Comments on: Blog Sale Update

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:44:32 +0000

Aaron: Threadwatch is a good example. Consider this a similar site in a different industry. Obviously anyone reporting properly on an industry needs personality and authority, but switching the primary blogs isn’t going to kill the site the way it would for a personal site (like Ensight).

By: aaron wall

aaron wall — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:42:28 +0000

>and doesn’t that value go away if you sell the site to a different person?

I recently bought a blog that was probably in the top few hundred any way you measure it (Threadwatch). I certainly can’t pretend that it is the same as it was, but I still continue to learn from it. There is some value in that…but any site that is largely built on the personality of one person obviously loses much of its value when sold.

Keep in mind that some people sell sites and continue to write for them and work on them. Danny Sullivan w SearchEngineWatch and Rob Malda of Slashdot are two examples that come to the forefront of my mind. SearchEngineWatch and it’s associated conference were sold recently for about $43 million dollars.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:07:04 +0000

Here’s my thing…. Is a _blog_ really worth anything? Isn’t the value in the blogger? and doesn’t that value go away if you sell the site to a different person?