Thank the Lord that this has happened! There is finally a forum devoted to the discussion of buying and selling websites. This was well overdue. The sub forum at sitepoint filled this space for a while but was soon overwhelmed by the ubiquitous, and inevitable, sig link spammers. Any frequent visitor to the SP forum will have noted its decline.
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Renovating A Dead Website
In buying a dead website, we looked at how to find an abandoned website, make contact with the owner, and then buy their domain. Unless you like mind numbing tedium, you won’t have relished that stage in the proceedings. However, you are going to love this stage. In this stage, we start creating content and shaping our masterpiece. But what content? Well, we can use some simple tools to prioritise and direct the content creation process.
Read the rest of this entry »SEO In The Wrong Hands
I just happened on an interesting work at home based business blog 5 minutes ago. I was so intrigued by a sig link on Sitepoint that I followed it. The post I looked at was interesting for what the author is trying to achieve, not for how good the content is.
Read the rest of this entry »Making Use Of Spikes In Traffic
Is the seller trying to pull a fast one with their traffic stats? Many sellers do this. They artificially inflate their traffic and then sell on the basis of huge traffic. Check out the stats. Most spikes like this are once only anomalies that are not to be repeated without time/effort/money, so beware.
Read the rest of this entry »Buying A Dead Website
I just love buying dead websites. You get all the benefits of an established history (OK, I mean links!) but you get to shape the site how you want it to look. You get to create the content, its structure, and also the linking structure, which is another important concern.
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