We love stats, and it seems our members do too. Over the last couple of months we’ve received numerous requests for more marketplace stats; more metrics that will help you understand where the opportunities lay in the Flippa website marketplace. So the propeller heads in the Flippa dev team have rolled out a very handy new tags report page that adds listing clearance rates and average sale price.

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Why Is This Report So Useful?

For website sellers and flippers, I’m sure it’s immediately evident you can use this report to help you decide what niche you’re going to focus on next. If you know what’s selling and generating reasonable returns, then there’s a little more certainty that the website you build will sell on Flippa.

And it’ll help you get your tags right.  Check out these two tags which mean basically the same thing:

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Guess what?  You use the automated blog tag, your listing is only 48% likely to sell, whereas autoblog is 75% likely.  It’s not a guarantee, but it does show taking a few minutes to get your tags right could bump that site up to a good sale.

For website investors, the report may help you find lower competition niches that have traditionally fetched high prices. Take the education tag for example:

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There are 8 open listings, 11 closed, 0 buyers watching this tag, a 73% clearance rate and an average sale price of $5,704. Might be worth checking out the education tagged listings to see what’s on offer there?

Subscribe to Tags

Although this functionality isn’t new, I thought I’d just remind you that you can subscribe to receive notifications about sites tagged with a particular term. If you’re registered and logged in to Flippa, you’ll be able to click on the little plus_icon.png icon to receive regular email notification. Once you’ve discovered a tag that you’d like to keep tabs on, just click that icon and we’ll keep you updated.

Explore the tags report page here.