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Re:How are websites making money? by thematt on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @03:41PM (#5253195)
The problem with this analysis is it's based largely on numbers provided by unscrupulous people trying to game SEO.

Speaking as someone who has purchased multiple sites off of Flippa -- I view any revenue numbers with lots of skepticism. The majority are spammy sites and the remaining sites that are legitimate have often faked/inflated their numbers to entice purchasers.

Re:How are websites making money? by unreal37 on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @04:05PM (#5253362)
If median revenue per month is only $133, they suck at gaming it.
Re:How are websites making money? by bigiain on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @05:12PM (#5253719)
I dunno - if you've got things set up so you can run 100 of them simultaneously…

(And I'd guess there's a bit of VC-like speculation going on too - people trying to not lose too much money on the 99 "failures", but making up for it with one single 4 or 5 order of magnitude outlier success.)