How I Sold my websites which I never thought it was possible 😊
It’s been a year and half when I started work on these 2 blogs with no money but only my design, marketing and content writing skill. Before to get into the story, I started my company with my friends and didn’t work well, so I started working from home On my own. It was struggle at first and with support of my wife , I improved my productivity and got more focus.
In the meantime, I studied lot of case studies so I don’t want to make the same mistakes people already done and which was a huge help to build a good looking multi niche blog website and growing it. I definitely suggest anyone that to start read case studies before get into your product making. Save you lot of time and cost!
Worked hard on the site details and never let myself settle for less. It was not much big of a traffic (100-150 per day) and I published good articles and kept on-page SEO good. Published around 500 articles in one site and another had 60. I planned my own SEO, since I am from this industry and it didn’t much of a hard thing for me. So on the side I did my SEO to increase the trust and backlinks juice.
I started earning around $300-400 per month from one site and another $150 a month. Without much expense ( I didn’t buy any tools or anything) I was very happy with results. After an year and finally sold the blog for $8k last week and it was a huge victory for me and my hardwork. Because I already made around $7k in the this year with these blogs and now plus $8k profit with no much investment than my skills.
I bought a new Mack book which was my past few years dream and paid my debts.
It feels great when your hard work pays off. 😊
I am already started working on new projects to take it further in coming new year. I would love give my insights for anyone who need help with making money with their blog.
Happy new year 🥳 to all my Indies.
I’m curious, making $7k a year from a blog that averages 100-150 visits/day is insanely good! How did you do that?
Yes, first of all I had contents around 500 articles in it and all my income can from Sponsered ads and links. With a good design I attracted more publishers for a small fee. I never depended on Adsense and you will never going to earn more with the competition all around.
Also over the year I built a good number of email list (900 emails) so I’ll send a monthly email with latest contents. Which is one my selling point to those publishers.
15k fb social media followers and Pinterest helped me a lot with free traffic always.
I also added amazon affiliates some of the articles which ranked well.
These are the major part of my income sources. As said already, keep on improving and knowing how to sell your product is the key. It doesn’t matter if it s 10 per day traffic, i can still sell it. That’s all you need.
Congrats!
That's a pretty great result. Are you going to start something on a larger scale now that you've seen the success you can have with a smaller niche blog?
Oh yes, I am already working on couple of new blogs and also I plan to share my growth hack techniques and help the newbies as well.
Excellent. Let us know when your new blogs are live as I'd love to check them out. Good luck brother!
Well done. Congrats!
Congrats Elavenil, and many wishes to another successful year!
Thanks 😊
Congratulations! That's a decent amount to make, especially since the value of selling it pales in comparison to the value you gained in your skill set and confidence!
Do you mind sharing what you think are the top 3 things that brought traffic to your blog? My business has a blog, but it's difficult to determine what to populate it with.
Thank you :)
Thanks!
Yes, traffic is one major part every buyer will consider. Below are my top 3 things to get the good traffic for any blog.
have a good design so users can read and use the site in a better way ( especially mobile).
Make sure on-page SEO score is perfect and keep on improving / adding.
3)at the end value of a domain is much importance, so try to build links that can improve domain authority and gain you trust. The more trust you get and better ranking will be.
Each of have their own SEO strategy and marketing, but keep in mind why you are doing it? What the end result of it.
I see lot of people still depend on Adsense and affiliates, but there are other opportunities that you can find and make good amount of money on the side.
Hope this helps! 😊
What your blog was about? How did you optimized SEO?
It is a multiple niche lifestyle blog, and had domain authority of 35.
SEO is all about the longterm effect, so I built not too many links but simple and higher authority than my site. Also on-page is important factor for good ranking. I never spent on unnecessary tools like ( semrush, ahref and more) to build links. I just focused on keywords and site design at later stage.
It was a tough time at initiall stage and improved day by day.
Thanks for the explanation, good luck with future projects!
I will soon . 😊 good luck to you too!
That's awesome, congrats!
Did you track your time spent on the sites? It's something i'm a bit anal about now because i want to understand how much time I'm investing in something and what the return is.
Well, i did spent so much (4-5 hours) on first 6months to keep up the perfect onpage score and good content publishing. After sometime spent like 1-2 hours a day per site.
I mostly gave my attention on the design optimisation and speed of the site at later stage. I mean the good user experience.
Congratulations!
Congrats on the sale! Were you approached by the buyer or you listed it for sale somewhere?
I asked in a Facebook group if anyone interested in it and got ones interest quickly. Which I never thought it would happen, since lot of people have hard time selling sites in flippa like platforms.
Long ago I did little research and found that there is huge number of people looking for good sites in social media’s. Not lot of people aware of it and my advice is that as well.
Congrats! That is a great accomplishment.
Thanks 😊
Well done @Acheilies 🎉 It's definitely nice to see all the hard work pay off - Keep up the good work!
Thanks 😊
Well done that is great. Had you always planned to sell or did this come out of the blue?
Good luck with you next project/
I never thought I would sell because it was giving me $300- 400 a month but recently I had some new ideas and also bit debt pressure. Still I am satisfied with the results, because I might have spent like $700 investment , it gave me $16000 rerun. This is pretty great ROI right.
Amazing, also nice to see how you made such good numbers on the relative low visitors.
How do you find sponsored ads and links? Reaching out manually?
Thanks! That s how i realized i am good at marketing and sales. ha ha ha
About sponsored links, i manage 4-5 blogs and over the years, i started collecting my publishers / sponsored post requests emails in a google sheet, which gave me a 1500 emails in my database, so i used it regularly, and still using for my current blogs as well.
I also get emails organically because of sharing content with lot of channels, which converts more always.
Lot of tricks and tips involved in this space. I also put up 2 blogs for sale now, which is currently making around $200-300 per month.
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