Comments on: HarpzOn is for sale. Sort Of http://www.staska.net/2007/04/23/harpzon-is-for-sale-sort-of/ Sharing my 'Net life bits Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:15:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Shane http://www.staska.net/2007/04/23/harpzon-is-for-sale-sort-of/#comment-403 Shane Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:42:55 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/23/harpzon-is-for-sale-sort-of/#comment-403 Gotta disagree with you on this one. $5,000 for 30,000 visitors/month is highly reasonable in many cases. Plus, he may have very likely avoided the sandbox. I didn't think it was possible, but my blog has been around for less than three months now, and I was ranking for lots of things that a new site shouldn't be able to within just a month or two. Again, I would have argued with you that that simply wasn't possible. I do agree with you on one key point, though: this smells like a evil marketing gimmick straight from John Chow ;) Will be interesting to watch. Gotta disagree with you on this one. $5,000 for 30,000 visitors/month is highly reasonable in many cases. Plus, he may have very likely avoided the sandbox. I didn’t think it was possible, but my blog has been around for less than three months now, and I was ranking for lots of things that a new site shouldn’t be able to within just a month or two. Again, I would have argued with you that that simply wasn’t possible.

I do agree with you on one key point, though: this smells like a evil marketing gimmick straight from John Chow ;) Will be interesting to watch.

]]> By: Chee Kui http://www.staska.net/2007/04/23/harpzon-is-for-sale-sort-of/#comment-404 Chee Kui Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:17:44 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/23/harpzon-is-for-sale-sort-of/#comment-404 Hmm. I am not sure if he is really gonna sell his blog. Maybe he is, because he mentioned he is too busy. Or maybe he's just trying to get more traffic to his blog as part of his marketing strategy for his blog. ;) Hmm. I am not sure if he is really gonna sell his blog. Maybe he is, because he mentioned he is too busy. Or maybe he’s just trying to get more traffic to his blog as part of his marketing strategy for his blog. ;)

]]> By: Staska http://www.staska.net/2007/04/23/harpzon-is-for-sale-sort-of/#comment-405 Staska Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:52:26 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/23/harpzon-is-for-sale-sort-of/#comment-405 <i>Gotta disagree with you on this one. $5,000 for 30,000 visitors/month is highly reasonable in many cases.</i> There's lots of room to argue the traffic/price worth. But that's not the point here. The thing is Mitch is not selling his blog. He says that he's gonna keep the posts, subscribers, etc; for himself. All you really get is new domain with some backlinks. How long, do you think, the traffic will stay when all you have left is harpzon.com without any content? <i>Plus, he may have very likely avoided the sandbox.</i> Yeah. I thought that too until recently. I had a few blogs that were doing quite well. Had lots of backlinks, were ranking for all sorts good things and had decent SE traffic. I thought - there's no such thing as Google Sandbox.Or at least I'm not in it... Until the traffic on my two blogs more then doubled almost overnight, without me changing a thing. Now I'm much more inclined to believe that there is a sandbox. Gotta disagree with you on this one. $5,000 for 30,000 visitors/month is highly reasonable in many cases.
There’s lots of room to argue the traffic/price worth. But that’s not the point here. The thing is Mitch is not selling his blog. He says that he’s gonna keep the posts, subscribers, etc; for himself. All you really get is new domain with some backlinks. How long, do you think, the traffic will stay when all you have left is harpzon.com without any content?

Plus, he may have very likely avoided the sandbox.

Yeah. I thought that too until recently. I had a few blogs that were doing quite well. Had lots of backlinks, were ranking for all sorts good things and had decent SE traffic. I thought - there’s no such thing as Google Sandbox.Or at least I’m not in it… Until the traffic on my two blogs more then doubled almost overnight, without me changing a thing.
Now I’m much more inclined to believe that there is a sandbox.

]]> By: Shane http://www.staska.net/2007/04/23/harpzon-is-for-sale-sort-of/#comment-409 Shane Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:31:20 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/23/harpzon-is-for-sale-sort-of/#comment-409 Oh, there's <i>definitely</i> a sandbox. Absolutely no question about that. All I'm saying is that some sites manage to avoid it, and his could easily be one of those. Oh, there’s definitely a sandbox. Absolutely no question about that. All I’m saying is that some sites manage to avoid it, and his could easily be one of those.

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