One path to internet success is purchasing a small business online. Many times small online businesses become available because successful web entrepreneurs don't wish to manage websites once they've been established.
Purchasing a Small Business Online Has the Advantage of Longevity and SEO Credentials
An established website has a distinct advantage over a newly built one, namely that advantage of having been spidered / crawled by search engines numerous times. This means that a number of highly credible backlinks to the site have already been established, making the sites content (and offers) much easier for the search engines to find.
How to Extract More Value Out of an Existing Web Presence
Although existing sites may have the advantage of being throroughly crawled by search engines, many times the site design is poorly optimized for what ultimately became the existing content on the site. Often times a little dusting off of the content, dressing up the site title, keywords, and description (to better match the page contents) can bring a dramatic increase in traffic for little or no cost to the new owner. More (targeted) traffic to a website inevitably results in more money.
Tips on Starting from Scratch
Although it is easier to simply throw down some money and buy an existing internet property, there are many times when no existing properties are for sale. When there are no established sites for sale sometimes the next best alternative is to partner up with someone already in the space. That's where a good affiliate program can come in handy.
Purchasing a Small Business Using an Affiliate Program Template
Highly profitable web businesses many times will offer pre-made site templates to affiliates who sign up for their program. This can be a great way to get an optimized, highly professional, highly attractive presence in that market quickly. The new affiliate will pick up a domain name to use and load the template onto a hosting account for that domain and have a new high quality site to promote up in a day. Then it becomes a question of creating content and building some targeted backlinks to get the site indexed.
Purchasing a small business site template this way can be a good way for a new web marketer to get started. It has the advantages of the professional sales content and end product already made with only traffic generation left for the new affiliate to do.