Search Results for ‘hip hop’
The first one is a Hip Hop Forum that is listed for sale at Dnforum and NamePros. The forum stats according to seller are as following: threads: 50,711, posts: 701,104, members: 6,631, which makes it a pretty large forum. The site has a revenue of $400-800 a month coming from Casale, Fastclick and YPN.
It doesn’t seem to get that much traffic, since the seller talks about a potential buyer would make $1,000+ if they bring it up to 2,000+ unqiues a day, so this should be taken into consideration. With a minimum price of $10,000 I think it could be a bit too high, because the site is already cluttered with a lot of advertising. But a forum can be a very good investment if you’re able to grow it.
The second one is a BitTorrent forum, which is for sale at NamePros. According to the stats screenshots provided in the thread it is obvious that the site has a huge amount of traffic. It doesn’t have that many threads or posts, but with 90,000+ registered users I believe that there is reason to call it a large forum. The asking price is $60,000 so it is a sale that needs deeper investigation if you’re a potential buyer.
Tags: selling forum, selling community, bittorrent, hip hop
February 22nd, 2006
The webshop CornerHobbyShop.com is for sale at SitePoint. It is an e-commerce website selling RC Cars - all delivered through a dropshipper.
This is what the seller tells about the traffic: “Traffic is generated through a combination of PPC ads, natural search engine listings and froogle. The site lists better on Yahoo & MSN then Google, currently.”
According to seller there has in average been a monthly revenue of $4180 in October, November and December. But the revenue for December was $7753 with a $2013 net profit.
The webshop is on auction with a starting bid of $5000 and a BIN of $25000.
The sellers comment about what is included: “You are also buying customer list, vendor information, our promise not to compete, and our advertising campaigns. Overture account can be transferred. Adwords, pricegrabber and froogle we will provide you with all keywords/ feeds to continue doing what we are doing.”
Tags: webshop, e-commerce, webshops, rc cars
January 24th, 2006
After it was made public that Duncan Riley is selling The Blog Herald, and I saw others interviewing him, I thought it would be nice to hear him out on selling and buying blogs. So I droppped him some questions, and he kindly responded.
Site Sales Blog: You’ve put a lot of effort and time into the blog over the last couple of years, so you must have gotten a special relationship to the blog and its many readers. So I guess that you have had some special considerations regarding potential buyers. Can you tell me more about that?
Duncan: To a point yes (considerations in relation to buyers) and this was one of my reasons for letting Jeremy Wright handle the sale, because not being associated with the site emotionally meant he could handle this a lot better than I could. However I’d think also at this level than anyone wanting to buy the site would unlikely be looking to gut it either.
Site Sales Blog: What do you think will happen with your loyal readers, when or if somebody else takes over writing?
Duncan: I hope they stick around. Certainly there may be some small drop off but I’m confident the new owner will take the site onto bigger and better things. Certainly the mix of blog news, tips, blog industry gossip is pretty unique to the site (yes you can get it on other blogs but not really from one blog alone) so I think people will stick around. The site also gets a lot of referral traffic in as well so as long as the content/ news delivery is maintained I’d actually see this growing.
Site Sales Blog: In the interview Darren Rowse did with you, he asks you about how you valued the blog. So you’ve had a lot thoughts about that, but are you able turn those thoughts 180 degrees, and come up with some things, that a blog buyer should consider regarding a blogs value?
Duncan: Interesting question 
If I was looking at a blog to buy I’d be looking at it this way
- What’s the traffic, and where does it come from
- Links/ influence: does the blog have a decent network of links in from others, how does it rate on sites like Technorati. Do other sites syndicate the content or refer to the site within its given niche
- Revenue: its current and potential revenue, particularly whether I could do better with the site with changes (everyone has their own ideas on what works).
- Market Place: what’s the competition for the blog like, are there a lot of people doing similar sites that could be a threat? (this was a big bonus for The Blog Herald, its pretty unique). Am I able to compete as owner of the blog with the competition?
- Opportunity Cost: what is the opportunity cost of acquiring the site? will I benefit from spending time with it (both directly and through the leverage the site will provide) or will it take away from other more profitable/ or important ventures.
Site Sales Blog: And finally, can we expect to see you selling more blogs in the near future? 
Duncan: Maybe I’m not sure that I’ll ever have a blog the size of The Blog Herald again but I do have part ownership of 70-80+ (I’ve lost count) blogs at b5media and if someone comes along and offers us $25 million for them in the same way as AOL bought Weblogs Inc., I’d have to seriously consider it
Tags: blog herald, duncan riley, blogs, blogging
January 18th, 2006
Hip Hop Blogger, hiphopblogger.com is for sale at SitePoint.
According to the seller, there has been 163 posts since the blog was started in March 2005, which seems right according to Google and Yahoo. There are currently revenue generated with AdSense, and the screenshots says it was $18.30 in December. But one thing I noticed was that, according to that screenshot, the amount of pageviews dropped a bit in the middle of the month.
The seller has also posted screenshots with sources of traffic, and it seems good since it is mostly direct traffic, so there is probable loyal readers. The rest is from links ~ 21% and search engines ~ 17%.
The bidding starts at $200, but there is a BIN of $800. I think it is worth the money, for somebody wanting to start a hip hop blog, who doesn’t have all the time in the world to get started.
If somebody buys it, then please fix that redirect from www.hiphopblogger.com to hiphopblogger.com, and make it opposite. All the links is pointing to the domain including www. And also do a little bit of link building - it should not be hard to obtain more traffic from the search engines.
Stats:
Age: 9 months
Pageviews: ~6000 a month
Pages indexed:
- Google: ~70
- Yahoo: ~150
Back links:
- Google (front page): ~316 (for the url with www)
- Yahoo (front page): ~3,380 (for the url with www)
- Yahoo (entire site): ~3,460
PageRank: 4
Tags: blog sale, hip hop, buy blog, blogging
January 9th, 2006
