Posts filed under 'Content Sites'
It’s been quite a while since my last post and I regret that. I’ve been so busy that I just couldn’t find the time to write here. Also I find that there has not been as many interesting websites for sale as usually. I often first saw the good ones when they where almost already sold.
Enough about that because there’s a decent website for sale at SitePoint. The website is www.butlerwebs.com and has a steady income and lots of traffic. According to seller it makes about $3000 a month where the $2000 is through adsense. Regarding the traffic he states that there is around 15-20,000 unique visitors daily.
The fact that there’s several recent blog posts which links to the website makes me believe that it’s true. Just try and search for the website on technorati and you’ll see them.
It’s an auction and the bidding starts at $26,000, which it definitely must be worth.
Tags: websites for sale, classified ads website, event website, directory website
May 17th, 2006
I just found out that BlogExplosion (which I previously reported being for sale) has been sold for a pretty decent amount. On their blog they write “Our final closing price was in the six figures and well beyond our minimum bid of $100,000“. That’s a very nice sale, and for the notice it was brokered by Jeremy Wright!
On the official BlopExplosion blog they also write about a lot of new features and improvements that will be implemented. It’s great to see that the buyer has big plans for the website, and that they’re not just interested in “milking the cow”.
Via: Problogger
Tags: blogexplosion, blog pricings, blog community, blogging
April 25th, 2006
On SitePoint and DigitalPoint there is a site called MyDrinkRecipes.com for sale. It’s a rather popular drink recipes website with 400,000+ monthly pageviews done by approx. 4,000 daily unique visitors.
By checking out the stats provided in the sales threads I found that there is definitely space for improvements regarding SEO for Google. The website receives only a little percentage of the overall search engine traffic from Google, which I believe doesn’t reflect the actual amount of searches on each individual search engine.
Another thing I found, that I believe all potential buyers should look into is that about 80% of the sessions doesn’t have a referrer. This is a little odd, but maybe the seller can clarify the issue. It could be that there are that many regular visitors, but I don’t think that is possible.
This website is for sale on auction with a starting bid of $3,000 and a BIN price of $6,500, which seems a little bit high considering that it makes on average $240 a month. And drinks websites doesn’t have any special growth potential - it takes hard work.
Tags: recipe website for sale, regular visitors, drinks website for sale
April 18th, 2006
There is a football (soccer) website for sale at SitePoint. The website is footballexpo.com which according to seller recieves about 500.000 monthly pageviews, and generates $500-600 in revenue.
The seller claims that it has made more than $500 revenue with adsense since it was started 20 days ago. It seems rather unusual for a website to receive that much traffic so quickly after being created. But he also tells that the traffic comes from newsnow.co.uk and lots of other uk football club sites, which seems to be correct.
I wonder how much money there are in ads on sports websites of all sorts like water skiing or basketball for that matter.
The site is for sale with a BIN of $1500.
Tags: football website, soccer websites, news site, web site for sale
April 4th, 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
There is another MySpace site for sale at SitePoint. This site is myspace-place.com which like the one I just mentioned has traffic of 110,000 monthly pageviews.
It also has revenue, but that is only ~$135 monthly through adsense, so it is only earning a third compared to the other MySpace site. So I guess that any buyers should take this into consideration. Since the two sites are alike, it is very possible that by looking at the best performing site, one could improve this site to earn much more than it currently does.
Another interesting thing about this site, is that 50% of the traffic is coming from search engines, according to seller. And most of the the other visits is through affiliates or they are returning visitors. So a buyer should consider if it is possible to gain traffic directly from peoples MySpace profiles.
The site is for sale on auction and the bidding starts at $1200.
Tags: myspace website, website for sale, myspace templates, myspace codes
March 1st, 2006
The site is krustie.com which is for sale at SitePoint. It is turnkey but it has traffic of about 140,000 monthly pageviews and revenue of ~400$ trough adsense.
The adsense is very aggressively positioned, so I wouldn’t expect on improving revenue through those. But if you already have a deal with a CPM based ad network, you might be able to increase revenue by implementing such, at the same time as having adsense.
As I understand it, most of the traffic comes from peoples MySpace profiles, but the seller also talkes about SEO and some rankings, so I guess there is also some search engine traffic.
The website is for sale for $3000, which seems okay if it is the kind of site, where it is not hard to keep the traffic at the current level. I think that one would be able to earn back their investment.
Tags: myspace website, myspace editors, myspace avatars
March 1st, 2006
At SitePoint there is a new sales thread for a very unique website I think. The URL is scriptscribbler.com and it is a PSP programming tutorial website. I believe that is an interesting niche, that one could make decent money from.
The website is pretty small in page count, but it has traffic, ~100,000 pageviews a month, and a revenue of $150 monthly from adsense. Traffic comes from the many links the site has obtained - probably because of its uniqueness. Also there is a lot of traffic coming from search engines, and the site has seems to have many top rankings for the keywords of the niche.
With the uniqueness of the subject, and the likeliness of the site probably almost being an authority in the field, I guess one would be able to get a forum going quite well. Regarding the adsense, I think a new web design could increase the CTR. An e-mail newsletter when there are new tutorials would probably increase visits.
The catch is, that you would have to know about PSP programming. Or you could maybe find someone with the expertise, and have them continue the lessons by writing further tutorials, and participate in the forum, if the site got one implemented. But maybe the owner is willing to do some paid work after the sale.
Tags: unique websites, niche websites, programming website, tutorial website
February 28th, 2006
There is a tabs website (guitar, bass and drums) for sale at DigitalPoint (and NamePros). The website is hottesttabs.com and it should be receiving 5500+ uniques a day, according to seller.
There are stats and revenue screenshots in the thread, and it all seems pretty good. And I believe there is potential for improving the Adsense revenue from the website.
The bidding starts at $2600 and there is a $6000 BIN. I’m not sure it is worth $6000 since that is around two years of revenue. But of course there is the chance of buying it for less since it is an auction.
But potential buyers should be aware of potential legal issues. I’m not sure that there are any, but I recall some previous cases about lyrics and tabs websites.
Tags: sell website, tabs website, website traffic, website revenue
February 17th, 2006
