Buy and Sell Blogs Online - New Website!

Discussion in 'Websites' started by GingerApple, Dec 28, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi!

    Okay, I was told that this was the best place to put this post by a mod. Not sure why its the best place :confused: ... Guess he didn't want me spamming up the other forums, but here I go!

    I have recently started up a new website, www.TheBlogExchange.com! At the moment its got no users, in fact I only launched it about 30 seconds ago :p

    The idea of the site is that people who want to sell their blogs can list them on there and hopefully find a buyer. Its an eBay for blogs!

    I need some sellers to get the website going by putting their blogs on there. It usually costs $2 for a standard listing but I'm willing to give everyone at DP a voucher so that you can list them for free, for life! - If you don't sell your blog, you don't lose any money - its a win-win situation! You have to forefit 10% of the selling price if your blog sells, but you can factor that in to the selling price when you list it!

    Voucher code for free listings: 043a5a78fb2a

    Please list any blogs you have for sale on here, I am working hard to gets lots of buyers and sellers to the site, and you never know, you might actually sell something and get a nice bit of money to refil your bank account after Christmas!

    Thanks for reading that long piece of boring garbage!

    Will
     
    GingerApple, Dec 28, 2008 IP
  2. sean.walker

    sean.walker Peon

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    #2
    It has a good design. As far as SEO goes, i would work on the title and meta description tags a little.
     
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    shieldhost Peon

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    #3
    Clean Design, very good. RSS feeds suport are good too.
     
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  4. GingerApple

    GingerApple Peon

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    Thanks for the reviews! Anyone fancy signing up and listing some blogs for sale? Free if you use the voucher above :rolleyes:
     
    GingerApple, Dec 28, 2008 IP
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    CJnQA Peon

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    #5
    I'm Number 1!! I'm number 1!!
    :D :p :D

    Just posted my aikido-defense.com blog! Thanks for the opportunity!

    ~cj
     
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    #6
    Nice looking site, I'm tucking this into my favorites! I'll have a couple blogs for you ready to sell next week!
     
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  7. GingerApple

    GingerApple Peon

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    Excellent! I knew I could count on DigitalPoint! ;)
     
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    usa10 Member

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    Hi Guy,
    You are good and smart. i am going there now to register and also help to advertise it on my blog. thanks for the opportunity
     
    usa10, Dec 29, 2008 IP
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    #9
    where you get this idea?
    can we sell blogspot?
     
    kaufen, Dec 29, 2008 IP
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    usa10 Member

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    Just want to register but noticed that there is no room for the Voucher code. how do you find it
     
    usa10, Dec 29, 2008 IP
  11. GingerApple

    GingerApple Peon

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    UPDATE: I have removed the voucher code!

    It is now free for anyone to register their blogs for sale!

    And yes, you can sell any type of blog on there, aslong as you know how to transfer it to the new owner! As for where the idea came from, it came out of my own head!
     
    GingerApple, Dec 29, 2008 IP
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    #12
    The only criticism I can offer is wether or not there is a demand for it - couldnt find any keywords for this topic - but I am not an exdpert, so forgive me if Im way over obvious or dumb :) good lukc -nice layout - hope it goes well for you
     
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    GingerApple Peon

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    Thanks for the support :) I really hope there is demand :p Its just a case of getting people to buy and sell blogs on it!

    I don't expect the demand to be huge because the blog marketplace is very niche, but I'm hoping it is big enough to make transactions on a regualar basis.
     
    GingerApple, Dec 29, 2008 IP
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    CJnQA Peon

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    #14


    Hmmm... good point. Personally, I would use a keyword tool and look for what people ARE looking for. For instance... there are less than 30 searches done for "buy blogs" but... there are 12,100 searches for "create a blog".

    If people are looking for directions on how to MAKE a blog, MAYBE they'd be interested in BUYING one? Maybe?

    Here's some keyword phrase searches I found:

    How to blog - 8,100
    blog templates - 14,800
    create blog - 14,800
    what is a blog - 14,800
     
    CJnQA, Dec 29, 2008 IP
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  15. GingerApple

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    Thanks for that information Cj, I'll have to look into it...
     
    GingerApple, Dec 30, 2008 IP
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    #16
    It has a good design.
     
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    #17
    This is an excellent idea man!
    I'm sure it'll catch on real quick with a few advertising techniques ;)

    Frankly I've never come across such site, where the design looks so clean and less fancier version of eBay.

    I wish you the very best, and we'll be signing up shortly (when I'm back on my other comp)
    If your interested in some sort of partnership, please let me know. This site looks like a "bomb awaiting to explode" ;)

    M3rC
     
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  18. GingerApple

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    #18
    Thanks for your support guys. I looked into the keywords and found that 'sell blogs' has 3600 so I'm happy with that for now :p

    But a transaction has to have a buyer and not just a seller :p so I'll think about what you said Cj; people buying a blog rather than making one :)
     
    GingerApple, Dec 31, 2008 IP
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    #19
    site looks clean and well organized well done !
    html title is bad.
    html description is bad.

    your title is : TheBlogExchange
    you should try something like: "Sell your Blog, Make money Buy and Sell Blogs"

    your description is: TheBlogExchange.com is an auction website where users can buy and sell blogs
    try something like: Sell blog | Buy blog | auction for bloggers | make money from your blog

    these are just to point the way...
    hope you success.
     
    zhang1, Jan 5, 2009 IP
  20. proxywhereabouts

    proxywhereabouts Notable Member

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    #20
    There is not much I can comment on the design.
    Just that I would recommend you to focus on SEO of your site and perhaps hire a coder to design non-default layout of the site.

    There is another that been created for selling/buying proxies at www.proxymarket.net but nevertheless, the owner did not do enough promotion or seems not getting much demand as competition is strong from other forums especially Sitepoint.

    Another suggestions for your domain is to use something like this.
    >> www.buysellblog.net (available at the time I'm writing this)

    It has the keyword that is good for your site.
     
    proxywhereabouts, Jan 5, 2009 IP