A hint to Buying Established Sites
December 4, 2009
Stumble it!A month ago, we have sold a site for $27,000. It is a well established website and well ranked on Google, Bing and Yahoo! But here is a funny note, the site owner still have the same banners (from our aff. links) and the same posts including affiliate links. With the site, I personally added a readme text file that say to remove the banners and the affiliate links from the post or replace it with the new site owner. Believe me or not they still did not changed. We are still having the same commissions from our ex-site. So here is a good hint:
When you buy a established site change banners & affiliate links! I was searching around to see if other sellers have the same “problem” or is just my buyer that is too lazy or busy to change it, here are some funny notes:
One year before i sold a site and the new owner never made a post, or never changed the ads. He only added some links
Then his site got hacked and is hacked till now (from months )
Is too bad for me because i was still earning from this site
I sold a site for $4,800 about a year and a half ago. I helped him change the ads to use his own but he never changed the login info. I login and put some of my ads back up in places and have even sold links on the site. I made about $65 from it this past month just from a couple ads. Not a lot but damn it’s easy money.
Also sold a forum a few months ago for about $1k. I’m still an admin and manage the site with my own ads. The new owner has an adsense unit on thread pages for unregistered guests but that’s it. He hardly ever logs in. It’s like it’s still my site except I don’t pay server fees or anything.
I also sold a website for $1k about a year or less ago and the only thing the owner has done is put up a small banner to a MRR product. Everything else is the exact same (links to my site, affiliate links, affiliate banners). I seriously don’t understand why these people buy these sites in the first place. Must have tons of cash lying around or something.
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January 2nd, 2010 at 12:05 am
I have sold a small software with source for $200 and the buyer still has not contacted me for support and he has not done anything new with it.
January 9th, 2010 at 10:50 am
You got lucky
That’s a high price for a site – good for you! How much earnings did you have, to justify such price? I am guessing they were not AdSense earnings
January 9th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Of course is not adsense earnings only. Affiliate earnings as well (which is more important) and High ranking on search engines. The price is x15 of the earnings with a good domain name.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Wow, $27K is a lot of money for one site.Congratulations! How long did it take you to build that site and what kind of content has it?
March 11th, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Hi GoogleLady. Can you advise me on how to go about selling sites. I like the sound of selling some of mine and still earning affliate revenue!