how hard is the competition?
I've been offered a site which made €15 last month, for €150.
Its an EMD which has 14k searches locally per month.
It's at the bottom of page 1 and has a CPC of €0.68.
Anyone think it's worth buying ?
Thanks
The price is good considering the income.
Smells a bit fishy to me. How old is the site and have you verified the traffic sources?
My advice to you is to buy it only if you are 100% sure that traffic is legit and not short lived.
Is it a blog site or product site? If its a blog thats good because you can keep adding more content and increase earnings. Doesn't sound like a scam to me.
I would not go for it. If there is little or no content, that's never a good sign. I would rather buy site making 5 with great content and possibilities for 150, than site with no content making 15.
But if it's ranking on page 1 for a term that's searched 14k times a month with little content, surely I can make more by adding more content ?
Yes it is not always a bad sign that it has little content. I have some sites which I put little content and dropped a few backlinks and I have stayed on position 1-5 for over a year already. It makes me very steady money and I don't think it will ever drop off page 1. Does the site have backlinks to it?
Yes it does, from around 30 diff domains although I think the seller owns most of the sites it has backlinks from.
This is a problem. If the seller removes the links, you will lose the rankings. Many people do this as a scam. If I own 100 power domains, I give links to give a good ranking on a site. Then I sell the site, and remove the links and start over with a different website to give it good rankings.