Traffic is one of the most important factors in evaluating a potential website purchase. As we talked about last month, one of the best ways to provide traffic statistics to buyers is by installing Google Analytics on your site and providing a Verified Google Analytics report. Previously, sellers had to manually enter their average monthly More »
Google has been rolling out the latest version of Analytics progressively over the last few months, with new functionalities, different options and an updated look. As of last week, the new version of Google Analytics is the only one available. This has changed a few things about how Flippa handles Verified Analytics reports. What’s New? More »
When we introduced Premium Listings back in December, we at Flippa HQ thought the idea of extra visibility, premium placement for a listing and dedicated support for listing creation and bid management might be a little popular. Three months later, 145 listings have been upgraded to Premium. Let’s have a look at how those More »
We hit a new record for new listing creation last week, with just over 1,400 sites and domains listed for sale. While creating a listing and managing an auction usually goes off without a hitch, this hike in listings has resulted in more support tickets. Instead of slowing us down, this increased demand has led More »
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 More »
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 More »
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 More »
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 More »
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 More »
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 More »
