Melbourne-based Flippa, the self-proclaimed, #1 marketplace for buying and selling websites, is going from strength to strength making it easier than ever for people to exit their businesses without having to wait for a knock on the door from Google or Yahoo.

Flippa is another site to come out of the super-successful SitePoint stable (Crowdsourced Design site 99 Designs is another).

Many of you will remember the SitePoint marketplace which was used to auction off Startup Camp projects – well Flippa spun out of that marketplace in June this year.

While most of their traffic originally came from SitePoint, Dave Slutzkin from Flippa tells me that after just a couple of months they’re down to less than 15% from “the mothership”, with the majority of traffic coming directly to the site.  Traffic growth is around 20% per month at the moment as well (Compete has them on about 180K UVs, though that could mean anything…)

It’s a good start for the team and one that they, no doubt, will hope positions them well to take on eBay, CraigsList and the other more niche sites competing in the area.