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For few days I have been searching for new domain name, I tried to come up with the name that is used a lot, it’s easy to remember, not too long and most important “niche name”.
Well my head hurts since then, and I haven’t yet find the right domain name. I have visited many websites and tools to help me out finding correct name.
I also talked to DoshDosh on msn messenger and see what he has to say about it, he also gave me couple of advices and one website that I spent 3 hours and nothing that really interested me, and if it did its already taken.
Am I selling this blog?
No, I am just opening new blog that I will write more about
Technology: cell phones, new toys, new gadgets, cell phones, pc, etc…
Software: new and software, reviews, games, tips tricks….
News: Companies, Blogsphere, Advertising
And much more…
Back to original topic..Tips and How to sell your Blog
Just the other day I read cool post from northxeast.com-10 tips to a successful blog sale I think the post has a lot of values that could give you an idea what to look for and where to look for selling blog.
I think many people sell their blogs because they want earn some quick money, but they forget a lot of things they can still do with that blog.
Like have other people post if they don’t have time, keep it for a year or two longer, the value of the blog will go up, as well as the traffic.
Most mistakes I have seen bloggers do, they get email from domain registrar that domain name is about to be expired, they tend to sell their blogs right at that moment without thinking if they spend another $8-10 they can maximize their traffic growth and have maybe even successful blog.
Anyways go ahead and read the 10 tips to successful blog sale by northxeast.
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When I was trying to come up with a new name for a new blog I had trouble also. Basically what I did was get the new words list at Dictionary.com and then checked to see if they were available. That’s how I found the name OpTempo.
I’ve recently been thinking about the blog sale idea. How does one determine the value of a blog? I get a lot of bsiness from my blog and it could be worth quite a bit of money. Biggest mistake I made was putting MY name in the domain name. Now who wants CarolsWenatchee when their name might be Sally or Joe? Any suggestions?
@Carol: Well people can still buy domain name like johndoe.com and redirect it to your blog. So after a while they would tell visitors to visit their real name.
Also value of your blog is something you have to figure, this all depends on blog traffic, blog income.
What would you sell your blog for?
What would I sell my blog for? I’ve wondered about that myself. I can’t even think of a number. It’s directly tied to so much of my business that it’s value is incalculable to me at this time. If I was ready to quit working it would be an easier question. At this time, I’d say if someone offered me $50,000 cash I’d think about it… emphasis on the “think”.
As for the domain name issue, I was thinking about the search engine results coming up CarolsWenatchee. When the consumer goes to the site and sees someone named Sally or Joe Blow has taken it over, does that affect their credibility has the owner of the content?
@Carol: I was looking your blog and there is some good content but when it comes to like what people are looking for you will have to do a lot of changes.
For example
type on google site:CarolsWenatchee.com you will see your pages are ALL same your SEO is bad because it’s repeating for every page but your pages should have different title names.
Also when I look at your traffic you get about 2.000 visitors per month and people are not happy with those results.
Go to problogger:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/11/05/selling-blogs-factors-of-valuation/
My suggestion is do not sell that blog yet. I can help you get about 400% of visitors what you have right now just with the single wordpress plugin.
What it will do it will change all your titles all your title descriptions and that is where you are going to get your visitors from. I like the fact that your blog has some age over 1 year!! So for now i would just leave that blog as it is. Are you using wordpress?
Hi again, Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I don’t really have any intention to sell, but I might someday. I work in a relatively small market area, so I’m not sure if 2,000 visitors a month is so bad. I’m not just looking for traffic, but quality traffic. My Google rankings are good but not so good on Yahoo and MSN. I am using Squarespace and have been afraid to switch because I do have such good Google rankings. I also own TopPropertiesWenatchee.com which is my primary real estate website (not a blog).
@Carols: When you say google ranking , what do you mean by that? You mean Page Rank? That will stay anyways. I see with Squarespace you cant really change much + they are pricey
Have you ever consider wordpress? Or your own hosting/domain meaning you have 250gb of space and 350gb of bandwith unlike Squarespace gives tops 2gb of space and 10gb of bandwith?
Owning your hosting/domain it cost less money its only 5-6$ a month
Let me know if you have any questions I will help you as much as my time allows.
BONTB: What I mean is the search results. On Google when you type in “Wenatchee real estate” I am #2 and #10 for organic results. For “Wenatchee real estate agent” I am #1 and #2. I don’t do any pay per click placement.
@Carol: That is very good , any other keywords you come up first? Have you sign up with google analytics?
I come up first for “Wenatchee MLS”, #2 for “Wenatchee waterfront homes”, #2,3,4,5, & 7 for “Wenatchee real estate news”, #6, 7, and 9 for “Wenatchee News”. I’m not sure about all the others. I have not signed up for Google analytics. Never have checked that out. Any suggestions.
And, I never answered your question about WordPress. I had someone else suggest it but I’ve been scared to switch because I do have good rankings with my Square Space blog.
@Carol: I could not imagine having blog or website and not having google analytics, its best tool google ever gave to webmasters. Tracks your visitors, unique visitors, keywords searched, lenght time spent on blog and a LOT more.
Well your ranking should not go down, because you changed the software. I always do new website and then i delete the old one.
Well you got some nice ranking there, with google analytics you could probably optimize your site even more, because you would see what people are searching for to find your blog