Flippa Blog « Feature Updates

We’re always trying to make the bidding process more transparent to maximize confidence for both buyers and sellers – and allay concerns regarding shill bidding to some extent.Our latest addition to the Bids page makes it easier to see a high level summary of the bidders – how many listings they have bid on and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As a website marketplace, we fully appreciate the importance of website buyers and sellers being able to trust the people they decide to do business with. Naturally this notion of trust is different for different people so, as of today, we are laying the single Flippa trust rating to rest. There were three key reasons [...]

We regularly touch base with our website buyers to see how they’re traveling a few months after buying a website from the Flippa marketplace. This is a great way for us to see how we’re doing and to learn a little more about our website buyers. We’re excited by the volume of positive feedback we [...]

One of the most common feedback themes we get is that it is too hard to search websites for sale on Flippa. This has not been a problem in the past as most users simply hit the “New Listings” tab and trawl through the new arrivals. However the sheer volume of new listings now appearing [...]

We’ve updated the Post-sale page for website auctions to improve how paypal transactions are done. Website buyers can now go to the post-sale page and simply click on the “Pay with PayPal” link – so long as the seller accepts paypal payments of course! Clicking the link will take the buyer to PayPal with seller [...]

We’re seeing a big increase in websites listed on Flippa over $5,000 and to further improve Flippa’s ability to provide an effective and secure marketplace for these transactions, we’re introducing Premium Buyer Certification. This will make it just a little harder for buyers to bid over $5,000, and so improve the quality of bids received [...]

As part of our ongoing commitment to simplification and reducing any unwelcome surprises for website buyers, we are removing the buyer success fee options. This change is a result of user feedback and resulting careful consideration. Suffice to say, there are two key reasons for this change: reduced complexity for website buyers and improved auction [...]