Dealmakers Podcast

Buying Online Businesses With Affiliate Marketing And SEO Growth

Jonathan Jay speaks with Michal Bereslavsky about acquiring virtual businesses, finding private online deal flow, improving SEO assets, raising investor capital, and reselling digital businesses for stronger returns.

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Episode 152  |  Runtime: 27:10  |  Audio Episode

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Hear the full conversation on buying affiliate websites, growing online businesses through SEO, using investor capital, and selling digital assets for profit.

Episode: 152
Runtime: 27:10
Topic: Online business acquisitions
Format: Founder interview

Key Takeaways

Three practical lessons for buyers assessing online businesses, affiliate assets, and SEO driven acquisition opportunities.

Online Assets Can Produce Real Acquisition Returns

Michal explains how affiliate websites, ad monetised sites, and digital product businesses can be bought, improved, and sold without stock, manufacturing, or physical premises.

Deal Quality Starts With Traffic And Monetisation

Strong digital acquisitions depend on clean traffic sources, durable organic rankings, credible monetisation, manageable risk, and clear growth levers that can be executed quickly.

Due Diligence Still Protects Capital

Even in virtual businesses, poor diligence can destroy value. Larger deals require deeper review of traffic data, content quality, revenue sources, backlinks, operational dependence, and market risk.

Episode Breakdown

In this episode, Jonathan Jay interviews Michal Bereslavsky, a specialist in buying, growing, and selling online businesses. Michal explains how his brokerage and micro private equity model focuses on affiliate sites, ad monetised websites, digital products, and online service businesses that can be improved through SEO, content, backlinks, and conversion work.

The discussion gives buyers a clear view of how the online business market works, from small websites available on marketplaces through to larger digital assets purchased with investor capital. Michal breaks down what he looks for in a deal, why organic Google traffic matters, how monetisation models differ, and why some online businesses can be doubled or tripled in value within one to three years.

Jonathan and Michal also cover risk, negotiation, valuation changes, and the discipline required to avoid poor acquisitions. The episode is especially useful for dealmakers who understand traditional business acquisition but want to assess virtual assets, passive investor structures, and online deal flow with more confidence.

Best For

  • Buyers exploring online business acquisitions for the first time.
  • Acquisition entrepreneurs assessing affiliate websites and ad monetised assets.
  • Investors interested in passive capital structures for digital businesses.
  • Operators who can grow assets through SEO, content, backlinks, and conversion improvement.
  • Dealmakers comparing marketplace listings with private online deal flow.

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