Blog sell out bandwagon – Don’t jump to it, here are some alternatives

It started off with Blogging Fingers, when Matt Jones decided to sell off his blog for US$ 6000. He made it and today Bloggingfingers has a new owner. Full story here. At the time of sale, Bloggingfingers had around 200 rss feed subscribers and PR3.

Kumiko followed with cashquests, a less than year old blog with 900ish rss feed subscribers and PR5. She managed to sell it off for US$15000 (yummy!!).No official notice yet.

5xmom followed pursuit and is up for sale at US$12,000 with a PR0 (got a backlash from google for selling links) and around 200 rss feed subscribers.

Mark from 45n5 thinks both of these sites had something similar. They had been using pay per post and since they are the (new)enemy of google, they fear the death.

I spoke to Kevin on this and he thinks they are being hasty with it and is underselling their blogs.

I agree to both Kevin and Mark. I don’t think the “Make money online” market is dead. It’s happening even now! But I think the bloggers got the fatigue and lost the game. Well they didn’t really lose after all they made some serious money.

But what should you do at situations like this?

- Hang on..think twice thrice and more if you have to really do it.

- Ask your friends and experts their opinion.

- Drink more coffee, eat more chocolates.

- Go for guest bloggers and take a vacation.

- Put your blog to autopilot mode by roping in a friend of your’s who wants some exposure.

- Forget your blog contents, manage with some link love to other blogs.

- Go for social media optimization, go around hang out in all those social networking sites, give some exposure for your blog.

- Try finding new niches and setting up new blogs while maintaining the current one.

- Spend more time with your family.

- Think of all the gadgets that’s in your wishlist, and start saving for it.

- Plan for a world tour next year, start working towards it.

- Try to buy small upcoming blogs and create a network of blogs.

Enough said.

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