Buy websites. Old! Why?
Probably I should have posted this article first (and these two should follow: How to sell / buy websites and Where to sell / buy websites).
Why should you bother buy old websites when you can develop your own and you enjoy the entire process? I think Jim Boykin was very straightforward with his explanation why you should buy old sites: Screw the Sandbox
Read the post and you will discover that he bought 5 sites in 5 days. The websites were registered in the 90’s and early 2000’s. He wrote to about 50 people after digging whois. The post was published on his blog on November 6th, 2005:
Site 1: A stricly informational site registered in 1996, over 70k backlinks, over 650 backlinks from EDU’s.
Site 2: An informational website registered in 1995, over 1k backlinks in yahoo, 6 from .edu’s.
Site 3: Site registed in 2001, ~1500 yahoo backlinks, 6 baclinks from edu’s.
Site 4: Site registed in early 2004, ~50 backlinks. (ranks in the top 20 google)
Site 5: Site registered in late 2003, ~50 backlinks. (#7 yahoo)
The most interesting part of the story is his post on the same topic published on April 8th, 2006. Jim writes about his investment:
…well to be honest, they’re [the websites he bought] doing quite well….one made ~8k last month, another made ~5k last month, another I turned right around and sold it for a price that made me over 8k instantly in profit, another made about $300 last month, and the other I haven’t changed yet as it took a few months to finally get the ownership changed and since the whois changed, I haven’t touched the site yet (I’ll wait a few months to do anything if the whois changed).
….yes…they were very profitable and I should make ~$150k from those sites over the course of a year….total spent for those 5 sites was less than $20k…..not a bad profit margin.
I think it is a good answer why you should be interested in the old websites and keep an eye on all those website sale offerings that are regularly posted online.
Jim Boykin’s favorite tools – he listed them in one of his interviews (despite the fact that he says he uses his own private tool to detect websites with good income potential there is a high probability that it consists of a combination of his favorite tools):
Wayback Machine
Find Age of Website Tool
Poodle Predictor
Copyscape
URLinfo
Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer
KwMap
Hubfinder
Keyword Tracker
Summary: It is a great sample of ‘knowledge is power’. And it is not a secret that other well known webmasters and seo’s buy old websites (for example, Aaron Wall).
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