Automobile Site, reg 1998, Dmoz, Y! etc Proposal

First, I'm not sure where to post this. The site isn't for sale... but parts of it might be available for "lease" (read below). If this post belongs somewhere else, please move it.

Here's what I have. I have a couple of old automobile related sites. One I purchased about 6 months ago, a couple others last week. Assume for the sake of this discussion that a typical profile of a site is that it is car related, registered about 1998, has content that probably hasn't been touched in years, has at least a listing in Yahoo directory, a site or two has dmoz listings etc. Has either "car" or "auto" in the domain. Content is old and stale, but ready to rank well with some rehabilitation.

I am wanting some feedback whether anyone might be interested in a "co-op" type arrangement for the development and promotion of these sites. Just thinking aloud, what I might propose would be along the lines of the following:

You are entitled to fully develop one "section" of a site with content. For example, you might have the "car insurance" section of a site. Another person might have the "car loans" section... another the "new car" section etc. You are responsible for the development of pages of content in your section. You are also responsible for promoting your section, developing backlinks etc. All revenue generated by your section is divided between me and you by perhaps rotating adsense impressions or some other acceptable method. Your focus is to use the pages to generate rankings and revenue on these pages, not to promote other sites of yours.

However, my interest is in enhancing and preserving the overall respect of the site in the SE's. So somehow I would need the right to approve your content, approve a linking strategy or otherwise make sure the strategies you use in your section aren't harming the site overall. Perhaps the group as a whole has a right to object to other members' content/linking etc. In addition, if the idea seems viable, I would like to select individuals with the best "resumes" to test how this whole thing could work in a cooperative fashion between the different individuals involved. It would require quite a bit of brainstorming, flexibility etc., but I'm interested in discussing and flushing out ideas with interested persons. Once a system was ironed out, I would open it to more dp members on other sites with similar characteristics and perhaps in other niches.

I have one of these old sites that will rank well for about any automobile topic you throw at it... but afraid to open it to the experiment just yet. However, I 'm open to suggestions on how people might view this.

Is it a dumb idea? Perhaps. But some of you are looking for old sites in profitable niches, and this might be an opportunity to explore and experiment in a cooperative fashion.

Finally, I'm headed to vegas for a couple of days tomorrow, so might not be able to respond and interact fully on this topic until the weekend. Feel free to PM me. If you do, please include a couple of sites you currently promote so I can take a look at what you might bring to the table and what I think of your promotion techniques. I am contemplating including 5-10 people in the initial test if that many are interested.

Otherwise... another dumb idea thrown out at DP. No harm, no foul.

 

Good idea. I am interested, I would like to talk abt a section for indian car market. PMed you.

 

All PM's replied to... try to give me a little more info about what topics you might want and what you would do with them.

 

I'm interested for auto parts locator section