Lately I have been actively looking at websites for sale around the $100USD mark. I have been looking for those diamonds in the rough as cheap investments for websites that just need a little elbow grease and TLC. I have worked on several websites in the past (primarily as a developer) and want to focus solely on promoting websites and my SEO skills by buying cheaper websites that I can work on increasing traffic with little to no budget. I figure $100 is worth not having to spend the time and effort to create a website before I can even start working on promotion because the grunt work is already done.

I came across the sale of ffvii.org domain and website with a $250USD BIN on Digital Point Forums and pondered buying the website but decided not to spend that much and keep to my $100 or less budget. I went back the next day to see that they had lowered the BIN to $75 and BIN’ed it 11 minutes before someone else did! For those of you who don’t know what FFVII is, it’s short for Final Fantasy 7 which is an RPG game that was created for the Playstation. Not to mention one of my favourite games of all time! I felt given the domain name it was a fair price although I would have obviously preferred the .com domain.

I have one goal in mind with these websites I’m potentially throwing $100USD away on: learning. I want to see how others are developing their websites while working on my SEO skills and how to increase traffic to a website with little to no budget.