Comments on: How Selling a Site is Like Getting a Divorce

By: Armen Shirvanian

Armen Shirvanian — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:52:47 +0000

There sure can be a few negatives to selling a site that relate to the separation process. The site-creator is separating himself from his creation, and this can result in the part of one’s mind that is dedicated to the site to look for a new place to become active.

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By: Toni

Toni — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:19:27 +0000

Ha, I love the Gold Digger one, great post

By: Gyutae Park

Gyutae Park — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:55:42 +0000

@Steve McGrath
That probably includes all of the blogspot, myspace, and wordpress.com blogs that aren’t monetized.

@Jason
Yeah I heard about the whole agloco flop. That’s unfortunate but it really goes to show you that you can’t rely on anyone or anything to run your business online.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:04:03 +0000

First blog: agloconnected.com Yup, got rid of that three weeks ago, quick as I could, lol. Gotta admit though, I wasn’t too passionate about updating that one…probably because the Agloco development team wasn’t too passionate about updating us…..

By: Steve McGrath

Steve McGrath — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:16:28 +0000

It’s here but empty. Better to make it available now and offer that option.
Blog For Sale

Anyone wanting to sell an old blog

I can’t remember where but I seem to have read that 10Millions blogs were updated frequently.

By: Gyutae Park

Gyutae Park — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:41:03 +0000

@hts
That’s the ideal situation. Unfortunately it seldom happens. I site is rarely the same after owners change hands because the webmasters use different styles. This is especially true for a blog that is closely tied to its main owner.

@Steve McGrath
Hm, I don’t see that section on your site. I think the dead:alive ratio of blogs is about 1000:1.

@Adam McKerlie
Glad I could wake you up!

@Dereck
Thanks for reading.

@The University Kid
Now I’m not saying she’s a gold digger…. dun dun

@Dan Florin
A little work can go a long way. Do you have any experience flipping sites like that?

@Tevin Anderson
It seems to be pretty common. Entrepreneurs start a project then move on to the next. It’s probably easier to leave a site like Million Dollar Wiki because all of the copycats now.

@Jerlene
Welcome to the club, con artist.

@QuarterWiki
Thanks. Can you think of any other comparisons that might work?

@sven
It’s an ugly comparison indeed. I have no idea how it occurred to me to make a blog post about it. But it does work. You don’t own your wife? Haha, just kidding.

@Josh
No problem.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:25:43 +0000

Huh. Thanks for the info.

By: sven

sven — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:40:57 +0000

It’s an ugly comparison, but it seems to be pretty true. Still a selling a site is completly different because you do not create your wife/husband like you do with a site, it’s not like you own it and that stuff, so it’s a pretty fruitless image unless you think of your wife/husband as something you created. Still, fun to read

By: QuarterWiki

QuarterWiki — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:48:09 +0000

Good comparison between the two.