Site for sale: 400k Visits/mth, 4million Hits, 1k+/month revenue

Hi everyone, I have a blogging website service that I am considering selling.

History of site

This blog service provider was started 4.5 years ago, and was at one point acclaimed to be far better than blogspot.com until google bought it over. If only they bought from me, I would be a millionaire xD. Site provides free blogging services. Throughout all these years, the highest unique visitors ever recorded was 772,570 with 1033415 Visits total in the month of October. At one point, it held the top spot result for blogging sites if one were to type 'free blog' in google.

Revenue Earned

The highest revenue ever made in 1 month was $1300+ just from google ads alone. Generally, the average monthly earnings from adsense is $400 - $700. We have just started opening up selling ad spaces on the homepage of the site in the month of August 2007. So far we have brought in $325 of sales profit in this month alone with 2 more payments of banner ads coming in soon rounding it up to about $420. There are still a lot of ad spaces to sell on the top of the site, sitewide banners, footer links, even banner ads on the forum. This would add on to the income already gotten via google adsense. Possible income gained 1k+/month for new owner now. Possible income if monetized well 2k+/month.

Maintaining the site

It has over over 34k+ active blogs. Site does not requires much maintenance except deletion of porn blogs which can be done via a manual script due to google adsense TOS. However if the new owner can get a designer and have a new, sleek template and add some latest features. The site can boom back to become one of the top blog service provides again.

Current stats

The visits count is an average 400k visits/month, 4million hits/month. The traffic generally increases coming to the end of the year.

*Stats as shown from estibot*

Frequency 196,000
Anchor Text 592
Title 3,360
Backlinks 17,666
Alexa Rank 66775
Traffic (uniques) / Day 15,000
PPC Ads Score 0/10
Exact Searches/mo 34

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Valuation for domain name only : USD 2,400

Valuation considering trafficVERIFY: USD 53,000

Can be found Here


Site has many student users from Singapore as it was advertised through the students network in most schools. However the top most traffic comes from US.

Reason for selling

I do not have much time to spend on upgrading the site, I believe if someone can take over and do some improvements on layouts and features, the site will reach even a greater height and I look forward to seeing that happen.

** The site is completely custom coded, coded right up from scratch using php/mysql, current page rank 5/6. No free scripts or pre-made scripts involved.

Price Range

I have received several offers from 10k-13k, will only be interested in offers above 15k.

BIN 18k

For parties who are seriously interested, we can talk through pm and from there we can discuss more via email/messenger. Traffic, Rev stats will only be shown to interested buyers who are offering above 15k.

As I am looking for a quick sale, this sales thread will only be valid to a max of 5 days. After which i will close this sale and highest bidder wins.

The site can be accessed through Here

Thank you for your interest!

 

what is the server/hosting cost per month?

 

Whole site is hosted on hostgator 9.90 plan/month.

 

Hey, I just pm'ed you. Can we talk on AIM?

 

Yeap have added you on AIM.

 

im interested. Please pm me site url (so i remember which site your talking about), some traffic screenshots, and a screenshot of the admin panel showing # of blogs. Also, what script is this running off?

 

PMed, script is running off on php.

 

Please PM me on the details of this site, thanks.

-Swapw

 

Please specify what kind of details are you looking into. I have already provided most of the details here. I would prefer seriously interested parties to pm me instead. Thank you.

 

Around how many page views does the site get?

So right now all the ad income is from the ads on the main page of the site, not ads on the user pages, right?

- Eric
Bored.com

 

Site is no longer for sale. Thank you all for your time and interest.