by Dominic Wells | Feb 6, 2020 | Advice, How To
In days gone by, you only had to fear a Google update if you were doing something overtly wrong, like over-optimizing your content, performing questionable link building tactics, or being otherwise spammy. If you played by their rules, you were golden. Ever since 2018...
by Dominic Wells | Dec 23, 2019 | Advice, Case Study, Thoughts
December is always a time for looking forward to the new year, and looking back to the year gone by. What better way to do the latter, than by brain-dumping everything we’ve learned from buying sites throughout 2019? If you’ve followed us for some time,...
by Dominic Wells | Nov 22, 2019 | Thoughts
Many people call websites “Digital Real Estate”. To some, this may just be a clever name or witty reference to a website as an online “home”, or a domain name as a tradeable asset. To others, the reference is a lot more accurate, especially...
by Dominic Wells | Oct 22, 2019 | Advice
A few days ago, Amazon sent out an email to all associates reminding them about FTC disclosure requirements and compliance with Amazon Associates’ own Operating Agreements. There’s been a lot of chatter about what this means, and what associates need to do...
by Dominic Wells | Oct 6, 2019 | Advice, How To
This is a follow up to our previous post about maximising returns while reducing risks. Let’s call it part 2 of our “Having cake and eating it” series. Just like reducing risk while maximising returns may seem a pipedream, reducing costs, increasing...
by Dominic Wells | Sep 20, 2019 | Advice
Conventional wisdom suggests that you can’t have your cake and eat it too. In the investing world, you need to either choose high returns, or low risk. If you could find a method that allowed you to have both, everybody would choose that one thing, and then...
by Dominic Wells | Aug 30, 2019 | Advice
One of the questions we get the most from potential investors, is whether larger sites have less opportunity for growth than smaller sites. For example, right now we are in discussions with our investor list about pooling funds together in order to buy bigger...
by Dominic Wells | Aug 14, 2019 | Case Study
Since the middle of 2018, Onfolio has been involved in 18 website purchases, about 30% of these our own, the rest with investors. 2 of these were made in 2018 and the other 16 since we ramped things up at the start of 2019. Of these 18, 17 of them would be classed as...
by Dominic Wells | Jul 26, 2019 | Advice, How To
It’s a big challenge learning to run one successful website. It’s even more of a challenge when it comes time to consider expanding your portfolio. You’ll eventually reach a point where you know you need to hire. This comes with its own set of problems;...
by Dominic Wells | Jul 11, 2019 | Case Study, How To
I mentioned in a previous post, that when evaluating a site to purchase, I will look at it’s stability before I look at growth opportunities. Doing this allows you to focus on not getting burned, while still looking for further gains. At the same time, it is...
