PJ Pahygiannis
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Buy existing, established adsense websites for monthly cash flow? Has anyone done it?
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.I always wished I bought the sites that used to sell on flippa years ago for 10-12 months revenue. These days most of the good sites are only listed with brokers at 36x multiple.
these days most of them are fake
Yes flippa has a lot of fake numbers. I've even seen documents from professional website brokers where I look at the site and just can't possibly see how the numbers line up. Either I'm way too skeptical or just a lot of fake documentation going around.
these days most of them are fake
Yury, how about finding them on Flippa and running them through www.worthofweb.com to see what the website is worth, as well as the revenue/traffic estimates. I just copy and paste the URL from Flippa. Thoughts
You've got to be kidding me right? At least tell me you own the site and this is your way of spamming. At least I won't think you're relying on a tool to give you any kind of value of a business.
You've got to be kidding me right? At least tell me you own the site and this is your way of spamming. At least I won't think you're relying on a tool to give you any kind of value of a business.
Spencer over at Niche Pursuits comes to mind. If I recall correctly he's really big on this model.
If I remember correctly, I recently read on his site that he got hit hard by Google because he was using private blog networks and most of his revenue and traffic tanked.
They won't. There's no upside. If you get crap results on Google, that reflects poorly on them because it's their job to provide relevance, so they fight to keep users to sell ads to. Amazon doesn't care. If junk sells, great, if it doesn't, it costs them nothing. The review system is their QC. Amazon has smart people, but their search sucks hard for relevance because it's made to move product not be helpful.Hopefully Amazon finds a solution to weed out low quality content
I have been looking into this lately here too. Of course not restricting it with only adsense.
Has anyone found success with it?
I have bought a few sites from flippa or sitepoint as it was back when I was young! And yes they are pretty good source if you choose wisely. Never go for a newish site that's earning well, go for those that have been running for a long time. Read the comments from guys who have high revenue / sales/ purchases as they will be asking prying questions. If the sellers deleting lots of comments be wary!
You have to be very astute as there is a lot of crap on there. You have to wonder why they are selling something that brings in a tidy sum ...
Hey there,Hey,
I’d love to sprinkle a little knowledge on this topic for anyone thinking about getting into online website acquisitions.
Couple of things, Flippa was a great site but then went to crap. However, the company has been working diligently to clean itself up. You do have to be very careful when you buy anything on flippa (or any brokerage site for that matter).
I wouldn’t recommend buying sites to anyone without a deep knowledge of building sites first. Why? There are massive amounts of things that can go wrong from all angles.
Here are just a few things that can go wrong:
- A seller could be trying to camouflage their backlink portfolio
- What are the backlinks and do they have authority?
- Google could be shooting out another panda/penguin style update
- Content could be PLR or even coppied for that matter
- PBN could be used which ultimately could come crashing down on you in the eye of the next Google update.
- Are the backlinks “rented” whereas once you own the site, what happens to them?
- Where is the traffic coming from? Is some random joe schmo pumping traffic to the site from FB Groups? Is it organic from high ranking keywords?
These are just a few – I can go on and on. While we are on it, suppose you find the golden site – THE ONE FOR YOU. What do you think the most important next step is after all your research is done? There’s an old saying in trading stocks “protect your portfolio.” Well, apply that same metric here. Never buy on impulse and always protect your bank. Never, ever, everrrrrr pay 23X+ for a site. You would have to be somewhat ballsy and crazy at the same time to do that. There are just too many variables that can come into play that can ultimately crush you. I knew a guy that took out a loan to buy a site that was deindexed a few months after purchased.
I never understood how a company like Empire Flippers has the balls to look for 25X+ for sites that literally game Googles algo using PBNs. Could you imagine buying a site for 50k, 100k, 500k for a site and 3 or 4 months later you get the title wave?
If you’re utilizing flippa, use it for domain purchases. If you’re looking to buy a site, I recommend looking at other brokers such as Acquitions Direct, Centurica, Quiet Light brokers, FEInternational, bizbuysell, brokers like that. You’ll notice most of the sites on there aren’t some random content sites. They are ecommerce businesses, member sites, a few blogs, and that’s about it – businesses. You’ll never find affiliate garbage on there.
For thriftypreneur – most of those “Guru” IMers (guys like spencer, pat Flynn) all work together. They do massive outreach and planning. They build their sites rankings off of eachothers. No doubt, they are smart guys but you’ll notice they all pump the same IM crap/products. Once you’re hooked, forget it. You’ll be buying IM products up the wazoo and you’ll be in the same place you were yesterday, today.
For theAG – Totally agree with you. Nothing bothers me more than looking for the next showerhead for my new bathroom and stumbling on 5 or 6 review sites all linking back to Amazon. Only a matter of time brother before the street sweeper comes.
Hope some of this stuff helps. Oh one last thing, take a look at the flippa blog that tells you about sites that sold for the most money at auction. They provide the links in a lot of the blog articles. One of the things you’ll notice is when clicking the links, a lot of the sites aren’t even live anymore. Pretty interesting.
Hey there,
Thanks for the great post. I have been selling websites on Flippa. I am making turn-key email marketing services. You can definetly make money with them if you nail marketing.
However I am looking for an auction site other than Flippa. I just don't like that they take 10% off the winning bid. Even if the buyer doesn't pay you, you still have to pay the "Success Fee" to them, unless you want to go through painful dispute process...I lost one site like this.
Do you know good place to sell for sites under $1000?
Thanks man for making that post
Haha, alright. Then they have total monopol and can act like they want with me. At least it motivates my lazy a$$ to really work on keep building my own business, rather than a quick way out.Apologies but flippa is probably the better "auction" houses for websites. If you're looking to sell a site that is generating low monthly profit, you may get some luck utilizing one of the brokers I listed above. If you're doing new sites and selling them on their "potential" then use flippa starter sites. There's always EBay but I highly doubt you'll find any buyers as most in the market flock to flippa to scope the scene.
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