Checklist when won a web site auction

This article is written for my friend “honey” (site). I have been bidding against honey on web site auctions for almost 2 years now. I have won maybe 60 auctions and I have now over 100 web sites. Honey owns over 300 …

So here comes my checklist that I want to show honey as I think she will need one. I guess others perhaps also could find some use for this so I decided to post it here as well.

Send the money
Get the files (and database)
Get the domain
Create a hosting account
Update your excel file and input all data
Change the DNS
Create and place a new Statcounter project
Input adsense pub id and new channel id
Correct adsense position for better CTR if needed
Place links on it to other relevant sites you own
Verify basic on-page SEO: H1, titles, file names etc.
Place the non-www 301 redirect in the .htaccess
Upload files to account (and create and upload db)
Place links to it from lists and other places

You can use this on a text file and keep track of the actions of each. I have for example now 12 auctions that I have won and there is no need to get overwhelmed as I know what need to be done on each. Then 2 days a week (currently Sundays and Wednesdays) I am not working with clients but maintaince and creation of web sites. I can do about 10 checklists per work day.

Each morning I see the list of new threads and place my bids.

Some notes:

Yes, you can have over 100 projects in statcounter.
Yes, you should host your sites on different c-class IPs. If you own reseller accounts it makes it easy for you to create new accounts instantly. (I recommend gotwebhost.com, they can give you 15 c-class IPs).

EDIT March 16th, 2007:

Here is a checklist Checklist for Buying a web site that I found.

About the Author

Jim Westergren is a company owner from Sweden who currently lives in Bolivia with his wife. Some of his interests are SEO, web development, writing and taking photos. Read his full about page or contact him. Follow Jim on Twitter or subscribe to this blog.
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13 responses »Leave a comment

Stevie
said on February 20, 2007 at 11:11 pm

Yes nice checklist,

I always write this on a note pad (old fashin pen and paper )

I’ve been watching the sites/auctions you and honey are in sometimes and must say you go for the best

won a few that use were in and must say i wish i stayed away from the auctions
Jim Westergren
said on February 20, 2007 at 11:36 pm

Yes, Notepad for the win!
Gronk
said on February 21, 2007 at 1:07 am

Hi. I was wondering if you could recommend some good sites for bidding on websites?
Honey
said on February 21, 2007 at 10:23 am

Hey, thanks Jim. Yes, I indeed need that one. I am so bad at organizing things. This one is in my bookmarks, and I a shortcut on my desktop. Really.

Thanks a lot Jim.
sagbee
said on February 21, 2007 at 11:02 am

definitely a really nice steps written by JIM. delicious this page, so next time i will ready to work properly on won auction sites.
Jim Westergren
said on February 21, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Gronk,

Yes, here:
http://www.jimwestergren.com/where-do-i-buy-and-sell-web-sites/

Honey,
I am glad you found it useful

Thanks sagbee.
Jonny Elofsson
said on February 21, 2007 at 9:54 pm

Thanks for this very good list and a delicious post here too.
Jim Westergren
said on February 22, 2007 at 2:39 pm

Thanks Jonny and interesting blog you have. BTW, you could remove “#lastcomment” from the delicious URL.
Andreas Bard
said on February 24, 2007 at 12:17 pm

Excellent guide Jim.

// Andreas Bard
aditya
said on March 1, 2007 at 6:09 pm

very useful list.

Thanks
Milan
said on June 3, 2007 at 11:58 pm

Funny thing was, I was just wondering how I was going to manually automate the next step… creating new website! Thanks Jim.

Cheers,

Milan
Dog
said on June 19, 2007 at 12:33 am

Excellent check list!
Thank you for providing this kind of information!
edebiyat
said on July 20, 2007 at 1:07 pm

Very excellent guide and list!
Thanks Jim