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I just found out that BlogExplosion (which I previously reported being for sale) has been sold for a pretty decent amount. On their blog they write “Our final closing price was in the six figures and well beyond our minimum bid of $100,000“. That’s a very nice sale, and for the notice it was brokered by Jeremy Wright!
On the official BlopExplosion blog they also write about a lot of new features and improvements that will be implemented. It’s great to see that the buyer has big plans for the website, and that they’re not just interested in “milking the cow”.
Via: Problogger
Tags: blogexplosion, blog pricings, blog community, blogging
April 25th, 2006
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
At Dnforum there is a huge forum for sale. The forum is located at blogring.net and it is a blogging related forum mainly for xanga and myspace. With its almost 100,000 threads containing more than 1,6 million posts it is definitely a huge forum.
The traffic is also there since it gets about 5,000 uniques a day - and the seller says something about 40,000 impressions, but I’m not sure if that is ads he is talking about.
As it is stated in the thread the site is pretty slow due to the forum software that needs to be upgraded etc.
The seller is looking for bids over $9,000 and he currently has a bid at $13,000.
Tags: forum for sale, selling forum, buy forum, xanga forum
March 9th, 2006
The team behind blogexplosion.com has made it public on their blog, that they have decided to put the blogging community up for sale. This is what they say: “BlogExplosion will be going up for sale next week. We will be sending out a special email early next week with full details about how we plan to sell the site.”
There is some overall stats on the blog, and a description of what goes with the sale, that you can check out already now if you’re interested in the website.
Tags: blogging, blogs, blog community, blogexplosion
March 8th, 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
There is a really nice blog / website for sale at SitePoint - it is Unmatched Style, which I personally visit once in a while, and a site that some of you probably have visited.
The seller reports that there is around 9,000 daily uniques doing 25,000 pageviews a day. He also tells that the site has a revenue of $500-$900 a month through YPN and Amazon, with most of the revenue coming from YPN.
It is on auction - currently without a BIN - with a starting bid of $3,500. The bidding is already on the roll and as I’m writing this the current high bid is $4,000.
I think that the ads could get much more relavant with adsense, but I don’t know if replacing YPN with adsense would result in a higher revenue. The CTR with adsense would have to make up for the probably less paying ads compared to the current YPN ads. I guess it is worth trying.
This is absolutely an interesting site that I think you should check out if you’re into web design.
Tags: unmatched style, 9rules, blog auction, blogging
February 21st, 2006
The easiest way to start a celeb blog I think is to buy The Celeb Blog which has been put up for sale at SitePoint. The blog absolutely isn’t anything special - not at all - but priced with a BIN of $200 and bid start at $50 it is cheap.
It receives a little bit of traffic, has a little bit of link popularity and everything is set up. So I believe $200 is a cheap buy for anyone who was planning to do such a blog.
Tags: blog for sale, celeb blog, gossip blog, blogging
February 16th, 2006
The technology blog GeekCoffee (geekcoffee.net & geekcoffee.com) is for sale a NamePros. There isn’t much information in the sales thread, but according to seller the blog should be pulling in around $8000 a year through advertising.
The seller is asking for $8,500, which was lowered from $10,000, so I guess that the interest hasn’t been overwhelming.
Be aware that it seems like there is currently both Google’s Adsense and Yahoo!’s YPN on the blog. This is as far as I know not allowed. So you might not be able to pull the same revenue from it.
Tags: blogging, blogs, technology, for sale
February 15th, 2006
There is a movie blog for sale at SitePoint. The blog is Cinema Eye and apparently it has been for sale before, but something went wrong.
Except from a blog there is also a forum, which seems kind of active, but it looks like most posts are by very few users. The blog has a pagerank 6 and has about 22,000 pages indexed in Google.
The revenue should be $350 monthly through Adsense, Fastclick and MrSkin Cash. But with most of it coming through Fastclick Pop-unders. As I see it, they should stop using those pop-unders, and instead have their Adsense optimized. I’m sure it would help a lot with the earnings if they implement the adsense elements in the content - both on the blog and in the forum.
The starting bid is $5000 with a BIN at $8000. And the bidding was in this ballpark the last time, so it seems that the pricing is fair.
Tags: blogs, blogging, movie reviews, movies
February 13th, 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
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