If you’ve spent any time on Flippa, or any website auction marketplace for that matter, you know that filthy scammers are everywhere. Here’s a brief summary of the dirty dealings they engage in:
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Dosh Dosh Adsense Optimised Themes
In this website auction, a site sold for $32,500. That was due in no small part to the fact that it was making $110/day in Adsense revenue! The seller kindly provided some Google Analytics and Adsense data which I took the liberty of saving here. The interesting number is the Adsense CTR. It’s a whopping 16.67%. That’s high.
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If you want to increase the traffic to your site, you really should be looking at your traffic statistics. And I don’t mean just admiring how your unique visitors or pageviews are increasing month by month. I mean you need to dig deep into the data you have and try and analyse visitor behaviour. From having a good understanding of visitor behavior, you can then discern your visitors’ intentions and also how your site satisfies their needs.
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Whenever you consider buying a website from someone, trust is always an issue. It is in the seller’s interests to paint as rosy a picture as possible about the site being sold to make it seem like an attractive investment for potential buyers. It’s not unusual for sellers to embellish the truth a little about the site’s selling points. Some unscrupulous sellers even go so far as to use an image editor like Photoshop to falsify their traffic or revenue screenshots. This makes trusting such screenshots difficult.
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