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If you’ve read much advice about selling websites online, you’ve probably heard that your best bet is to stick to the mainstream sites like Flippa and Warriors Forum. While this still holds true, there are other viable marketplaces you can try and one such place is Craigslist. It can especially be a great marketplace if you are selling websites targeted to local businesses. Here are the four main advantages to selling websites online through Craigslist:

Local Contact

Craigslist may be chalked up as disadvantageous since it tends to work on a local level, but this can also be a positive. If you are selling a site that appeals to local business, or one that is designed specifically for a local niche market, you have the advantage of being a close contact for the buyer. A phone conversation is a much better way to gain the business confidence of a buyer, something you’re not likely to have if you’re selling on a huge anonymous site.

Free Use

More established site flipping marketplaces like Flippa may have a lot to offer a site flipper like you, but these services come for a fee. In addition to high listing fees, sites like these can also take a bite out of your income should you make a sale. But with using Craiglist, you don’t have to stress about having to pay any fees, or percentage when your site sells. You get to keep all of your earnings, and in case your site doesn’t sell for a long time, at least you don’t incur any expenses in the meantime.

Ease of Use

Craigslist gives you not only a lot more freedom in how you design your listing, but it can also be a lot easier to use for somebody who knows what they are doing. You can have an ad up and running in just a few minutes and you can design the layout of your ad in any way you see fit. Rather than blending in with all the other ads confined to the same template, you can really flex your creative muscles by creating any type of ad that you’d like.

Visibility

If you are able to implement SEO techniques the right way, Craiglist can give your ads a good boost in the search engines. In many instances, you can even get better visibility from a listing in Craiglist than in other marketplaces solely for site flipping.

Selling websites online and website flipping in general doesn’t mean that you need to be confined to one or two major marketplaces. It can pay big dividends to branch out and try other avenues. Craigslist is free and super easy to use so you have nothing to lose. It can be a great marketplace especially if you are selling sites tailored to local businesses.