Tips on buying and selling blogs

[mandy]

Having sold my first blog I thought I would write up some of my thoughts on the process and how it went. First of all you might like to know that the site sold for $8,200 over on Sitepoint, though at various times people offered up to $10,000 through private messages. There was about 45 bids all together with about 30 of them coming in the first three days, followed by a long gap and most of the remaining in the last three days.

Overall I thought it was a good sale, given that the blog had little revenue I wasn’t expecting the sale to go as high and was pleasantly surprised. The process was smooth and happily the buyer - Cameron - is a really nice guy who has made the transition easy.

Here are six tips on selling...

full article: http://northxeast.com/general/10-tips-to...blog-sale/

[mandy]

A related article:

Selling Blogs - Factors of Valuation

’m not sure subscribers numbers are the best way to value a blog - but it would definitely be one factor.

Other factors would include:

    * Traffic (actually visitor numbers and page impressions)
    * Current Earnings (how much the blog currently earns)
    * Potential Earnings (is there another income stream that could easily be added)
    * Profile of Blog in Niche (is it seen as a leader in it’s field)...

full article: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/...#more-4757