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Transaction Update

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Today I worked with the seller again. He transferred the domain to me. I really like godaddy’s process for domain name transfers. First of all, its free which is a bonus. Secondly, and most importantly, its super easy to do. It would be really nice if all webmasters just registered their domains with www.GoDaddy.com. I [...]

Sale In Progress

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Yesterday I bought the website that I was talking about. I don’t think disclosing the auction I was interested in affected the price too much. The last three sites that I have purchased have all been by directly contacting the seller and negotiating a BIN price. Thats why I have two bids on the auction [...]

I’ve Just Bid On A New Site

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

I am probably shooting myself in the foot here, but I wanted to let you in on my thought processes as I try to purchase a site. Calling your attention to the auction might run the price up, but I don’t care too much either way. There are always more sites going up for sale. [...]

Hosted Marketing Pages – The New Rage In SEO And How You Can Profit

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Today I got an email from Textlinkbrokers.com. They have accepted my sites into their text link ad inventory. In the email they also mentioned that I could create a “Hosted Marketing Page” and get paid for that too.
Essentially, they send me a webpage to upload to my server, and then I link to it [...]

Should I Keep A Website Or Sell It?

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Once you have taken on the risk of purchasing a website, there is really only two reasons to want to sell. Either the website takes too much time to run or you can reinvest the proceeds of a sale at a higher return.
Buying a website is risky. Sellers often don’t give enough information to [...]

World Of Warcraft Fansite Sells For $1 Million

Monday, June 25th, 2007

The sky is the limit in the web biz. I just read today that the website Wowhead has sold for $1 million. Thats an incredible sum for a fansite of a video game franchise.
I think that this site generates a lot of revenue by selling in game items. I don’t know the details of all [...]

Microsoft Adcenter Emails Me

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I got an email from MS Adcenter. They are now allowing advertisers to bid on Content Ads. This is just like the google adsense network. I haven’t yet figured out how to be an Adcenter publisher though. My guess is that they only have a few select sites running the ads currently. They probably don’t [...]

Avoiding The Garbage – Proxy Sites

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Almost every day I will see someone trying to sell a proxy site. A proxy site allows people to surf any webpage they want from a location that may restrict internet access, like work or school. If you want to look at porn while at school, a proxy site is a good way to do [...]

Beginning Search For Flip Candidate

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

After my last big buy in March, I have been holding off on buying another website until I recoup some of the money. Since it has been three months, I am going to start up the search for a new site. I don’t want to have so much money tied up in websites, so I [...]

Hottie Blogger Selling Out?

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Another interesting sale at Sitepoint just popped onto my radar a day ago. It appears Career Ramblings, of which Jane May is part owner is up for sale. Just a couple weeks ago I analyzed another blog for sale called NetBusinessBlog. The interesting thing is that both of these blogs were started within the last [...]