This is an interesting auction to dissect. Let’s get stuck in!
Firstly, the site being sold is a blog. What’s the problem with blogs? They usually require regular work. I say usually because there are some rare exceptions that receive good amounts of traffic without being updated regularly.
Archive for May, 2009
Webmaster Blog Resource
The 5 Minute Expired Domain Buying Checklist
If you’ve ever visited the Godaddy expiring domain auctions looking for that special domain to buy, you know how time consuming it is to trawl through pages and pages of them. You need a system that minimises the amount of valuable time you spend searching for domains and then performing preliminary checks on them. This 5 Minute Expired Domain Buying Checklist provides just such a system.
Read the rest of this entry »Sitepoint Winners – May 2009
This seller is selling his site, knowing that it’s currently down! Anyone interested in it will find that the site is unreachable. He will provide a screenshot though. This is a bit like buying a house based on a photo of it.
Read the rest of this entry »The Importance Of Checking Inbound Links
I came across this auction today. Here is the immediate red flag:
“all website traffic is the result of organic search engine results.”
That’s good isn’t it? Organic search traffic means no nasty PPC expenses, right?
