It would seem that making a million from flipping a website isn’t actually that far off. With more and more high profile websites being successfully flipped, each day there seems to be a new record for the most expensive website ever sold.
Flippa.com is the Internet’s largest online community of websites for sale and it’s the place everyone goes to look. You can see sites here for sale from $100 to nearly a million and it’s clear to see why this site has become so popular.
Take a look at the top five websites for sale on Flippa.com and see for yourself why this site which formerly belonged to SiteGround is so popular.
#1 – An Incentivized File Sharing Site – This site is an example of how online file-sharing was re-imagined and remarketed. The site boasted 40 million page views a month as well as 500 thousand back links with monthly revenues of around $345,000. After much furious bidding, the auction closed for the grand total of $600,000. The site was sold as a private auction on Flippa.
#2PRNewsNow – This is a press-release site that was also one of the earliest sites to sell on Flippa. This site comprised of hundreds of thousands of press releases and it managed to acquire monthly revenues of around $7,500 as well as page views exceeding over 1.5 million monthly. Going for the price of $600,000 this site soon sold thanks to its regular user base and focus on quality.
#3 Ecommerce Store – This is about as ‘brick and mortar’ as flipping gets and this is a real business with just 32 thousand page views per month. It’s just a little fish compared to the former two, but this lighting company managed to have profits of around $18,000 each and every month. It sold with $40,000 worth of inventory and in the end, it ended up selling for a cool $250,000.
#4 Flash Game Sites – This was actually a trio of three highly popular and highly incentivized flash game sites. Each of the sites was highly automated which resulted in almost hands free operation. Combined, they had around 4.3 million page views each month and revenues of around $18,000. They ended up selling for the sum of $250,000.
#5 Copy’n’Profit.com – This is an example of a complete Internet Marketing business that has been sold on Flippa. Flippa is filled with these sorts of opportunities, and whilst they can be really lucrative, it is important to take care because if you don’t know a great deal about Internet Marketing, you can be left managing a site you don’t know how to. Copy’n’Profit ended up selling for just over $230,000 and this is mainly because of its monthly revenue which exceeded $40,000 each month. It received in the region of 500,000 page views each month.
Flippa is a place where you can sell almost any type of website as long as it’s profitable. Looking at the top five above, it’s clear to see that profit > traffic. Generally speaking if a site gets traffic it is worth something, but the golden metric of a sites value has and always will be in its monthly profit figures.
