Comments on: Strange World Of Website Reselling

By: webomatica

webomatica — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:38:54 +0000

Hmmm, a camera for an awesome blog? Sounds like the price is too low

By: engtech

engtech — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:50:17 +0000

Psst. She’ll sell it for a Nikon D200.

I’ve got the inside scoop.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:29:59 +0000

Hi Lorelle, yes, I believe I was looking at an old auction of Blog Hearld from a year ago. I should update my post a bit…

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:10:59 +0000

Just a bit of clarification. Lorelle on WordPress and the Blog Herald are not for sale, though I can’t speak much for the Blog Herald. I can however speak for Lorelle on WordPress.

By: engtech

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:43:33 +0000

I can’t use Google Analytics with Wordpress.com because they use it globally… so I get a watered down version of it.

Kinda sucks.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:31:55 +0000

The other thing I wonder (which is touched upon in some of the auction comments) is how some of these sites are intended to be self-susatining, or if they’re a blog, the content is pretty generic – anybody could write it (celebrity news).

But I must say your blog (and mine) has unique content. I wonder if the personality of the blogger would survive a hand-off. (or maybe I’m just flattering myself). I really can’t see ever selling this site as a lot of the content is rather personal.

As far my stats, I can’t get into details due to Google Ads, but I’m about 1/2 of where you’re at. I do have uniques listed and I’m hoping to get up to 1,000 uniques a day.

Sounds like //engtech is comparable to technosailor!

If you want to go bats looking at your stats – i’d recommend Google Analytics. It’s free.

By: engtech

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:25:59 +0000

the first comment could be nuked. I don’t get uniques listed in my stats so I have no idea what a high number of uniques is.

By: engtech

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:24:58 +0000

When buying sites you’re usually doing it for the backlinks, but if you get all the content as well it can be a great deal.

What’s interesting is the metrics provided on the auctions that do well:
existing revenue / month
uniques / month
page views / month

so $50,000 for around 750,000 page views a month.

I think I’m in the range of 100,000 to 350,000 page views a month. I did 61,000 views on Valentine’s Day — but that was my highest day ever (previous was 44,000 in a day).