I own www.superswole.com which is a fitness/bodybuilding blog. It has been going for 23 days now and I have received 2,756 visits so far and 2,117 of them are unique’s. I have also made $81 from Commission Junction and $5 in adsense. 73.84% of my traffic is from referring sites, 23.55% is direct, 2.58% search engines and 0.04% other.
I have a Twitter account with 269 followers which has been built up naturally and a facebook fan page with 62 fans. I also have a level 2 yahoo answers account which will soon be level 3 and all I use that for is to answer fitness questions and include my site in the source. I also have enough content scheduled to post until the 21st of February.
I don’t want to sell it but I need the money as I need to save for a new computer. So, can anyone price it up for me?
Your site page rank is zero, i think first you require to improve your page rank,
then place it in bidding site like site point you will get good amount
My220x, I agree Pagerank isn’t the sole determinator of value, but a lack of pagerank suggests something wrong. In this case it flags to the buyer just how new the site is.
I’m afraid that it would be difficult to sell. From a buyer’s point of view, all your existing traffic could have been driven by your personal efforts like emailing people. The moment he buys the site all those efforts disappear and there is no income anymore.
I’m afraid I can’t see anyone being willing to pay more than $xx or, if you’re lucky, very low $xxx.
First none of my content is ripped from bodybuilding.com, I have a few articles from people that write that and they gave me permission to use them on my blog, also I have analytic installed which shows where my traffic is from.
The problem with duplicate content is that it tends to get filtered out of the SERPs. When that happens, your free search engine traffic is gone.
Additionally, if most of your content is copied from other sites, why would anyone want to buy your site? Instead, they could buy a cheap domain name, a cheap professional theme, and simply copy content from bb. com themselves. They don’t need your site to do that.
The last interview with Nick Paniagua that you posted is the kind of thing that adds value, if it’s exclusive. But then, doing interviews and publishing them on your blog sounds like a lot of work.
I’m guessing that most of your referral traffic is reddit etc? That represents what buyers are going to see as more work to keep content fresh and then mess about submitting it to SBM sites.
Despite all of the above, you could just pay for a listing on Flippa and see what people are prepared to pay for it.
A lot of my content is original and people are writing my guest blog posts for free and to be honest interviews are not that hard, I just have a set of questions and just send them to people and they reply. I then copy and paste the answers in and add some images.
Also for the traffic the most comes from Reddit, Bodybuilding.com forums, Twitter, Facebook, Stumble Upon, Yahoo Answers and then Google.
I’m not trying to be negative here, but running a blog is a pain. I’ve got several and know how hard it is to get posts out regularly. It’s good that people are writing guest posts for free for you. But they are writing them for you because you have built a relationship with them that the new owner lacks. They might not be able to get free posts like you do. You also have a presence on the BB forum, which the new owner might not have, and that helps you get interviews with members there.
To get traffic from Reddit, Stumble etc, you need to be putting out fresh content regularly. That means work. Work = bad. I wouldn’t buy a site that required me to work to make money (other than the initial setup) - unless it was making big bucks.
These are the things that go through my mind when I look at your site, and these are possibly the barriers that you’ll have to overcome to make your site a more attractive buy.
There are always lots of blogs for sale on Flippa, though. Why don’t you look at some past auctions and see what they sold for? You might get a better idea of what someone is willing to pay.
I think you have a bit more work to do before you try to sell your blog. You really can’t sell a blog after launching it 23 days ago. You can try to list it yourself on some of the listing sites out there but I would expect to many bites yet. Try implementing some heavier marketing efforts like online pr along with video marketing and give it some more time. Down the road you will be able to sell it for much more.