Comments on: How NOT to Buy a Blog

By: Stephen Lee

Stephen Lee — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:42:06 +0000

Thanks very much Matt for leading me to this. You certainly dished up some very good advice here. In retrospect, I wished I had read your post before diving into blogging – every bit of advice does help and I’m soaking it all up. But, I came in with my eyes wide open, I know what I’m getting into. I’ve no regrets, don’t think that I ever will. It’s really something that I had wanted to do for a long while but the opportunity never present itself until recently. The rest is history now, I’m resolved to grow Bloggin-ads like Mike had envisioned.

Good luck to you and your blog. Do drop by sometime. Later.

Stephen Lees last blog post..Why You Have To Post a Blog on a Daily Basis

By: Vancouver Island SEO

Vancouver Island SEO — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:18:40 +0000

I could not image thinking of buying someone else BLOG. If I was going to buy a blog an existing blog, it would be an existing one that has already expired. I would then check out its back links to make sure that the previous blogger had a large following that linked to them, or had spent a lot of time link building to their own blog. I would then 301 their old structure so that everything went to the root of the site /, and would then restart it all from scratch. You avoid the skeptics and you start out with a fresh blog with links. This will help you avoid any aging delays if your trying to rank it. Cheers.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:51:51 +0000

This may be a no brainer to most, but I think the very first post by a new owner should be, Hi how are ya glad to meet you, kinda thing.

Not talking about yourself.

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:20:05 +0000

Yes for that month I will be the only one posting

By: Matthew Henrickson

Matthew Henrickson — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:59:33 +0000

i dont think i stayed long enough to see that. I asked a few questions on more than one posts about the takeover etc, and received no response.

Although I did get a letter stating my advertisement would end in a week etc

By: YC

YC — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:38:13 +0000

I think it is good when taking over a blog you just bought, to concentrate on re-establishing communication channels with the present readers.

Unfortunately I have to say your example of Sitefever is quite on the money (unfortunately because the one who took over’s from the same country). I was one of the advertisers as well, and I must say was quite put off by the tone of the new site owner.

I just found it strange that after taking over, one of the first things he announced was how much of a track record he had online. I doubt anybody cared – they need to see what you can do first.

By: Matthew Henrickson

Matthew Henrickson — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:18:05 +0000

you’ll be the only one posting?

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:23:54 +0000

After this Friday I will still be running the Blogging Fingers show, but I’ll be posting 2 pillar articles per week rather than 7 posts per week.

Hopefully quality will win over quantity but it will be interesting to see how a lowering pf posting frequency affects reader numbers.