Established PR5, $250/month revenue - MySpaceTwister.com

Website address: www.myspacetwister.com

Website history: Started back in April 2006, MySpace Twister soon became a famous spot for myspace profile tweaks, with a lot of visitors coming from myspace.

Revenue streams: MySpace Twister has been earning through Google AdSense and from this month, link sales.

Revenue average: Website has been earning an average of about $250 per month in the last five months.

Revenue August: Adsense - $204.97
Revenue September: Adsense - $210.36
Revenue October: Adsense - $214.16
Revenue November: Adsense - $236.12
Revenue December: Adsense - $141.30 + $260 link sales = $401.30

Website traffic: Website receives a lot of traffic from Google, link exchanges, and myspace itself. According to AdSense, website has got 200.000 pageviews per month. The webiste has been on a different host from April to June so no prior stats are available, and from June I was using AwStats but something happened and I cant get it to show the stats later than 17 of August, it blocks and takes ages for AwStats to update on the server and as the effect I get to see the following error: Flush history file on disk (unique hosts reach flush limit of 20000). Anyhow, I'm using AdSense stats as a guideline, and have set up GA half an hour ago on the website, but it will take some time before it collects data. Some stats in the period before the last AwStats update you can see here.

Links: I will provide the buyer with the list of users from DP who have purchased the links, together with expiration dates, and you shall keep one link from a fellow DP member toby for one year time. Other sponsored links will expire in January. All other links except for the sponsored links are up to you, so will you continue to exchange with these websites is between you and other webmasters.

Your chance: Bulletin promotion has never been done, and it can boost your traffic a lot if you have access to accounts with a lot of friends. In addition to these two traffic streams, you can add banner space sale and also earn from pop-under programs. Not sure about YPN, but I guess it pays more than AdSense, so this would also be an opportunity. In the end, this website has proved to be a good spot for promoting other teenage related stuff, so would work great in addition with a teen oriented website.

Reason for selling: Normaly, I would prepare this sale with more data, and do my best to fix awstats issues, but in due to some family issues I need money really quickly, as my mom will be undergoing a surgery tomorrow, and I will need some money asap for some unplaned expences I will have in next couple of days. To be honest, I doubt that I would be selling this website if the situation was different.

Payment: PayPal or Western Union (prefered because of the speed)

Price: Taking offers of $1800 an over
BIN: 10 monts revenue average: $2500

 

hey mate, how about those link on the right? In fact, i have bought one link yearly from you. If you are selling it, are you going to refund it??

 

Hello mate, all the sposnored links will stay, especially yours, no mather who is the new owner. I just included that in the sale post (forgot to do it before, I'm in a true rush).

 

Let me know if you are willing to consider lower offers. And can you please post referrer data, any that you have?

Allen.H

 

Hello Allen, please PM me your offer.

Refferer stats that I've managed to get from awstats are available here.
Traffic has increased since than so I assume the figures are different now.

 

nice site, wish i had the money, ugh :/

 

Just checked, the website made $260 in link sales in December, not $240, making a total of $400 in revenue this month.

 

Will all incoming links stay ? How did you get visitors from myspaceguru.com ?

 

Yes, all incoming links will stay, if you keep the exchanges with other webmasters and not remove their links from MSTwister.

 

it's myspaceguru.net.


Allen.H

 

This AwStats refferer screenshot you can see here dates back from August, as I can see myspaceguru.com and its content is gone but if they were a refferer the traces of myspaceguru.com as the traffic source are still available in the AwStats report from that month.

Just checked, like Allen said, its myspaceguru.net not myspaceguru.com

 

your google ads are in violation of the tos

 

Really, can you please elaborate on that? I'm really interested to know what you find to be against the TOS?

 

If you are talking about the ads in the end of the page, then they are not in violation with Adsense's TOS. It'd only be against the TOS if the ads would be in any way related to the images, which the odds for are 0.01%, how can an ad in a MySpace page be related to cats?


Just to clarify, i'm not a partner or a friend of the seller, but people are obviously jumping into conclusions and suspicions over who seems to be a very reliable and hard working man.


Allen.H

 

I'ver got two comments and questions here:

1) Are those link sales per month, or were these annual link sales? After seeing the comment here from another dp'er I know at least one of the linka are for an annual link. What if the new buyer doesn't want those links up? Would you refund the money to them or are you going to take that out of the sales price?

2) I guess you missed the adsense clarification that states images next to ads is against TOS even if there is a border between them or not ( BTW you do not even have a border between the images and the adsense links). http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/12/ad-and-image-placement-policy.html

Also I somehow must of overlooked the adsense stats as I didn't see them.

Perhaps you want to either put up google analytics or extreme tracker so we can all see the referrer stats.

 

Hello everyone, the website has been sold.

Just to clarify for questions the question that have been raised, only one sponsored link has been sold as an anual placement (from DP fellow member toby), and the new owner agreed to keep the link for one year, as well as all the other sponsored links (that will expire in January). I will provide the buyer with all the relevant info regarding the links and users that have purchased them.

Thanks to everyone for the interest in the sale, and I wish all of you all the best in 2007!