Sell posts?

[mugatea]

Hey. I have a dog walking website and on it some blog categories. One blog category is for my original dog food recipes. These recipes get around 150,000 visitors a year and very popular with hundreds and even thousands of facebook shares. I dont want adwords so dont make money and it costs me a bit on hosting so I was thinking of selling them to raise funds. If I did and redirected the current address link to new address link could I pass on the seo juice, rankings and 150,000 visitors to another site and sell them and make some cash? I did email loads of pet supply places but no one contacted me. I thought having that many dog owning visitors coming to their site might hold appeal to a pet supply website. How would I sell them?

 

[GoldenLeads]

Have you tried registering for amazon affiliate program and selling dog related stuff ?

 

[UKSBD]

Hey. I have a dog walking website and on it some blog categories. One blog category is for my original dog food recipes.

Have you thought about actually creating an eBook of your recipes and making it available for download?

 

[Rob Gordon]

Not sure about selling them - they're out there already and even if you move them behind a paywall something like archive.org probably has a copy of them.

As UKSBD said - a compilation of recipe's as an eBook might work better - you could direct link to Amazon from each page and sell via them or even directly at first and see how the numbers go.

 

[mugatea]

I'm thinking someone out there selling pet related products online might find 150,000 visitors that these recipes would bring to their website useful?

 

[OldWelshGuy]

be careful how you handle it. if you are seen anywhere on your site to be offering advertising with dofollow links then you run the risk of getting a slap.

 

[mugatea]

Hi James. I'm hoping I can just sell them, someone will put posts on their site and I'll redirect the links to the new address. Is that ok?

 

[GoldenLeads]

be careful how you handle it. if you are seen anywhere on your site to be offering advertising with dofollow links then you run the risk of getting a slap.

Because Google cares and has time.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Ok I see what you mean. That is a bit deceptive and could cause all sorts of issues, it would also pee your visitors off. Google treat a metarefresh redirect as a 301, they also remove any link juice from a redirected page on a domain. so you would have to be mindful that if you redirect pages that have external links pointing to them then you weaken your own SEO.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Because Google cares and has time.

If a manual review takes place as a result of selling page rank reports yes

 

[mugatea]

When I say redirecting links, I'd be deleting all the links to the recipes from site. There would be no "recipes" link that opens up another website. Posts, links... everything would be deleted. I'd to a 301 (or whatever) to tell google the recipes are now somewhere else. There will be no mention of it as far as I'm concerned on my website. That ok? And hopefully google will give new owner the same ranking, visitors by just knowing thats their new home.

 

[ZeroDouble]

Have you thought about actually creating an eBook of your recipes and making it available for download?

^^^This is good advice.

Collect an email address for the download and build a build a list to market to.

 

[UKSBD]

When I say redirecting links, I'd be deleting all the links to the recipes from site. There would be no "recipes" link that opens up another website. Posts, links... everything would be deleted. I'd to a 301 (or whatever) to tell google the recipes are now somewhere else. There will be no mention of it as far as I'm concerned on my website. That ok? And hopefully google will give new owner the same ranking, visitors by just knowing thats their new home.

A better option would be use the posts as snippets, keep at least 50% of the info on each page but move the actual recipe elsewhere (the downloadable eBook)
The quality of the photos and writing could easily make it a top seller.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

More than one way to skin a fish

 

[boring-friday]

Lots of things you could do but you really aren't making use of the full potential, I'd focus on building more traffic still. Put guides on dog training etc, and definitely list more recipes. I know of a few affiliate marketers in that niche with less traffic than you lol, they sell clickbank products. Make your own ebook and sell it:
https://accounts.clickbank.com/mkplSearchResult.htm?dores=true&includeKeywords=dog
I wouldn't redirect or anything like that. Keep it as is. I'd be tempted to try making the food and selling it ready made to be honest too. I order all my meat from musclefood, same thing for dogs lol

 

[mugatea]

These ebooks.... they are just pdf files really, yeah?

 

[Chelios]

Excellent set of content - if I was in your position I'd monetise it through AdSense and promoting dog products through affiliate marketing.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

I would also go down the route of CPA and ads