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Lazy Way To Sell Your Site For $1000
If you’re looking to make a quick $1000 by selling your site - here’s how to do it!
There is a rule of thumb on the internet that a website will generally sell for ten times it’s monthly earnings.
So if you want to sell your site for $1000, you’re going to need to make $100 per month from it. Sound hard? It’s not really that difficult and history has shown that it can be achieved by a site that receives just 100 hits per day.
Here’s how you’ll make your thousand dollars:
1. Text link ads - You’re going to sell links from your site but instead of charging ridiculously high prices, you’re going to sell them for only $1 each. Sell ten of them.
Money made: $10
2. 125×125 banner ads - You’re going to set up six of these ad spots and sell them for an unbelievably low $5 each.
Money made: $30
3. PayPerPost - You’re almost guaranteed to make money with PayPerPost. It’s not a struggle to write two sponsored posts per week and most will earn you at least $5 per post.
Money made: $40
4. 480×60 banner ad - Placed at the top of your site next to the header, this is a prime piece of advertising space and you’re going to guarantee it’s sale by selling it for just $10 per month.
Money made: $10
5. Feed ads - With a regular posting schedule, ads in your feed will receive a lot of impressions. No doubt that you’ll be able to sell an ad in your feed for just $5 per month.
Money made: $5
6. Site review - Whether it’s through ReviewMe, PayPerPost Direct or via your readers, selling a great review of a site for just $5 is a steal that will have advertisers running to your site.
Money made: $5
GRAND TOTAL: $100 per month!
Congratulations! You’ve just earned enough money that will see your site sell for $1000. Making money online is easy, isn’t it?
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No offence, but this post is nothing but ridiculous. You sure can make 100$ from almost ANY blog, but who’d buy it? The title of this post doesn’t go with the content.
by Nuts & Milk
Who’d buy it??? D’uh……someone who wants to make $100 per month? Desinotes.com made about $40 per month and quickly sold for around $400.
And trust me, compared to affiliate marketing, selling ads is definitely the lazy way to do it!
by Cash Quests
My old blog sold for $1000 and wasn’t making much more than $100 per month. It was 3 months old. The new owner has not done anything with it though.
This tactic is very possible and is just as easy as outlined in this post. I’m sure I could easily set up a blog and in its 2nd month make $100 from it and then flip it for $1000. That might sound good, but it would only make a yearly income of $6600, which is not enough for me!
by Matt Jones
Desinotes was making over 100$ PER REVIEW after being reviewed by JC. Selling it for 500$ was a joke.
Apart from that I just don’t agree with your saying - “someone who wants to make $100 per month” Its just SO easy to make money from your blog the day its born!
by Nuts & Milk
I don’t know if you’ve spent much time on auction sites but there are established sites being sold like this everyday. While it’s not hard to make money from the start, many people are looking to buy established and promoted sites rather than set it up and have to market it themselves.
by Cash Quests
Even I don’t know if you’ve spent much time on auction sites
As according to me blogs thats make just 100$ per month are nothing but pure garbage 
If you need examples visit SP or DP forums 
by Nuts & Milk
I don’t think Desi Notes was even making that much. It had in the past, but the site was dying and he wouldn’t publish his Adsense figures at the end of it. I tried to buy his blog for $200 and he actually agreed to sell it to me, only to turn round and say he was going to start an auction. Sucks.
by Angel
On the flip side of this, you can buy dead blogs for next to nothing and turn them into profit in no time at all.
by Angel
That sounds like an idea that would work.
If you have a lot of time on your hands you could aim to make 5 blogs every two months. Get revenue and then sell.
Wouldn’t be very much money in the long run though.
I dunno..I would never pay ten times the amount of monthly revenue though.
- Andrew
by Andrew Patrick
I make about $20 a month with zero effort. I really don’t see anyone paying $200 for my blog when they can just start their own.
by Bubs
While this can definitely happen, it’s not guaranteed. I once sold a site making $100/month for $100. Yep, 1x monthly revenue.
by Sucker
Your name is my response
by Cash Quests
ROFL
by Abdalla Ahmed
The flipping part doesn’t interest me because my blog is still new, however, I really like the outline of the idea. I think it’s a good reference for the newbie blogger to help them earn $100 a month.
by Lori
Despite what the others are saying, this IS a viable business plan. I’ve been following the way you sell ad space Kumiko, and you always opt for the price low, sell high model - which I think is very cool. It’s worked for you again as you’ve sold out all your ad spaces, and it’s something which I’ve gotta consider for my own site.
For those who say that a site making $100/month will be garbage or of garbage quality, then that’s a sweeping generalisation. If you’ve browsed Sitepoint, you’ll know that there’s pretty much a buyer for every single niche out there. If you’ve got a niched site, coupled with one which is making $100/month in revenue, I’m sure a lot of people will jump at the chance, even if it means writing those few PPP posts in the month.
The moral here: people can’t be bothered to start their own blog. It’s so much easier buying someone elses and getting instant money, than to spend time building up your own site.
This could make an interesting Case Study if anyone has the time to try out the tactics above.
by Adnan
Are you going to take your own advice?
by Laura
If I charged these prices, I’d be reducing my site’s worth.
by Cash Quests
I meant selling your site for 10x its monthly earnings.
by Laura
you failed ot mention that your blog needs to be approved and in biz for 90 days with not more than 30 days of non posting or somthing like that in order to get approved by PPP.
by Israel
Wordpress lets you mess around with archives so the 3 month thing is a joke really..
by Abdalla Ahmed
Yep. I’ve got rejected blogs into PPP by doing this.
by Angel
I agree with you…
Why sell 1K if you can get more than that..
by boring bro
She’s right.
Everyone bashing the idea should take a quick look at what gets sold every day at SitePoint/DigitalPoint.
It’s all relative to the input though.
If you’re making $100/month on a site, good chance you’re doing more than $100 worth of work to get it there.
So just do $100/month worth of work and try to get $1000/month?
by Joshua
Whoever told you that 10x revenue is standard was lying to you. 24x - 30x monthly revenue is the norm these days, 10x is for revenue which isn’t backed up by traffic/isn’t sustainable.
That being said - most people won’t pay 10x revenue for payperpost earnings or direct review earnings at $5.
Your best bet is to make good original content - people value that a lot more highly than earnings these days.
by Funny exam answers
Almost every site that I sold I now wish I still owned. Pick up the latest Donald Trump book, Why We Want You To Be Rich, and you will see why.
BeachBum Michael
by BeachBum
While I think its possible to flip your blog for 1000$ if its making 100$ a month, why not just keep it and aim for 200$ a month, x 12 months and make 2400$ that year? Doesn’t make sense to me to sell of recurring income unless its for a rediculous offer like 100,000$
by InterWebHunt
I love the outline and I believe this is a great foundation if you want to make money online. Unfortunately, it doesn’t explain how one would go about getting 125 x 125 ad spots purchased. Even if they’re $5 a month, you may find it hard to get someone to by the spots.
If you would like to prove me wrong, you can purchase one of them!
Thanks for the post,
-Sam from MarketMatador.com
by Market Matador
Unless a site is 6 months old, or a unique idea, SitePoint/Digitalpoint *usually* sells for 2-4 months revenue.
Either way, thats a lot of easy profit for the buy and develop idea you have shown.
by Word Hugger
Wohh! I don’t know why most of you went against Kumiko?!
Yes a site that makes $100 could easily be sold for about $1000….
About Text link ads, 125×125 banner ads, 480×60 banner ad, etc… with as low prises as she mentioned it could be done….But only forgot to mention that the blog should be 3 months old for PayPerPost…I also think being 3 month old would help in selling those ads more.
One more thing that will help more: Add google adsense and Kontera ads (or something!)
by Roseate
You also can make extra money by join blog contests!
Check out MyBlogContest.com for more blog contest info.
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I had a few sites that I made recently and pretty much had no income, but the domains were great names. I sold 2 of them for $100 and 1 of them for $200. Not a bad deal since I had not made much revenue at all. The domain itself can be a huge bonus to the price you sell it for.
by fractal art gallery
If you don’t want to sell, this is still good advice on how to monetize and get easy advertising dollars from your blog or blogs.
You can go low ($5) or go abit higher ($10) but still a good and simple blueprint for newbies.
by Missy
Listen closely…
It doesn’t matter if you make $500 , or $5,000 with a blog, in both situations, people are still going to buy it simply because of two main reasons:
#1 - the blog already earns some money (the more, the better!), it has monetization proof…
#2 - the blog already gets traffic and is maybe ranked in Google - so you keep getting free traffic.
Isn’t this enough to motivate buyers?
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Where we could sell blogs to?
Codrut Turcanu.
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