Selling Huge potential love/relationship social networking website

I am helping a mate sell a website. Bellow are the details. Please contact me for more info. I'll also email you the stats eg analytics, adsense, shareasale etc..

What is this site?


Welcome to withluv.com auction. The website is a place for people to share information and read about anything related to love and relationships.


Background on withluv?



· The site contains a very good domain, which the previous owner paid $1217 for.



· The site is PR 3.

· Alexa Ranking is 116k

· The Domain Authority is 45

· The Page Authority is 54

· MozRank is 5.32

· The coding of the website has cost in excess of $100,000usd

· The site was purchased on Flippa 2 months ago.

· 3,343 pages are currently listed in yahoo (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.co...v.com&bwm=p&bwms=p&fr=yfp-t-501&fr2=seo-rd-se)

· 129,385 links in google (from google webmaster)


WithLuv is a relationship resource and social networking site hybrid with mostly female demographic. It's the first of its kind and is 100% relocatable. The entire site is run via a custom content management system that is very simple to use, even for novice computer users. Site has two major content generating components along with several other tools. Content can be generated by members or added to the site as an expert article. Membership is free and they can share their own content by uploading to the site. This includes relationship advice and tips, romantic recipe ideas, poems, love quotes, love letters, love stories, personal experiences, and blogs. Other tools included are an e-Card module with basic and advanced capabilities, fully functioning gift shop that is commission-based, blog, forum, horoscope feed from Tarot.com, printable items like e-Books and love coupons, a very large amount of existing content, and much more. Site was built by one of the best SEO and design companies in the business and extra money was spent on the framework and content being SEO friendly.

Site has huge potential to attract a very large membership base with the right marketing mix and the new owner will reap the rewards via advertising income streams, paid virtual gifting, paid advanced e-Cards, gift shop commissions, and eventual acquisition of the site by a new owner interested in the membership base and demographic. I'd be happy to share my ideas for the future of the site with the new owner.

I have attached screen shots of revenue sources, traffic data, cms samples, and copies of invoices for purchasing the domain and the larger amounts spent on building the site out.


The site has huge potential. I have not had the time to invest in the site, and have just done some minor seo(changing some titles and adding keywords) and it’s already getting around 500 uniques per day organically. Since the domain has been around for a while, it has gained authority and is listed for many keywords.


Included in Sale:

* Domains withluv.com, withluv.net, withluv.info, and withluv.org

* All site files, images, databases, members, content, programming

* Articles that have not been published on site yet

* Member information (approximately 630 current members)

* Custom Facebook page

* Branded Twitter account

* Branded MySpace account

* Branded YouTube account

* Custom content management system

* Full e-Card module and e-Cards

* Full gift shop module that is commission based

* Forum

* Blog

* Email list of over 35,000 active users. (This alone is worth at least 5k+)



Revenue Details

Current Income

Only Google Adsense and Shareasale are used on the site. Possible to join other networks such as valueclickmedia, cpx etc…or leads to increase revenue by at least 200%. I did not have applied for these companies due to the fact I have purchased 3 other websites which are of greater priority for me.

August

Via Google Adsense: 64.78
Via shareasale: 11.88

Total 76.66

September (1-15)

Via Google Adsense 70.26

Via shareasale: 15.62

Total as of the 15th = 85.88


Current Expenses

Server at rackspace cost around 500 per month. (you can transfer it to your own server, just need to notify rackspace 10 days prior.

Links on 2 sites


1. Cost 300usd for 6 months (paid 1 month ago)

2. Cost 100usd for 1 year text link (paid 1 month ago)

(Will supply details when asked upon)


The site is making a lost due to the server cost. You can minimize cost easily by changing servers.

The site currently users approximately 200-250g per month.

Traffic Details

Traffic stats

The site is currently averaging 1500 uniques per day and 2250 page views per day.
Over 70% of traffic is from the US, 7.5% from Canada and 5.5% from UK.

Most of the traffic comes from stumbleupon where I have tried to promote it briefly without much effort. Traffic spiked up to 26k daily unique hits, 24.8k of which is from stumble upon.

 

site has all paid or viral traffic.....not worth your asking price...please evaluate this realistically if you are lookin for a sale.

 

how much earn by advertisement??

 

Priced way to high.. the site is running at a loss..

 

Priced way to high .. site is running at a loss

 

I agree with that.

 

Yeh, I know price is too high. But it's not my site i can't do anything about it. I'm sure he will accept something lower than that price.

Loss is because of the server, all you need to do is change servers then you will not be at a loss.

 

azulfi - could you elaborate on what you mean "site has all paid or viral traffic."?

Site was coded by morevisibilty.com so I think 15k would still be a pretty good deal.

thanks

 

Price drop to 14k

 

The site costs 100k+ to make. There is very good potential in the site. My friend says his willing to hear any reasonable offers.

 

He is not going to get that price... Im afraid he has invested too much into the site, He is going to have to hold on to it until it starts making money consistently . and even then nobody is going to touch the site without solid proof of income and steady ORGANIC traffic..

 

Server Error in '/' Application.

Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\withluvcom\www\siteassets\profiles\888' is denied.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\withluvcom\www\siteassets\profiles\888' is denied.

ASP.NET is not authorized to access the requested resource. Consider granting access rights to the resource to the ASP.NET request identity. ASP.NET has a base process identity (typically {MACHINE}\ASPNET on IIS 5 or Network Service on IIS 6) that is used if the application is not impersonating. If the application is impersonating via <identity impersonate="true"/>, the identity will be the anonymous user (typically IUSR_MACHINENAME) or the authenticated request user.

To grant ASP.NET access to a file, right-click the file in Explorer, choose "Properties" and select the Security tab. Click "Add" to add the appropriate user or group. Highlight the ASP.NET account, and check the boxes for the desired access.

Source Error:


Line 57: Public Shared Sub LogError(ByVal ex As Exception)
Line 58:
Line 59: Throw ex
Line 60:
Line 61: Dim con As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("WebsiteDB").ConnectionString)

Source File: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\withluvcom\www\App_Code\Common.vb Line: 59

Stack Trace:


[UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\withluvcom\www\siteassets\profiles\888' is denied.]
Common.LogError(Exception ex) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\withluvcom\www\App_Code\Common.vb:59
Member.CreateMemberDirectory(Int32 intUserID) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\withluvcom\www\App_Code\Member.vb:296
Controls_Members_SignUp.btnSave_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\withluvcom\www\Controls\Members\SignUp.ascx.vb:93
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) +111
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +110
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +10
System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +13
System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +36
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1565


THE SITE IS BROKEN, I couldnt even get signed up.. he needs to look into that before trying to sell it for 20k..

 

Hello,

I will pass that message onto him. Also most traffic is organic. The only paid links are for SEO purposes. The only main expense is the server. Other than that, the site is making a profit.

 

Price lowered. Any reasonable offers will be considered.

 

BIN set to 10k ONO. Just shoot me an offer if your interested and I can put it forward to him.

 

Seems like no one is interested lol. I'm sure my mate will sell for mid to high X,XXX.

come on guys. good site with great great potential.

 

Im interested in the site. but its just priced to high, and the site is broken last I checked.. and things need to be verified like traffic and revenue..