Money Matador

College-Startup.com is a damn good blog with a great positioning in the blogosphere: One college student, on a quest, to make money.

Now it is put up for sale. Starting bid $1000. The price includes a Google PR rank of 5, unique design, pages indexed in Google, all the posts, a high technorati rank, links from high profile sites like ProBlogger and a monthly income of about $100 if I remember correctly. 

The minute after I read the news, I removed my permanent link to College Startup.

But why Money Matador? Why are you removing the link to such a jolly fine blog?

The success and quality of blogs are heavily correlated to the inputs of the owner. A new owner may continue what was already started, he may even improve on the “product.” Or he may just put up lots of spam pages and monetize it with adsense to milk the juice of the site. Even though, there are probably cheaper domains to buy if you want to go that down that route.

Either way, I take down the link and wait for the outcome.

Hah! Nobody cares if your little pimple blog removes the link

Probably very true! But, if some other more influential blog owners think like me..

Another issue is the damage to the blog if it is not sold. Will the readers of the blog have the same relationship to it when they know the owner tried to sell it and was unsuccessful?

Let’s finish with a conspiracy theory

I am just writing this post to negotiate a lower price than the “buy now” price of $6500.

Edit:

He has already received a bid of $1200 and a blog real estate expert claims it is worth at least $1600.

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