Comments on: Flipping Websites Versus Building Your Internet Empire http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/ Fresh ideas for blogging, making money, and living a more productive life Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ray http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-15732 ray Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:47:03 +0000 http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/#comment-15732 Hi Broc. That's a great idea for a blog and I hope you have good luck with it. As far as the wordpress problems go, try checking out the wordpress.org support forums. There are a lot of people there who are really knowledgeable about the inner workings of wordpress and they'll be more than willing to help out. Good luck and thanks for stopping by! Hi Broc. That’s a great idea for a blog and I hope you have good luck with it. As far as the wordpress problems go, try checking out the wordpress.org support forums. There are a lot of people there who are really knowledgeable about the inner workings of wordpress and they’ll be more than willing to help out. Good luck and thanks for stopping by!

]]> By: ray http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-15731 ray Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:43:39 +0000 http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/#comment-15731 Hey Jamey. That's a good point. There will always be lots of competition and more and more as time goes by and the internet grows. As things stand with the search engines, though, if you pay attention to the basics of SEO and also provide valuable content to your readers, readership will continue to grow for you. The search engines will be more likely to deliver traffic to the websites that have an aged, trusted domain, as well as lots of good inbound links (again, which build over time) and, of course, relevant content. According to Technorati, there are some 50 million blogs out there now. I would guess that out of that number, very few are actively maintained or search engine optimized. Most of the competition really isn't much competition then. It's impossible to say for sure, but I would maintain that the number of good sites as described above will grow at a much slower rate than the growth in the number of internet users. Sure, there will be a ton of new sites every day, but the overwhelming majority won't end up attracting much traffic at all. Thanks for your comment! Hey Jamey. That’s a good point. There will always be lots of competition and more and more as time goes by and the internet grows. As things stand with the search engines, though, if you pay attention to the basics of SEO and also provide valuable content to your readers, readership will continue to grow for you. The search engines will be more likely to deliver traffic to the websites that have an aged, trusted domain, as well as lots of good inbound links (again, which build over time) and, of course, relevant content.

According to Technorati, there are some 50 million blogs out there now. I would guess that out of that number, very few are actively maintained or search engine optimized. Most of the competition really isn’t much competition then.

It’s impossible to say for sure, but I would maintain that the number of good sites as described above will grow at a much slower rate than the growth in the number of internet users. Sure, there will be a ton of new sites every day, but the overwhelming majority won’t end up attracting much traffic at all. Thanks for your comment!

]]> By: Broc http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-15719 Broc Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:28:10 +0000 http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/#comment-15719 this is a subject in which i have been fascinated with over the past few months in fact i just started a blog that i plan on using to case study each website i invest in but right now my site is having some tremendous technical difficulties this is a subject in which i have been fascinated with over the past few months
in fact i just started a blog that i plan on using to case study each website i invest in but right now my site is having some tremendous technical difficulties

]]> By: Jamey Wood http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-15674 Jamey Wood Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:15:03 +0000 http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/#comment-15674 It's interesting to think about "flipping" of websites as a potential parallel to real estate. I wonder about one of your assertions, though. You say: "Because of the natural growth of the internet and the always increasing number of people using the internet, the value of that website is almost sure to grow rather than decline if it’s actively maintained." But that same growth of the Internet is creating other web sites, potentially at an even greater rate than the overall user count is growing. If that's the case, the traffic (and presumably value) of all but the most dominant sites may naturally follow a downward trend over time (due to dilution of the audience's attention). It’s interesting to think about “flipping” of websites as a potential parallel to real estate. I wonder about one of your assertions, though. You say: “Because of the natural growth of the internet and the always increasing number of people using the internet, the value of that website is almost sure to grow rather than decline if it’s actively maintained.” But that same growth of the Internet is creating other web sites, potentially at an even greater rate than the overall user count is growing. If that’s the case, the traffic (and presumably value) of all but the most dominant sites may naturally follow a downward trend over time (due to dilution of the audience’s attention).

]]> By: ray http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-15373 ray Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:21:59 +0000 http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/#comment-15373 Hi Jesper. I'm glad you found my post useful. That's a great question. I'm going to do some more research on this topic and post more. I'm thinking of possibly buying a website or blog and making it a case study while I develop it. I think it would a cool project and one that a lot of people could learn from, including me. Thanks for the link, too! Hi Jesper. I’m glad you found my post useful. That’s a great question. I’m going to do some more research on this topic and post more. I’m thinking of possibly buying a website or blog and making it a case study while I develop it. I think it would a cool project and one that a lot of people could learn from, including me. Thanks for the link, too!

]]> By: Jesper http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-15042 Jesper Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:08:36 +0000 http://freshblogger.com/2007/03/flipping-websites-versus-building-your-internet-empire/#comment-15042 Hi and thanks for an interesting post. I'm currently trying to learn about the internet real estate business so your and Ryans posts were very helpful. Have you done any thinking on how to best develop new websites to get them of the ground so to speak? If its to be done professionally it should probably be an optimized procedure. Anyway I'm going to return to read more about your experiences. :) /jesper Hi and thanks for an interesting post. I’m currently trying to learn about the internet real estate business so your and Ryans posts were very helpful.

Have you done any thinking on how to best develop new websites to get them of the ground so to speak? If its to be done professionally it should probably be an optimized procedure.

Anyway I’m going to return to read more about your experiences. :)

/jesper

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