General Tips On How To Properly Buy Or Sell A Website

good post, i personaly am not interested in Adsense sites, even if they are making $1000 a month, thats peanuts,
i think a sites true value should be seen in the originality. Theres nothing unique about driving a bunch of traffic to your site
with good SEO etc for a bunch of crap content and crammed in Adsense links.

Give me a good product and i will wake up and notice it. So while i agree with 90% of your posts, i have a slightly different approach.

 

i ve learned lot of things thanks for your posts

 

What guarantees you have to receive the website if you already sent money?
Is it like ebay?
I m thinking about buying expensive website so i want be sure to have it.

 

Don't: Get angry with people if they start questioning things such as, where your content is from, is it copyrighted? Do you have full copyrights? If you can't answer these questions, just hope that your buyer is really stupid. - ROFL!

 

Love the guidelines.

I also hate the fact that when I inquire about a website that is for sale the person sends me their paypal in the first or second email. Do they really think I am going to wire 2k so fast to some person I don't know? I don't care how much posts or rep they have you can always be scammed.

 

nice info dak. great article

 

good work

 

i got scammed using sitepoint

this guy said he was making $300 a month on
http://www.proxynyc.com

And he was selling it for $700, so i thought what a great deal, and i bought it,
and as soon as i got it it was only getting 10 impressions a day and $0.00 a day
I think next time i will go half and half thing and make sure it is legit first,
i sure learned my lesson.

 

Thanks for posting - I assume that by income you are talking about ad revenue? I have many websites, but none of them are configured for this. Can anyone tell me a good forum to visit for Ad revenue generating tips?

Thanks heaps in advance! WebCreator.

 

guys dont believe this guys, look at all his threads he is just advertising his proxy, the mods deleted all his post but he is just doing it again. He had 60-70 post before

 

What escrow service do you guys/gals suggest? Is one better than the other?

 

If you want really make a business of flipping sites, dont relly heavily on adsense payouts. Investors and companies looking to aquire your site need to see a service orientated revenue stream. The best article on the business can be found right here http://tropicalseo.com/2007/how-to-build-an-affiliate-site-you-can-sell-for-1m/

 

If you are buying a website based on domain page rank, please make sure that you are being shown page rank in google tool bar is not the current page rank of the website or webpage.

You need to check when the website last cached. Google update any website page rank every 2-3 months.

So the current page rank which google toolbar is showing may be page rank of 2 or 3 months before. May be after that day, the website owner, webmaster have done lot of SPAM activity which may make page rank 0 of that website after your purchase, since you are innocent and do not know that what page rank google toolbar is showing is not current page rank.

If require any help, let us know or post here so that I may be able to clearify in more detail.

 

all great info, I ended up buying a site on ebay for mroe than I should have paid and I wish I knew this then, but I have gone on to buy other sites and these questions have helped in my decisions.
Thanks

 

Thanks a lot for this!

 

Never ever buy/sell a site from/to someone that only gives you a anonymous free email account and no personal/business information that can be verified. A seller should also immidately or atleast upon request or a partial upfront escrow payment be able to verify that they are the true owner and are in control over the site they're selling.

If a seller/buyer in any way tries to push you into making a quick decision or sending money and this information has not been verified I believe it's most likely that the person is a scammer.

Remember, where ever you go (almost) to do business scammers come 20 in dozen.

 

Deffo an eye opener

 

I didn't see this originally but it's a great post.

 

Thanks for the tips

 

Nice article,can i copy and post your post on my site?