Selling #1 WoW Cataclysm Site

Site Being Sold:

WoW-Cataclysm.Info

What is it?:

#1 Site for World of Warcraft's (most popular game in history) newest expansion that will come out in a year. (Beta still not started)

10 Reasons Why It's Hot:

1) Exact Match domain

2) Last 3 months have averaged 40,000 pageviews per month. And before that when interest was high, there were more than 4,000 pageviews per day! And remember, the Beta (let alone the game) is not even out yet! The number of people searching for info during the year of beta is astonishing.

3) And guess who ranks #1 for WoW Cataclysm Beta...yes, this site. In fact this site ranks for a tremendous amount of WoW Cataclysm related keywords. Most of the traffic comes from long tails (around 10,000 different keywords already!), which means this site is not under any jeopardy to lose traffic to competitors. Ranks # 3 for WoW Cataclysm -I'm confident you can even overtake the official site with some more link building.

4) 35 Completely Unique and lengthy posts covering all information that has been announced so far, all indexed. Once new information is announced, you will rank first and get even more traffic.

5) Hundreds of Comments from fans arguing about the game like its the official WoW forums. Oh and there's loads of people begging for Cataclysm Beta keys, so I'm sure you can organize some 'contests' if you have access to some and get whatever you want in exchange.

6) This site makes close to 70$ per month on Adsense alone (I have a horrendous CTR, below 0.5%, so if someone is able to raise the CTR to around 5% lets say, that would be more than 700$ per month on Adsense alone!)

7) Currently only PR1, but that's because alot of the linkbuilding was done after latest PR update. So I'm expecting a PR4 in the next update.

8) Around 250+ Email/RSS subscribers.

9) More than 300 Amazon Product clicks per month - the game's not even close to being out so click rate and conversion rate will skyrocket once the game is in beta and of course when game goes live. This game will sell in the millions, and so you can imagine at around 5$ comission per sale, how much dough you can be making. Don't forget that anything else they buy on Amazon you will get a comission for also, so sending huge amounts of people to Amazon obviously has its advantages.

10) Having a huge WoW authority site can help you get a huge boost for any future WoW expansions or other MMORPG sites you might have. There's so much potential yet for this site and just something simple like adding a forum could transform this site to something like mmo-champion.com or worldofraids.com If you ever had an interest in entering one of the largest and fastest growing niches, then this is your ticket to the top.

Auction Terms:
There is no bidding and no guarantee that I will sell the site. Either drop me a private message or leave a message here, and I will sell the site if I get some worthy offers.

I have this auction solely because as I said in an other auction of mine that I will be busy for work in the upcoming weeks, so I'm giving someone a chance to snatch it in the meanwhile.

Proof of stats will be shown if there is a high bidder.

 

A rough asking price ?

 

Is RSS subscribers handled through Feedburner? Is that account included in the sale?

 

I'm getting a lot of private messages asking for price and such so I guess I should try to give some ballpark figure of my expectations.

Let me just remind everyone that the previous expansion of WoW sold 2.8 million copies in its FIRST DAY. Even if the site was responsible for a small fraction of those sales (and People WILL buy these games through the site as it ranks highly for every term related to it), then that's already a 5 figure income that will come out. You also have AdSense sales that are near 4 digits per month if the CTR is raised to a respectable level. I haven't even tried any other monetizing efforts but I'm sure loads of leveling guides, gold making guides etc can be sold with a new expansion. Just look at this graph if you want to see the potential of this niche once Blizzard release more information: http://www.google.com/trends?q=wow+cataclysm

I'm placing the BIN at 9,000$ - I realize I can make more money keeping the site, but it would require some effort and time from my part, which I dont have at this moment. If any interested parties PM me or just leave a message here if you don't mind it being public.

 

Dude keep the site and make it successful. Just put some wiki info on it and ads.

 

Thanks for the PM.

I see the BIN, do you have a reserve? When does the auction end?

 

ForgottenMemorie: Yea I should, don't really have the time though. I did just add some clickbank stuff in the meanwhile...but this site deserves better than that.

TimO: I don't have a reserve in mind, but a decent 4 digit offer might sway me as I'm looking for a quick sale and can't be bothered putting this up on Flippa or other sites.