Forum for Sale: my.IS, ~100,000 pageviews/day, ~$1,700 rev./month
Here is an interesting forum which definitely seems great. My.IS (and is300.net) is for sale at SitePoint.
According to Bigboards there should be around 100,000 pageviews a day. But the seller reports that according to Google (Google Analytics, I guess) it is on average 33,000 pageviews a day.
I believe that there is some hidden values in this forum. First of all, I can see that the amount of pages, that Google and Yahoo has indexed, is very much below the actual amount of pages. So I am sure that there is alot of traffic to gain from search engines. These users coming through searches is normally clicking ads more often, so they might be of really good value.
Secondly, I think that since the subject is very specific - Lexus IS-models - it should be possible to obtain higher earnings than what the seller reports.
The starting bid is $25,000, which I believe is a good price. For somebody, with the knowledge needed to improve this forum, there are some decent money to make.
If anybody ends up buying this website, then do link building. The current pagerank is 3, which is very low. Link popularity in this end, can easily be improved, and thereby increase the amount of pages indexed by search engines.
Stats:
Daily pageviews: ~100,000 (BigBoards) / ~33,000 (Google)
Threads: 169,926
Posts: 2,506,282
Members: 33,005
Pages indexed:
- Google: ~27,500
- Yahoo: ~48,105
PageRank: 3
Tags: forum sale, buy forum, lexus, is350
1 comment January 12th, 2006
