Friday, September 12, 2008

Want to sell your blog?

Sometimes, you might have given a thought of selling your blog to someone.This can be because of busy schedule which does not allow you to blog.Once you leave the blog non-updated,it starts losing its traffic.Even it can hamper the pagerank of your blog in Google.

If you are thinking of selling your blog, you can do it quite easily.There are a few sites,forums which offer a section for its members to buy other blogs,sell own blog etc.The best option would be to become a member of "DigitalPoint forums" where you can sell the blog for good price.
Here is the link to
register for DigitalPoint and here is the link to buy/sell the sites.

It is very important to decide the price of the site you would like to sell.Of course,you might have even decided the minimum price of the blog.Still, you must know a few things going on in these forums.You may succeed in selling a low traffic blog at $100 if it has good niche.You may even get surprised to see a dull response to your 100 unique visitors/day site if it is low paying niche site.

Generally the price of site is decided considering the monthly revenue generated through it.

Price = Monthly revenue x 10

The revenue may be coming from anything- advertising,link selling,selling ad spaces,affiliate marketing etc.Try to gather all such information about your earnings for atleast last 2-3 months.Also, be ready with the traffic stats for last 2-3 months.
After doing all this, switch to the forums.Create a new topic, set initial Bid (say $25),set the minimum increment during bidding(say $5) and set the price for which you will directly sell the site to bidder without considering other bids (say $200).

If you have any difficulties, submit your blog/site with traffic + revenue details to me through the "contact me" link.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello. I have been experimenting ad placements on my blog. But yet, the earnings are very less. Can you take a look at my blog and suggest me, what to do in order to improve the clicks on my blog ? Thanks in advance. Check http://sanjaybharadwaj.blogspot.com

k said...

Hi sanju!
I just checked your blog.Here are a few things which may help:
1.Reduce the number of ads on page(especially those at the top).
2.The colour combination can be improved.Try to match the ad colour with the page colour.

Wish you all the best!

Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot for your response. So, you mean to say, i must reduce the ad blocks at the top of my page, right ? I will do as you say. So, how many ad blocks shall i place ? I mean, is just 2 ad blocks enough ? My main intention of placing more ads at the top is to get more clicks! So, what do you say about this ?

k said...

I meant that there should not be a big gap between the title and the 1st post.
1.You can keep 1 horizontal ad unit at the top.
2.You can remove the video ad unit.
3.For the "song download" blogs,the link units work well.You can try a link unit in sidebar too.
4.Remove the ads in the posts (they can irritate the readers).

The most important thing is that the ads should look as a part of webpage.

Best of luck!

Anonymous said...

Yup! Digital forum is one good place to sell an established blog. Another place that bloggers can sell their blog is at sitepoint.com

The bidders there are willing to pay a much higher price. You can have a look.

k said...

Thanks Alex for sharing.

Hua said...

Can blogspot blogs be also sold on sitepoint.com?

k said...

Hi Siddharta!
Yes you can.If your blog is good, you can sell it for sure.
Good luck!