I Want to Sell a Plumbing Website

**boruchfishman** · August 23rd, 2010, 09:36 AM

I created a plumbing website for a company in Baltimore. http://www.a-1plumbingofbaltimore.com I worked hard to organize the keywords and knowledge about plumbing in what I considered to be the best possible format. The fruit of my labor is that the site comes up on page one or at worst top half of page two for almost every plumbing related keyword search. in Baltimore, a metropolitan area of 2,000,000+

The company is making money off the site. I don't know the exact figure; I am estimating 2,000-10,000 a month, depending on the month. I believe they would give me a beteer idea of the revenue when I am seriously getting offers to buy. They informally gave me the right to market the site in other States. What this means is that I can resell the site. The resale includes a customizing and rewrite of the content so that the words are unique, but without loss of the general structure. So the site should rank on first page in any community the size of Baltimore and smaller.

I want to sell the site with the changes to plumbing companies in other states. Is anyone reading this familiar with this type of sale? Any suggestions?

**hooperman** · August 23rd, 2010, 09:45 AM

What you've posted raises some questions.

Originally Posted by boruchfishman

The company is making money off the site. I don't know the exact figure; I am estimating 2,000-10,000 a month, depending on the month. I believe they would give me a beteer idea of the revenue when I am seriously getting offers to buy.

But you won't get any serious offers unless the potential buyer knows what the numbers are.

Originally Posted by boruchfishman

The resale includes a customizing and rewrite of the content so that the words are unique, but without loss of the general structure.

Why the rewrite? If your sales are from search engine traffic, any rewrites will put people off, surely. Change the content and rankings change with them.

Why do they want to sell the site?

**boruchfishman** · August 24th, 2010, 03:33 PM

The company does not want to sell their site in Maryland. As the creator of the site I want to make it available to plumbers in other cities. However, some of the content has to be rewritten to avoid duplicate content issues. AS the creator, I know how to rewrite it, change 33-50% of the words, without effecting the placement of ranking keywords.

**mgallone** · August 24th, 2010, 03:54 PM

Do you retain ownership of the site design?

**hooperman** · August 24th, 2010, 04:00 PM

Now I'm confused. Are you selling this site or are you cloning it and selling the clones?

EDIT: I get it - you're creating new, state specific sites based on the original Baltimore one.

**tke71709** · August 24th, 2010, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by hooperman

I get it - you're creating new, state specific sites based on the original Baltimore one.

Which, anyone could do just as easily without paying the OP.

**mgallone** · August 24th, 2010, 05:17 PM

Which, anyone could do just as easily without paying the OP.

Indeed, especially as the site design isn't any great shakes itself.

**boruchfishman** · August 25th, 2010, 04:03 PM

Wouldn't that be a violation of copyright to use my site design, (the word design more than the pictural design), and my words to create their own site?

**mgallone** · August 25th, 2010, 04:05 PM

They would have to use fairly significant chunks in the exact order to violate copyright.

**tke71709** · August 25th, 2010, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by boruchfishman

Wouldn't that be a violation of copyright to use my site design, (the word design more than the pictural design), and my words to create their own site?

If I used your exact words then yes, but I wouldn't do that. I would take your titles, add more and then pay a content writer 2 cents a word (assuming I wanted a decent job, less if I didn't) and they would write me new content that would pass Copyscape.

Not that I have any intent of doing any of the above.