what’s next for johncow.com

• Author: Alexander Batista
• Filed under: Me Alexander Batista
• Date: Apr 15,2008

So I have been thinking about johncow.com and whats next with his famous blog.

They been having alot of issues selling there blog. And i think the reason is people have learned that buying blogs is not that good of an idea.

 Alot of blogs have been sold in the past and for a hefty amount but the problem is that when you buy a blog you are buying someone else idea’s and personality.

What I’m trying to say is lets say you buy johncow.com for $50,000 you expect to make your money back at-least within a year which is the general rule for buying a website.

So when you bought the blog it was making about $3,000 a month then you started to write and for some reason people don’t really like your opinion and the way you express yourself then the traffic starts going away. another example is if you have been in the industry long enough to see the cow grow from a little blog to what he is now then you know that he had alot of help from his good old friend john chow now the new owner’s might not get sponsorship like that. then what will happen next?

What will happen is that the traffic will die little by little unless you get lucky or really try to get yourself some good as writers. and if the traffic does out so does the money becase you need traffic to make money

One of the easy ways to protect yourself is to get the owner to give you at least a years work of writing or provide you contact info of the blog writer if he himself is not the writer.

I think since alot of the blogs that have been bought before might have lost the owners money or just broke even. Everyone has learned that the buying blog business is not a good bet. remember The Internet is still young so we are still learning how to make-money online and learning from other experiences and everyone seems to not like buying blogs as a profit generating system.

i don’t think  Johncow.com will have a problem selling his blog but not for $50,000 maybe more like $25,000 to $30,000 range Just because It is a really good blog.