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Blogs for sale on EBAY?

Posted by moneyticks • 10/17/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog, blogs, ebay, selling, sold

I noticed there are over 500 blogs for sale on EBAY. Anyone ever try selling their blog? (I used the keyword adsense)

www.thecomingdepression.blogspot.com

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10/17/08

pumpkinlights

How do you sell a blog?

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1. 10/17/08
  
  bradhart
  
  easy put up a sign that says for sale. If you put up a blog with content worth having and traffic it isn't a hard sale to make, even for personal blogs
2. 10/18/08
  
  pumpkinlights
  
  I guess I just don't get what anyone would get out of it. Can't they just make their own blog?
3. 10/18/08
  
  bradhart
  
  You can always make your own, but what you are getting out of an existing blog can be far more than that. As timethief points out you are getting the blogs history and in the case of when I make a purchase their readership. We often times take over the persona of the original blogger and work to make a seamless transition. We also put one hell of a nondisclosure agreement on the deal too and have had to enforce it a time or two
  
  Sploggers aren't the only ones who buys these blogs though. Existing readership and traffic in a decent niche means we don't have to build it up. Secondly most bloggers, especially personal bloggers, never do an adequate job of SEO, even if they manage to get decent page rank and alexa scores. When you can buy one of those blogs with decent traffic and a couple of years worth of regularly posted content you have a potential goldmine.
  
  My little company is still in its infancy and not a one of us is what I would call an SEO expert (good at it but not experts yet) and we can turn 1000 post 3 year old pr 2 personal blog into a $500 a month money maker within 3 month without the use of affiliates.
10/17/08

moneyticks

You open a blog, write about something, draw crowds, put advertising on it, collect money make it huge then sell it on ebay
www.thecomingdepression.blogspot.com

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1. 10/17/08
  
  bradhart
  
  flipping it on ebay is one of the worst ways to go about it these days...
10/17/08

Sebastyne

How would you react if your favourite blogger would sell the blog to another blogger? Would you still read?

I find the idea interesting, to buy into a good readership, but I'm not sure if the readers would stay no matter how good of a writer I am.

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1. 10/17/08
  
  bradhart
  
  It depends on whether you notice the switch or not. I own half a dozen blogs that are now totally ghost written under the original author's name. I own another dozen blogs where the original author is merely a profit sharing employee. We provide the hosting, do the SEO, make content suggestions control the advertising, and own all the content. For revealing nothing they get a small stipend and sharing in both company and blog profits.
10/17/08

bradhart

The market isn't going to be very good over there for anything worth having. I have sold on there years, but that was when you could easily get $5k for a popular blog personal blog.

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10/17/08

MoreMiles

That would suck. You'd think once it's sold the content quality would go way down. I'd rather plug away at my blog than ruin somebody else's.

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1. 10/18/08
  
  bradhart
  
  it depends on who you have writing it. If you let your readers know your blog is being sold the likelihood of you actually making anything off of it pretty much goes to nill.
10/18/08

timethief

Sploggers are always looking for content and I assume they may be potential customers for the blogs that are being offered for sale. Sploggers use blog/slpog content to promote affiliated websites or to increase the search engine rankings of associated sites. The purpose of a splog can be to increase the PageRank or backlink portfolio of affiliate websites, to artificially inflate paid ad impressions from visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed.

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1. 10/18/08
  
  DocNicole
  
  It's like buying used cars and selling them for their parts...lol
10/18/08

chriswhiteley

I took a look through eBay, most of those are shit blogs that you could put up in an hour. From what I have read and understood people are selling the quality blogs on Digital Point.

Of course, personally I enjoy creating a blog and growing it myself, Half the fun is building. I don't think I would ever purchase a blog, especially considering I could never afford a good one!

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10/18/08

DocNicole

I have heard of blogs selling for 16 million and 40 million if they are a niche.

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1. 10/18/08
  
  bradhart
  
  Most of that is rumor. Sites can go that high, but you would be hard pressed to find a single blog that has has ever gone more than a million.
10/18/08

batteris

WHY WOULD ANYONE SELL THEIR BABIES!!! I LOVE MY BLOG!!!

That's insane...I actually blog becuase I love it, not becuase I'm trying to make money off it!

And how could anyone sell a personal blog??? It's like selling your life to someone who could do anything with it!

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1. 10/18/08
  
  bradhart
  
  This is the difference between who want to make money and know the value of a assets and someone who simply blogs for fun on free accounts. Try and sell yours and they will close you down taking all your content with it.