Hey all,
I have an opportunity to purchase a niche website.
The site is very popular in this one particular niche, traffic keeps growing exponentially, and has a very active user/fan base. People talk about this site on niche forums etc. So far the site hasn't done any real serious form of monetization yet though....i.e. product creation/releases. The only income is coming from occasional affiliate posts and 1 advertiser. I don't think the guy has ever really tried to seriously monetize. . It is profitable though...just not full time profitable.
Additionally, the site ranks on the first page for most of the target money terms in this niche. For a few of them the site is even ranked 1 or 2. Approx. 2000 mailing list subscribers and growing.
If I bought the site the goal would be to build this site and popularity etc. and eventually create/release products to cash in on the sites popularity.
My question is this....the site has the word "free" in the domain name. Do you see this as a serious hindrance to having this site make any serious money?
I mean with the fanbase this site has I just see so many upsell possibilities but I just don't know if "free" would cause problems.
Anybody, have any experience with this issue? Thanks.
I have an opportunity to purchase a niche website.
The site is very popular in this one particular niche, traffic keeps growing exponentially, and has a very active user/fan base. People talk about this site on niche forums etc. So far the site hasn't done any real serious form of monetization yet though....i.e. product creation/releases. The only income is coming from occasional affiliate posts and 1 advertiser. I don't think the guy has ever really tried to seriously monetize. . It is profitable though...just not full time profitable.
Additionally, the site ranks on the first page for most of the target money terms in this niche. For a few of them the site is even ranked 1 or 2. Approx. 2000 mailing list subscribers and growing.
If I bought the site the goal would be to build this site and popularity etc. and eventually create/release products to cash in on the sites popularity.
My question is this....the site has the word "free" in the domain name. Do you see this as a serious hindrance to having this site make any serious money?
I mean with the fanbase this site has I just see so many upsell possibilities but I just don't know if "free" would cause problems.
Anybody, have any experience with this issue? Thanks.
