Posts Tagged Website Buying

I presented on one of the Elite Retreat mastermind calls a few weeks ago, and someone asked a question along the lines of what kinds of sites I buy or what I look for in a site.  Maybe counter-intuitively, my answer was that I like ugly sites -- but ugly sites where the ugly is only skin deep.  That's because you can see a stunning amount of improvement when you put a better face on a site that is otherwise ... Keep reading »

I was talking with Aaron Wall last week, and he happened to ask if I had installed his SEO Toolbar.  I admitted I hadn't.  It wasn't because I didn't know about it -- if you're in this space at all, you saw everyone talking about it when it was released and it got phenomenal reviews.  It's just that I'm just not doing any heavy SEO lately, so I didn't think I needed it. Wow, was I wrong. I can't believe all ... Keep reading »

Chris is going to try site flipping and Jay has posted 5 Reasons Why Flipping New Sites Is Better Than Keeping Them.  Those are two good posts amongst all the noise about site flipping from people trying to sell you training programs on their "secret techniques," and good posts are hard to find on this topic. So as someone who's both bought and held sites and bought and flipped them, I wanted to give you my perspective on site ... Keep reading »

Great post today by the new owner of Blogging Experiment on "What I Look For When Buying A Website." It's an outstanding look at all the elements of value in a site -- many of which most people never think about. If you know what's valuable, you can focus on those things and make your exit as lucrative as possible.

Peter gives away some great advice in Domain Name Shopping at DMOZ & ODP -- so good that I hesitate to draw any more attention to it. Seeing as how it's already out there, though, I thought I'd go ahead and add one thing that he left out. Sometimes the whois information for a domain can be worthless. Either the domain owner has decided to pay for a private registration or the ... Keep reading »

Scott has a great post today over on Self Made Minds entitled: Buy for 2 years income and repay yourself in one year. I definitely recommend reading it. I've used that strategy a lot, and he's right. There are two things to be careful of when doing this, though. The first is to check the seller's claims of revenue very closely. I've been burned on this before. The second is to remember that "historical performance is no indicator ... Keep reading »