Every couple of months I read a post about someone selling their blog for X amount of dollars, and every time I lose a little bit of interest in those blogs.  The only blogs that I ever see posting this are the “make money online blogs.”

Why Make Money Online Blogs?

My guess is they can use it as publicity for the actual sale.  If you think about it, most of these blogs are very popular in some circles.  When they post something such as a potential sale, information spreads quickly, and soon everyone is talking about it.

I personally don’t like to buy into the hype.  It was interesting with the first couple sales, but after I saw what the new authors did with the blogs, I just stopped visiting any sold blogs.

I don’t think you can sell a blog and still retain the long-time readers.  That is unless you have a staff of writers that will stay on with the new owner.  I visit certain blogs on a daily basis because I connect with the author.  He/she gives me something that I can’t find anywhere else.  So handing over the reigns to a different author and assuming that I won’t have a problem with it is a little misjudged on the seller’s part.