Flippa Blog « Buying Websites

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. [...]

The following guest post was contributed by Ryan Moran from eTycoon, a website dedicated to teaching people about buying, building, and developing virtual real estate. For more info on eTycoon, register for a training webinar.

If one man’s junk can be another man’s treasure, then one person’s dormant, neglected website can be another person’s goldmine when [...]

A great tool to add to your website due diligence arsenal, the Wayback Machine is a digital archive of web pages across time. A website time line if you will, the Wayback Machine gives you the ability to see how a website has changed over time and lets you cross reference the website established date [...]

This is the second post in the Buying Your First Website – A Case Study series. Please note these posts are a case study about buying a start-up site. You can find the other post here:

Part #1: Buying Your First Website – A Case Study

You’ve picked a site, done your due diligence, bid and won [...]

If you’re new to buying and selling websites, we recommend you take the time to learn about due diligence tactics, valuation methods and transaction processes before you dive in and start trading.
The 7 resources below are great place to start learning about the process of buying and selling website:

Website Valuation Guide – this comprehensive article [...]

If you’re not familiar with Firefox, it’s a great browser alternative to Internet Explorer for many reasons.  One of the great features of Firefox is all the extra add-ons available to extend its functionality.  Here are 5 Firefox add-ons that will help you investigate a website’s credentials before you decide to bid on a Flippa [...]

Valuing a website before deciding to make a purchase is one of the most important steps in your due diligence. Valuing a website that lists little or no revenue in the Flippa sales page is challenging, to say the least.
In a previous post I described how I went about valuing a young website before making a [...]

As the new marketing manager at Flippa, my first week has been spent learning as much about the marketplace and the users as I can. There’s no substitute for “Eating one’s own dog food“, however, so over the weekend I purchased my first website from the Flippa marketplace. Here’s the what, the why and the [...]