Archive for March, 2006
OnlineGames.net has been put up for sale at SitePoint. This is a very popular flash games website with many sorts of games - from sudoku games to action games. It has about 30,000 unique visitors a day. The site makes near $3,500 monthly through Adsense, YPN, Casale Media and Fastclick.
The traffic has been stable for several months according to seller, so it - as he says - should be a good investment. The starting bid is $45,000 with a BIN of $120,000. I’m not sure it is worth the BIN, but then again a website with this kind of traffic is often worth A LOT MORE than the “usual” 12 months of revenue.
Tags: web site for sale, arcade website, games website
March 17th, 2006
There is a guitar forum called Guitars101.com currently for sale at SitePoint. It looks like a good website with plenty of activity. And the stats for the forum seems very good too with almost 30,000 threads containing about 350,000 posts. And there is 20,005 registered members.
The site is making $400-500 a month through adsense according to seller. That should be possible increase I think.
The site is for sale with a starting bid of $10,000 and a BIN at $12,000, which compared to the income seems rather high. But it is for sure that there is a lot of potential for this site.
Update: I guess someone saw the potential, since it has just sold for the BIN price.
Tags: guitars forum, forum for sale, buy forum, community for sale
March 15th, 2006
At Dnforum there is a huge forum for sale. The forum is located at blogring.net and it is a blogging related forum mainly for xanga and myspace. With its almost 100,000 threads containing more than 1,6 million posts it is definitely a huge forum.
The traffic is also there since it gets about 5,000 uniques a day - and the seller says something about 40,000 impressions, but I’m not sure if that is ads he is talking about.
As it is stated in the thread the site is pretty slow due to the forum software that needs to be upgraded etc.
The seller is looking for bids over $9,000 and he currently has a bid at $13,000.
Tags: forum for sale, selling forum, buy forum, xanga forum
March 9th, 2006
There is a spanish forum - basilando.com for sale at NamePros. It has more than a thousand members and there is 50000+ posts and this is, according to seller, increasing by ~250 posts daily. My spanish is pretty bad, so all I could understand from the site is that it covers various topics 
This month it has had about 100 daily uniques doing more than 2000 pageviews a day. There isn’t much information in the sales thread but the site seems interesting.
Tags: spanish forum, forum for sale, buy forums, selling forum
March 8th, 2006
The team behind blogexplosion.com has made it public on their blog, that they have decided to put the blogging community up for sale. This is what they say: “BlogExplosion will be going up for sale next week. We will be sending out a special email early next week with full details about how we plan to sell the site.”
There is some overall stats on the blog, and a description of what goes with the sale, that you can check out already now if you’re interested in the website.
Tags: blogging, blogs, blog community, blogexplosion
March 8th, 2006
There is an online computer graphics publication for sale at SitePoint. The website is cgunderground.com and it seems very nice. According to seller there has been a monthly revenue of about $500 a month on average for the last three months. The revenue was generated through Adsense and by selling ad space.
The traffic varies on a month to month basis, but is approximately 175,000 monthly pageviews by 19,000 to 28,000 uniques.
The seller describes the site as: “CG Underground is an online computer graphics publication. The site offers to the visitors/members: Online Gallery, Tutorials, Industry news, Product Reviews, Interviews with artists around the world, Forums and a Free Profile section, where members may link to website URL, 6 images for portfolio, location, etc….”
The website is on auction with the bidding starting at $2,750 and the BIN is $5,800.
Tags: computer graphics, websites for sale, graphics publication, cg underground
March 7th, 2006
Problogging.com has an interview witt Matt about the Blog Herald deal. There is a little bit of interesting stuff about the valuation and some advise on buying blogs. Read it here!
Tags: matt craven, blog herald, buying blogs, problogging
March 6th, 2006
I just read a good post at Jensense about how to check for a Adsense ban and it was even written for website buyers: Safeguarding yourself when purchasing a site for Adsense.
She doesn’t mention the online tools available to see Adsense ads such as Google Adsense Sandbox from DigitalPoint. That’s the one I always start with - if it shows ads then everything seems fine - if it doesn’t shot ads then check again in two hours, and if it still doesn’t show ads then you should investigate further.
Found via Problogger
Tags: adsense ban, banned from adsense, adsense tools
Of interest: You can run a criminal background check on a new babysitter, to make sure he or she is safe, using a background check website.
March 6th, 2006
There are several interesting websites for sale today, so I’ll just make a short summary of each of them.
The first is for sale at SitePoint:
A t-shirt website called crewddewdsshirts.com. It has a monthly revenue of $500+ made by selling shirts, but also has income from shareasale.com and other sites they are affliated with, along with adsense, bidvertiser, adbrite, etc. The website itself is really clutered with all sorts of stuff like links, banners etc. but it still interesting since it makes money and it gives space for improvement.
The second is for sale at SitePoint:
The website feedbomb.com is a blog / feed directory with 25,000 monthly pageviews from ~3,300 unique visitors. The site makes about $33 dollars a month, but I think this could be improved be placing ads on all pages, and by changing the ad formats. One thing to be aware of is that many bloggers don’t like to have their full feeds published on other sites, so I think it would be a good idea to make the site only show 250-350 charaters of each feed item.
The third is for sale at DigitalPoint:
There isn’t much information in the sales thread - not even the URL - but it is a weight loss related blog that makes decent money ~$3000 a month.
The fourth is for sale at sedo:
The website LoveOGram.com is a simple viral website where people can let other people know that they have a crush on them - anonymously. The website has about 3000 - 4000 daily uniques, and I think it could be monetized much better - even though I don’t know how much the owner is making from it.
Tags: selling websites, websites for sale, buy websites, website sale
March 4th, 2006
After writing my previous post about validating pagerank I thought to myself that I also need to explain the following problem where sites with a real pagerank is for sale, but with one big problem being that the pagerank is likely to drop after the next update.
What you need to be aware of, is that there is another kind of scam where sellers try to sell high pagerank sites, but the high pagerank has been obtained through few links on very high pagerank sites of their own, or that they just have access to, and those links are likely to be removed after a sale. Here is an example:
- Some guy has a website (A) with a good pagerank let’s say 8.
- He wants to make some easy money by selling another website (B).
- So he links to website B from website A.
- After the next toolbar pagerank update website B will most likely have obtained a REAL pagerank of 7.
- Then he puts it up for sale on some forums where someone ends up buying it.
- After the deals is through he removes the link from website A
- The next time Google measures link popularity (NOT the toolbar pagerank) website B has a pagerank next to zero.
- So the website that was bought is worth almost nothing - based on pagerank.
I’ll just repeat yesterdays tip: “The next time you’re valuating a website based on its pagerank. Check if the pagerank is real and that it is not likely to drop after the next update.”
Tags: link popularity, website pagerank, website valuation, pagerank scam
March 4th, 2006
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