Comments on: Website Swap

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:13:48 +0000

I think you’re absolutely right, Moe. It would need to be a little different format than their current marketplace, but it seems like they could do something like that pretty easily.

By: Moe

Moe — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:27:34 +0000

I wonder if Sitepoint’s Marketplace could be used for that purpose? It’s not a “swap” site, but I’ll bet if Sitepoint added that as a category it would garner a lot of interest.

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:11:59 +0000

@Eric: I like that idea, too. That’s the way things work informally a lot of times anyway, so it would be nice to put some more structure around it and make it easy to do.

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By: Eric D

Eric D — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:48:41 +0000

That is a good idea. I have been thinking along the same lines. I have toyed with the idea of sitting up a “barter” site geared to the MMO and SEO community. The idea is to barter rather than pay for services. We all have some talents but very few have all the talents. If we could combine our resources in a way that wouldn’t break our pocketbook then I think we would all see continued and increased success. For instance I am a pretty good banner designer (or so I have been told) and I seem to have a knack for SEO as most of my websites are on Google front page. But I am crap at some back end programming and automation stuff… i would glady trade some seo work for some automation work.

Maybe I will continue to work this out do a barter for services site. What do you think of something like that?

By: Tom - StandOutBlogger.com

Tom - StandOutBlogger.com — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:14:55 +0000

This is something I would love! I have a lot of domains that I never did anything with and would love the chance to swap them for something else!

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:50:05 +0000

What a great idea! I saw the comment but never thought of that at all!

By: domainnoob

domainnoob — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:06:36 +0000

Well there was one. More about domain names than built-out sites. It started life out as SwapNames, but SnapNames made them change it. So they re-launched as Zuho. But Zuho resolves to a parked page now so I think they’ve gone under. If you’re curious, there’s some evidence of it here: http://www.aboutus.org/Zuho.com
I think they made a good go of it. I’m not sure what their business model was though�what was in it for them.