Can you sell a website with no income?

Lets say I made a nice authority website with a nice design and about 400 fresh original articles with backlinks.

The site wasn't producing any income though.

Could I sell it? For how much? What would be the selling points?

 

I am pretty sure you could still sell it if there are unique original articles.
The domain and the topic also plays a role.

I can't tell you for how much because I don't know the site, its different on all sites I guess.

 

Yea you probably could, not for as much though.

 

I think it depends on whether their is potential for the website to make money, if someone sees potential then they may want to purchase it. Also websites that don't make money usually don't get bought for a lot as it is a risk that the buyer will not be able to earn money from it. I think the selling points will be the niche it is, how much traffic it gains, the SERP, backlinks and the potential to make money.

 

You can always sell your website for amonut which someone is ready pay for you. When it generate income then it's simple and you sell it for 10x months revenue. Maybe try to get some SEO for it and then it will get more value.

 

There's more factors to determine worth than just 10x months revenue.

If that was the slightest bit accurate show me a web site that makes $50k a month with increasing revenue and I will sell my house and buy it for $500k knowing that in less than 10 months I will see a return on my investment. You won't find such a site out there... But you will find plenty of sites that make $20/month selling for $200.

 

Yes you can sell a site with no income or traffic. Usually the value will be determined by the content, uniqueness, and the market. Personally what's the use of making a web site if you aren't going to build it up and find out it's potential.

 

it will probably sell on flippa, so many sites are sold there without any income

 

You could still sell your site depending on what the website is about. There was a site on flippa a while ago it was not making any money the site was ugly but it sold for 21k plus. Why? Because it had good search engine rankings and the domain name was targeting a good keword.

 

It depends on the niche and type of site, but sure you can still sell it. Don't expect much though.

 

of coz you can sell it, but the price will depend on search engine ranking and keyword niche

 

If it's ranking good and has a PR value it should sell. But don't expect much from it.

 

Maybe if you show us the site, we could give you some numbers.

 

offcourse, ive sold many, even me, beeng an amateur.

 

You can certainly sell a site with no revenue, just look at Instagram. When there is no revenue the buyer is going to be looking at a few things:

• traffic levels - if you have good traffic but just haven't monetized it, that traffic has value to the buyer.
• potential earnings - the buyer is going to look at how much money they could get by showing ads to the current traffic as well as how much further they could take the site. If they think they could grow the site to 10x traffic just will regular article posting, the site will be worth much more. You might be lucky and stumble upon a buyer who could use the blog in a way that generates more profit than just ads, like if you have a shoe blog and a shoe company buys it to promote their shoes. It can be hard to find that right buyer though.
• cost to replicate - depending on the quality of your articles, you could be looking at a price of $5/per article * 400 articles = $2,000 for the buyer to commission that amount of articles himself. Beware that if you making a site with the specific intent to sell it, it's going to be hard to turn a profit because the buyer will probably not be willing to pay more than what it cost you to build. That usually only works on the low end of websites (like a 4-page site for $100).

 

Yes but then you're selling the content not the website. I think people would prefer to just buy your articles separately and you could probably buy more because unless you have a very good domain people may just buy the website, kill it, and transfer articles to their own website.

 

As you mentioned that your site has unique articles so its sell-able than if it contains all original content and getting visitors but not started earning. Submit your site to flippa.com and see what response you get!

 

You can but it is difficult to decide on a price. Try doing some SEO for your website to increase it's traffic and thus potentially increase earnings. If you have 400 unique articles it will not be difficult to rake in some traffic.

 

You could sell it to someone Im sure for a great start up. What you would get who knows?

 

Not quite sure what you would get.

You however need to prove that the site is getting some good traffic daily.(google analytics or other stats proof)

Also the domain name (niche) matters as well because it will help in determining profit potential of the site.

With 400 unique articles, hmmm.... who knows.