Where's the best place to sell a website (within 2 weeks).

by Chris-

Posted: 15 years ago 23 replies

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Hi all,

just looked at the "website outlook" website-value-generator, and was surpised how much an old site of mine is worth . . . $876 to be precise!

The thing is, I don't know enough to make money from it, and had given up on it, and now it's due for renewal in just over 2 weeks, so what I want to do is sell it for something like the above figure, ASAP!

Any comments on where is the best place to such a website quickly?

thanks

Chris-

#place #sell #website #weeks

Chris- 15 years ago

And another quick question . . . are the value estimates on websiteoutlook.com, fairly realistic? . . . if so, then it looks like I'd be much better off making websites to sell, than attempting to get an income from them myself

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J Bold 15 years ago

No, they're not fairly realistic. You can only use them as a guide, but your site could likely be worth a lot less. If you are not making any money from it, buyers will not be interested. They'll want proof of traffic and earnings from your site before they'll buy it.
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RokNStoK 15 years ago

Hi Chris,

Trust me... there is no 'automated solution' to value your website.

In addition, your constraint of pushing the site on the market within 2 weeks will further devalue your website on the open market.

If you're serious about selling the site then market it directly to people already in that line of work. It's most likely worth only a few dollars to anybody else.
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Chris- 15 years ago

Thanks for the comments so far.

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Marhelper 15 years ago

I do not trust those kind of sites but if you are looking to sell a site Flippa is the way to go.
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Fadiz 15 years ago

try flippa.com
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- All Night Cafe 15 years ago
  
  First before you worry about selling make sure
  you have 3 or 4 months of provable income.
  
  Take that figure and multiple by 3 or 4 times
  and that will get you closer to a price you
  can actually sell it for.
  
  And I guess you have to consider, no one
  might be interested at all.
  
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  Votoshka 15 years ago
  
  According to websiteoutlook.com my website is worth about $1900 errm... but I really don't think I'd get that for it right now It has some PR but not much traffic and doesn't really earn any income. So honestly, I don't know how accurate such things are.
  
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  Jec 15 years ago
  
  Hi,
  
  If you want to sell your site have a look at flippa.com. Check out the sites that are already sold, and there are good tips also that you can get on how to sell websites so that you can immediately do a little tweaking to add more value to whatever site you have. Hope that helps.
  
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Flipfilter 15 years ago

Hi Chris,

We index four sites

1) Flippa.com - good for general sales and higher ticket valuations but currently experiencing a supply / demand problem meaning new sites with no revenue or traffic WILL more than likely fail to sell

2) Digital Point - values are a lot lower than Flippa, but there is no listing fee and you will sell a site here; it's just a question of how much!

3) Webmasters Markerplace - I dont think there's a listing fee but dont know too much about the policy here. Not an auction format but a surprisingly high clearance rate.

4) Website Broker. Fairly well established but valuations on some sites are crazy putting off serious buyers. It is however still worth a look.

Hope this helps

Justin
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Safade Billy 15 years ago

Adding to Justin's list

5) WF Classifieds
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Bill Corners 15 years ago

Flippa is probably the best place to sell your website. I've sold lots of sites myself and made some good money. It's easy and they have added plenty of features since opening the site.
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tyroneshum 15 years ago

Heard of Flippa.com from John Yeo and it seems to be a good shot for flipping websites although I haven't planned of that yet since I'm eager to manage all my websites at the moment and make money from them even longer. I have put much efforts as well as my staff into it and before selling, I would rather have to think of it twice since I hate regrets.
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ButterflyGarden 15 years ago

Here is a good article about buying, selling and valuing domains - Buy, Sell, Value a Website

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sbucciarel

Banned 15 years ago

Website generators are completely worthless. Does your site have traffic and revenue? If not, it's little more than a start-up unless it has some incredible design and great options or maybe a huge list and twitter following.

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Chris-

15 years ago

Thanks for all the replies . . . very much appreciated!

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Sorry, but that's not logical, because that assumes I am as effective at making income as every other person in the world, and that's simply not the case. I might have made zero on it, yet it still might be able to generate a fortune for someone who knows what they are doing, and the fact that it's got some long-term backlinks and is one year old, might be worth something to someone who knows how to make good profit from such a site, even though it might not generate much income the way I use it.

Thanks for your comment anyway.

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sbucciarel

Banned 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris-

Thanks for all the replies . . . very much appreciated!

Sorry, but that's not logical, because that assumes I am as effective at making income as every other person in the world, and that's simply not the case. I might have made zero on it, yet it still might be able to generate a fortune for someone who knows what they are doing, and the fact that it's got some long-term backlinks and is one year old, might be worth something to someone who knows how to make good profit from such a site, even though it might not generate much income the way I use it.

Thanks for your comment anyway.

Chris-

Ok ... that's just my experience with over a hundred Flippa listings and another hundred elsewhere. I just listed a dynamite site that has over 1,000 backlinks, a matching Twitter acct with over 3,000 followers that is 2 years old and gets a lot of traffic, but is not monetized. Guess what. No sale.

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Chris- 15 years ago

OK, I understand what you're saying. Thanks for the info!

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Safade Billy 15 years ago

Oh ! Another hot source which I use myself is selling offline. If your niche deals with something that can mom/dad or small businesses can utilize, but there are requirements that sites has to meet.

Other sources
1. Classifieds such as Tradingpost.com.au
2. Buy/sell businesses - http://business.domain.com.au/

These are Australian based , but you can find for other regions. Once again these sources are useful only for certain type of sites.
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ishboo 15 years ago

I think Jim Cockrum would say EBAY! Hello?

Wow, I can't believe nobody said that. Don't just sell the website, but build an email list out of it using Jim's methods at his site SilentSalesMachine.com Hope this helps because it would seriously be the absolute best way :-)

Then, you would have a list of people interested in buying sites like that and could be a website broker yourself or sell other "Done for you" intellectual properties. Like templates, resell rights products, master rights, plr software rights, etc.

Hope this helps and remember to think long term. You can easily turn what you are letting go of into a nice six figure business
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Janice Sperry 15 years ago

Some people sell websites on eBay but I think Fippa is the best.
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ErnieB 15 years ago

It says my one site has an "Estimated Worth $6256.1 USD". I sure wish i could get even close to that out of it, lol. ( more reallistically maybe worth $1200 )

Conversely it states my membership site has an "Estimated Worth $438 USD". However this site earns me almost $200 in residuals each month so i know its worth more than that!

So those types of sites are FAR from reliable indicators. BUT flippa is one of the best sites to sell websites on.
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Chris- 15 years ago

Thanks very much for all the comments.

Chris-
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