by Guest » Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:56 pm
There's a bunch of things that make a site valuable. Traffic, prestige. subscribers, income, reach, content, market and so on. My primary niche right now is harmonica notes (that's me at #2 when you search google for that phrase... usually.) I also rank top 10 for [link=http://www.harmonicanotes.net/category/harmonica-chords/]harmonica chords[/link] and [link=http://www.harmonicanotes.net/2008/11/harmonica-set-ideas/]harmonica sets[/link]. There's a bunch of long tail key words that I rank for, like G harmonica notes, c harmonica notes, all of which generate traffic.
I started harmonica notes as an expert site. I picked up the harmonica and figured I'd write about it as I learned. If I found things on the internet, I would talk about them and basically build community. My goal with [link=http://www.harmonicanotes.net/]harmonica notes[/link] is to build a go to place for people to find out about blues harmonica. Now if I can become the #1 ranked site whenever you search for anything involving harmonicas, do you think that might be worth something to a company selling harmonicas, harmonica lessons, harmonica books, harmonica DVDs or whatever else there is out there? Even if I'm not the go to site for all things harmonica but I do have high traffic and a loyal community, wouldn't it still be valuable to those same people?
If I can find a new niche with good traffic and low competition to exploit every 2 weeks, start a site for each niche and build rank with them, that's 26 sites in one year. All with different income potential for advertising, product development and possible sale. I may sell a site for $100, have 10 sites producing $10 a day, have a forum with a thriving community generating content on it's own and so on.
One of the guys I learn from, Ed Dale started doing this, knowing nothing, and sold his 34th site for 4 million dollars. I have his experience and teaching backing me and I'm building 2 sites a month... you see where I'm going with this.
If you want to know what sites are selling for, check out [url]http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/[/url] its an auction site for web sites. Will I sell a million dollar web site in the next 12 months? I don't know but why not aim high? If I shoot for the moon I may fall back down to earth, but if I shoot for the sun I may accidentally land on the moon.