BestInsurance.com is for Sale.

[Mark]

I got 80,000 views on my on youtube.

Anyone want to buy it?

 

[BestInsurance]

You miss the point that several have made. Perhaps it is because you consider yourself smarter than a bunch of agents and one SEO guy.

"Best insurance" generates 165,000 local hits.

So what?

Even globally the hits are 310,000.

BFD.

The site may have value to someone seeking to turn a dollar on a reseller site, but has almost no value to most insurance agents.

The PR and Alexa rank is horrible for a domain that has been around since 1997.

165K of impressions will convert into at least 20K visitors, which is minimum of $25K dollars per month in traffic brokerage. If I were needing of $70K, why don't wait just 3 months to get money? I wouldn't sell the thing which generates $300K/year for $70/K.

No. It doesn't generate that many of impressions. BestInsurance.com generates about 600 US relevant visitors per month. 600 visitors per month can be converted into 200 leads per month. The new domain owner will get all of those leads. So basically it can be said, that I'm "selling" 2400 exclusive insurance leads for $70000, which gives figure of $29.1 per lead for the first year. On the second, third, forth, etc years those leads will be completely free.

Let me restate. Imagine you can buy a house for $240K. You know that once you buy it, you can rent it out for $20k/mo, so renter will repay the house just in 1 year, and after the first year you will get profit only. Does it sound like a deal? It is exactly the thing I offer. I offer the thing, which will repay itself in just 1 year.

By the way. If someone wants to buy exclusive leads for $30 per lead, please let me know, I will stop broker traffic, will create questionnaires, and you will download leads straight from the database. I'm more than fine with it.
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It is very sad, that people started to attack me. Why are you, guys, doing it? Why don't you ask questions if you don't understand something or in doubt? I'm giving you real numbers, and real estimates.

 

[Josh]

Let me just ask a dumb question from someone with virtually no SEO experience.

Who searches for "best insurance"? If it was "cheap insurance" or as targeted as "health insurance" or "car insurance" or any of a dozen other things I would better understand, but "best insurance" seems too vague.

I don't see this on "best health insurance", "best car insurance", or "best life insurance".

To me as an agent, I don't see the value in it, but I could be completely wrong. What makes "bestinsurance.com" worth anything to an agent?

 

[Pangaea]

I'll say it AGAIN:

Best insurance only gets 880 actual searches a month on Google.com within the USA...

NOT EVEN CLOSE TO 165K...

And AGAIN, the dang thing isn't even ranking #1 for an EMD (Exact Match Domain)... You won't put it on Flippa because you'll be laughed off the Internets; I've seen sites sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars on there without question - you can't liken it to a pawn shop...

 

[somarco]

Be sure to check the [exact match] numbers... No where near 100K.

Yeah, I looked at that. Was trying to be generous.

 

[BestInsurance]

Who searches for "best insurance"? If it was "cheap insurance" or as targeted as "health insurance" or "car insurance" or any of a dozen other things I would better understand, but "best insurance" seems too vague.

It is:
75% of car insurance
10% of home insurance
10% of health insurance
5% of life insurance

I don't see this on "best health insurance", "best car insurance", or "best life insurance".

"best car insurance" and "best auto insurance" on the second page in Google and on the first page in Yahoo. No such results on "best health insurance" and "best life insurance" because I just didn't promote them, because payouts on health and life insurance traffic are extremely low.
If you move bestinsurance.com to the spot #1 - #3 for "best car insurance" and "best auto insurance" keywords website will have 7.4 times more traffic, than it has now.

And as I told, I also have about $150/mo of "type in" traffic, which is very valuable.

What makes "bestinsurance.com" worth anything to an agent?

You buy the domain name and website, replace SureHits banner by your questionnaires, collect leads. If you are a health insurance agent and you get a car insurance lead - sell the lead, if you are a health insurance agent in California and you get a health insurance lead in Florida - sell the lead, if you are a health insurance agent in California and you get a health insurance lead in California - sell the insurance.

$200 offer, I got on the first page, is stupid. Right now I make about $8-10K/year (counted in yearly perspective) on reselling traffic, having just $39.95/mo in expenses, and even this expense I will reduce soon to $120/year. So offering $200 for a $8-10K/year thing is really silly. Even if I sell it for $50K (which can happen under a single condition only and no one of you would like to accept it), and you, MedicarePlanSolutions, literally will not touch it at all, domain name will bring you about 15-20% of yearly interest. And in fact, interest will grow every year, because Pay-Per-Click prices have no tendency to decrease or even stabilize. I can't say that $39.95/mo is the only expense, because I order insurance related articles, but you can write 1 short article per week yourself, and it will work even better than the articles written by a copywriter.

 

[Josh]

Fair enough, but let me ask you another silly question. Why would you sell $8k-$10k/year of income? So let's say it costs you $500/year and you're making even $5k/year profit, it seems goofy to try to sell it unless you're trying to get a price far and above what it is worth.

Another point of consideration: For $50k an agent can generate a pretty hardcore site and pay folks to do some pretty crazy SEO work to create a site that is actually targeted for their line of insurance. Hell, for $5k an agent can get a good start.

 

[BestInsurance]

You are a pain...

I'll say it AGAIN:

Best insurance only gets 880 actual searches a month on Google.com within the USA...

That metric is incorrect. And you know it, and if you don't, it is measure of you professionalism. Correct number of Google searches is 1,600, 170 of Google clicks, CTR 11%. But web site gets traffic from Yahoo as well, not sure if you heard about it though.

NOT EVEN CLOSE TO 165K...

Are you crazy??? I told that there are no 165K of searches! If I had that amount of traffic I would stop working for the rest of my life! To sell such a perfect thing just for $70K??? CarInsurance.com, which I think has comparable number of traffic was sold for $49M! Can you compare $49M to $70k I ask???

And AGAIN, the dang thing isn't even ranking #1 for an EMD (Exact Match Domain)...

It was top 1 until the end of January. Now Google thinks that AM Best is more relevant, but I don't see the drop of the traffic, in fact, I got know about Google algorithm change on this forum only. And I can get it back to the first position for less than $1K, but I see no reason in doing it, if traffic is the same.
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Why would you sell $8k-$10k/year of income? So let's say it costs you $500/year and you're making even $5k/year profit, it seems goofy to try to sell it unless you're trying to get a price far and above what it is worth.

Because I want to invest money in something else, where I can sell leads, not traffic.

Another point of consideration: For $50k an agent can generate a pretty hardcore site and pay folks to do some pretty crazy SEO work to create a site that is actually targeted for their line of insurance. Hell, for $5k an agent can get a good start.

$50K for a web site is quite a lot of money, please let me know if you want one. For $50K I will create you questionnaires, reporting tools and leads distribution system (which is my primary area of expertise). $50K for SEO is absolutely nothing.

 

[desert boy]

OK OK, I will open the bidding.

$10, I have a $10 opening bid!

Do I hear $20, anyone $20?

 

[Josh]

$50K for a web site is quite a lot of money, please let me know if you want one. For $50K I will create you questionnaires, reporting tools and leads distribution system (which is my primary area of expertise). $50K for SEO is absolutely nothing.

That was my point. Why on earth would anyone pay you $50k for a site when they can pay folks to generate their own? That doesn't make sense.