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You could always look for an abandoned website in a similar sector to yours, that has traffic. Then buy it. There's some great bargains to be had out there. Th

by axod 18y ago

You could always look for an abandoned website in a similar sector to yours, that has traffic. Then buy it. There's some great bargains to be had out there. The best $500 I ever spent was on purchasing ircatwork.com which at the time had a default cgi::irc install on it. It did however have traffic - 100,000 visitors a month. I just emailed the owner, and managed to bag a bargain. Then just directed the traffic at Mibbit.com. Instant, cheap traffic looking for a good web based IRC client. I couldn't have asked for more. A year on, and it now serves 1.5m visitors a month.

gvwoods 18y ago
Sorry for asking, but how did you go about finding an abandoned website?
- slig 18y ago
  I don't know about him, but I'd go to DMOZ and open all the links in the relevant category.
- axod 18y ago
  One fun place to look is Yahoo directory. http://dir.yahoo.com/ http://dir.yahoo.com/ It's full of abandoned "web 1.0" sites that may still get a sizable amount of traffic, but the owners don't care about any more. Probably worth just spending a while and sending emails to several site owners and seeing if any bite.
  - rrhyne 18y ago
    sitepoint.com has a marketplace. Lots of crap in there but you may find a blog or site that's relevant with decent traffic or keyword rankings in your niche. Anyone else have a link similar to sitepoint?
shafqat 18y ago
If the website was getting 100,000, how was it abandoned? Just not being developed further? Why were people coming to the site? And why would the owner sell for 500$. These are genuine questions - I've very interested in this approach. Congrats on how well it turned out for you.
- axod 18y ago
  In this particular case, it was abandoned by its owner, but not by its users. It wasn't in development at all, it was just a simple install of open source software. Further, the owner didn't seem to know how to monetize it, and was losing money paying the server bill for it. I was, obviously very surprised and pleased to get it for such a price though.

by axod 18y ago

gvwoods 18y ago

Sorry for asking, but how did you go about finding an abandoned website?

slig 18y ago
I don't know about him, but I'd go to DMOZ and open all the links in the relevant category.
axod 18y ago
One fun place to look is Yahoo directory. http://dir.yahoo.com/ http://dir.yahoo.com/ It's full of abandoned "web 1.0" sites that may still get a sizable amount of traffic, but the owners don't care about any more. Probably worth just spending a while and sending emails to several site owners and seeing if any bite.
- rrhyne 18y ago
  sitepoint.com has a marketplace. Lots of crap in there but you may find a blog or site that's relevant with decent traffic or keyword rankings in your niche. Anyone else have a link similar to sitepoint?

shafqat 18y ago

If the website was getting 100,000, how was it abandoned? Just not being developed further? Why were people coming to the site? And why would the owner sell for 500$. These are genuine questions - I've very interested in this approach. Congrats on how well it turned out for you.

axod 18y ago
In this particular case, it was abandoned by its owner, but not by its users. It wasn't in development at all, it was just a simple install of open source software. Further, the owner didn't seem to know how to monetize it, and was losing money paying the server bill for it. I was, obviously very surprised and pleased to get it for such a price though.