Comments on: The Importance Of Checking Inbound Links http://www.spgazette.com/the-importance-of-checking-inbound-links/ Keep abreast of the dirty deeds done dirt cheap. As far as making money with your website goes, anyway. Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:29:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.spgazette.com/the-importance-of-checking-inbound-links/comment-page-1/#comment-123 admin Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:21:19 +0000 http://www.spgazette.com/?p=779#comment-123 Tom, I think you misunderstand the point of my post. The site being sold may or may not be a good investment. My focus was more on the presentation of the auction and the details that were absent from it. My aim here is to give potential buyers help when it comes to doing their due diligence when assessing websites to buy. Although in this instance I chose your auction as an example, there are many others in the marketplace that lack the details they should - to the buyer's disadvantage. Good luck with selling your site. Tom, I think you misunderstand the point of my post. The site being sold may or may not be a good investment. My focus was more on the presentation of the auction and the details that were absent from it. My aim here is to give potential buyers help when it comes to doing their due diligence when assessing websites to buy. Although in this instance I chose your auction as an example, there are many others in the marketplace that lack the details they should – to the buyer’s disadvantage.

Good luck with selling your site.

]]> By: Tom http://www.spgazette.com/the-importance-of-checking-inbound-links/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Tom Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:49:15 +0000 http://www.spgazette.com/?p=779#comment-122 Instead of charging customers by the hour for web design work, we create and incubate online businesses for resale. We build them on our platform, iBui.lt, implement as many of the features as practical, and help get the site submitted to the search engines. We will make a residual off the hosting fee and be compensated up front for our time, when the site is sold. We are committed to maintaining an ongoing and amicable business relationship with the buyer. This is a website, with customers coming in the door and buying stuff, and it is being sold for what an equally poweful website would cost to develop from scratch (without customers coming in the door). Your post and article are potentially diminishing the value of the site and for what? Because you want to make an example of a great website that is spring loaded with potential by calling it a scam? Go talk to your local small garden center, they will tell you that they had record sales this year. So what you are calling a bad investment (I would walk away) is really your ignorance preventing you from taking advantage of a great deal! Instead of charging customers by the hour for web design work, we create and incubate online businesses for resale. We build them on our platform, iBui.lt, implement as many of the features as practical, and help get the site submitted to the search engines. We will make a residual off the hosting fee and be compensated up front for our time, when the site is sold. We are committed to maintaining an ongoing and amicable business relationship with the buyer. This is a website, with customers coming in the door and buying stuff, and it is being sold for what an equally poweful website would cost to develop from scratch (without customers coming in the door).

Your post and article are potentially diminishing the value of the site and for what? Because you want to make an example of a great website that is spring loaded with potential by calling it a scam? Go talk to your local small garden center, they will tell you that they had record sales this year. So what you are calling a bad investment (I would walk away) is really your ignorance preventing you from taking advantage of a great deal!

]]> By: Tom http://www.spgazette.com/the-importance-of-checking-inbound-links/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Tom Mon, 18 May 2009 02:11:46 +0000 http://www.spgazette.com/?p=779#comment-110 done, I couldn't edit the auction details so I added it as a comment. done, I couldn’t edit the auction details so I added it as a comment.

]]> By: admin http://www.spgazette.com/the-importance-of-checking-inbound-links/comment-page-1/#comment-107 admin Sat, 16 May 2009 07:23:35 +0000 http://www.spgazette.com/?p=779#comment-107 Another option is for the owner to specify in the auction details all the information that affects the sale. I know that potential bidders would be particularly interested in this nugget. I think that some may even be put off by their dependence on the seller's actions, post sale. Another option is for the owner to specify in the auction details all the information that affects the sale. I know that potential bidders would be particularly interested in this nugget. I think that some may even be put off by their dependence on the seller’s actions, post sale.

]]> By: admin http://www.spgazette.com/the-importance-of-checking-inbound-links/comment-page-1/#comment-106 admin Sat, 16 May 2009 07:20:26 +0000 http://www.spgazette.com/?p=779#comment-106 Hi Tom! If it can be guaranteed that the link stay, no problem. Unfortunately there can be no such guarantees. Even if it was stated in a contract that the link should stay, there is no way anyone could enforce it should the link then be removed. It probably wouldn't be worth anyone's time, effort and money to follow up. You say that there is no reason to remove that site from the iBuilt featured listing but I can think of one. The potential profit from doing the same thing with another site. The owner could create another site to feature there, pump up its PR, rankings and traffic via that helpful link and then try and sell that for $7.5K like they're doing with the current site. Profit is a good motivator for doing that. If the buyers don't do their research, they'll be none the wiser and won't know the reason for their site's falling rankings --> profits. Don't get me wrong, I'm not on a witch hunt here. I'm just using this auction to illustrate the importance of buyers doing one aspect of their due diligence - checking inbound links. There are many other examples of sellers deliberately hiding information that affects a buying decision. Hi Tom!

If it can be guaranteed that the link stay, no problem. Unfortunately there can be no such guarantees. Even if it was stated in a contract that the link should stay, there is no way anyone could enforce it should the link then be removed. It probably wouldn’t be worth anyone’s time, effort and money to follow up.

You say that there is no reason to remove that site from the iBuilt featured listing but I can think of one. The potential profit from doing the same thing with another site. The owner could create another site to feature there, pump up its PR, rankings and traffic via that helpful link and then try and sell that for $7.5K like they’re doing with the current site. Profit is a good motivator for doing that. If the buyers don’t do their research, they’ll be none the wiser and won’t know the reason for their site’s falling rankings –> profits.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not on a witch hunt here. I’m just using this auction to illustrate the importance of buyers doing one aspect of their due diligence – checking inbound links. There are many other examples of sellers deliberately hiding information that affects a buying decision.

]]> By: Tom http://www.spgazette.com/the-importance-of-checking-inbound-links/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Tom Sat, 16 May 2009 03:59:17 +0000 http://www.spgazette.com/?p=779#comment-105 I know the owner and the auction is open to conditional bids, so if you are worried about the link being removed, add a condition that is not be removed for at least a year. I know the owner and the auction is open to conditional bids, so if you are worried about the link being removed, add a condition that is not be removed for at least a year.

]]> By: Tom http://www.spgazette.com/the-importance-of-checking-inbound-links/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Tom Sat, 16 May 2009 03:57:58 +0000 http://www.spgazette.com/?p=779#comment-104 There is some truth to what oyu are saying, however, if you check the context of the link on iBuilt.net you would see that it is a featured site. Then if you check the other sites designed by other customers you would see that the ithinkorganic.com site is one of the better looking sites. There is no reason to remove the site from the featured site listings because it represents a great example of what can be achieved. There is some truth to what oyu are saying, however, if you check the context of the link on iBuilt.net you would see that it is a featured site. Then if you check the other sites designed by other customers you would see that the ithinkorganic.com site is one of the better looking sites. There is no reason to remove the site from the featured site listings because it represents a great example of what can be achieved.

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