Lost TV show forum - $1+/day, 63,000 posts, 2,400+ members

My partner and I are selling our Lost forum. Basically it’s a forum based on the popular TV show, Lost. I believe there have only bee 5 episodes this season, so you still have the majority of the season (I suspect about 17 episodes) left.

Domains Included:

www.lostdiscussion.com

Reason for selling:

My partner and I are selling the site because both of us run several other websites and simply don't have the time or motive to continue with this one.

Note that I have done no advertising with this site so it certainly hasn't reached it's full potential. The site also has a light and dark skin.


Traffic:

Last month I received an average of 280 unique visitors a day. We had 6128 for the month of October. We received 151366 pageviews. (screenshot)

For November we've already had 1223 unique visitors and over 30,000 pageviews.

Revenue:

We received over an average of $1 a day through google adsense. This is through two small banners shown on the top of very page - we didn't place any ads in the actual threads, so it has a higher revenue potential. For the month of October we received $73.39. (screenshot)

PR:

The site is a PR3.

Pages Indexed:

2,610 pages indexed by Google.

5,633 pages indexed by Yahoo!

1,486 pages indexed by MSN.

Search Engine Ranks:

#3 for the term “Lost Discussion” in Google

#1 for the term “Lost Discussion” in Yahoo!
#1 for the term “Discuss Lost” in Yahoo!
#3 for the term “Lost Forum” in Yahoo!
#6 for the term “Lost TV Forum” in Yahoo!
#13 for the term “Lost Forums” in Yahoo!

#1 for the term “Lost Discussion” in MSN.
#2 for the term “Lost Discussion” in MSN.
#2 for the term “Discuss Lost” in MSN.
#3 for the term “Lost Forum” in MSN.
#19 for the term “Lost TV Forum” in MSN.
#21 for the term “Lost” in MSN.

Vbulletin license:

There is an owned vbulletin license included. You can get access to the customer area for just over a month. Updates will be restricted as of December 14th - but it's owned so you can continue to use it.

Everything included:

www.lostdiscussion.com domain
forum database (nearly 4000 threads, 63,000 posts and 2400+ members)
vbulletin owned liscense

Starting Bid: $300
Reserve: Yes
BIN: Will set within the next 24 hours.

Please keep bid to increments of $25 or more. I'm looking for low to mid $x,xxx. Reserve is in $xxx.

Payment through escrow. Paypal is acceptable if you're a respectable member here (let's say 800+ posts and at least 5 positive transactions)

If you have any questions or there is something I left out, please say so or ask.

(also listed at NP and EF)

Thanks,
-Daniel.

 

I was checking this out just two days ago... I had seen the link in your SIG.

I will open with a $600.00 bid.

 

nice forum.. how many daily posts is it getting. Can you paste the last seven days vb control panel stats.

 

i love lost and would buy but don't have the cash now

 

if you have a bin in mind plz pm me.

 

Currently high bid is $650.

Here are vb post stats excluding today and excluding threads I believe (won't give them yet for today):

October 31, 2006 - 20
November 01, 2006 - 19
November 02, 2006 - 112
November 03, 2006 - 83
November 04, 2006 - 28
November 05, 2006 - 46

BIN set at $4,000 (good for next 24 hours).

 

very cool site. I've actually post quite a few times on it a few months ago.

good luck with the sale.

 

When does this auction end?

 

Auction ends sometime Thursday night.

Buy It Now has been set to $4,000 at this time.

 

I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Lpspider's partner.

here are some random stats:

Registrations:
Week 40 (October 2006) 70
Week 41 (October 2006) 28
Week 42 (October 2006) 22
Week 43 (October 2006) 17
Week 44 (October 2006) 6

New Posts: last 7 days
October 31, 20
November 01, 19
November 02, 112
November 03, 83
November 04, 28
November 05, 46
November 06, 55

New Posts: Last 12 months
November 2,568
December 2,821
January 1,440
February 5,538
March 5,561
April 1,580
May 2,334
June 731
July 347
August 391
September 1,363

 

I'll bid $900

 

Ill bid $950

 

I'd like to mention that the drop in new posts in the stats RedMatrix posted is because the show was off season at that time during the summer - it's back in season so posts should pick up.

managemysite, you have the high bid at $950.

Auction ends Thursday at 10:00pm GMT - 6 (CST).

 

Also, the reserve has been met.

 

I can't believe its such a great forum and you're making $1 a day. That's rediculous. Good luck with the sell, I Love Lost

 

Haven't optimized the ads and their placements. Haven't actively advertised the board anymore... so that just shows how this site is on our backburners.

Thanks for bidding all. Anyone else? Lee?

 

I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you have whatsoever.

 

Very nice forum guys! I would definitely buy this if I had the money.

 

I'll go $975, when is the actual ending time

 

Auction ends in just under 24 hours.