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It stumps me as to how people come up with the guts to post some of the sites I see for sale, and even more so all the information (read BS) they provide to explain away what appears as a scam.   The scam being a site that is sold under false pretense, most popular is […]

You’ve gotta love this.  A person selling a website states revenue and traffic data, and it looks pretty good.  Turns out that if you don’t read everything carefully, you might miss the fact that the data pertains to a different site with similar characteristics.  You see these kind of shananagins (sp?) all the time.  “Another […]

A few months back I bought a country music related site. I may have wrote about the first month’s results here, I’m not sure. In anycase, the second month was suspiciously less than expected. In march the site made about $30 from adsense. During April I hired some good writers and added […]

In an earlier post I was talking about some results from recently purchased websites.  A video game related website that I bought came in at $34.44 it’s first month (March).  The previous owner claimed about $38/month in revenue…all from adsense.

Wordpress (WP) is a very popular content management system (CMS) that many websites are developed with.  It’s not just “blogging” sites but all kinds of websites.  There are other popular CMSs such as Joomla but I seem to find more and more sites are WP based on the market today.  They don’t necessarily have have […]

Lately I’ve been thinking about how often I come across the same reasons for a lack of historical data. The first is that the site changed servers, the next is that the website was under a different owner, and today I came across someone who moved a forum out from one domain, put it […]

It goes without saying that you should have a concern if a website seller seems reluctant to provide any information required for due diligence.  Some website buyers may not take this seriously.

A very important lesson in due diligence around buying websites lies beneath.
When a creditor or investor is analyzing a company, one metric that is commonly looked at is the concentration of revenues - typically via customers. This information can tell the investor, lender, or buyer of the firm some very important risk related […]

One of my undergrad finance professors was discussing methods of analyzing corporate financial statements when he summarized one technique as spotting “the funny looking kid” in the crowd. Sometimes when looking at data, you may not know exactly what may be wrong, if anything, but you have to dig somewhere.

Last month’s purchases results are in and there are some surprises, both pleasant and not-so-pleasant. The Portal video game website that was purchased at $700 had claims of 40,000 uniques per month and about $40 in income. Among many others, one reason for this purchase was it’s revenue increase potential through improving the […]