The auction for WordPressService.net concluded yesterday on Flippa.com. The buy it now was $18,000 but sold for $12,000 with one bid being made.
The listing claimed that the site made $9400 in November. Updated stats for December were showing $7590 as of 12/18.
Alexa Ranking –
1 month 177,590
3 month 218,602
Search engine Ranking Reports :
Keyword : WordPress Service
Google Rank : 3
Keyword : WordPress SEO & Link building services
Google Rank : 1
Keyword : WordPress Link Building services
Google Rank : 1
The business was just started in October of 2011. The seller wrote "We started out our business website in Oct 2011, and you can clearly see that we are already ranking well for most of the WordPress development related keywords."
Selling a site making $9400 a month for $12,000 will be hard for those outside of the online world to understand. I had a client on the consulting side ask if they could get 5x revenue ? I explained they would get nowhere near that and could not begin to understand why not.
Congrats to the buyer and seller, it will be interesting to see if the seller just starts another wordpress site and competes against the buyer.
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WebDev says
Makes no sense to me, $100,000 plus business for $12,000 ?
kostaki says
WordPress is a trademark and you shouldn’t use it in your domainname! That is probably the reason why they wanted to sell it that fast.
http://wordpress.org/about/domains/
Frank says
Oh you guys have so much to learn. Just wait they pull all the back links. Here is project for you contact all of those owners that have bought after six months and see how much they are making.
WebDev says
Who are you talking to ? That’s what the site sold for, I could care less what they are making. Here is an idea you contact them.