Selling a Site With No Income but Excellent Content

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I have a website with 200 pages of original content written by experts. The pages range from 500 - 2,000 words in length. The site content cost me about $4,000 to create. The site can be easily monetized for Adsense, list-building or CPA offers. The content is in the health/weightloss/diet niche.

I have never promoted or got links for the site as I got drawn to another project. Do you think it is possible to sell such a site or content? Any advice will be appreciated. Thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Originally Posted by Erasto Valentine View Post

    I have a website with 200 pages of original content written by experts. The pages range from 500 - 2,000 words in length. The site content cost me about $4,000 to create. The site can be easily monetized for Adsense, list-building or CPA offers. The content is in the health/weightloss/diet niche.

    I have never promoted or got links for the site as I got drawn to another project. Do you think it is possible to sell such a site or content? Any advice will be appreciated. Thank you.
    Not sure if it's easy to sell such site as kw research is also an important factor and if none of the pages are well optimized for keywords then trying to rank it might be a waste of time. If all is good then you might be able to sell it for the price of the content indeed, but I don't think it will be easy to find such buyer.

    Perhaps you're better of with some split deal where you take care of the site, which you already did, and the other takes care of the rankings and split the profits.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jacob Sterbenk
    If your site is getting traffic, then it will be easy to sell it. However, if it's getting traffic, you should at least put Adsense ads on it so you'll have something to show to prospected buyers.

    If it's not getting any traffic, you can
    a) optimize it, so it will start getting traffic and then sell it
    b) sell website without traffic (not recommended)
    c) sell separate articles
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    • Profile picture of the author LloydMS
      Maybe consider turning the content into a PLR package (private label rights). If it's really good content that might be the way to monetize it best.

      Another option would be to find a partner - someone who can take the content and start promoting it and monetizing it - and split (or whatever) the revenues.

      I think to sell the content straight up, you're not going to recover the $4,000. With no links and no traffic the value is tough to measure.
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  • Profile picture of the author WittyT
    Personally, I would not pay $4,000 for something that does not bring in any revenue.
    Hell, I could get 200 pages of content written for under $1,000 and be sure that each page targets one specific keyword that's been thoroughly researched...

    But that's just me.
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    • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
      Originally Posted by WittyT View Post

      Personally, I would not pay $4,000 for something that does not bring in any revenue.
      Hell, I could get 200 pages of content written for under $1,000 and be sure that each page targets one specific keyword that's been thoroughly researched...

      But that's just me.

      200 pages for under $1000. I'm all ears. Where?

      Thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by Intrepreneur View Post

        200 pages for under $1000. I'm all ears. Where?

        Thanks
        200 pages of 500 words each done by an India writer most probably. Make sure to run it through a spelling / grammar checker first and add 40 hours editing work.

        4-5 months ago I even quit working with my content team in India, as I had to be on it all the time and got tired of it, now I got someone from the US and his girlfriend taking care of the needed content for link building, normally he charged $10/500 words but I got it down to half cause of the volume. Obvious he has to do some research to write about all those different topics but I told him that deep research is not necessary while that is necessary when you have to write 200 pages of content for a website or other wise it's too much of the same in different words.
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    Do NOT sell this website! Try to monetize it first! With 200+ pages of content you can easily reach those $4,000 in 3-6 months (depends on the quality of the content and the time you are ready to spend) // Only then if you really want to "get rid" of the site, sell it (once monetized you would get at least 5X from your first offer!)
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