Online real estate is actually called Virtual Real estate. This is a new form of making money only it is you are required to work at home on your computer, office, or beach….home is better though Just like housing real estate, virtual real estate needs to grow, and build into something worth selling. Buying a new domain with an idea, building popularity, Backlinks, content, trust, and proving that it really can make money online takes time. It can be a short time or a long time it all depends on your dedication to make things work.

Buying A Domain

There is nothing to buying a new domain. All you need to know is where to find a great host. I would prefer a host such as, Dreamhost.com because it offers great scripts, such as the famous one button press Wordpress installation. Dedicated hosting is also offered in Dreamhost.com which is awesome if you are expecting tons of web traffic.

Idea/Niche

It will be wise to have a plan on what you will like to present to the web. Whether it’s creating web applications, or offering a video game subscription service. Supplying a need is what the internet is all about. People come online for information so you will definitely find something to give to the world out there worth looking into or supplying a searchable need to individuals.

Build Backinks

If you haven’t figured out the true source of traffic then you don’t understand the magic of the search engines. The search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing are the top search engines you should want to look for major traffic at this time. Following the tips on my later blog post you could find some useful information on finding links, using anchored keyword terms, and search engine optimization for the top search engines out there. Backlinks are the backbone, and very important of a website to succeed in the search engine world. If you can manage to get a few top positions this will guarantee a chance for you to sell you website, but why would you when you are making so much money

Popularity

Popularity works well! Providing something new on the internet, particularly in the tech field specifically, you could create something a company could use, for instance, Google has Feedburner in there arsenal. Someone built it, and Google seen that they really need the software so they bought it from the creators. You don’t necessarily need to be a tech person. You could also be an ordinary blogger that is focused on something needing to the public, such as hand purses. You may attract an audience of women that want to buy hand purses. Once a business sees this huge traffic for demand of hand purses then there’s a close chance they want to buy your virtual real estate.

Prove To Be Profitable

What’s a business if it isn’t making any money right? Before anybody buys your business they want to know if it can profit a significant amount of money. Give yourself a year or two, and see how much you can generate in income from your online business. For instance, if you generate about $500,000 dollars online a year I would sell for $1.5 million. If I make $10,000 a year then I would sell for $30,000. Virtual Real Estate usually sells three times of how much you make a year so I keep it close or less for a reasonable sale.

Where To Sell My Biz

This is the question most people ask all the time, but it’s actually pretty simple. I would go to sitesell.com or Digitalpoint.com. You may have to go through more advanced resources for bigger buyers all depends on the demand and quality of the website you are selling, but they are out there.

Before I launched my blogs online I looked into legitimate work at home jobs for money. I was a really quite person at work that pretty much kept to myself so I had all the time to myself to think about what I wanted. I grew tired of looking for job after job because of layoffs. I knew I wanted to own a business, but resources were hard to come by besides I had no business skills anyways at such an young age, but motivation can take you a long ways. The internet was something I was accustomed to, but never knew that you could profit from doing small things over the internet. One day I was checking my Yahoo mail, and decided to check my “SPAM” folder of course I never opened any of the mail, but I was curious why everybody hated SPAM email so much.

When I opened up a piece of email I read this long piece of electronic email that was sent out by a guy who was this huge well-known guru(who is legendary now, and made $40,000,000 in a very short time)online that made hundreds of thousands of dollars a month while working in his basement. When a average person hear things like that they go crazy like I did of course. The email was all about building a huge list of targeted prospects by having them subscribe to your emails, after the product is reviewed by the individual the prospect may buy whatever you are offering via internet. The surprising thing about the whole ordeal is these were mainly information products. The “Information Age” was the time when “how to” products were sold drastically over the internet, and people made a killing in this field in the beginning of 2001-2007. So, what did I do about it? Well, just like everybody else who wants to know the secrets I bought into it. Yes, it was worth the $75 dollars I put into it now that I see how it truly worked, but I failed miserably because I didn’t take full advantage of the information.

Accomplishing nothing much online I decided to look further into work at home jobs. I decided to sign up with SFI affiliate program, and give them a try. SFI was truly a gym for people looking for legitimate work at home jobs because it really paid out commissions to it’s affiliates based on what you sold you get a percentage of that. Sometimes the company ran a money pool for profits which was really cool, but I decided I wanted more so I went on a massive scale search, and ran into NONI Juice. (Laughing) The main reason I gave those guys a shot was because the commissions were huge. At $100 dollars a pop you can’t beat that, especially if they are offering you a free “AFFILIATE” website to distribute there products on right. The only problem I had with this was everybody had the same affiliate website. The answer to this problem that no one knew at the time was you must have a targeted group to sell to.

Then came the search engine giants. Yahoo among all of them was the best search engine at the time of 2004 because of it’s savvy commercial advertising. You probably remember that commercial on television “YYYYAAAAHHHHOOOOO!” With targeted keyword search, buyers, and sellers are now able to build a profitable home based business online without the hassle of cold calling, and offline offering. For me, and other entrepreneurs, this made total sense to use this as a opportunity to build a true home based business. Sooner or later Google search engine took the crown, and made search online a prominent picture for individuals to truly search for information, and for us to provide.