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I just checked the alexa graph for the blog herald, and it seems like the traffic on the blog herald is dropping. Take a look at the graph below and read on after it. As you can see the graph is steadily dropping..
(for those who don’t know the blog herald: read my previous posts)
Well, I know that the alexa data isn’t exactly precise - not at all - but for a site with that many loyal readers and regular visitors, I’d say that it there must be something to it.
This is on of the dangers with buying blogs that have been mentioned a couple of times - If writing the blog is taken over by someone else, then the loyality of the readers might disappear, since they were there reading because of the blogger and not the blog itself.
Of course you’d expect to lose some readers when changing blog ownership, and you should also expect to gain some new readers through synergy with other blogs, a new blogger etc.
I’d love to hear a comment on it from Matt / BlogMedia.biz.
Also, read what Barry Bell at wurk.net recently wrote about the blog herald.
Tags: loyal readers, regular visitors, losing visitors, alexa graphs
April 16th, 2006
Problogging.com has an interview witt Matt about the Blog Herald deal. There is a little bit of interesting stuff about the valuation and some advise on buying blogs. Read it here!
Tags: matt craven, blog herald, buying blogs, problogging
March 6th, 2006
Now it is public who bought Blog Herald, and it was BlogMedia, Inc. I know that I’m not exactly right on time with this post, but I was travelling back home from Istanbul yesterday, and really needed some sleep, so I didn’t see it before now. But back to the sale..
Duncan will be posting for the next two months while BlogMedia gets their team started. This is an obvious thing for blog sales since most blogs are kind of personal, the original blogger will need to help the transition to be smooth.
The Price: The big question is what the price ended up being, but unfortunatly they won’t tell. All they say is that both parties believe it was a fair deal. It is hard to say what the price might have been, but some bloggers are guessing:
I personally guess it would be something like $30,000+, but probably not higher than $35,000, so my guess is much like Chartreuse. My reasons for believing this is that BlogMedia must have known about the first time Blog Herald was supposed to sell, and they didn’t buy it then. And also, I’ve been watching and participating in website auctions for a long time, and since the public bids at SitePoint ended at $25,000 I guess that the private bids haven’t been that much higher.
I’ve previously reported on the sale and the supposed sale:
Tags: blog herald, blog sale, blogmedia inc, blog pricings
February 27th, 2006
Since I’ve been away for some days now I haven’t noticed that it was announced that the blog herald is up for sale at SitePoint. Apparently the supposed sale felt through due to unknown reasons. I wonder what the reason is, but Duncan and Jeremy might not tell us.
It is going to be exciting to see what it sells for, if thea sale goes through this time. The BIN price is set at $50,000, which is 22 grand less than what it was supposed to sell for the first time.
Syntagma has some interesting stats for the blog herald for interested buyers.
Tags: blog herald, blogging, blogs, selling blogs
February 11th, 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
Jeremy Wright has the last couple of days been posting about a massive blog for sale that he was brokering. But it wasn’t made public which mystery blog it was, and the bidding was kept private.
Now it is public that the blog is The Blog Herald, which some people guessed over at Blogaholics. So it is going to be exciting to hear, who ends up having bought the blog. The current high bids are 60K, 65K and 72K.
I will post more on this, when there are some interesting news.
Tags: blog sale, the blog herald, blog auction
January 16th, 2006
