Established Forum for sale

Great opportunity in a very interesting market. Parenting and pregnancy are always hot topics. People will always have babies and need parenting advice. Parenting and pregnancy forums offer great opportunity to make good money via advertising or by selling related products. The domain name is of high quality. Descriptive, informative, easy to remember, 15 characters.

Domain Name: Smartparenthood.com
Domain registered in April 2005 and is good until 2007.

Website Information: Parenting and Pregnancy related forums. The website was started late last year and has been steadily promoted. The forum is not extremely busy yet. Lot's of users are just reading or lurking around though. Every once in a while it gets a spike of visitors and activity increases without any need from me to do something. Then it is quiet again for a few days, before activity goes up again. The forum was part of another website first and I then moved it to this domain name in February or March.

Threads: 383, Posts: 1,450, Members: 373 (as of 7/22/2006) (some of these member accounts were created to promote activity in the forums / majority are real users of course).
Member registrations in general are encouraged by showing Google ads to non-members only. Ads are not shown very aggressively to allow the forum to grow without turning visitors away.

Software: vBulletin (owned license) with VBSEO (owned) installed

Earnings: so far (3/14/2006 - 7/22/2006): $25.10 (Adsense) (again - I have not really tried to monetize the forum at this point)

Google Page Rank: 5
Google does not show the number of backlinks for whatever reason (used Marketleap.com), but if you search Google for "smartparenthood" you will find all different kind of sites that have links to the forum. Several paid directory listings are in place, too (Kingbloom, Abilogic, and others).

Pages in Search Engines
Screenshot taken via Marketleap.com

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Reason for selling:
Time. I do not have enough time available to actively promote the forum and to increase activity within the forums. I have been trying to make postings every day, but with a full-time job + my own small business and a high-needs baby at home it is just not working out for me.

What is included?
vBulletin license (need to check how the license can be verified)
VBSEO license (need to check how the license can be verified)
Domain Name: Smartparenthood.com
Free push at Enom.
Existing website of course
Link from Firsttimepregnancy.com (Top Menu Bar) for 3 months with an option to buy the same link for a reasonable fee

Price (Auction):
Starting bid $500.00
BIN: $2,500.00
Payment via PayPal (confirmed PayPal users only!!!). If buyer wants Escrow, fees will be paid by buyer.

Thanks for your interest.

Christoph

 

How much for just the license (both vb and vbseo)?

 

Thanks for your interest. The minimum bid in this auction is $500.00. This sale is not for software licenses.

Anyway - current highest bid is $500 via PM.

Please use increments of $10.00 for additional bids.

Christoph

 

Hi,

When does the auction end?

Also if i bought the site is it a straight forward process to transfer everything over to me?

Do i need the licences etc?

Thanks
Paul

 

I am planning on closing this auction in the first half of this week. Depending on how things work out tomorrow night or Wednesday at the latest.

The site should be easy to transfer - especially if you are on Cpanel with your hosting. I will assist with the transfer of course.

The licenses are included in this deal. You do not need to buy anything. I will initiate the transfer once the deal closes and the payment has been made. If for whatever reason a license transfer gets rejected (I would not know why though), I will refund the price of a full purchase price of a license, so that you can buy it yourself. But this is only for the unlikely case a license transfer gets rejected by VBSEO or VBulletin.

Christoph

 

Current Bid (via PM): $600

Thanks.

Christoph

 

The auction will end at 8.00 PM Mountain Time tonight.

Christoph

 

After receiving interest in a lower BIN via PM, I am lowering the official BIN to $900.00.

Last official bid is still at $600.00.

Auction will close at 8.00 PM Mountain Time unless I receive an offer for BIN price.

 

Sold at BIN.

 

Thanks. I replied to your PM.

Sale pending.

Christoph

 

Sale complete. Payment received. Site, Domain Name, and licenses have been transferred to the buyer. Thanks.

Christoph

 

Nice site! I wish i would have saw this earlier.