Archive for January, 2006
There is a Gadget Blog for sale at Sedo. The blog is Gadgetizer.com which is a frequently updated gadgets weblog featuring news and commentary on consumer electronics and tech issues.
From the Sedotracker I’d say that the blog get about 500 daily uniques. And taken into consideration that there hasn’t really been posted on the blog for the last ten days, those numbers should increase if there is subscribers to the RSS feeds.
The blog has a pagerank 6 and around 1000 pages indexed by Google. It looks like there was a lot of posting until mid-november 2005 and then almost nothing until january 2006. So it is hard to say if there is potential for a loyal readership. And thereby it is hard to value.
Tags: blogging, blog, gadgets, selling blogs
January 29th, 2006
At the True Blogging Forum I just read that Adwords and Adsense seems to be down. How much money does webmasters lose in the moment due to Adsense only showing Public Service Ads? It is probably a lot.
I certainly hope they’ll be up and running again quickly, or I might also lose a decent amount of money.
And we shouldn’t forget that all the people who base their business on Adwords traffic also has problems making money right now.
Tags: adsense, adwords, make money, losing money
January 27th, 2006
I just spotted a webmaster & domain name forum for sale at NamePros. The forum itself seems pretty dead, but according to the statistics provided by the seller, there is a decent amount of traffic.
The forum is RealDN and it has a pagerank 4. In this month there has been around 13,000 uniques who did ~54,000 pageviews.
The seller wants the bidding to start of at $500, but he has a reserve, and mentions that the right offer will buy immediately. The auction will be for 7 days and seller will post a BIN in a couple of days.
This forum could be a good start to create a community, but remember that there is plenty of webmaster and domain forums already.
There are two things to notice. 1. Theres was a huge drop in traffic in November and December according to the stats. 2. There is a lot of links in the bottom, so the link popularity might be obtained through such link exchanges.
Tags: webmaster forum, webmasters, website auction
January 27th, 2006
An image hosting network with three different sites is for sale at SitePoint.
The sites are:
oniva.com - previously myphotospace.com
myphotodrive.com
afreeimagehost.com
The seller wants $45,000 for the sites, which I find rather high. First of all, the price is around 2 years of profit. Another reason for why the price to be too high, is that the revenue has been dropping a bit over the last year. So could anyone really expect to earn back their investment in a reasonable time? I’m not sure - I wouldn’t take the chance.
Tags: image hosting, picture hosting, online investment
January 27th, 2006
I just bought another website today. It wasn’t anything special except from being in direct competition with one of my other sites. So I bought it immediately and cheap! But something happened that made me think about important things to tell the seller when buying a website.
What happened was when the seller should download and send me all the files. Before he downloaded the files he changed the config files, so that his password for the webserver wouldn’t get into my hands. This isn’t a wrong thing to do - not at all! But it had a side-effect, which was that the website only gave a MySQL error, when trying to access it. I e-mailed him and asked him to correct it, and I also asked him to keep the website running for yet a couple of days. He kindly fixed it and agreed to keep the website running!
What then came to my mind, is that I just expect a seller to keep the site running for a couple of days, until the DNS changes etc. has come to effect. And I guess that some of you also would expect it. But he didn’t, so in the future I need to remember to inform the seller about such expectations.
Tags: website transfer, buying websites, domain transfer
January 25th, 2006
The webshop CornerHobbyShop.com is for sale at SitePoint. It is an e-commerce website selling RC Cars - all delivered through a dropshipper.
This is what the seller tells about the traffic: “Traffic is generated through a combination of PPC ads, natural search engine listings and froogle. The site lists better on Yahoo & MSN then Google, currently.”
According to seller there has in average been a monthly revenue of $4180 in October, November and December. But the revenue for December was $7753 with a $2013 net profit.
The webshop is on auction with a starting bid of $5000 and a BIN of $25000.
The sellers comment about what is included: “You are also buying customer list, vendor information, our promise not to compete, and our advertising campaigns. Overture account can be transferred. Adwords, pricegrabber and froogle we will provide you with all keywords/ feeds to continue doing what we are doing.”
Tags: webshop, e-commerce, webshops, rc cars
January 24th, 2006
PodFly.com is up for sale at SitePoint. The website is a blog about podcasting.
This is a part of the sellers description of the site: “The site empowers its visitors by providing step-by-step podcasting tutorials, insightful articles and interviews, as well as the first global directory of podcasters“.
According to seller there has been in average a $100 monthly revenue. And there is ~30,000 pageviews/month. The website has a pagerank of 5, and has some good backlinks, but technorati only reports 8 sites linking. This is not a problem, but instead shows that they probably haven’t taken full use of the blogosphere.
A buyer should fix the template to show unique titles for each post. The URL / permalinks should also be fixed. I guess that would increase traffic from the search engines. And my last comment for a buyer would be that he should notify other podcasting-bloggers about new articles that he puts up - get some links from the blogosphere.
Tags: blog, podcasting, blog sale
January 21st, 2006
I just read at a post on SiliconBeat that XBiz reports that the domain sex.com has been sold for nothing less than $14 million dollars. Gary Kremen who recently won the fight over the domain, has been unavailable for comments according to XBiz. They also state that the company InternetRealEstate.com takes part in the sale.
It is interesting to see how much a domain name can be worth. I recall business.com beeing solg for $7.5 million and I just checked some other high domain sales.
Beer.com - $7 million (2004)
Diamond.com - $6 million (2000)
Loans.com - $3 million (2000)
See the highest domain sales here!
Tags: domains, sex.com, domain sales, domain value
January 19th, 2006
SaveGaelic.org is for sale at Sedo.
SaveGaelic.org is dedicated to the Scottish Gaelic language. It features one of if not the most popular forums related to Scottish Gaelic on the internet today.
The forum seems to be pretty active with almost all of the forums having activity within the last week. Most of the forums has got activity within the last couple of hours, so it does seem like a good community.
According to the Sedo tracker there is around 330 unique visitors a day, and they look at ~9 pages in average. So that is almost 100,000 pageviews in a month.
Stats:
Posts: 20,369
Members: 694
Pages indexed:
- Google: ~2,780
- Yahoo: ~41
PageRank: 5
Tags: forum for sale, gaelic, scottish, scotland, website sale
January 19th, 2006
After it was made public that Duncan Riley is selling The Blog Herald, and I saw others interviewing him, I thought it would be nice to hear him out on selling and buying blogs. So I droppped him some questions, and he kindly responded.
Site Sales Blog: You’ve put a lot of effort and time into the blog over the last couple of years, so you must have gotten a special relationship to the blog and its many readers. So I guess that you have had some special considerations regarding potential buyers. Can you tell me more about that?
Duncan: To a point yes (considerations in relation to buyers) and this was one of my reasons for letting Jeremy Wright handle the sale, because not being associated with the site emotionally meant he could handle this a lot better than I could. However I’d think also at this level than anyone wanting to buy the site would unlikely be looking to gut it either.
Site Sales Blog: What do you think will happen with your loyal readers, when or if somebody else takes over writing?
Duncan: I hope they stick around. Certainly there may be some small drop off but I’m confident the new owner will take the site onto bigger and better things. Certainly the mix of blog news, tips, blog industry gossip is pretty unique to the site (yes you can get it on other blogs but not really from one blog alone) so I think people will stick around. The site also gets a lot of referral traffic in as well so as long as the content/ news delivery is maintained I’d actually see this growing.
Site Sales Blog: In the interview Darren Rowse did with you, he asks you about how you valued the blog. So you’ve had a lot thoughts about that, but are you able turn those thoughts 180 degrees, and come up with some things, that a blog buyer should consider regarding a blogs value?
Duncan: Interesting question 
If I was looking at a blog to buy I’d be looking at it this way
- What’s the traffic, and where does it come from
- Links/ influence: does the blog have a decent network of links in from others, how does it rate on sites like Technorati. Do other sites syndicate the content or refer to the site within its given niche
- Revenue: its current and potential revenue, particularly whether I could do better with the site with changes (everyone has their own ideas on what works).
- Market Place: what’s the competition for the blog like, are there a lot of people doing similar sites that could be a threat? (this was a big bonus for The Blog Herald, its pretty unique). Am I able to compete as owner of the blog with the competition?
- Opportunity Cost: what is the opportunity cost of acquiring the site? will I benefit from spending time with it (both directly and through the leverage the site will provide) or will it take away from other more profitable/ or important ventures.
Site Sales Blog: And finally, can we expect to see you selling more blogs in the near future? 
Duncan: Maybe I’m not sure that I’ll ever have a blog the size of The Blog Herald again but I do have part ownership of 70-80+ (I’ve lost count) blogs at b5media and if someone comes along and offers us $25 million for them in the same way as AOL bought Weblogs Inc., I’d have to seriously consider it
Tags: blog herald, duncan riley, blogs, blogging
January 18th, 2006
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