If you're an active website buyer you can sign up for my monthly newsletter, it features various websites for sale with prices ranging from?only about $1K?to over $100K. Most websites are usually content based, search traffic websites. Some are fairly new, while others have years of stable stats. Price typically vary based on website content, [R...

A recent auction on flippa broke all records, with 330 bids in just half a day! It's a neat new site with a unique service – it sends glitter to the people you hate (or like?) the most. In an avalanche of viral effects and incredible publicity the site had over 2.5 million visitors and... Read more »

Almost exactly 13 months ago I bought ApexWebGaming.comAs through this flippa auction, for $2999. How do you think it went? Was it a good purchase? Would you have bought it yourself from that auction? Why did I buy it and how did I do my due diligence on it? What did I do after As buying? What... Read more »

The owner ofAs SlutsofInstagram.com got a cease and decist letter from Instagram, the most successful iphone app ever, with 30 million users. At first it all seems to be quite clear and Instagram would have a fairly strong case there: however, this was his reply: and attached was this drawing:   According to the domain owner... Read more »

Probably the biggest fear every webmaster faces, most of my sites are down as my hosting company IceBlueHost?is having some issues with their datacenter. They've been down for about a day now and there is not much I can really do, except?wait.. We are sorry to report that currently all servers in Germany are unreachable.We […]

Some of my readers and subscribers saw my earlier?flippa sale for steamprofile.com and asked about it. Where did I get that site? how did it sell so high with such low revenues? What did I initially pay for it? Read on to find the answers! I initially acquired the website earlier this year from another […]

A new segment was launched on Flippa recently – Starter Sites. Following the popularity of newly created websites on their marketplace Flippa decided to better capitalize on it, by creating a whole new area for them. In my opinion it's a good way for new site investors to get their feet wet and enter "the […]

I get asked this question a lot, as?everyone wants to know where to pick up the best deals. Most of my best acquisitions actually came from contacts in the industry. Webmasters who had quality websites and wanted to sell them knew that I as buying websites and turned to me for a quick hustle free […]

I'm selling this "newbie friendly" site on flippa currently. DailyFreeware.net is a well established 8 year old blog about.. yes you guessed it, freeware! It has thousands of unique posts and makes some adsense revenue, although it hasn't been updated for a few months now. It's also a PR3. As it's built on wordpress, without […]...

I receive many questions about this every week and many people want to learn how to flip websites for profit. While most of my deals are private and I don't post details publicly to protect the buyers and sellers I deal with, in this posts I'll share all the info about one site that I […]

Managing over 100 sites can be quite complicated, so I tend to only check up on the bigger ones. As most of my sites don't require much maintenance some go for months or even years?without updates. This used to create problems in the past when I'd have some errors on sites or if they went […]

Unfortunately they are not as rare on flippa as you might think. I stumbled upon this auction recently and right away some things seemed very strange about it right away. Upon further investigation you can easily discover that: The domain was registered only a month ago, yet the site already makes thousands of dollars per […]

I'm currently running a flippa auction for these two websites in one listing ?galaxynote4me.com?and?galaxy4note.com. They make about $1k per month combined recently, however require quite a bit of maintenance and promotion to sustain and increase the traffic as it's a very competitive and time sensitive niche. The auction ends in less than 2?days a...

So?WarriorForum.com Sold to ?Freelancer.com for $3.2M. Both sites have equally bad reputation, so many people in the industry say it's a good match. WarriorForum is well known as the place where mostly useless, and extremely over-hyped?products are pushed on to unsuspecting new members in an astoundingly well organized manner. While Freelancer fail...

One of the worst parts of selling websites on flippa is constantly having to deal with trolls. There is a large and growing number of flippa members who never buy any websites, but like to spread false rumors and attack sellers for outragous accusations and claims. I encounter this in almost every auction I run, […]

The very latest series of major Google algo update Panda 4.0?rolled out a few weeks ago and they are following the same strict line as before on devaluing and penalizing low quality links and popular methods of link building and serp manipulations. Specifically as guest posts became the most popular and an inexpensive method in […]

Flippa upgrades are fairly expensive, but are usually quite useful to help your site stand out. To put it plainly – more exposure means better price and a higher chance of getting a sale. Recently flippa have been sending out many free upgrades to encourage people to start more auctions. The way to get them […]

As some of my readers probably noticed I've been selling some of my sites on flippa recently with the aim of reducing my sites portfolio and raising some capital for new projects. Earlier this year I sold w8themes.com for $7k, this was a site that was actually acquired for $1250 last year on flippa. After […]

I've heard this phrase a lot when buying sites or ordering services and find it quite funny. Recently came across this several times when reviewing sites for purchase. One site had some suspicious traffic sources, and when asked for explanations the seller claimed that this was "from his friend" and he "100% guarantees" it will […]...

I've been planning this for a while and gathering material and feedback and it's finally ready! Sign up for my first site investment course through a weekly newsletter here. This would be a great opportunity for you if: - You've never bought sites before and don't even know where to start. - You tried buying […]

Skrill, formerly known as MoneyBookers, is going bust according to latest reports. Over the past several months they've started randomly freezing, suspending and closing accounts, as well as applying random credit card charges. Multiple cases were reported. Their support is almost non existent, getting a reply is very rare. Recently I also had my a...

Should you disclose your flippa auction reserve as a buyer? Should you ask the seller about her reserve price? Why are sellers acting offended when asked and reply they prefer to keep it private? Why do potential buyers ask for reserve anyway even if you specifically stated it won't be disclosed? If you've ever wondered

What are Adsense Screenshots? Adsense screenshots are simply screenshots of the adsense revenue from a site. Usually done using the PrintScreen button on the keyboard. They are presented to site buyers by the sellers as proof of revenue. Screenshots are an integral part of any site sale and knowing how to produce proper adsense screenshots

I'm reducing my site portfolio and raising money for new ventures, so this is a good chance for someone to pick up a few great, well established sites with stable, passive revenue. These sites require no updates or maintenance and get most of their traffic through search engines. I've acquired most of them during the

Best deal you'll find this year! In light of the recent SOPA controversy many registrars are now offering discounts for domain transfers. Ok, to be fair there is no controversy – SOPA is bad, very bad, for the whole Internet, except GoDaddy, who helped write it and are?now paying the price as customers are leaving.

Here are further details as promised for attendants of my SEO workshop today at Gvahim, Tel Aviv. Keyword research tools:?G keyword tool,?G insights,?WordTracker;?G analytics Advanced keyword research:?SemRush.com,?KeywordSpy.com,?MarketSamurai.com Backlink Checker tools:?BacklinkWatch.com,?OpenSiteExplorer.org More Link Tools:?Majesticseo.com,?Ahr...

Lately I've noticed several interesting site sales on DP and all had the same in common: - sellers were very eager to sell their sites quick and asked for quick offers - sellers provided only partial and outdated stats data - all looked like very good deals Many of the deals were quite enticing and

I've worked with at least a few hundred freelance writers over the past few years, so I wanted to share some tips from the webmaster point of view on how to get more business and more clients for freelancers. ?These are based solely on my own experiences. Always use Proper English. A fairly simple thing

I'm going to Barcelona next week to ?attend the affiliate conference and enjoy the sunny city. If any of my blog readers plan to visit feel free to come over and say hi, or contact me to meet up for beers. Looking forward to meeting some old friends and making new ones, and checking up

I subscribe to all major domain newsletters, have been receiving them for a few years now. I even have a special folder in my email account for that and set up filters to skip inbox and send them all there, so I can store them and review later. And lately I've been doing just that

Over the last year or so I've been experimenting with xrumer, scrapebox and various other greyish (I don't know if anything can be called black any more these days..) seo methods. While there was quite a bit of positive effect at first, I'm now fairly convinced that these massive amounts of low quality links can

Wishing everyone a happy and extra prosperous 2011. May your parking revenue quadruple and genuine end user request emails fill in your inbox! I posted a quick update of what I've been up to lately over here. What is 2011 going to bring to domainers? As usual some good news and some bad news, I'm not holding

I'm glad to see Bido is back up and running and would like to wish them good luck! I had some good sales there and think it's great to see another marketplace trying to take on sedo for real. However, they really need to do something to increase the quality of domains there and attract some

Computers break and servers get hacked. Sooner or later everyone realizes the importance of backing up your important data, usually after a few unfortunate events. I had a few of these, from having my laptop stolen with all the important business data that I didn't have a copy for much of it (luckily I had

Something changed in Yahoo Site Explorer today. I've checked many of my domains and all show lower link counts, about 2-3 times less links than before. For example this site is now down to 2118 backlinks, from over 6k before.? There is no way this could just happen on its own, so there must have

People who are new to domaining ask me from time to time how can they get started, how to make money, how to flip, what to buy etc. It's not a question one can give a precise answer on, but my suggestion is this: buy for quick flipping when the market is high and buy

DomainMagnate.com publishes interviews with different domainers and webmasters to bring you a unique and personal view on domaining and site development. If you'd like to have your interview published on the site shoot me an email to ?contact? (at) this domain. The interviews are usually published unedited. - Tell us about yourself Hi, I am Shlomo...

This is an update on my seo experiment that I started last month. I posted about it earlier on NB, so here is how it started: I did a very interesting experiment last month. I purchased a link spot at a large private network of sites, which has millions of pages and sites indexed. It was for

Google recently added new case studies or "success stories" as they call them. These are mostly established sites that use adsense as either the main or the secondary source of revenue. They all look good, have nice and neat designs and lots of unique high quality content. Some are major news, entertainment? or informational portal,...

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I blogged about some of my successful site and domain purchases and sales before, but this time I'm going to tell you about a rather different story. As is known failures are a part of any business and if you don't fail you simply don't try hard enough. However I try to see failures as

As many domainers have noticed in the past few days the old google keywords tool is gone for good and instead there is only the new one. This is actually bad news for most domain sellers as the old tool used to show much higher search counts "allowing" them to show higher counts and ask […] The post Google Keywords Legacy Tool R.I.P. appeared...

ipo-installment4.com a domain registered only on Sept 24, 2010? - less than a week ago,? was reported sold on Sedo for $100k .. WTF? There are discussions on this on DNF and NP. The domain is merely a week old. IPO.com was sold for $500K as observed on the recent dnjournal weekly sales report, so some

Submitting your site to free directories is one of the easiest and cheapest (considering time and money if you outsource it) ways to get backlinks for your sites. These backlinks are good because you can choose your best suitable anchors, add some related text and keywords and have your site submitted to the correct subcategory

There has been an unusually high amount of clearance sales and cheap lots posted for sales lately. People are likely coming back from the summer vacations and discovering that the renewals are coming, so trying to sell some names cheap and quick to raise money. This is the perfect opportunity for low budget domain resellers

Over the last couple weeks I've searching and testing various tools and software that help check and track ranks in Google mostly, but also in Yahoo and Bing. Anyone who does any SEO at all knows how important it is to check your serps from time to time to be able to see the results