Flippa Blog « Buying Websites

So you’ve just bought a website, and decided to transfer your new site to a different hosting company. The process of taking ownership of a site and transferring from one host to another can be daunting, but it’s a valuable experience and often a good idea. We spotted a fantastic how-to on the transfer process [...]

Welcome to 2012, Flippa blog readers! Today’s post is all about the Secret Seven. No, not the children’s detective books written in the 1950s  – Flippa’s Secret Seven are useful Flippa tools that, for one reason or another, are often overlooked. Let’s jump right in, shall we? 1. Advanced Search. Our Advanced Search lets you [...]

Yesterday we wrote about 6 possible warning signs to watch out for in an website auction. Today we’re finishing off our Top-12 list, and asking which ones ring the loudest alarm for you. 7. The seller is deleting many questions or comments from their listing. Now, there’s nothing wrong with a seller deleting spam or [...]

  First-time buyer? Long-time website purchaser? Either way, seller and website due diligence is incredibly important. As the saying goes, “knowledge is power”.  In this two-part series, we’ll be ringing twelve alarm bells that you can use when deciding which websites of worthy of your bid. Stay tuned, kids, there will be a second part [...]

Just over a year ago, we introduced a feature that allowed website sellers to indicate whether their website was New or Established. The trouble we’ve been seeing as of late is that the distinction between New or Established has become largely arbitrary. Some sellers are listing websites created in the last month with zero traffic [...]

We were thrilled to be awarded “Best in Class” by the Interactive Media Awards today for our recent improvements to website search refinement. The honor recognizes that the initiative surpassed the key standards of excellence that comprise the web’s most professional work. The site was honored specifically for excellence in the Auction category. The judging [...]

Robert Birming isn’t one to shy from adventure. So when the bricklayer-turned-musician-turned-web entrepreneur received requests to create an English-language version of his Swedish site Smidigt, he jumped right in. “I couldn’t have asked for a better start,” Robert explains. “Many of the major blogs posted about the fact that an English version of Smidigt, GeekAlerts.com, [...]

Some of our regular users may have noticed a few recent updates to our advanced search tools – namely the addition of searching by Google backlink criteria (ie how many Google-recognized backlinks a site has), and the ability to only show results with verified Google Analytics reports. All a bit Google flavored but let’s look [...]

This is a guest post by Dave Hermansen, the seller in the recent PitchingMachinesNow.com case study and an all-round whiz on buying and selling e-commerce websites. Back in 2005, I built a little e-commerce store that sold bird cages. My site ranked “okay” in Google and I was turning a decent profit, but certainly not [...]

Boise-based Dave Hermansen, with brothers Kevin and Mike, didn’t plan to sell PitchingMachinesNow.com when they built it. These brothers have the process of building, launching, and monetizing ecommerce sites “down to an art”—they’ve created more than 50 stores over the last few years. Yet the promise of a new venture convinced the brothers to sell [...]