I'm doing some thinking on what safe guards should be in place to offer a blind purchase for websites. I'm thinking any website that meets the criteria gets purchased for $600 provided the owner put in 6 months and meets my "rules". It goes without saying that the website owner thinks it's a failure if they take the offer. I'll assume for the sake of fun that I both do not know what the current traffic or revenue is. Please assume I have the guts to do this and lets focus on just the conditions. Rules: Site must be at least 6 month old content must all be origional No blackhat anything, ever. Minimum 25 pages of content with at least 400 words content. Minimum 400 links (Feel free to change this in comments) minimum 100 from pages that reasonably could have on going traffic (more than an old forum posting) (Feel free to change this in comments) Sane judgment on topic (gold rings ok - a local high school rejected) A $600 website should make between $50 - $25 AFTER proper monetization is put in place if I do my math right. Of course this isn't possible for a rule. What other rules? Please list more rules or change the rules please.
I would think that it should have a minimum page rank of 2, and have a decent alexa rating before it's even close to worth while. And shouldn't be banned from any social bookmarking sites, such as digg.
All good ideas. However I was thinking more rules I could apply to the webmaster in terms of what he should do, or have done from the beginning. It's easy to make him post 25 items, but requiring an Alexia ranking is more challenging. Perhaps requiring X number of links from pages PR2+ that are also relevant? Keep the comments coming.
Search engine traffic - not just social media traffic bursts BTW, what exactly is a "blind purchase" ?
I mean that I give the rules to webmasters, let them sit for 6 months and if they meet my rules they would have the option to sell their website to me and I get no say in it. Of course there are a whole host of very serious practical problems here meaning I'm really just talking theory. However ultimately it makes this a blind purchase because I don't have any say in the purchase. (Maybe I give the rules to a bonding company to validate & I just fork over the cash when told to...) I'm also not sure how to respond to sites that maybe failed at both traffic building & SEO (or didn't try). There would have to be sites worth this dollar value that have content & potential, but little traffic. (Actually I'm thinking it would be easier to work with more existing content than more links.) Thoughts?