Monday M&A: 26 New Marketplace Listings

3 new content sites at Motion Invest (making > $100/m), 17 at Flippa (making > $100/m) 4 at Empire Flippers (up to $1M), and 2 at Investors Club

March 06, 2023

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🚀 Marketplace Listings

I look up each listing in Ahrefs and give a 📈 if 6 month organic traffic is trending up, a 📉 if it’s trending down, or 🫓 if it's flat.

I also take a quote from the listing page - these are not my words, do your own due diligence and/or use a service such as Centurica or DueDilio.

I then list a couple of 👍 upside wins for each listing from the Top 20 Upside Wins for Website Acquisitions insights report (in partnership with TreasureHunter) to apply to any new website acquisition.

🆕 Empire Flippers Listings

Music - $443,479

🫓 6 Month Organic Traffic Trending in Ahrefs

This listing is for a display advertising, affiliate, and Amazon Associates business created in January 2016 in the music niche. The WordPress site features equipment guides, informational articles, and course recommendations centered around a popular musical instrument. The sale includes a new course launched in February and an email list with over 5,000 subscribers.

👍 Upside Wins: Content audit (700+ pages in google index), Add a table of contents to each post

Gaming - $663,487

🫓 6 Month Organic Traffic Trending in Ahrefs

This listing is for a display advertising business created in May 1997 in the gaming niche. The custom site, built on HTML and Ruby on Rails, features informational content related to specific video games. This site is extremely well-aged with a strong domain rating, has over 200K social media followers, and requires minimal time to maintain. The business earns 100% of its income from AdThrive display advertising.

👍 Upside Wins: Content audit (36,000+ pages in google index), Improve your core web vitals (scores F on GTMetrix)

Business - $139,363

🫓 6 Month Organic Traffic Trending in Ahrefs

This listing is for a display advertising, affiliate, and Amazon Associates business created in April 2018 in the business niche. The WordPress site features informational articles about a specific type of business. The business has a diverse range of revenue streams and traffic is well distributed across the site, with no page receiving more than 7% of the total site traffic. The business earns its income through Mediavine display ads (94%), affiliate (5%), and Amazon Associates (1%).

👍 Upside Wins: Add a popup after visitors have digested the information, Improve your core web vitals (scores D on GTMetrix)

Finance - $267,459

📉 6 Month Organic Traffic Trending in Ahrefs

This listing is for an advertising and affiliate business created in February 2019 in the finance niche. The site, custom-built on HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP and deployed on AWS using Lightsail VPS, S3, Cloudfront, and cPanel, features informational and review-type content that compares specific types of companies in the financial sector. The site is fully functional in three languages (English, Spanish, and German) with independent URLs for each language and the business requires minimal time to maintain. This business generates revenue from advertising (95%) and affiliate partnerships (5%).

👍 Upside Wins: Content audit (1,200+ pages in google index), Add a table of contents to each post

🆕 Motion Invest Listings

Over the last 7 days, there were 3 new content site listings that came on the market at Motion Invest earning > $100/m.

📈 6 Month Organic Traffic Trending in Ahrefs

2 years and 8 months old Slang website making $1,476 per month via Mediavine and Monumetric in the last 10 months is being sold via our Marketplace.

👍 Upside Wins: Content audit (1700+ pages in google index), Improve Expertise, Authority and Trust

🫓 6 Month Organic Traffic Trending in Ahrefs

1 year and 10 months old product reviews website making $112 per month via Amazon and Adsense in the last 5 months is being sold via our Marketplace.

👍 Upside Wins: Publish more content to achieve topical authority, Add a table of contents to each post

📉 6 Month Organic Traffic Trending in Ahrefs

2 years and 5 months old electronics website making $112 per month via Amazon in the last 12 months is being sold via our Marketplace.

👍 Upside Wins: Add (mobile responsive) product comparison tables, Publish more content to achieve topical authority

🆕 Investors Club Listings

📉 6 Month Organic Traffic Trending in Ahrefs

This website differentiates itself by focusing solely on providing information on the worst-performing brands and helping consumers avoid them. This niche approach may attract users who are specifically looking for this type of information. The site is monetized through Mediavine and Amazon Associates.

👍 Upside Wins: Add a table of contents to each post, Improve your core web vitals (scores C on GTMetrix)

🫓 6 Month Organic Traffic Trending in Ahrefs

For sale is a content site featuring buyer guides, product reviews, and informational guides about target archery and bowhunting. It makes money through affiliate marketing and displays advertising. This business is in a prime spot to outpace the direct competition with some intentional adjustments. s.

👍 Upside Wins: Add (mobile responsive) product comparison tables, Improve your core web vitals (scores D on GTMetrix)

🆕 Flippa Listings

Over the last week, there were 17 new content site listings on Flippa earning > $100/m with verified traffic (GA integration) over 2 years in age:

Small content sites ($100/m to $500/m in profit) - currently 64 listings, 10 new listings (9 auction, 1 classified)

Medium content sites ($500/m-$5K/m in profit) - currently 107 listings, 5 new listings (4 auction, 1 classified)

Large content sites (over $5K/m in profit) - currently 25 listings, 2 new listings (0 auction, 2 classified)

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Important Disclaimer: Not financial or investing advice. This newsletter is strictly for information and education purposes. Do your own research and due diligence. This newsletter is monetized through affiliate links, sponsorship and a paid membership.

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