Adventures in Buying Websites


Read the Fine Print

Filed under: Buying Websites, Website Traffic Stats, Website Revenue Stats — meegwell @ 1:45 pm

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 site I owned just like this one made $x so this should do the same.”   Guess what?  I might have an auction site but I sure as hell don’t expect it to perform like ebay!

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More Results, and a Painful Lesson About a Website Recently Bought

Filed under: Buying Websites, Website Traffic Stats, transfer websites — meegwell @ 8:23 am

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 great content. To my surprise, the site came in at only $14 and change for April.

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Buy a Website: Change it’s Monetization

Filed under: Buying Websites, Website Revenue Stats — meegwell @ 9:09 am

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.

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