One thing I have found in searching for sites to add to my portfolio is the tremendous span of crap out there. Now, you can define that any way you like, but what I am looking for is solid sites that have traffic, income, maybe a good Pagerank… but what I find a lot of times is sites that someone registered a domain name, popped up a template based site, and then try to sell the site for a ridiculous amount of money. This is good (well, could be argued either way actually) for the newbie that doesn’t know how to design a website, but to someone that has a little bit of experience in this, you know that having traffic and sales history is much more appealing.
So, in my searching, I have found there are certain things I am looking for. What I am going to set up (eventually) is a category on this site where you can post your site for sale. There will be certain factors that will have to be disclosed though. One of the first things is the site has to have at least a 3 month history. When Ben Bleikamp sold his poker blog, he had a solid three months of income proof (as well as daily content) and, likewise, his site sold fairly quickly and for a handsome price. Another factor is proof of income. If you are in the business, you should be able to take a screenshot of your income, minus any personal information of course. A simple paint program will be able to black that stuff out. Other little things will be required as well, but I will have a full template set up for submission.
I am going to wait on this portion of the site until I have a little more incoming traffic to be able to justify the listings. It should be fun to have a good site listing service. In the mean time, check out some of the places I search for sales listings:
V7N site listings
Sitepoint
DigitalPoint
ebay
Sitebazaar
Know any others? Post a comment!