Most Expensive WordPress Blog Ever Sold?
A one man army WordPress blog sold for $15million. Yes it’s not a dream or something, A WP blog called Bankaholic was acquired by BankRate for the huge figure $15M at Paidcontent org. Financial info site BankRate is expanding its financial product listings, as it’s acquiring Bankaholic, which provides info on deposits, savings accounts, and money market accounts. The company will pay $12.4 million up front, with another $2.5 million possible earnout over the next 12 months. Bankaholic’s sole employee John Wu will assist in the transition and remain for an unspecified period of time.
Full details are here:
- Sold Site: www.Bankaholic.com
- Buyer: www.BankRate.com
- Amount: $15M
- Staff of Sold Blog: 1
- Sources of Revenue: Adsense, BankRate Partner Program
- Sources of Traffic: Organic search.
- Deal Source: PaidContent
So next, try hard to make your blog listed there. Happy & Money Blogging!
Readers Question: Are you trying to sell your blog? 
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Hey Lax,
Who will buy our blogs yar..Yes i want to sell but atleast for $20M
Good gathering post
@karteek,
Improve you blog, some one will buy for amount u said
That is some financial site yar… these normal blogs won’t get chances like that..so i wanna start a financial blog
Try and win
This is really a revolution towards blogging yar.
$15M is not a joke…….A huge deal madi.
I want to sell my blog for 100$ lax
TechZoomIn acquired funandtech blog. howz it tomorrow news
@funandtech,
Thanks for commenting and for your offer also
funandtech looks to be a good blog…try a auction u will get even more i guess.
Jus kidding…
wow, what a payoff for a young blog. their numbers are good, but not great. so, there’s hope for every blogger with the right domain name and niche.
http://www.blogtogreat.com/2008/10/bankaholic-blog.html
i am maintaining 50 blog since 2 months.
i will improve them well but i wont sell them to any one
50 blogs in 2 months? You’re really crazyblogger man..hahaha
Wow! I visit the bankaholic blog and it seems like it was just a simple blog like others. I am really impress with their simplicity.
I don’t have much knowledge about banking. I think I should explore this blog to learn the banking processes.
I cannot imagine why simple blog can be expensive.