Greg Sterling wrote a piece on SearchEngineLand.com that dealt with small businesses, VC and websites. Greg starts off his article discussing that over the last few years SEO's have taken the approach that Google My Business, Facebook and Yelp have made the small business website unnecessary. GMB now is so widely used and so complete, that consumers never need to visit the underlying small … [Read more...]
Number of live websites in 2019 bouncing back up after 2018 dip
Number of live websites in 2019 Martin Armstrong, published an article on the number of websites currently on the Internet. I was surprised at the drop off in 2018 but 2019 looks to be moving back to the upside. The record number of live websites was 2017 at 1.76 billion. Moz Top 500 Websites Moz's list of the most popular 500 websites on the internet. These are the top 500 most … [Read more...]
Domain Magnate talks buying and selling websites
Flippa posted an interview with Michael Bereslavsky, the founder of Domain Magnate. I have always seen Michael on Namepros but I was not aware of all the websites he sells. Michael is a broker partner of Flippa. According to the post, Michael has used Flippa for several years and has had 49 transactions on platform totaling $446k. In the video interview below, Michael talks about his … [Read more...]
WalMart acquires Art.com
WalMart picks up another business running on a premium one word, three letter domain name. CNBC reported that WalMart will acquire the website Art.com. In 2016 they acquired Jet.com for nearly $3Billion. From the article: Art.com is one of the largest online sellers of art and wall decor globally, Walmart said. A person familiar with the deal said the size of this acquisition is similar to … [Read more...]
Translate.com auction closes at $853,000 on Flippa
A couple weeks ago I wrote about Translate.com at auction on Flippa, it was at $201,000. The auction closed at $853,000. There were 172 bids Now this was a full business not just a domain sale. Translate.com: almost 2M monthly visitors, Translation website with ~2M monthly visitors generating $469k annual revenue Premium domain and translation site servicing nearly 2m monthly … [Read more...]
Translate.com with 2million monthly visitors on auction at Flippa (no reserve)
Translate.com is up on auction at Flippa and is currently at $201,000. This is a no reserve auction and is also a real business built on a premium domain name. Where do you think it closes? Translate.com: almost 2M monthly visitors, Translation website with ~2M monthly visitors generating $469k annual revenue Premium domain and translation site servicing nearly 2m monthly visitors … [Read more...]
Alexa top 500 website auction gets suspended on Flippa
Supposedly an Alexa top 500 (Top 100 in the U.S.) website was being auctioned on Flippa, this auction has been suspended the seller looks to now be banned. The URL was hidden and you needed to sign an NDA to gain access. The bidding originally had a starting price of $1m. A couple days later when I looked there were 4 bids and a high bid of $1,999 so they changed the bidding parameters. The … [Read more...]
