Selling your blog for $10k - surely not?
August 18th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites, Interesting stuffNot quite there yet
I found some random online tool the other day that promised to tell you the value of your blog.
I tried it just of of interest and I seem to recall that this blog is currently worth a cup of tea, an apple and a half-chewed toothbrush … still, it’s early days!
On one of my random clicking explorations recently, I followed an online trail of crumbs, like you do, and found out how people build, then sell blogs for large amounts of money.
It began with a simple click-on a link at the bottom of this very page, right at the very bottom where it says ‘Design by Bob’.
Clicking on that link takes you to blogohblog.com … I’m sure that until pretty recently it used to take you a different website.
Intrigued, I read on to see:
I purchased Blogohblog.com on November 05, 2007 from its previous owner & founder, Bob Jiwakacau for $10K at a Sitepoint auction. By profession, I am a Web Developer based in New Delhi, India, and also maintain several websites of my own. I will continue to do the good work that Bob did so far and of course, take BOB to the next level as blogging is my passion too!
This is gretting interesting.
$10k for a blog at an online auction, how does that work then?
So it’s off to sitepoint.com or, to be specific, http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/
On that page you’ll see all sorts of people and companies buying and selling links, templates, blogs, websites, projects, you name it it’ll probably be there.
It’s a real insight into an online world I was unaware of.
I’ve nothing more profound to say about it other than ‘check it out and expand your knowledge’.
Oh, and I did download the free Sitepoint sampler ‘The Web Site Revenue Maximizer’ which was pretty interesting even in the ’short version’ form.
Unfortunately I’ll have to wait until I’m in a position to be flogging my own sites for $10k+ before I can frivolously start buying products like this … and by the time I get to that stage, I suspect I might be writing and selling them!
2 Responses to “Selling your blog for $10k - surely not?”
By JBO on Aug 20, 2008
These have to some serious money makers to sell for this amount - I just cannot believe myself this is true -