Is that what you do? Buy mainstream sites for $5000 and then pay monthly marketing fees?

This is scary :(

Your business model? :)

Yes.. that is the business model currently... I average about two to three sites a month.

How do you choose what site to buy for $5000?

How can you be sure of the income and can't you just make one yourself after you have had a few already?

I don't buy sites...My company charges for web design and development services.

LOL ... I should have read your sig.


That's good monthly income charging $1000-$1600/month for SEO and Social Media promo.

BTW, can you recommend any good wordpress themes that are visually appealing but not bloated and load lightening quick?

Wordpress is an awesome CMS with a ton of great plugins. We recommend using wordpress for our clients and then do a full SEO audit before making the site live.

There are plugins for SEO (someone mentioned yoast) but if you're serious about SEO you really need to know/research what the best ways to optimize are. Yoast, for example, doesn't set meta keywords on your homepage. The meta keywords may play less of a role with Google today but they still contribute to your keyword density and the other meta crawler search engines depend on them. I've never understood firms that only optimize for Google. They're definitely king but a couple of small additions will help in the other engines as well.

Wordpress is a great CMS, you still need great optimization to audit it once it's got the themes and plugins setup to ensure you're maximizing your search presence :pimp

Any recommendations on something like this that works on any template?

Fiddy word presses pressing

Reminds me I need to sell off my wordpress blogs

From personal experience:

The default theme 2014 works wonders SEO wise. It scored 56.5 out of 100.

A theme I contorted into what I need scores 52 out of 100 and I have many #1's in Google using it.

So that plugin is pure shit and won't help you at all.

If you want to rank, just use 2014 if you have no knowledge of how to play with themes.

What kind of sites?

Woothemes and Studio Press are both built on solid foundations. You can use these themes on standard web hosting packages.

Once you start getting into the fancy/bloated WordPress themes you need a powerful web server along with dynamic caching, memcache and HHVM or PHP 7.

Woocommerce requires a lot of power especially if you have multiple transactions at the same time.