| Senior Member Location: CSite.Net Join Date: Oct 2004
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| Good advice. When I started last year, I did get burned a couple of times on some sites I bought and I soon realized what is mentioned here, to do more homework and ask a lot of questions. I think the thing is that newbies don't really understand that this is a business you're buying (unless you just like the site for the site's sake). And in any business, there is going to be ups and downs. Unfortunately, the industry values websites based on revenue projection which is not meant to be misleading intentionally, but is misleading in what a site does now is not what a site may do in 3 to 6 months. I've seen a couple deals I thought about going after, but was not sure I wanted to take the risk.
As for the image search, I can certainly relate to that. I had a piece of artwork that was number 4 at one point for the term black horse (on page 1). It got a busload of hits at that time, and was one of the top performing pieces in my collection. But there was an update later on, and somehow it got dropped way down in the list (not even sure where exactly, but some people still find it that way). No where near how many as before.
The bottom line is know what you are buying and how you plan to personally market and maintain it before you purchase it. Don't necessarily rely on what it's doing now cause that can change as any business can.
Thanks for the story tolkien...
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