Since the newly added Non Gaming Forum on PAL has been getting a bit of attention from people looking to diversify, I thought I would share a little trick for finding new niches.
Flippa.com is a pretty big website marketplace – It is pretty much the equivalent of Ebay for websites.
If you go to Flippa’s auction listings and search for completed auctions where the sales price where higher than 1000$ you will get a huge list of websites that works. Adding “affiliate” or “poker” as a keyword also gives some interesting results. In addition you can often find both traffic and revenue numbers, which can be quite handy, if you aren’t familiar with the market.
This is what your Flippa search should look like.
More Stuff to do with Flippa!
You can also use Flippa to verify that the idea you have for a websites is actually viable. If nobody has ever sold a site like the one you want to build, or the sales price were low, there may be some kind of hard to spot problems that makes it difficult to make money of that kind on site.
Oh yeah, you can also buy and sell websites there…
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Great tip here Jakob. It’s great for finding out how websites monetise and what kind of value they are getting.