$200,000 for my website, I don't want to sell...

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sell it now... take the money and run...

almost all of your traffic is coming from search engines... you could be left making close to ZERO on the big G's next major update... your income is not solid, it is dependent on the whims of the search algos...

if you have stupid corporate money being thrown at you, take it, put some away for retirement and use the rest to build new businesses...
 


Cool1g said:
either the people making the offer knows something you don't and can monetize the site a lot better, or they are making a stupidly high offer. a site that has only been around for 9 months typically would sell for, at most, 1 year's earnings unless there is something extremely compelling about it...
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Exactly. Figure out WHY they are offering so much for it and take it from there. If it seems feasible do it yourself, if not, grab the 200k and laugh your ass al the way to the bank.
 
Hello friend,

I think perhaps company that make offer feel have way for make much more money with site then you.

Generally other no want pay more then 1 year of revenue for site.

You say site get 15000 visitor day and make $100 day. Maybe they know can make lot more. I know person who have site only get 400 visitor day and make almost $200 day from cpa offers.

With 15,000 you have potential for make $7,500 day. That is $2.7 million year.

Just something for think about.

Good luck bro
 
If you do sell it, definitely try to get no (or a limited) non-compete with the company. If you do have a non-compete, try to get it down to 6 months - 1 year.
 
Just a thought, but you should be careful that this isn't just a competitor trying to get a look into your traffic stats and keywords.
 
sell and start a new site, different niche maybe

40k a year is not much. 200k right now that you can use on building another site is a lot.
 
POiZON said:
Hey all,

I am looking for some advice on what to do with my website, sell or hold onto it?

Basically I started a website about 9 months ago that is all content based that I promote an affiliate product on. I have 6 years experience in SEO and found a nitch I could easily take advantage of. To date it receives around 15,000 visitors daily and will bring in around $38,000-$50,000 in 2010.

I was approached by a monetization company the other day asking if my website was for sale. I responded with "The website is making around $40,000 a year now, so for me to sell it I wouldn't take anything less than $200,000."

I wrote that response with a kind of "piss off" mentality thinking I would not hear anything back from them. Well I did, and have a scheduled a call with the company later on this week.

I am just kind of curious as to what people on this forum would do. Hold onto a website that is averaging a net income of around $100 a day and has all the room in the world to grow. Or tie up the loose ends and take the cash.

I am conflicted. I almost think I have to come to conclusion I would only sell it for around $500,000. If the website is already making $40,000 a year now and does not grow over the next 10 years that is still a potential for $400,000 in total revenue over 10 years...

Thoughts??
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Not to be a dick, but if you're managing to get 15K visitors a day and you're going to make a total of 40K for the whole year there's a problem.

To put it more starkly, close to a half a million visits a month for slightly over 3 grand? Obviously I don't know the niche you're in, but I can't imagine not being able to squeeze a LOT more out of this traffic.
 
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200k is a great price. As noted, the niche must not be great and the traffic all comes from seo. 5x net is solid.

Of course, if they offer $200k you gotta go back with $250k and see what they say.
 
The internet (search engines) change way too much to bank on future revenue. Your site could be making $0.00 next year for all you know. Who knows what kind of shit google, yahoo or msn will do going forward. Take the cash and build some more. I have sites that generate way more than that, and would gladly take $200,000 for anyone of them.
 
nvanprooyen said:
Not to be a dick, but if you're managing to get 15K visitors a day and you're going to make a total of 40K for the whole year there's a problem.

To put it more starkly, close to a half a million visits a month for slightly over 3 grand? Obviously I don't know the niche you're in, but I can't imagine not being able to squeeze a LOT more out of this traffic.
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I have been hearing a lot about how I should be able to make more money, quite simply I'm at a loss. I have tried numerous things, A/B, Multivariate testing, various landing pages, promoting different products, Google reps even presented me with structural best practices for Adsense.

If your interested I will message you the site and perhaps some of you can give me your two sense. I feel like I have tried just about everything I can without doing a major overhaul of the site. I really would be interested in some of your opinions.
 
I would suggest selling it. I'm a fan of taking money now in lew of potential.

Furthermore, you can find a new niche or spend your time competing against the company you sell this to - in the same niche.

YOU created this... YOU can do it again. Do you really think they can do what you did?

By the way, a sale of 200K would require a non-compete form (if the company buying is smart).
 
SERPs fluctuate, so always consider selling. Those guys are looking @ $200k as a starting point and their final price is probably 60% of that.

.... Still $120k and you can start fresh with a big ass budget on your next site. Take it dude. nvan is right though, you can probably milk more depending on the niche.
 
40k/year and 200k offer. Take it as fast as you can. Thats 5* years of revenue..... Fantastic deal
 
200k in the hand is worth more than 40k in the bush. sell and put it back into your business.
 
if they offer 200k - take it.
take a week off
1. get laid
2. get drunk
3. dream up another project to spend 5 months working on.
 
POiZON said:
I have been hearing a lot about how I should be able to make more money, quite simply I'm at a loss. I have tried numerous things, A/B, Multivariate testing, various landing pages, promoting different products, Google reps even presented me with structural best practices for Adsense.

If your interested I will message you the site and perhaps some of you can give me your two sense. I feel like I have tried just about everything I can without doing a major overhaul of the site. I really would be interested in some of your opinions.
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15k hits isn't much. People are just not realizing you have 15k hits to a website. Not 15k hits to a lander. You figure a MAX of 10% ctr on your ads, well that's only 150 clicks a day. Not much.. Sure you could milk them, but it would hurt your user exp and kill your traffic.
 
fuck me 15k visits a day for $100? I get 40-50 visitors and make $50 approx.

What the FUCK??? Keep the site and monetize it properly, 15K visits is a license to print money.
 
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