My Website Marketplace Site - Need Opinions And Advice

[jawzishere]

A friend from Australia and I (U.S.) have been developing a website (www.buyestablishedwebsites.com) for the past month or so and plan on launching it on October 1st.

Our website is simply a marketplace for people to buy and sell websites similar to buysellwebsite.com and the same concept as http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace...p?categoryid=1

Our main goal is to be a central hub (buying, selling, information resource, advice) for people doing business in this industry.

The advantages we have over other sites is that we charge less and are more customer-driven than money-driven. We also allow people to post their sites for free unlike our main competition (above) and only take a nominal percentage of the sale price.

We plan on implementing an affiliate program a month or so after launching.

We plan on monetizing through featured listings and possibly text link ads and adsense and of course our small fee that is charged when the website sells.

We already have a great SEO base with almost 2000 backlinks according to dnscoop.net and for traffic plan on having blogs review our site, PPC, Text advertising, banner ads, expired domain redirects, press releases and a couple other things.

I realize the grammar, sentence structure and spelling isn't the best with what we have so far on the site but that will be corrected by launch.

Other then that do you have any suggestions, opinions, tips or advice on the potential our site has and how to improve our odds for success?

[richkid]

I have seen your website in your signature at Sitepoint. It is a good idea, and I hope you make it a success!

[HouseOfAtlas]

I think its a great idea, too! I like the idea of, "No charges unless sold".