Assorted Thoughts on Website Buying, Selling and Monetizing

You may have heard that Facebook has been forced to disclose more data to users. There is fresh controversy about Google violating privacy and the EU is taking action.

The FTC meanwhile is not happy with apps and how they treat privacy.

You reckon more protection for consumers is on the way?

Originally Posted by Clinton

I've been doing some investigative journalism today and digging out Flippa's published figures. They regularly publish figures of dollar value of sales that went through their site. I don't believe those figures as not every site that claimed to have sold actually goes on to change hands what with all the non-paying bidders etc. And I'm not sure if some of them are counted twice when they are relisted. But these are the only public figures available, so let's look at them.

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Originally Posted by Clinton

VIP Members are familiar with the interesting/heated discussion we're having in this thread about Flippa's blog post: State of the Website Economy: Which Niches Sell at a Premium? (Infographic)

Well, anyway, that seemed like a good format to present the results of the WORLD'S FIRST ONLINE OLYMPICS.



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Had someone tell me the other day that he gave a prospective buyer his GA login details.

Saw a post in Sitepoint today that asks, "Is there any other way to provide access to Analytics than to give the username/password to the account?"

It's pretty basic stuff, but I thought I'd do a quick post to point out that you can give someone "guest" access to stats for a particular website instead of giving them your main GA login (where they get access ...

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