Why sell $500 a month adsense site on flippa

There are a thousands reasons, one that instantly springs to mind is that you might want a lot of cash immediately to fund something else. A site making $500 a month, could easily fetch over $6000 on Flippa.

Well... you can sell such a website for $5000-$5500, and maybe someone immediately needed that money.

Or the income is decreasing and the site is lose ground.

Satisfying with decent money and planning for retirement isn't the only thing people aim for, and specially in IM. There is tones of money to be made and in most cases people sell their sites, so they can invest that money in bigger projects or websites.

They are doing it because adsense is not something you should depend upon. Do you know how many people get banned everyday? A lot of people who never even dream of doing click fraud get banned everyday and that is the reason most people want to go for flipping.

not everyone has a site that sucks that they are unloading. For some people they are moving on to bigger and better projects. They may have an affiliate offer they are going to launch and need the money, or someone may be getting into ppc, or someone may want the money for a down payment for a car or house. You never know.

I would consider selling Adsense sites with reasonable revenue if I saw I was getting close to the magic $100 a day mark. Not that I am doing anything wrong, but would still rather stay under the Adsense radar.

But I would still offload the sites from the bottom end of the performance scale though

I've sold a site that was making $500/month for the following reasons:
1.) A had a private buyer who was willing to pay a lot more than what I bought it for.
2.) I knew if I didn't touch the site, it would eventually start losing income.
3.) It was in a market that was changing due to new technology.
4.) I had another deal ready to go to put the money right into.

It was still a great buy for the new owner, but it just didn't fit my holding criteria at that moment. I think there's some good lessons there for why someone might sell a site making good money.

It is all about investing into the next project.

Basically it comes down to something pretty simple: "I want money NOW not later."

-- Jeff

The time value of money has a lot to do with it. I had a site that had made over $1,000 in AdSense and I needed money prior to when Google would send me my payment.

In my mind I thought I could do it again, so I flipped the site on flippa for just over $3,000. I think it should have got more, but it didn't have much of a track record. That was my first and only check I ever received from Google AdSense.

Anyway, I got my money and used it for my needs, and proceeded to try and build another site. Never got a second site approved by Google News, and never got another site to make more than a dollar or so a day in AdSense. So that is what I got for doing my own thinking I guess. But I got my money and satisfied my needs of the moment. So, all is well.

But bottom line, $6,000 now is worth way more than $500 per month. So if you can churn out $500 a month sites, then you are wise to consider flipping them and building more. If you want something to support yourself so you can just retire and not build any more sites, then keeping them is the wise thing to do.

Here's another perspective:

Let's say that $500/month earner only cost you $1,000 to build out the site, content, backlinks, etc. If you sell that site for $5,000...that's quick funding to create another 5 sites. It's the reinvestment part of it that appeals to us...it allows you to stack your income.

We sell on Flippa using this exact strategy. We don't dump losers only (although some advocate this strategy) we simply sell off some of our older sites...right now, we're selling off the rest of our January sites and we'll start with February next month. We were able to scale from around 50 sites created per month to just under 150/month with this strategy.

An example would be a popular camcorder from 3 years ago has lost its popularity to the newer ones so the number of searches a month drops, hence income.

People sell those site because the don't want to wait for funds . They can sell such site for thousand of dollars

Recently i saw couple of sites claiming to be making $700-$800,but sold for 1200 bucks.Flippa is the next target for scammers.

Selling businesses is how a lot of people get rich, ever heard of IPOs?

wow.. congrats

The value of Adsense sites are diminishing because google is so fickle. A site that is making a 100 bucks today may be making zero tomorrow. It just depends on what google wants or what they think. I have had Adsense sites for a long time now and I get thousands of views per day on some sites yet google rarely shows ads. I may get 10 to 20 impressions according to google.

Wow...sorry about that...quite the controversy! Lol...I think I made the mistake of mixing a hypothetical with actuals and that's why I got everyone confused.

In actuality:
We create $10/month sites that cost us around $40 each to make. So to get $500/month it would take 50 sites...or around a $2,000 initial investment. After about 6 months, we could sell those sites at (assuming here 10x) 5K. We DO reinvest that money into creating more sites...which comes out to another 125 sites. Another 6 months and we have $12,500. That's 12 months from an initial $2,000 investment.

I was hypothetically speaking about 1 site that makes $500/month that only cost 1K to make. With our current team and strategy, there's NO WAY we could be pumping 150 $500/month sites each month, unfortunately! I think it IS possible, but would require unbelievably more people and more work than we're currently doing

Right now, we're creating around 150 sites per month that, ultimately, earn a little more than $10/month on average. Some much more...some much less...but an average of just over $10.

There are legitimate reasons for unloading a site (some people just don't want to manage / maintain a site, it could be decreasing income lately, etc.). Also, profits are never guaranteed. If I'm making $500 a month right now, who knows where I'll be in 6 months. A flat-price sell is guaranteed money I can count on.

I recently read about someone who's partner got made redundant and they sold a website, I believe it was for about $6,000. Most people who build sites are just ordinary folk so things that happen to everyone happen to them too.

It is some peoples choice, although "funding other projects" is one of the most used excuses in flippa I notice.

Best wishes,

Ruth

selling a site that makes you 500dols permonth is a brainer, anything could happen in the next month because google changes many things. so if one sells a site ten times he is earining monthly he has made the money he could possibly make ten months from the particular time. i personally i have flipped blogs making 20-50dols months and sold easily for 399dols and more. so site flipping is the best and fastest internet money maker for newbie. thanks

It could possibly be that thye site is hard to maintain, and you have other projects