Don't sell that site.

[Shawn]

Ever sell a site, and 8 months later, it's getting over 100,000 visitors a month?

I shouldn't have sold her. Good (great) rankings in Google takes time. Almost a year, in this case, actually.

Let it be a lesson. Optimize a site correctly, add relevant content, and wait.

[paul]

With hosting and domain registrations so cheap, neglect is not expensive. There were amazing changes in rankings and visitors after I had totally ignored the site for over two years.

For very niche terms. three or four pages of content may actually rank well in time. That's why I like to put up little "placeholder" sites on domains I have registered but not had time to do much with.

[chromate]

Shawn, what site are we talking about? Your cellphone site?

[incka]

I can't see the meso site getting that, and the satellite one he gave to me certainly isn't...

Dethfire has alot of PR he can direct to the site though, one of his sites is PR8 when dmoz is PR10... Perhaps the sucess is due to that? Anyway perhaps selling it helped you in the way that your current site will make millions yet if you hadn't had sold you wouldn't have made those sites...

[chromate]

"current site will make millions" ... oh really? haha. So that's why you're not giving the game away then! :)

[Shawn]

Yes, wirelessphonereviews.com.

Incka, it has nothing to do with PageRank. PR6 is hardly anything special. It has to do with some PageRank, well optimized pages, with optimized title tags, header tags, content, anchor text that consists of keywords, and, most importantly, time.

My new site, as incka was saying, destroys the income potential of WPR. I'm already making quite a bit of money with only a couple hundred visitors a day. I'm in a niche market, with very well optimized pages (12,000 of them). Unique content, PageRank of 7, optimized pages -- all I need now is to wait.

[incka]

Not as high income potential as Chromate's Dating Services... Look at the searches for that keyword... I hope time really does get him to the top...

[Chris]

Keeping a site costs next to nothing, which is why I don't sell mine. Even if the site makes me 0, it costs me 0, and it will still accumulate PageRank which I can then use.

Okay, it costs me $15 a year or whatever. Just about 0.

[incka]

I agree with Chris on his last post. I would never sell a site, and it gives you information about the topic and collects pr.

[Shawn]

Back then, I was starting out. I was hurting for money. I could barely pay my bills, as I jumped head first into the deep end publishing websites full-time.

When someone came along with a juicy offer, an offer that would pay my bills for months, PLUS give me capital for other projects, I took it. You would have too, in my situation.

Now, though, established -- I'd never sell a site for just some quick money.

[chromate]

Not as high income potential as Chromate's Dating Services... Look at the searches for that keyword... I hope time really does get him to the top...

Yeah, it's slowly rising through the ranks. #62 at the moment.

[intelliot]

Anyone consider creating/selling websites as a business? In this case, you'd build the website with the intent of someday selling it (not that I would).

[r2d2]

I think websites are generally gonna be worth more in the future than you could ever sell them for. A steady income is generally worth more than a lump sum...

[incka]

I know people that make to sell, Fonz seems to do that, but as r2d2 said in the long term...

[ASP-Hosting.ca]

I'm in a niche market, with very well optimized pages (12,000 of them). Unique content, PageRank of 7, optimized pages -- all I need now is to wait.

12,000 pages? Is this dynamic db driven content? Is the content part of the public domain?

[shim]

Good question, ASP-Hosting.ca

[Anat]

If the website in question currently has about 100,000 pageviews a month, how much money could it possibly be making? Nothing that would cover months of bills I think. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea selling the site - everything has its price. I would even sell my largest website if the right offer came along.

[MarkB]

It's 100k *visitors*, not 100k pageviews.

Every site is different. 100k may be nothing in one niche, but a HUGE audience (generating very generous income) in another.

[Shawn]

100k visitors, on a cell phone site, is very impressive -- considering the highly competitive market that it has become.

[s2kinteg916]

that site turned into a forum i wonder what happaned ? it looked like he forgot to make a backup or something

[Emancipator]

100k visitors is some nice revenue as well if USED well.