Should I sell a website that is making me $34 per day (Clickbank).

Personally I wouldn't unless I desperately needed the cash or was worried the income might drop. That's a $9,000 a year income.

If you know that the traffic is consistent ,stay with it

It is running on auto-pilot for now. I'm observing my error logs and removing any errors. (None in the past week.)

Let me also tell that I am in around $12000 debt at the moment with my Car loan and some random Credit Card dues. They are rolling at the moment because I'm only paying the minimum amount due. I would be relieved to get that burden off and concentrate on making awesome websites which convert.

If you are in debt then i would recommend to sell it, being in debt sucks and long term only gets worse

If you do then selling the site on flippa you get 2-5x annual revenue that the site generates as long as the number are verifiable

Great traffic congratulation for the great work that you have done patience pays

The niche I currently am is not one where people would be signing up for a list.
The visitors are desperate for information. Either I sell it to them via my affiliate account or I lose them.

I cant think of any situation where I can ask them to signup for a mailing list.

Also, I doubt that the traffic is going to drop anytime soon due to any algorithm change. I just mentioned the topic to make sure anybody reading this is aware of those things as well.

wow, $25 a day is quite impressive. How much do you intend to sell? Just wondering..

@All, it is agains the terms of WF to sell the website on this forum. If I do plan to sell the website I will launch a thread in the Websites for Sale section or Flippa which ever is better according to you guys.

I'm wondering what would the ideal asking price be for such a website?

for $25/day, maybe you are looking at $9000++? at least it cover a year's guaranteed income.

definetly hold on to it unless you are in desperate need of liquid assets.
If you continue tweaking and maybe add some Ads, you can definetly increase your daily revenue with that amound of targeted traffic!

You could sell it. But you won't make more than 1-2k for it because your money is only 2 months old. Nobody will pay more than what you have made so far.

Your site is worth as much as someone is willing to give you for it. Everyone is going to ask you how much you want for your site & you don’t know what to say. You don’t want to undercut yourself especially after so much hard work, but then again, you are selling a website – virtual property.

Generally the asking price is the average revenue the site was earning minus the costs of running the site, that multiplied by 2.5. Some say a site should be sold for ten times it’s gross profit, or 5 times average revenue or even 2 times last years total revenue.

As for whether or not to sell it, ask yourself "will I be able to walk away from this site knowing it could have brought the same or more income?" Some other factors that you should consider about when thinking about keeping this site or not:
is the niche (competition too),
how much time and skill is required to manage the site,
the costs (hosting, content for site, marketing the site, etc),
whether you can make this site grow faster,
the future potential of the site and whether the niche is a buyers or sellers market (supply v/s demand).

It looks like it might be hard to extract much more revenue from your target marketing beyond what you already getting (but only you know this, I can't help because I don't have any other details)

Keep your website traffic statistics ready and write a good sales letter. After all you ARE selling a site.

Remember, don't let the buyer see your "state of urgency”. Play it cool. If the buyer is not desperate but the seller (you) are then the power will rest in the buyers hands and they can dictate the terms and price. Wish you the best with what ever decision you make. Hope this helps.

I would keep it for a few more months and try to work on improving it. Who knows, you might actually start making 2-3 times a day on average.

At the same time, you could start working on a new site and try to duplicate your results. If you managed to do it, you could either sell one of the sites off to help pay off your debt, or add more sites to your arsenal

Hold on to it until you see that your profits are diminishing... (Then sell it off if it drops far too low, so that another owner can take hold of it.)

Or... you could test funneling them into an intermediate squeeze page and try to sell them related products through email. It's also all about the backend. Besides, you get to build assets that you can take away even if the site is sold.

Imogen

Sunny,

If that website is earning you $25 per day, that is close to $800 per month. That's close to $10,000 per year more or less.

Why would you want to sell it? This can earn you money from years to come.

I personally would not sell it.

It depends completely on how much are you going to sell your website?
If you are gaining Organic traffic from Search engines I highly recommend to not sell your website!

Alexander

How much do you earn with 1 conversation?
If it is close to 25$, it mean you have 1 conversation every day and you have 700-900 visitors... IMO:

1. You can "make" better conversation rate, if you can rise it and make 1-2% (and it's possible), your revenue will fly high ));
2. You really need to start building Email list.

Only then think about selling it.

Just my opinion... Good luck.

YOU should hang to the website for the moment and try to add more banners on the side or something 800 visitors per day is pretty good. Try offer them something free first then sale them something later

Organic traffic can be VERY reliable IF you had laid the foundations right. Lots of people try to take the short cut, gets some success, then gets slapped in the face.

Seeing as your site is still new, it's hard to say just how solid your rankings will continue to stay as they are. But if you've not actually done any actual seo, it's a really good sign

You would get around $18000 for a site making $9000 a year (2x yearly income) but the decision is up to you, do what is best for you.

If the techniques you used are replicable (i.e you didnt just accidentaly stumble across a gold mine traffic wise) and other people could copy the formula to a degree why not offer to sell a report on what you were doing. I'd pay $10 for that ;-)

I am fairly new to IM but very experienced in business in general so as for the debt situation, it is true you are far better off paying your debts as soon as possible. However, I think its unlikely to get much of an offer for a website with only a short history. Numbers can be artificially inflated for short periods.

Revenue streams are the most vital thing you can help to build, I say stick with the site and expand it

If i were you, i would sell the site and pay off my debt using the mone you got from it.

Since you say that your traffic comes from google, there is no way to kow if you will eanr the same amount in a couple of months.

You should get a decent amount for it if you can provide proof of income and traffic.

Sell it and than create another one similar to it. Have it both ways! My two sense!

Lots of good advice here and I would consider them all before making a decision. Whatever decision you make, you'll know it will be an informed one, with a good balance of arguments for both sides - to sell or to keep. Weigh up all the arguments and then decide, and trust that that is the best decision. Good luck!

Just an update to those who provided me solid advice.
The website has started gaining increased amount of visitors everyday and the sales are skyrocketing with a 20% week-on-week increase in sales. (Last 15 days net sales of $586)

I'm glad I did not sell it on Flippa or the likes for a mere 300-600 bucks.
Will keep you guys updated about what happens next!