Flippa Blog « Buying Websites

Hardly a week goes by without someone on a forum, blog or social network asking whether or not it is worth selling or buying websites for sale on eBay. Don’t get me wrong – I love eBay. I just sold a pair of old bedside tables on eBay for a good price and the buyer [...]

We’ve recently been in contact with a number of website buyers on Flippa who have voiced concerns at the number of brand new, start-up sites on Flippa with seemingly robust traffic performance. One such buyer known on Flippa as CallMeFlipper suggests that while it is technically possible for start-up sites to get good traffic in [...]

This is a guest post by the founders of FlippingPlanet.com, Bryan O’Neil and Thomas Smale. Bryan and Thomas are both experienced buyers and sellers of online businesses and have been active in the industry for over two years. In recent years, the potential return from buying an online business has bought a lot of new [...]

UPDATE: We’ve taken on the terrific feedback provided as part of this post and have decided to leave the current extension time unchanged at 4 hours. Further details of this can be found in our follow-up post. Big thanks to everyone that took the time to contribute to this conversation! Since the dawn of Flippa [...]

[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 [...]