Flippa Blog

We love stats, and it seems our members do too. Over the last couple of months we’ve received numerous requests for more marketplace stats; more metrics that will help you understand where the opportunities lay in the marketplace. So the propeller heads in the Flippa dev team have rolled out a very handy new tags [...]

If you’re serious about building a successful online business then you should be serious about how you brand your website. Establishing a brand around your site is an important aspect of building credibility and brand character. When you’re just starting out, however, it can be tricky to find $1000 or more in the start-up [...]

Retweet.com, listed for sale on Flippa.com last month, has just sold for $250,000. The successful buyer knocked out other interested parties with a Buy It Now offer $48,000 higher than any other bid.

Retweet.com, a competitor to Tweetmeme, finds the most retweeted stories on Twitter while also providing online publishers with the ability to add a [...]

[The following article is a guest post by Michael Cottam who has been working on SEO projects since 2001. This article is was written for SEO's considering buying websites vs buying links ]
A crazy idea? Why would you buy an entire domain instead of just buying a link on that domain?
True, in most [...]

The following guest post was written by Michelle Adams, an experienced seller who’s successfully sold many start-up websites on Flippa.

If you browse around the Flippa marketplace it doesn’t take long before you realise there’s a huge variety of start-up web sites for sale. Flippa defines start-up sites as sites that generate, at most, $10 a [...]

The following video will show you how to perform initial domain and keyword research on a site for sale on Flippa. Most of the statistics provided by Market Samurai can be found via other freely available resources, however when you’re regularly researching websites to buy, Market Samurai will save time.

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Whether you’re buying a website or selling one, clearly specifying what’s included in the sale will save complications during sale completion. For higher value sites, we recommend a contract of sale, but for lower priced sites, clarifying what’s included in the auction listing will often suffice.
Let’s consider what you’re buying when you buy a website. [...]

When listing a website on Flippa, there are a lot of options to consider before you sell your website. Options that can have a significant impact on how well your site sells. If you’re a regular seller on Flippa, you’ve probably experimented with these variables and come to your own conclusions. But if you’re a [...]

Browsing Flippa’s website and domain name marketplace just got a whole lot easier! We’ve launched a new look listings page designed to help you browse listing statistics at a glance.

The new format lets you easily find and compare buying opportunities without having to click through to each listing one by one. No longer do you [...]

Web designers, how do you sell websites when you can’t find clients? You might be the best website developer in the world but if you can’t find customers and you’re not great at sales, how are you going to make money selling websites? Glad you asked!
It can be challenging to find new business, particularly during [...]