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How can i believe it ?

by mark1230
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I am frequent visitor of Flippa and recently i have seen some listings over there.Specially one in which a person is selling his site for $60000 BIN
Now check the stats of website:

Just 35 articles
Domain Authority :34
Page Authority : 45
Inbound links : 43,279 (Most of them are High PR backlinks)
Facebook fan page : 60000+ likes
Google analytics showing 89.6% search traffic.


Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg) 725,888
Uniques (3 month avg) 373,204

How can a person bring in such a traffic(search engine) with only 35 articles.

Please share your views.
  • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
    I've seen single articles go viral to the tune of tens of thousands of views that persist over time. Seems unlikely, I know, but if monetized correctly, it 'could' be valuable.

    Now, the only stat I didn't see there, other than what the lister was offering to sell his site for, was how much he actually earns from it. To ask $60,000 for a site, he'll have to reveal financials eventually.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cassano 10
    I saw one article (( Fake craigslist job ad)), that go viral and got thousands backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by mark1230 View Post

    How can a person bring in such a traffic (search engine) with only 35 articles.
    Respectfully, Mark, your question misses the point: there isn't a real correlation between the number of articles you have on a site and the amount of traffic you bring in. That isn't how it works.

    But if you're talking about search engine traffic, that's probably arriving because of his off-page SEO anyway, if he has high quality backlinks from relevant sites. Publishing content just on your own site is barely a traffic-generator at all.

    If he's asking $60k for the site, about 95% of the potential interest among prospective purchasers will be determined by the site's proven income, anyway, including its duration and stability. All these other details have comparatively little significance.

    Originally Posted by mark1230 View Post

    How can i believe it ?
    The same way that anyone else can, when they spend $60k on a business: they see independently verifiable/audited accounts before paying. Nobody's selling websites for $60k without producing those (and certainly not on the basis of anything as precarious as SEO traffic!).
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I didn't see any mention of revenue. For that price, if there isn't significant, verifiable revenue, I wouldn't touch it. You would also need to do due diligence and I would want, as Alexa said, verifiable proof of income, traffic, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
    I am sure that someone will call that lister out on it, and request to see verifiable proof of earnings.

    It's only a matter of time. $60,000 isn't chump change.
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  • Profile picture of the author OLechat
    Remember that the BIN is the very highest amount that the seller hopes to get for the site. It's not necessarily representative of the reserve price, and in most cases isn't close to what the site will eventually go for at auction.

    Can you post a link to the auction, or send it via DM? If there's something dodgy going on, I'd like to know.
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  • Profile picture of the author mark1230
    oh i got the point guys .....there is nothing dodgy but i just wanted to tell name of site/// i don't know if this can hurt anybody's business...site name is
    androidappsforpc.com and
    tecnigen.com
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