Your thoughts - What will happen if I do this?u

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I currently have a blog on its own server that has a PR2. There is no way to ever make it profitable (high competition, low interest) so I was wondering what would happen if I shut it down, and transferred the content to a Weebly (or other free platform). I would then do a redirect through the domain registrar so existing/future traffic goes through to the free platform site.

In the two years I've had it I've paid a total of $19.98 in fees, but made $4.27 in adsense/afilliate income. Not much hope of selling it as websites generally sell for 3-5 times annual income. The price I could expect to get for it is $6.39 to $10.65. Throw in the listing fee on Flippa and, well you get the picture.

It does have a PR2 though.

Its up for renewal shortly so what do you reckon I should do.

Let it go?
Sell it?
Transfer to free platform?
Other?

BTW it's in the food niche.

EDIT: I just realised the question on the thread title should read "Your thoughts What should I do?" Doh!!!
#search engine optimization #happen #thisu #thoughts
  • Let it go. All the stuff you have is indexed already...but if you want to remain on the same subject - you'll probably want to transfer it to a new platform like weebly or wetpaint.

    You could redirect the traffic w/ a 301 - yes - but again...that depends if you want to remain on the same subject.
  • Even though you only have few dollars in it, I would think you rely on the traffic it gets..Check how many visitors you would think you can convert as your subscribers then think how you can monetize better. Converting them as your subscribers mean it's like a $ per subscriber per month.
  • Good luck trying to sell almost any site for that much. I have a lot of experience selling sites and the most you'll almost ever get is 1- 1.5 years income. And that's on the high range. Most will be 5-7 month's revenue.

    That's not to say sites don't sell for 2+ years revenue, but they are generally sites making hundreds of thousands and millions in revenue. That's just if you're selling and trying to push the revenue as a selling point. You can sell sites that make no revenue because of future potential and because of SEO work as well. I've done a couple of these and sold them for 50-100x the little revenue they made.

    I'd say try putting it up on flippa and see if you can get $100-$200 for the PR2 stats. You wouldn't be selling it based on income, but purely on the SEO work.
  • Why dont you use it as a feeder site. Put a few high quality articles and send incontent links to some of your main webstes.
    An aged and high PR domain is never a waste for SEO.
  • Those are all good ideas guys. I'll have to give it more thought. Will probably end up just using it as a conduit to other sites.

    Thanks for all your advice and tips.
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    Your thoughts - What will happen if I do this?u

    I currently have a blog on its own server that has a PR2. There is no way to ever make it profitable (high competition, low interest) so I was wondering what would happen if I shut it down, and transferred the content to a Weebly (or other free platform). I would then do a redirect through the domain registrar so existing/future traffic goes through to the free platform site. In the two years I've had it I've paid a total of $19.98 in fees, but made $4.27 in adsense/afilliate income. Not much hope of selling it as websites generally sell for 3-5 times annual income. The price I could expect to get for it is $6.39 to $10.65. Throw in the listing fee on Flippa and, well you get the picture.