How Bad is the Selling Market for Websites Now?

I don't think the problem is with Google, more-less market saturation setting in. There's so many site/domain flipping courses out there that everyone and their mother are building sites and trying to sell them. Nowadays, the only sites that are profitable for selling are those that have age, profits and existing traffic. Your average WordPress side might sell for less than $100 if you're lucky, for the work involved, not worth it. That same $100 is still good money for someone living in a country in development stage; India or the Phillipines for example.

While those "stupid simple" sites used to sell for thousands, they now sell for uhm, peanuts. Reason being is that everyone and their mothers know how to make a nice site using WordPress and outsourcing costs have dropped dramatically because of the market demand. Developers often have to work at a loss to gain this "spender contact" and smart marketers know that it's easy to find the same work done at much lower price. It's not uncommon to get a highly professionally built site built for $200-$300 and that might sell for twice that even many site flippers sell at a loss.

Again, buyers want to buy sites that already profit since building your own website is so easy nowadays and people would much rather do the DIY thing rather than paying someone to do it. Plus, those who are doing very well have their own developers on speed dial, so there again, why buy a site?

Hope this helps

I agree mate.. It has never been harder.

I thought it was only me but now I guess the problem is not only my own.

Fergal

Saturation means that only the quality will continue to sell. People with sites that are making money will always be able to sell. Continue to build sites that make money and you should have no issue flipping them.

Can anyone review my site and tell me what the problem is ?

I dont want to post it here because I know that's advertising they dont want.

However, my site earned $111 this month already and is on an up-trend all the way. It did have a traffic spike this month but this will continue to happen as I own a fan-site for someone who was a celebrity by association at first and now just popular themself . Anytime something 'crazy' happens, traffic pikes and it can be by 15,000 uniques a day for 3 days.

Last month it earned $71 i believe. The month before ~$25.. month before that like $12 (launch month )

It's a no competition niche and i've developed 2 sites in the niche , no traces of links to own the top ranks in search. The 2nd has not yet risen into prominence yet.

I want to sell the first site, which I listed the revenue for , at a price of $1200. It's earning $100+ per month now EASILY. Is that too much to ask ?

It's newer but when Google shows exact search is 140,000 per month and you are top 3/4 in Serps, at that point, does common sense not tell you, it's not a 'fluke' ?

update ! My site looks to be moving along. On it's last 4 hours, we shall see if it works.

Will tell you guys this, I 'digg' and 'reddit' my auction links now. Those pages come up high in search, so I hope / assume it will help with sale of site.

I think WordPress has diminished the value of basic sites. If you have an established site that has a verifiable earnings track record, it's still saleable. But these quick slap-up-and-sell sites are not viewed as worth much anymore.