EverythingHalo.com - 1 and 1/2 year-old Halo game forum

URL: http://www.everythinghalo.com/

AGE: 1.5 year

REVENUE: $0. It's not monetized.

DESCRIPTION: A Halo game forum that focuses on glitching, tips, tricks, and videos. Although mainly a forum, it does have a front page system, powered by WordPress.

STATS:
- 2566 threads
- 29865 posts
- 2874 members
- Most users ever online was 51. This number is actually over 100, but that record was lost after the server transfer.
- Awstats
- Recent daily posts
- Recent daily registrations

For a while, traffic, registrations, and several other areas went down because Hot Link Protection was turned on. That prevented Google from indexing the forum pages. It's fixed now and Google is continuing to index the pages. Indexed pages are at about 6300 right now.

REASON FOR SELLING: I bought this site a year ago for $1000. Had plans to improve it and prepare it for the release of Halo 3 (coming in 2007), but ran into hosting, forum license, and personal problems that limited what I could do for this forum.

I didn't focus on making money with this site, simply focused on improving it to prepare it for Halo 3.

What I've done:
- Changed the front page system to WordPress
- Installed a new forum skin ($30)
- Customized the forum's home page to encourage registrations
- Established new rules to remove spamming and flaming. There's none of that on EverythingHalo now.
- Transferred server. It's currently hosting with BlueFur.com at $4.95/month, which seems to be perfect right now. The best hosting so far, after two server transfer.

After everything that has happened to it in the past year, EverythingHalo.com is now ready to grow. I need someone to take it to the next step. Do this forum justice because I can't put in the time anymore.

THE MEMBERS: This is a tight-knit group. Most of the active members know each other outside of the forum. They care about the forum a lot and have been with it since the beginning.

MANAGEMENT: There's only one Super Moderator for the forum because it's been inactive for some time. Previously, there were 2 super and 2 regular moderators. The front page is updated by me and two other members. I gave them full access because I trust them fully. The new owner can depend on them to keep the forum going.

AREAS TO IMPROVE and HOW TO:

- More threads, daily
- More videos, tips, tricks, and glitches
- More plugins: the only notable one this forum use is Ibproaracade.
- Link exchange - EverythingHalo.com has done zero link exchange. A solid week of this link exchanges will increase traffic in the long run.
- SEO - Including me, none of the previous owners have worked on this area.
- Monetization - Obviously, there's big room for improvement on this topic. EverythingHalo.com is monetized at all.

I'm looking for an experienced game forum administrator to sell this site to. Someone that can bring this forum back to life and will have time for it. Money is not the issue here.

Price: $600

I WILL TRANSFER:

Domain
Site files
Forum license
Forum skin
Hosting (4.95 per month) - So you don't have to move it.

 

I'm looking for the right buyer so this doesn't need to be an auction. I've change the pricing to reflect that. No more starting bid.

 

site is sold