Money Maker! Google adsense earner, UK classifieds, 6,500 facebook followers.

Hello,

I would like to sell my classifieds website. The URL is www.hullads.com

Originally the website was setup on stuff4hull.com which is a valid Google PR2, but I decided that HullAds.com was the better domain so I did a permanent redirect, the sale will come with the Stuff4hull.com domain also.

My website allows users to list their second hand items for sale in the Hull & East Riding area. Although this website is specifically targeting one area, you have huge scope to create sub sites, and offer the service on a wider scale across the U.K and other U.K based cities.

It's currently free to list an item for sale, although there is premium options which allow users to pay a small amount (£1.00) to upgrade their listing to either a header featured listing, or add a styling/border around it.

The average daily unique visitors is 500, although some days we get a hell of a lot more, highest days are 1400-1600 unique visitors. I have optimized the website very well, and it's ranking well for numerous keywords, and a majority of traffic is from the search engines.

It currently earns on average £80.00 per month on google adsense, highest month £140.00, lowest month £70.00, this is over a course of 5 months. I have one advertiser who pays £150 per quarter for a 720 x 80 advert (in the footer site-wide) this was originally agreed to be in the header site-wide but once I switched to the new design/system, I placed it in the footer, and the person was happy with this as I was making 1 post a week to our facebook page advertising his business.

4 adverts have just expired (250x250) image adverts, and i'm currently in the process of contacting the advertisers to see if they would like to renew, 3 of which have done so over the past 3-4 months, each advertiser was paying £25 per month.

Also included with the sale is the facebook page http://www.facebook.com/stuff4hull which currently has almost 6,500 users/likes, it is a very active page, and I have not really used it to my advantage yet, as I didn't want to really market things hard incase the community don't like it.

I'm looking for interested parties, and would really like to sell to someone close to home (or in the U.K). Someone that can continue the website, and take it to the next level, whilst taking care of it's community.


I don't want any time wasters, nor do I want any members trying to knock my price down without being realistic.

The price I would like for all of the above, including my support for 2 months during the handover process is £750.00. I'm open to seperate offers for my website/facebook page.

For what your getting, it's a blooming good price. Sale is due to personal reasons, and I will be sad to see this go.

If you need any information, including revenue shots just ask, I would not like to disclose publicly.

Thank you

 

Can you show where your traffic is from please, as it is quite a high ratio of traffic considering the target area and number of ads you have on site.

 

Hi would prefer you to post screen shots here if you can. Google analytics would be great. I see that your cms is wordpress so analytics shouldn't cause a problem. I own several classified sites at he moment so I am interested but need to check all traffic is natural Uk and not paid for.Thanks.

 

Hello

Please find below print screen proofs.

Google Adsense
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Traffic

Currently with UKwebsolutionsdirect (moved from webhosting.uk.com last day of November) for some reason when I updated the system, webhosting.uk.com did not support some of it's features i think the issue was with webhosting.uk.com not having the correct variables in the php.ini file.

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Search engines

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I worked on keyword targetting, had success with previous websites in the past, but I'm very happy with the results I've had on this website

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Paypal

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Recent transactions are from featured listings, a new feature I recently introduced, I didn't actually actively promote these new features, as I was concentrating on new features to the system. So it's worked very well, it's something that you could push.

Bank payments for advertising from clients

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I showed the name on the last above screen (bank transaction) It was Wilberforce College, local college that advertised with me They actually phoned me up the other week about getting back to them on a years package. http://www.wilberforce.ac.uk

 

What Theme are you using on the site?

 

my own theme

 

Hi,

Looks like a great website, congratulations. I have always been interested in the classifieds type websites. Especially now ebay charge so much for selling!

What did you make the site using? Is it a pre-made script or something you developed yourself?

Thanks.

 

Hi thanks ASYLE,

I'm a coder, but I got my old business partner to work/acquire the system to how I want it.

I've also implemented my own features as I've gone along also, just constantly working on it/adding too it/improving it.

 

@dracar

You have an awesome website

May I ask the plugin(s) you use and the basis for the theme?

 

Thank you

Custom theme/plugins.

 

Have you marketed this locally anyhow at all?

 

Nope not really Sitebuy.

I think on all honesty, it's only just started, I expect it to continue to grow and be massive!

 

Erroneous question..

 

Ah I thought there was something fishey here. Stats are too good to be true. Never mind no sale no foul.

 

Nothing fishy at all.

Stats are all correct.

 

Hey do you care to reply my PMs?

 

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