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I picked up this blog last year. I knew the previous owner as he had wrote for one of my blogs before and when he said that he didn't have time to run it I contacted him and we worked out a deal.
www.ProTycoon.com
The blog currently has about 60 subscribers. It was around 120-130 a few months ago but I stupidly forgot to migrate the feedburner account to google so when the old feedburner urls were switched off I lost half of the subscribers i.e. 50% of them didn't bother updating to the new feedburner url.
The previous owner started the blog as a making money online blog. In my opinion this niche is very saturated so I changed the direction of the blog to a domain name blog, something which I know a little of and an industry I keep tabs on. It's much more difficult to get subscribers in this niche but the money from affiliate sales etc is much much higher.
The site was developing well however I found it incredibly difficult to find the time to update the site and concentrated on other sites I own. My time is even more stretched just now so I am hoping to sell a few sites which I am too busy to update.
i did try and find some writers to blog for the site full time. I got a great response and got several submissions from writers who were interested in the job. Some of the submissions were very good however they did not show a knowledge of domaining therefore I didn't take them on.
My advice to anyone interested is if you are planning on keeping the focus on domain names, I would update it yourself as it's very difficult to get someone with domaining experience to write for you.
However, changing the blog to a more business/making-money-online type blog is also an option. It's how the blog started and it's a niche that is very easy to get traffic to, certainly when compared to other types of blogs.
Note :
* There is no immediate rush to move the blog. It is currently hosted on my own server and I'm happy for it to remain there for a few weeks if you need to sort out a hosting package.
* I will help the buyer move the site if neccessary
* The domain is registered at enom so free push
I have listed the site for sale at Flippa but will close that if a successful bid is made here.
please pm if you are interested.
Kevin
www.ProTycoon.com
The blog currently has about 60 subscribers. It was around 120-130 a few months ago but I stupidly forgot to migrate the feedburner account to google so when the old feedburner urls were switched off I lost half of the subscribers i.e. 50% of them didn't bother updating to the new feedburner url.
The previous owner started the blog as a making money online blog. In my opinion this niche is very saturated so I changed the direction of the blog to a domain name blog, something which I know a little of and an industry I keep tabs on. It's much more difficult to get subscribers in this niche but the money from affiliate sales etc is much much higher.
The site was developing well however I found it incredibly difficult to find the time to update the site and concentrated on other sites I own. My time is even more stretched just now so I am hoping to sell a few sites which I am too busy to update.
i did try and find some writers to blog for the site full time. I got a great response and got several submissions from writers who were interested in the job. Some of the submissions were very good however they did not show a knowledge of domaining therefore I didn't take them on.
My advice to anyone interested is if you are planning on keeping the focus on domain names, I would update it yourself as it's very difficult to get someone with domaining experience to write for you.
However, changing the blog to a more business/making-money-online type blog is also an option. It's how the blog started and it's a niche that is very easy to get traffic to, certainly when compared to other types of blogs.
Note :
* There is no immediate rush to move the blog. It is currently hosted on my own server and I'm happy for it to remain there for a few weeks if you need to sort out a hosting package.
* I will help the buyer move the site if neccessary
* The domain is registered at enom so free push
I have listed the site for sale at Flippa but will close that if a successful bid is made here.
please pm if you are interested.
Kevin
