Football game fansite : 4000+ uniques/65000 pageviews monthly : starting 33$

Hello,

im the webmaster of this site : Freekick Temple

This is a fansite of a popular expanding football management game : Freekick. The site is 2.5 months old. Because of some RL problems i cant run it anymore.

The site has a continuous growth (as the game itself) and is user driven, you should only provide technical support. In May 2006 the site had 4000+ unique visitors and over 60,000 page views. The stats for the 1-5 June period show an average of 170 uniques per day.

I had runned Adsense (3$ per month but i didnt focused on it) and traded myself advertising space (20$ per month in the first month).

As a administrator you should provide technical support, you shouldnt spend more than 30 minutes per day with it, just create conditions for players to add their content.

Monthly cost : 1.5$ host (100mb, 5gb traffic, awesome host). Domain is payed 10 months in advance, hosting 2 months in advance. The sell includes domain and whole website as it is.

Reason for selling : personal problems that deny me the time needed to run the site. Otherwise i wont sell it because i enjoy it.

Transition Help : full support next 2 weeks, general help after, delphi program sources for all additional software used to automate some content administration.

The site doesnt have a newsletter but it can be added easily, the site has 120 members at this time.

The starting price (is a bidding) : 33.86$. BIN price is 400$. Payment : Moneybookers (preffered) or PayPal.


Some additional info :

1. the domain name is bough for 1 year, it expires on 23 March 2007. This domain name will be transfered to you.
2. hosting is payed till 23 July 2006 and it's a great host for 2.5$ per month. All site assets will be transfered to you.

3. all site content and features will belong to the new owner along with the tools (programs) used to manage the features (like match database).

The future owner should respect the following running contracts :

1. Top banner (fahdplay.com) till 15 June 2006 (10 days remaining)
2. Top right links a) Online betting : till 20-August-2006
3. Top right links b) Hourly humour : till 03-July-2006

Freekicktemple.com : Site features ​

1. All newspaper content (over 100 articles in many categories)
2. Personal User Blog feature
3. Forum (Joomlaboard integrated + SMF custom forum /leaguesforum )
4. Match Database : over 10,000 matches + a executable to automatically manage import and insert matches (delphi sources included), fully functional, easy to run.
5. Betting Championship module : easy to administrate, fully functional.
6. Fotball feeds from uefa.com , automatically updated every night.
7. Freekick Temple link directory : over 650 links and 900 categories, nice looking and heavily promoted.
8. Own phpAdsNew ads server instaled and perfectly functional.

1. Traffic

The site is growing continuosly since 23 March 2006 (launch date). At this moment it has around 150-250 uniques visitors per day, around 70% from Freekick players and 30% webmasters interested by our directory.

You can check the traffic for April and May 2006 here :

April 2006
May 2006
June 1-5 : average 170 uniques visitors per day.



2. Site promotion

a) the site is no8 in Google when searching for Freekick
b) the site is ranked around 490,00 in Alexa.com, awesome for a 2 month old site : Alexa Rankings
c) the site has 10,000 results in Google, is parsed once at 2 days by google crawler
d) the site is submited to over 200 directories (back links arent available yet as the submision is recent and Google didnt updated the backlinks for some time)
e) the directory is submited to over 300 directories.

Also the new owner will receive technical support until he will master all the stuff in here (and its a lot of stuff ...).

1. Programs to manage the match database : automatic retrieval and insert of matches.
2. Help for learning how to manage the joomla backend interface (which is simple but if you are a total internet noob it will take a couple of days to figure it out).
3. Help to deal with the Freekick Temple directoy (which drives many visitors to the site which is good for exposure).
4. Help on how to make some extra cash by selling ads and google adsense. You can use the cash to give prizes (like i intended to do, to grow the site).


The site is awesome and has potential.

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The bidding ends 10 days from now, on June 15.
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Can you tell me exactly how much time should be spent running the site weekly? You state you don't have the time, but I don't know if that means you don't have 5 minutes a day or you don't have 5 hours a day.

Also, what software is running the site?

 

I can't tell you exactly how much time do you need, depends on how much do you want from the site. If you spend 5 minutes per week you get 5 minutes results.

An estimate of 4-5 hours / WEEK should be enough to administrate the site efficiently. All you have to do is to let people use it because the site content is created by the people who play the game.

This site is very good to chain with teen/gaming/sports/travel sites and not only.

The site is a Joomla CMS, fully functional. But i use some home made software to automate, for example, importing matches from the game and populate a searchable database. Ofcourse this software (and the sources) goes in the package.

The opening offer was made in a 2nd forum, i will syncronize the biddings from time to time.

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33.86$

 

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35$$$

 

$37 here...

 

$40 from me

 

Averages including June 1 - June 5 :



Only the directory is worth at least 50$ (No string (featured links) attached) :

Active Links - 755 | Categories - 927 | Pending Links - 21 | Online since 2006-May-21

The site and directory are submitted in 300 directories.


BIN lowered to 300$. Minimimu increase step bid is 5$. Current highest bid is 45$

 

when does the auction end ?

 

The bidding ends 9 days from now, on June 15 (when the banner will expire, the new owner will have only 2 links to keep, one for 2 weeks and one for 2 month, the directory is 100% clean) or instantly at 300$.

 

I can see it's Joomla managed, but what script is the actual game? Is it custom? I kinda doubt that. I'm tempted by this auction as I wanted to build something similar a while ago.

 

www.freekick.org is the game

 

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bid $50

 

Oh man I must be from another planet. Sorry about the confusion I thought this is the game.. Err.. Double sorry. Good luck with it. I'll continue to keep an eye on it.

 

Thanks! But i think i dont need luck, the site is really good, compared to most of the crap floating around, and for the traffic and promotion that it has the price is a bargain atm.

$55 bidded, minimum next bid is 60$.

 

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I can't see the main site, just the directory.

 

thats strange, looks fine to me, and i acces it often

 

Bid $75 here.

 

Sold at $300.00 pending discussions.

 

Site sold for 300$, done. Thanks for your time!