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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
There is a blog about web development, programming and standards for sale at SitePoint. The blog is digitalmediaminute.com and it should be earning around $500 a month from approx. 84.000 monthly. And 1000 daily pageviews should be coming from loyal readers - the seller states that there is ~600 subscribers of the RSS feed.
The seller has written a very good description: “This site is a weblog that consists of over 2400 posts. Each post is related to the subject area of web development, programming and standards. The site has a couple of extremely popular posts like my Character Entity Reference, Installing Rails on Fedora Core 4 and a list of top 12 Ruby On Rails Tutorials. This site is full of great content that ranks very high in Google.”
The blog is for sale on auction with the bidding to start at $10.000, which seems a little bit high, but I think it’s all about the valuation of loyal readers. Let’s just hope that the blog doesn’t have a too personal touch, which will make it hard to take over.
Tags: blogs for sale, web development blog, web programming
April 11th, 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
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
Hip Hop Blogger, hiphopblogger.com is for sale at SitePoint.
According to the seller, there has been 163 posts since the blog was started in March 2005, which seems right according to Google and Yahoo. There are currently revenue generated with AdSense, and the screenshots says it was $18.30 in December. But one thing I noticed was that, according to that screenshot, the amount of pageviews dropped a bit in the middle of the month.
The seller has also posted screenshots with sources of traffic, and it seems good since it is mostly direct traffic, so there is probable loyal readers. The rest is from links ~ 21% and search engines ~ 17%.
The bidding starts at $200, but there is a BIN of $800. I think it is worth the money, for somebody wanting to start a hip hop blog, who doesn’t have all the time in the world to get started.
If somebody buys it, then please fix that redirect from www.hiphopblogger.com to hiphopblogger.com, and make it opposite. All the links is pointing to the domain including www. And also do a little bit of link building - it should not be hard to obtain more traffic from the search engines.
Stats:
Age: 9 months
Pageviews: ~6000 a month
Pages indexed:
- Google: ~70
- Yahoo: ~150
Back links:
- Google (front page): ~316 (for the url with www)
- Yahoo (front page): ~3,380 (for the url with www)
- Yahoo (entire site): ~3,460
PageRank: 4
Tags: blog sale, hip hop, buy blog, blogging
January 9th, 2006
