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Your feelings after you sold a site: Are you envy with the new owner?

by Adie
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We are just humans and sometimes feelings like this are normal. I sold one of my very first blogs last 2008. The blog has PR 3 and with alexa rank of around 120K. I sold the site for $3,200 through sitepoint marketplace (before flippa was created)... The site was earning around $50/month under my administration. The buyer, one of the most well-known online companies promised me to put all original posts under my copyright and won't change everything as part of our agreement.

I was forced to sell that site due to financial problem and I had no choice but to let it go. I had bad feeling selling the site. After 4 to 6 months, they continued posting of high quality seo-related articles and the traffic has dramatically increased. I felt jealous to the new owner honestly but I had nothing to do, I'm not the owner anymore. This year's PR update gave that site a PR4 and most of its old pages got PR2 to PR3. I noticed an increase on referral to my adlandpro account. I know I stopped promoting this program couple of years ago. The number of referral is increasing day by day to the point I am getting 5 to 10 referrals per day without doing anything. I checked the referral website and I am surprised when I found out that one of my old posts there having my adlandpro referral link got a high PR and increased its ranking on google. I commented on my own old post and the good admin approved my comment immediately when he recognized me. I put one of my new sites in the URL field of my comment. That was an instant backlink from a high PR page....

I lost my jealousy and rather very thankful to the new owner of maintaining my previous works... Now I am still benefiting a lot....

That site was myseoblog.net
#envy #feelings #owner #site #sold
  • Profile picture of the author Giani
    Good for you though I think it is rare. But yes, you do envy the owner if you sold it for financial problems.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bertil Jenner
    I personally do feel slightly envious whenever I see some of the sites I sold a few years back still holding their top 3 positions for their main terms; without any extra changes done to them. You realize you could have made possibly 20x what you sold them for at the time.
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    • Profile picture of the author Adie
      Originally Posted by Bertil Jenner View Post

      I personally do feel slightly envious whenever I see some of the sites I sold a few years back still holding their top 3 positions for their main terms; without any extra changes done to them. You realize you could have made possibly 20x what you sold them for at the time.
      On the brighter side, it's bad to see the website you sold has gone into oblivion because the new owner has no capacity to run it... I feel bad for both site and the owner...
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Wilson
    Maybe you feel jealous because you are not really ready to part with your site when you sold it. Yes you cant do anything anymore but you can try to make another site which you can love just like what you did with your seo blog before.

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    • Profile picture of the author Adie
      Originally Posted by Andrea Wilson View Post

      Maybe you feel jealous because you are not really ready to part with your site when you sold it. Yes you cant do anything anymore but you can try to make another site which you can love just like what you did with your seo blog before.

      Andrea
      It's actually a mixed emotions but its normal... after all we just humans... but I would really feel bad if the buyer was careless and let the site vanished.. LOL..

      Yes, I already created 4 authority sites since the....
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  • Profile picture of the author SFitzpatrick
    Perhaps take into account the fact the purchaser has probably invested time and money into improving the sites after purchase?
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    • Profile picture of the author Adie
      Originally Posted by SFitzpatrick View Post

      Perhaps take into account the fact the purchaser has probably invested time and money into improving the sites after purchase?
      Yes of course. The new owner is a multimillion Internet company. They have their own website appraiser that purchases websites for them...
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  • Profile picture of the author txconx
    It's like real estate - you just have to do it and not look back.

    I sold a house because it needed a new roof and new furnace and I wanted to unload it before I had to put money I didn't have into it. I got a price that, at the time, was unheard of in the neighborhood. My buyer sold it less than 2 years later at double what she paid for it.

    Web sites, domain names, real estate - you just have to let it go, honey.
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  • Profile picture of the author I.M.Retired
    It's like real estate - you just have to do it and not look back.
    I just sold one of my three year old babies. It is definitely not easy to let go, even though I was ready to move on and the new owner has lots of ideas and energy to expend on her new acquisiton.

    I think the new owner might be getting a bit tired of me continually making 'suggestions' as to what she should or should not do. I've really got to force myself to let go and let her take the reins and go wherever her instincts take her.

    For me, the best way to cope is to move on to a new project. That's what I'm doing now and it really makes a difference. I have a new baby to focus on and am really starting to enjoy having the extra free time to concentrate on moving forward and seeing what develops.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlisonM
    Personally I would move on and forget it.

    I've sold two "bricks and mortar" businesses, 9 years and 3 years ago, and I know they are both continuing to thrive. And actually that gives me a good feeling, because I've helped two other couples change thier lives.

    And now I look forward to new opportunities.
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  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    I love seeing someone improve on one of my sites. It's something to learn from and implement on future sites. I'd much rather see someone buy a site from me and do better than me rather than worse.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pluton
    I've always tended not to look at sites or domain names which I have sold.

    I did do it recently to one I sold for about $400 about 10 years ago and it's now a mega site obviously making loads of $. Ah well C'est la vie.

    I really don't have a problem with people improving what I have done. In the example above the buyer took a website/domain which I did'nt have time to develop and obviously spent a load of time and effort and turned it into a good earner - and good for them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adie
    I am sharing my feelings a couple of years ago but of course I already moved on.. and as I said, I am very thankful to the new owner of maintaining the site well and sending me backlinks and even affiliate referrals.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lou Diamond
    Hello,
    I sold a good site to a friend of mine and a year later he had a new house and car and a new wife as well, I asked him what he did and he told me he worked at making the site a success, in other words he took action where I did not.
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    • Profile picture of the author garyv
      Originally Posted by Lou Diamond View Post

      Hello,
      I sold a good site to a friend of mine and a year later he had a new house and car and a new wife as well, I asked him what he did and he told me he worked at making the site a success, in other words he took action where I did not.
      What the heck... a new Wife?? Will you be my next copywriter? lol - JK.
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      • Profile picture of the author Liz Morgan
        Speak of the devil, I just bookmarked a page on that blog as a resource, without any knowledge of this thread.

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        • Profile picture of the author Kay King
          I'd be happy the new owner was continuing a site I started - and happy I earned money selling it, too.

          I see no sense in feeling jealous or deprived for selling something you decided to sell. If the sale helped you in a financial crisis - it's all good.

          Jealousy and regret are damaging emotions in business transactions.

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          • Profile picture of the author marketonline1
            If the new owner becomes successful, no problem if somehow you feel envy about it, as long as you're not doing anything that can destruct the new owner(i.e. saying something negative about him). Take it as a challenge to move forward.
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