[WTS] Large forum: 53,700 members / 4000+ uniques a day / $300 - $500 a month revenue

First of all this forum is movie and tv related. Though it has a very active discussion and general talk base its also focussed on linking to streams of movies tv-shows and documentaries. If this is to tricky for you I advise you not to continue reading.

Url
Please PM me for the url, I like to keep this as private as possible.

Traffic
The website is getting more then 4000 uniques a day and the great thing about this is that its is ALL organic and returning traffic.

Actually the traffic from direct bookmarks and browser typing is 90.2% so expect a lot of returning traffic. New traffic comes from the search engines, off all traffic 9% is new and comes from the search engines.

Pageviews is about 50K a day, you would need between 1 - 2GB bandwidth a day since we optimized the forum to generate less bandwidth.

Proof
PM me for an url with all stats screenshots of April, on request I can give stats for the last view days as well though they do not differ at all.

Registration and post stats
The forum gets about 100-120 new members every day and about 200-300 posts daily. A good base though posting can improve in my eyes.

Revenue
This website is actually accepted by Google adsense though it would not be accepted by its TOS. I had a discussion about it with a Google employee and they finally decided to allow it and it has been running adsense for about 1-2 years. I however had periods of months where I would deactivate it and simply sell banners because they bring in quite some money as well.

Google adsense: $180/month

The forum also has a donation system which when advertised generates about $250 a month. I would advise you not to use this system to much, I would say once every 3 months would be a good aim. If you use this to much users will simply do not donate that often anymore.

Donations $250 per 3 months.

Moreover you can sell banners and links, I usually sell a banner for about $80/month and a link for $25/month. There are roughly 5 spots for banners without circulating them and over 20 spots for links. In general I would say a month with banner (that is no Adsense) would generate about $350 a month from banner income

Banner income: $350

Premium accounts. I sell premium accounts for $5 per 3 months. It currently earned me $344 (I also sell packages of $12 and $42) in roughly 3 months. I still get recurring payments. Thats the beautifull parts, subrsciptions are automatically renewed !

Premium accounts: $100 a month.

How I work is simple I use adsense and donation for one month then banners for the month after that. This is simply because I dont want to be hesitated with selling banners every month, im a full time student so I simply lack the time when exams comes around once every 10 weeks.

I believe if you concentrate on just banner sales and donations you can earn up to $700 a month.

Currently I calculated the average revenue from the last months to be around $400, last 2-3 months this was a bit higher.

Proof of revenue
Please PM me for screenshots on this.

Bidding
I have a reserve for this website but feel free to bid. Opening offer will be set at $1000 which in my eyes is very reasonale seeing that the average site sells for 10 times the monthly income.

Questions
Please feel free to post any question and I will answer it. But please do not ask about the legallity and argue the risks of these kind of websites as I believe everyone is free to calculate the risk they wish to take. The website has never had a legal complaint or formal request for the deletion of a topic.

 

have you got a bin in mind or at least a starting point?

 

What is the BIN? I will bid $1000.

 

that sounds too good to be true!

 

On the adsense, it sounds indeed to good to be true but oddly it is. I would however be carefull and not count on using adsense for a long while. Moreover if you use adsense for multiple website I strongly advise you to use other ad programms for Rootforum1. Which with the current pageviews should do pretty good as well.

To all, I just realized I forgot to upload the adsense stats. I have just uploaded them they are in the revenue map and are called adsense.JPG.

 

The BIN for this has been set at $5000, feel free to bid freely though.

 

To answer someones question, the hosting costs are currently about $40 a month. The forum is hosted on a VPS server and you can probably just take over the account if you want to.