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What’s wrong with guaranteed web traffic sale?  Even a quick analysis will make you “run the other way” as fast as you can run!

First, this guaranteed web traffic business offers 10,000 “qualified” visitors to a site for $66.  That would be quite the deal as even Google charges $50 per 1,000 targeted visitors as a “minimum ” fee.  Most smaller providers will maybe do a little better on pricing, but I would be hard pressed to find one guaranteed web traffic offering for 50% of the Google PPC fee.  The listing below is offering $6.60 per 1,000 visitor traffic.  OK, maybe the listing can sell new clients (2% of people will supposedly buy anything), but unlikely to have many repeat clients.  This is red flag #1 for not buying this guaranteed web traffic listing.

Thanks to the owner for providing the domain name as the whois record is red flag #2 and red flag #3.  The whois record indicates the hosting for this site is yahoo.com.  That is just not going to be a legitimate web services hosting site.  The red flag #3 is the proverbial “nail in the coffin” for this guaranteed web traffic listing.  The owner states he has been in business since 2006.  One problem, the domain name shown given in the listing was first registered in November 2009, a mere 8 months ago; not four years ago.

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I give the owner of this Scuba Business For Sale a KUDO for using an SEO technique only used by perhaps 1% of websites; and that is using the full complement of “Meta Tags”.  Most website owners use the three common meta tags (meta title, meta description, meta keywords).  There are an additional dozen meta tags that can be used to boost this Scuba Business For Sale use of targeted keywords to rank just a bit higher than your competitors (e.g., meta copyright, meta author, meta classification).

However, the owner of this Scuba Business For Sale, even though he uses many of these advanced meta tags, flubbed implementation of the basic tags.  For example, he has targeted as meta keywords,  words that have no relevance (e.g., cms, content management system); which are probably the default keywords in the blogging software he used as a base program.  Further, he has modified the code to where robots have an impossible time trying to index the pages properly.  This is called the “code to text” ratio; which should be a minimum of 35% (% of text to code used to tell a browser how to display the information.)  The home page of this site is 7%.  Which means a robot can’t tell the forest (code) from the trees (text)!

The right idea of this Scuba Business For Sale is the “category”, “Scuba Packages”.  Two favorable items are the Vic Ratio (a measurement of supply and demand).

“Scuba Packages” – Average Monthly Searches: 37,422; Vicissitude Ratio: 29.03

The 2nd notable item is the number of “long tails” in this Scuba Business For Sale category: keyword phrases (scuba cayman, scuba naui, scuba aruba, scuba open water) that can be geo-targeted.  Geo targeting is a Web 2.0 application; as the Internet goes localized.  A simple use of this is when a visitor arrives at this site the IP address (geographic location) is read and can serve up specific content targeted to that visitor.  As a more specific example imagine the visitor IP is Los Angeles; then perhaps scuba packages in Southern California would be more relevant to the visitor; rather than scub packages in Florida.

I enjoy relating the story of another scuba business for sale; which the owner ended keeping rather than selling.  The site was making about $60,000 net per year by advertising scuba packages and receiving a percentage of the sale.  At the time the owner was thinking of selling his scuba business he was living in the mountains of Colorado.  Not much scuba diving available in Colorado.    As he was considering selling he was researching a move to Phuket in Thailand; which is where he ended up relocating and triggered taking his scuba business for sale off the market.  He now lives like a King in an area of the world with fantastic scuba diving.  His scuba site now nets about $75,000 per year.

The Scuba Business For Sale listing below is overpriced.  It was originally listed at $12,0000; revised downward to $9,500; but an offer of $1,500 would be more in line.

The buyer this summer wants something they can grow over multiple years; and risk less of their depleting capital.

When determining what category to buy your starter kit Internet business you will find Google Trends is an excellent tool.

The Vic Ratio category for the listing below is “craft beer”; or “craft beer clothing”.  The two terms are related; with “craft beer clothing” being a subset of “craft beer”.  The Vic Ratio determines the level of current competition over the next twelve to eighteen month.  You can use Google Trends as perhaps a predictor of the “future” Vic Ratio.  In the case of this listing both the Vic Ratio and Google Trends are favorable for competition and growth in this category.

“Craft Beer” – Average Monthly Searches: 48.075; Vicissitude Ratio: 87.57

One added benefit for craft beer is the Supreme Court 2005 ruling on interstate shipments of wine; which appears to apply to beer sales on the Internet.

A further benefit for this craft beer site for sale is the domain name includes the search term, craft beer, which since last summer has Googlebot juice.

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