Assorted Thoughts on Website Buying, Selling and Monetizing

It seems the easiest type of business - there are thousands of "website flippers" telling us how easy it is to create a new site and sell it for a profit.

Some use the same template over and over again (or with minor tweaks). Others have become smarter in disguising their templates/turnkeys as real businesses by installing auto-blogs, inserting free content they've taken from article directories, even putting fake ads on the site to give the impression they are established ...

Greywolf talks in his blog post about a webmaster who followed the Google mantra of "Product great content and people will link to you".

He produced great content. Visitors came in large numbers. They didn't link.

And I'm noticing that increasingly on several sites. People just don't seem to be linking to great content like they used to. It may be because there's so much of content out there, because of webmaster fears of "PR leaking", because a destination's ...

From forum thread:

http://marketplace.searchforecast.com/

Take a look and the page background may appear like a juvenile effort by someone learning HTML (like me) ...or the type of Flippa clone that we see cropping up every second week.

But it's early days and it may be worth keeping an eye on this one.

Searchforecast run an Adsense "directory"/scraper where you can do http://spyonweb.com/ type searches to connect a site owner to ...

It looks like I'm developing what's known in medical circles as Part-one-itis. I don't know if it's there's a cure, but till they find one I'm going to launch a new "Part 1" to join my Part 1 of Not Having to Work Hard to Make Money and Part 1 of my Power Negotiations.

Today I came across the Madmums.com site. I find right at the bottom SEDO's little button which means that the site is for sale on SEDO.



Wow! A site that I wouldn't ...

Luke Moulton, general manager of Flippa has given in his notice.

According to Luke's blog, he tired of the three hour commute, and the fact that he's not getting to see much of his new baby daughter. He's going to be spending more time on his original business that pre-dates Flippa.

I hope it wasn't something we said.

Actually scratch that. I hope it was. I hope that he's realised from discussions here that he can make a lot more for himself working from ...