Websites Up For Sale

The websites that I see for sale a lot are:

• Proxy sites


• Hosting


• Forums


• Template

The hosting and forum sites take a lot of time and promotion that’s why everyone want to sell them.

The Template sites are just that, someone buys a domain name for $8 and then tries to turn around and sell it for $35 to $300 by uploading a template.  Nothing wrong with that but I would just rather buy my own template and upload it myself.

When you look at 10 minutes of work I don’t really like the idea of paying someone $300 for that.

So far I have not seen a single Adsense site (other than the template ones) go up for sale.  I guess if you have a good income with little or no work then why would you want to sell it.

I don’t want to spend the time with a forum site, although I think you can make some good money with these you will be looking at taking on a full time job.  For a large forum you will be working many hours every day.  With an income of $2,000 to $3,000 per month you will probably be working almost full time in addition to investing a lot of money.

The black hat forum was making a couple thousand per month, hard to say, the income was a little iffy.  And the seller wanted more than $75,000 for it.  I think if someone could show $2000 per month and it was likely that the income would continue then I think a good deal would be $20,000 to $25,000.

When you start getting into:

• If you got a lot more traffic


• If you increased sales


• If you added more Adsense ads


• If you sent out more newsletters

Then you would be getting a great deal.  That what the sellers always try to sell you is the potential.  Well every site has potential, if I wanted great potential I would just register a new domain name and now I have all the potential in the world.

The best reason for selling a website is still:

I have to sell because I am tried of working 16 hours a day.
Income for the site $2000 per month.

Well, if the owner is tired of working so many hours why would I want to take on that job?

At lease he is honest and not telling you that it’s only 5 minutes a week to run the site.