Music Community Site - $500 a month revenue

URL: http://www.norwichdarkside.co.uk
Age: 4 years
PR: 3
Monthly Revenue: ~$500

Background:

Norwich Darkside was a music community site I started in 2002 to draw UK bands to the Norwich Area. After a couple of years fast growth and some paper coverage it quickly became a major hub for bands and promotors in the UK.

The site currently features:

~ Over 2,000 registered members
~ A gig managment system allowing users to add all their own gigs and events
~ URLs have been Google Tapped to make them SE friendly
~ Content and titles already SEO'd
~ A busy forum with over 100,000 posts
~ A Wiki which allows users to add their own band bios etc
~ A reviews system for gigs and events that users can post reviews
~ A well matured affiliate shop - many items come up on Google directly!
~ Running on custom-coded PHP-Nuke Content Managment

The great thing about the site is that the users make most of the content. Google has indexed 83,000 pages of this site before. Because of Big Daddy I've had to rel nofollow= the forum links to improve this again.


Income breakdown:
Amazon Affiliate ~ $350
CPM Ads ~ $50
Adsense Ads ~ $30
Advertisters ~ $120

Traffic breakdown
Monthly Unique Visitors: 18,000
Monthly Page Views: 135,000

Traffic Source:
60% Direct
25% Google
Rest = Refferers.

Anything else you need to know, just ask.

I'd like to bidding to start at £2,000 ($3,800).

 

Hi, what forum system is currently being used on the site?

 

I guess it is phpBB.

 

Yes phpBB at the moment. Would be quite simple to transfer to vBulletin or similar if you wished. Can download the db easily from the backend.

 

i'll be online for the next 2hours, if anyone wants to ask questions, msn me mark[at]norwichdarkside.co.uk