Today I am going to take some time and evaluate SitePoint’s new marketplace, Flippa.com. One of my main businesses revolves around flipping websites. I’ll make a wordpress blog, add some keyword-rich content to it, spiff it up a bit, and sell it for a small profit. While listing a website on the forums (for free) is a very common way to sell your website, I have always been on the lookout for a bigger, more respected marketplace.

I finally came across Flippa.com a few days ago. I was very impressed by the simplicity of the website. The homepage gave me two options: Buy a Website or Sell a Website. The organization and layout of the website was simple, yet advanced at the same time. Some of the most important differences I noticed between Flippa.com and the old SitePoint marketplace were:

• I could choose to sell my website through a private sale or an auction.
• Powerful and effective criteria search.
• Flippa requires a phone verification for accounts, preventing non-paying bidders and scammers.
• You must verify website ownership to sell your website.
• All general site statistics for each listing can be viewed while browsing through listings (you don’t need to click on it for details).
• A simple, user-friendly layout
• You can now view recently sold and ending soon listings.
• Flippa provides statistics about the Flippa marketplace in the footer.

You can see from the list above that many important improvements have been made on the Flippa.com marketplace. I can’t stress the simplicity of the Flippa website enough. If a website is easy to use, more users will use it and navigate through more pages.

Personally, I am very impressed with the Flippa.com website. I listed on of my big projects on their a few days ago (link to sale), so I’ll have to wait and see how that sale goes. If you get a chance to take a look at that link, you’ll get to see how what your average Flippa listing looks like.

Some people are unhappy about the switch from the SitePoint website marketplace to Flippa, and I can’t imagine why. Flippa.com is a 5-star marketplace. With 35% of its listings sold, about $320,000 in sales in the past week, and about $27,000,000 in sales altogether, I can’t see how you can go wrong with listing your website on Flippa.com. But I’d like to hear your comments on Flippa, so please submit them below!