Image hosting site for sale

URL: piclynk.com
Established: 24 Aug 2006
Uniques/Month: 26,248
Page views/month: 81,558
Monthly Revenue: $30
Listed For Sale: 16 Oct 2006

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picLynk.com provides free or paid image hosting. Upload any images from your computer and the instant html linking codes for your images. You can share your images with friends, post them on blogs, forums, social networking sites like myspace, tagworld, friendster and more.

picLynk.com works as any regular image hosting website. Users register for a free or paid account. You get more space and bandwidth if you register for a paid account. You can upload images to your account and then you get linking codes for your pictures. Thats how we got our name pic lynk. When users share their images with others each image has linking code pointing back to picLynk.com. You can also set it up so picLynk.com watermark below the image or on the side. This way anytime users post their images on forums, myspace, etc. it links back to your site and you get new people to sign up.

picLynk.com lets you set up your own servers for image hosting. You can host this website on a dedicated server or on a simple hosting package with your hosting provider. The way it works is that you set up ftp permissions to your hosting server so when a user uploads an image it randomly is uploaded to one of your servers that you set up. This way you can manage your bandwidth much easier and not run out. More info about servers can be provided if you ask.
User Functions
- Sign up for free
- Sign up for premium account
- Tutorials on how to use images/html with fav sites like ebay, myspace, etc.
- Popular images and Top Rated images
- Upgrade at anytime
- Account info - space used and bandwidth
- Upload multiple images
- Common Upload
- Applet Upload
- URL Upload
- Image View - list mode, thumb mode
- Resize Images
- Rate Images

Admin Functions
- Site Configurations
You can set up your site so only registered users can upload or you can allow guests to upload too.
Site is set up so only registered users can upload right now.
- Max files management
- File type management
- Permit applet management
- url upload management
- advertisement management
- size limit management
- max bandwidth management for guests
- watermark mmanagement
- site skin management
- thumb width management
- confirm register management
- print info on thumb management
- popup advertisment management
- need register to upload management
- language management
- multiple server management
- abuse notify
- popup advertisement wait time
- ip banning
- image linking code management
- Newsletter Management
- FAQ Management
- Admin search gallery by name, username, email, date created and more
- View images, search, delete, manage, ban
- Package Service Management
- List Members
- Search Members
- Delete, ban, upgrade, modify, add, etc.
- Image reports
- bandwidth useage for each server
- webspace useage reports for each server
- billing transactions
- template management
- email template managment
- backup database
- website stats - members, suspended members, uncomfirmed, images, top bandwidth images, latest uploads, new registered members, payments, most popular and more.

Admin panel comes with a calendar so you can see each day how many users signed up and how many images upload. You can click on each day and manage images, delete bad ones, etc.

More about image hosting - servers
We currently have the site running on picLynk.com. No images are actually saved on picLynk.com - this way the site can run faster and no one is linking images to the main domain name. Images hosted on 1piclynk.com, 2piclynk.com and 3piclynk.com. Need more info? contact me.

Revenue Details:
How can you make money on this site?
Well there are couple things you can do. Placing ads on pages is one thing. You can use google adsense or yahoo ads. CPM ads are great, also when users click on an image that is linked on a forum or some other site then are taken to piclynk.com but there is a popup ad for 7 seconds. You can place any kind of ad there.

There are also membership fees if users sign up for a paid package or upgrade anytime in the future. Subscription payments could come to your paypal account each month. There are 3 users that have paid accounts right now.

This site has been up for less then 2 months. I had yahoo ads on there for CPM ads. On Oct. 10 I changed to Adsense ads to see how well it does and its better then yahoo ads. In a week oct.10 to oct. 16 it made $14. Total since Aug. 24 til Oct. 16 it made $61 from adsense and yahoo alone. It also made me some money from CPM ads i have but i dont have a channel set up to see what comes from my site, but i think $1-$2 a day.

Average is about $30 a month with the site only being less then 2 months old. You also make money from subscriptions if someone wants a premium account. I believe we had 3 people that signed up and paid total of $40.


Traffic Details:
Stats

As of Oct. 16, 2006...
- Active Members - 2451
- Uncomfirmed Members - 701
- Suspended Members - 1
- Total Images Uploaded - 10487
- 1piclynk.com server images - 3399 (568MB)
- 2piclynk.com server images - 3539 (593MB)
- 3piclynk.com server images - 3427 (521MB)

- Since Aug. 24, 2006 traffic is increasing each day.

First month we launched the website from aug. 24-31 we got 28,948 page impressions. Ave: 3618 impressions a day.

Month of September: 81,558 impressions.

October 1 til Oct. 16: 49,322 impressions.

We only ran google adwords for 5 days when we first started the site to get people to sign up. With only $10 adwords limit per day we averaged: 60-90 new sign ups a day. Now we dont advertise the site with adwords at all and average about 45 new users a day.

How do we get traffic?
Well the website advertises itself. Thats why this could spread so quickly if managed right. I personally don't have the marketing skills that i wish i could have but this site advertises its self when each user links their images in forums and other sites. MySpace.com is a great place to advertise this service. Everyone on there uses images and they need image hosting space. It will also advertise itself through out myspace because each image is linking back to piclynk.com and also there is a small watermark below each image that says piclynk.com

Right now i'm not spending a penny to advertise this site and its averaging close 1400 impressions a day and 50 new users a day.

We also have an affiliate program where we pay $0.03 per click. 5 publishers are advertising our site.

 

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