....
I ve heard warrior forum is good too !

Warrior forum is not about selling web sites but marketing ebooks.

haha, it very difficult now to recognize a spammer or a noob :D

what type of website you want ?

i have many websites i want to sell.

I think it's better to launch your own website. But, if  you want to purchase a good website with good revenue, i think you have to pay more money for it.

I think if you want a website you are better off building it. It is a lot of work for a few months but you have total control and learn how to change things to suit your needs. If you buy a website you shortchange yourself the learning experiences and probably will not be effective at promotions. Like every business learning shortcuts can hurt you in the long run.

check sitepoint. it is a good place to start

This is great place to buy and sell website.
Thanks

I think sedo is the greatest service

Nope,,sorry

the best and fine way is get good domains thats better than the buying websites and approach some forums .

i m having blog to sell if u r interested in it thn u can contact me.

Hey, he asking about buying website, and you ppl ask him to build website?

I am agree with your response.

This is the great jone where creating and updating websites. but one of the problem is that why we can't create a personelly site.....

thanks

Web designer is more preferable in this way. 

Right. Buying domain is normal and you can joint digitalpoint forums to have more information from disucssions

You might wanna check out flippa.com or ask around if anyone have a website they want to sell. Good luck.

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Why buy a website? Why not build a site? You'd be much better off.

Well I also agreed with that..
always built a new brand from scratch..
you will learn a lot and its good for future..

check out flippa, you will find loads of site, traffic, revenue and everything else you could possibly need is displayed

Do you wish to buy an old domain name or a ready website ?

Why not you try to build site yourself? Its much easy to build a site. You just need to research different tools for that purpose.

I want to sale my newly developed website. domain name search engine friendly.  It received really good traffic from niche if you interested pm me for further details.

Good website you have to consider the content and the future maintenance and promotion. This is a series of questions

I agree goddaddy.com is ok but hostgator is better.

I think you should some kind of cms, it`s free and easy to configure.

What's the benefit of purchasing domains or the whole site if it is not worked out a commercial site that brings profit, and you want to continue with this job ...
If you buy a popular site with good traffic and change his purpose or concept site will not be worth anything ...