Get higher ranks on Google with Search Engine Optimization !

Professional Search Engine Optimization services to give your websites the visibility through search engines and the social media channels.
Become an SEO Expert, and get the edge over others!
Have a website that needs help with SEO? Contact me with your details now for a personalized, custom review.

Nov

Blog sell out bandwagon - Don’t jump to it, here are some alternatives

It started off with Blogging Fingers, when Matt Jones decided to sell off his blog for US$ 6000. He made it and today Bloggingfingers has a new owner. Full story here. At the time of sale, Bloggingfingers had around 200 rss feed subscribers and PR3.

Kumiko followed with cashquests, a less than year old blog with 900ish rss feed subscribers and PR5. She managed to sell it off for US$15000 (yummy!!).No official notice yet.

5xmom followed pursuit and is up for sale at US$12,000 with a PR0 (got a backlash from google for selling links) and around 200 rss feed subscribers.

Mark from 45n5 thinks both of these sites had something similar. They had been using pay per post and since they are the (new)enemy of google, they fear the death.

I spoke to Kevin on this and he thinks they are being hasty with it and is underselling their blogs.

I agree to both Kevin and Mark. I don’t think the “Make money online” market is dead. It’s happening even now! But I think the bloggers got the fatigue and lost the game. Well they didn’t really lose after all they made some serious money.

But what should you do at situations like this?

- Hang on..think twice thrice and more if you have to really do it.

- Ask your friends and experts their opinion.

- Drink more coffee, eat more chocolates.

- Go for guest bloggers and take a vacation.

- Put your blog to autopilot mode by roping in a friend of your’s who wants some exposure.

- Forget your blog contents, manage with some link love to other blogs.

- Go for social media optimization, go around hang out in all those social networking sites, give some exposure for your blog.

- Try finding new niches and setting up new blogs while maintaining the current one.

- Spend more time with your family.

- Think of all the gadgets that’s in your wishlist, and start saving for it.

- Plan for a world tour next year, start working towards it.

- Try to buy small upcoming blogs and create a network of blogs.

Enough said.

Innovations & Interesting Ramblings

what about a bottle of good beer?

and mani someone is searching for “vel movie” on your search plugin here…

Innovations & Interesting Ramblings’s last blog post..A cool screen capturing firefox plugin - Fireshot

Reply
Mani Karthik

A beer seems to be a good idea.

Reply
Use your blog as a platform for bigger things

[...] Mani Karthik spoke about this subject today and so did Mark Wielgus. Mark pointed out that 5xMom.com is on sale for $10,000 (see here). I really think that this site will struggle to sell at this price. [...]
Steven Snell

Some good ideas here Mani. I think Mark had some very valid points in his writeup. Google forcing a blogger to change monetization strategies is no minor issue if you’re trying to really make money.

Steven Snell’s last blog post..40 Resources for WordPress Theme Designers

Reply
A week in blogging - Nov 16th - 22nd

[...] round numbers. CashQuests, which was sold for 15k was talked about by Kevin, Mark, me and many others. The sale was quite interesting and Kumiko, the owner of the blog have not [...]
kher Cheng Guan

Personally, I feel those who sold or wanted to sell their blogs, have reached their plateau. You can sense it from their recent content. Babbling the same trite issues, mindless ramblings and even putting up silly YouTube clips. Most of them don’t really have innovative or interesting money ideas to feed their readers anymore. Their average readers are not interested in those numb-minding technical stuff. They want to make money, like them.

kher Cheng Guan’s last blog post..Heidi -The Boob With Boob

Reply
Mani Karthik

Kher, yes that does makes some sense. May be it was the right time for them to sell the blogs.

Reply