Buying websites – Update

In earlier posts I mentioned I was looking to buy adsense generating websites and I managed to buy 4 of these websites. In this post I will discuss them and see if it was a good investment so far or not.

I searched to buy Adsense websites and bought 4 so far. It is not easy to find these sites. Adsense generating websites are not often for sale. It seems everyone is keeping their Adsense generating websites and not putting them up for sale. Who would sell their websites bringing in passive income, right? I did manage to buy 4 sites in 3 transactions.

I think I overpaid

The sites I bought are running for a couple of months now and I think I might have overpaid. First I will share some statistics of the sites:

Website 1: TR

I bought TR for €2800,-. I think this is the most I ever paid for a website. In the past I bought a xbox forum for €2100 and I just checked, it is a blog now. Weird… I sold this site for €3500 so made a nice profit in a short period of time (I think I had it for 3-4 months). Anyway; TR. TR is a recipe website. I am not into cooking or recipes and I am not sure I am still happy with the buy. I also got caught up with the bidding war that was going on and think I overpaid for the site.

I am running the site since October ’18 and so far the statistics are:

Costs: €2800,-
Adsense revenue: €687,84

Monthly average: €137,57

This might look good for 5 months, but December is the top month for this site bringing in €400,- in that month alone. On average it should bring in €1200,- a year, that would take me well over 2 years to get my investment back.

Website 2: VV

Bought this website for €400,-. The domain is good as well. It is an EMD (exact match domain) and a .com domain. I would pay this alone for the domain if I really wanted it. It is good it has a site and generating a bit of income. The plan is to work on this website and let it generate more Adsense revenue.

The site is running since September ’18 and so far the statistics are:

Costs: €400,-
Adsense: €63,94
Monthly average: €10,66


When calculating the monthly average this site is not really a good investment. But considering the domain is good, this investment is not that bad. I don’t regret buying it.

Website 3 & 4: B-E

These 2 websites was a package deal. The 2 sites are connected to each other and are in the same small niche. The sites need work and SEO. I see potential in these two. The total amount I paid for it was €950.

These sites are running from October ’18 and so far the statistics are:

Costs: €950,-
Adsense: €175,76 (€164,77 & €10,99)
Monthly average: €35,15


Paid almost 30 times the monthly revenue for this. That is a bit too much for these sites. Sites got potential but need work. Not sure if I can give it to them at the moment.

Summary

Costs: €4150,-
Adsense: €927,54


I paid €4150 for 4 websites bringing in €927,54 so far. These buys are not great deals. I think I even overpaid a bit. The plan is to work on the sites and get them up in rankings in the next 3-6 months. I hope the Adsense revenue will go up and my return on investment will be here quicker.

I am still looking to buy more websites to build my passive income. For the last 6 months I am looking for good Adsense websites to buy but there are barely good listings. The good listings seem to go for really high prices, I am talking about 40x monthly revenue. When I get my hands on a new site I will share it here with you. There is 1 website that I am looking at this moment but the auction will run for another 14 days. If it doesn’t get too high I will join bidding in the last day.

I am interested in your thoughts about these buys. Let me know in the comments.

Google AdSense income September 2017

September went by fast. I finally got time to create a website on a domain i bought last year. It’s an exact match domain for London. My aim is on the travel niche so I will continue creating sites in that area. The London site is coming along nice and soon it will be ready for marketing. I bought the domain for €300,- and the search volume for the term is around 8,000 times a month.

Now, Google AdSense earnings for September;

€427,11

Not bad. The two months before were both record breaking months with both over €500,-. I was expecting in the €300 for this month because holiday season is over. But still over €400,- in passive income, which is good enough!

Focus for this month is on the London site. I hope it will be ready for marketing upcoming week. Also working on a cruise site which is still in development. More about that later 🙂

Investing

I talked about bitcoin in January hitting over $1000. Today Bitcoin is at $4000+ and it looks like it will continue to rise. I did some trades and still hold a small portion. What do you think of Bitcoin? Let me know in the comments.

Bitcoin frenzy – Trading volume is up!

Bitcoin

Bitcoin reached a high of $1,153.02 yesterday. Coming within reach of its all-time high it dropped to a low of $887.47 again. The Bitcoin rally is still going on, the price is going up and down fast at the moment ($978.25 at time of writing).

Some people are afraid that this will be the same rally as in late 2013, when Bitcoin went sky high after falling down to the bottom. A rep from Huobi (which has a quarter of the world’s bitcoin volume) said the following to Coindesk;

“In 2013, when the price was 8,000 yuan, the weekly trading volume was 393,000 BTC, with an amplitude of the week up to 103%. The trading volume was very small. Today, bitcoin [prices] broke 8,000 yuan with 735m BTC trading volume, which is expected to double in a week. Current trading volume is 37x of that in 2013 and bitcoin price fluctuates 15.95%, which is much more stable than the year 2013.”

We just have to wait and see what will happen next 🙂