Selling Websites - Options?
Johan
UK
Hi all,
So, just for a bit of change I put together a strictly white hat website selling digital products, its been doing pretty well for me the past 6 months or so but it doesn't really suit my style, I'd much rather just build them up and set and forget them than be dealing with customers and all that stuff.
Anyway, long story short, I think I'm going to try and sell it. It should be worth a few bucks to someone, just wondering where the best place is to sell these things? I'm aware of Flippa obviously but can anyone suggest anywhere else? Has anyone had any experience of selling on Flippa or elsewhere? Any hints, tips and guidance are appreciated, I'm flying a bit solo on this one!
Cheers
So, just for a bit of change I put together a strictly white hat website selling digital products, its been doing pretty well for me the past 6 months or so but it doesn't really suit my style, I'd much rather just build them up and set and forget them than be dealing with customers and all that stuff.
Anyway, long story short, I think I'm going to try and sell it. It should be worth a few bucks to someone, just wondering where the best place is to sell these things? I'm aware of Flippa obviously but can anyone suggest anywhere else? Has anyone had any experience of selling on Flippa or elsewhere? Any hints, tips and guidance are appreciated, I'm flying a bit solo on this one!
Cheers
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Yes, no link building at all, just been focusing on on-site SEO and just seeing where it went to organically. I'm trying to take a different approach where I see where sites get to without too much off-site stuff being done and just reserve the option to fire up GSA if it needs a bit of a shove without coming out all guns blazing from the get-go. My theory is that when you eventually need to give things a shove, then you've got some Brownie points accumulated with the search engines so they're more forgiving. Just a hunch.
I have started an affiliate scheme on the site though and got a couple of solid links via that which have no doubt helped things along. And I've got a Twitter and Facebook going as well although I have to admit I've been building sites now for 10 years or more and I still can't get my head around Twitter, it's absolute sh1te in my opinion, in fact I've sworn to myself this will be the last time I use it for a site other than to just secure the brand name. Organically? I'd say about 6-8 weeks before I noticed people finding me via Google. What I thought was interesting was that I'm based in the UK, the website sells in $ but most of the early traffic was from Eastern Europe. Weird the way Google works sometimes.
The blog is largely undeveloped, I just use it for site announcements and product updates. I've had good success with the affiliation so far so I'm just going to push that side of things and let others do all the hard work
I know a couple of lads in Leeds who used to run an agency and they packed in and all they do now all day is create sites, monetise them in some way and flip them. When you look at some of the dross that sells on Flippa for decent money I can see the attraction because good sites sell well. I think you've got every chance of making it happen mate, I don't know how old you are but if I was in my 20's again I'd be living a digital nomadic existence, it's got a lot going for it (apart from reliable internet!)
I used to be heavily involved with the fifa coins scene a couple of years back and the site we had was never ranking for anything much, it was so hard to get onto page 1 with all the Chinese spam on there but we did manage to get some high profile YouTubers to promote the site and the traffic we got was insane. You're talking literally hundreds of thousands of page views in a day and this was for a site that was barely inside the top 50. I had an epiphany then that it's not always about chasing keywords and getting on page 1 but just driving traffic.
I remember reading a lad on here some time ago saying the same thing that he just spends on google ads, no seo or anything, no tiered link building, just google ads. It gets the traffic, you get the sales, rinse and repeat. Of course this is what Google want you to do but I know someone who is killing it with Reddit ads, I've had no luck myself but then I suppose it depends on the niche to some extent.
I'm definately leaning towards doing more of that and trying to build a PBN out rather than what I've been doing the last few years which is probably the kind of stuff where if I'm being honest just isn't as effective any more. I just feel like some days I'm spinning my wheels without achieving an awful lot. Like I said on another thread earlier, you can get satisfaction out of building 100k backlinks in a day to a site but are you going to get 100k more visitors, or 100k more juice than the guy who went and just built 1 dynamite link instead? I used to think you did, now I'm far from convinced.
Rambling again, been on the pop as you can tell