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One of the hottest trends online these days is to develop and sell blogs. I had my own experience selling my blog and I have to say that this has been a profitable make money online scheme and an easy way to raise finance for your other projects.
After selling BloggingMix (now redirected to WhyDoWork.com/blog), I received a couple of inquiries about how I managed to sell it and how did I reach my potential buyers.
In the coming days, I will be blogging about my experience in selling my blog. And in my final post on selling your blog, I will tell you how much did I sell BloggingMix to Matt of Whydowork.com. There have been alot of queries from curious bloggers about the selling price so I decided to finally reveal it. Watch out for my future posts for the details.
For today, I wish to share you some useful resources for bloggers who want to sell their blogs. These websites help facilitate the sale of your blog. These are also great places to find blogs, in case you want to buy one.
1. SitePoint Marketplace
SitePoint Marketplace is the meeting place for buyers and sellers of new or established blogs, templates, advertising services, hosting services, content, domain names among others. SitePoint is visited by thousands of potential buyers and sellers so it presents a good opportunity for you to promote your classified ads.
To place your classified ads, you need to register an account for free and buy the needed credits. The prices of their services vary depending on the level of exposure you wish to achieve with your advertisement. The fee is minimal and the result is fast depending on your marketing skills. Buying and link exchanging services are free.
2. Sedo
In it's 7th year of operation, Sedo is one of the largest marketplace for premium domain names with over 11 million domain names to choose from. Other than that, Sedo lets you sell new and established blogs and promote you domain names. Their services are free but a 10% commission is charged once you have found a buyer for your product.
3. Ebay
With a huge user base, Ebay is an ideal place to sell your blog or any product you wish to auction. For the same reason however, you might come across scammers and fake bidders. Your clasified ads are indexed by search engines so you make sure you optimize it using appropriate keywords. This will drive more traffic to your auction and may increase the potential numbers of bidders.
Listing your blog for auction is free but Ebay charges a commission fee for every successful sale.
4. DigitalPoint
Digital Point Forum is another website with a huge user base that allows you to trade, buy or sell your blog, templates, services, domain, content among others. Their services are absolutely free and their iTrader helps you identify reliable and questionable buyers and sellers.
5. NamePros
NamePros primarily operates as a marketplace for premium domain names but it could also be used to promote your blog for sale. Since NamePros is a forum with a huge user base, you can expect alot of bids from their users. They even have live chatrooms where you can exchange words with potential buyers and sellers.
Like any other forums, you have to be a registered user before you can start using their free services.
6. Bloggeries
One of the fastest growing community of bloggers, Bloggeries forum lets you sell your blog, content, templates, services and other products for free. All it takes is for you to register an account before you can start using their free services.
Before you even think about selling your blog, looking for a place to sell them isn't the first step to do. You first need to make sure that you're really willing to sell and let go of your blog. My experience selling my first blog wasn't a good experience, so make sure you're really up to it. Also, you need to learn how to appraise you blog to avoid being taken advantaged. One of my succeeding post will provide you with more useful tips when selling your blog so make sure you come back for my updates or subscribe to my feed.
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