How to Sell your Website
How to Sell your Website
There are hundreds and thousands of websites on the internet
today being bought and sold and there are many places you can
sell your website such as ebay and website brokers. Though this
article we will explore each of these possibilities in greater
details.
Ebay - Selling a website on ebay can perfect for some and
completely useless for others. As most people know ebay, it gets
millions of hits every minute from people looking for everything
from hair nets to race cars. For starters this is a great way to
get word out that your website is for sale. It has lots of
people viewing your ads but keep in mind your competition is
feirce as so many people post sites for sale on ebay. To sell
your website on ebay it has to stand out from the rest.
Forums - Forums tend to be a great place to sell websites. They
tend to ask alot more questions about statistics and revenue
than most other places but if you have a quality site you can
sometimes get alot more for it buy selling your website in
forums. Good forums for this include sitepoint.com,
geekvillage.com and webhostingtalk.com.
Website Brokers - Website brokers normally go out and try to get
you the best possible price for your website. They tend to have
contacts in the industry and will get into contact with people
you can't or dont even know exist. They generally charge a fee
of around 10%-15%. There are a few websites around where you can
post your website up to brokers - kind of like a cross between
ebay and a brokers firm.
Sell to your visitors - A commonly used technique to get a good
profit from the sale of your website is to post a 'site for
sale' link or image on the frontpage of the site for sale. This
targets the audience to people interested in the topic of the
site. But be warned not all of these people are or want to be
webmasters.
Personal Contact - If you have a low budget, selling your
website though your personal contact can be very rewarding. This
takes everyone else out of the equation and you pay no broker
fees or ad fees. If you plan on selling your website this way
make sure you know enough people who would be intrested in the
site.
Website Checklist
Before you get to putting up website for
sale ads and hiring a site broker, there are a few things you
will need. Firstly, find out in detail your statistics. This
including unique visitors per day or month, bandwidth used per
month and current and past revenue for the website. Most people
who are in the industry will ask for the pagerank of the website
too. You can find out your page rank by downloading the google
toolbar and re-visiting your website. A pagerank is considered
by most webmasters as being a large factor.