Selling MW3Forums.net Is Now for Sale! 5-10 New Members Daily. $12 First Month Adsense

Guys, I am starting a new domain reseller business to end users and I do not have time for this forum.
My hope is that one of you who really loves the Call of Duty Modern Warfare game will buy this forum, because it has had two owners before me and it really needs someone to be in it for the long term.

I had this up for auction on Flippa but I was getting so much spam I had to clean up, it pissed me off and I killed the auction and had a few choice words to say in the shoutbox. lol.

So here is my sales page from then, updated with recent figures:


Background:

This is a forum I purchased about 4 weeks ago. It has had two previous owners before me. Total site age is about 7 months. It had a very plain MyBB forum theme when I acquired it, so I purchased a customized VBulletin 3.8 theme with a lot of features. You won't find a copy of this theme anywhere. It is completely original and maybe 10 days old.

Membership:

It gets anywhere from 5 to 9 new members daily. One member who was a moderator previously I appointed Administrator, and another guy I appointed Super Moderator. The owner is always "Super Administrator." Update: I recently appointed both guys Administrator. Both are only 17 years old from the UK. Really nice and trustworthy young guys who you should keep if you buy this.

Revenue:

I put up two Google Adsense ads right at the top. The banner ad at the left gets the most clicks with a total of 14, and the one at the right has had only 1 click. When it was still the MyBB theme, I also had an Adsense ad at the footer which received 4 clicks. Total revenue in 3 weeks has been $11.54. This total reflects both click and impressions revenue. Page impressions for the ads have been between 5000 and 8000...the banner at the left getting the most impressions. Update: Now 16 clicks for the left banner. Ad impressions approaching 9000.

Traffic:

Here is where I will have a little difficulty explaining. I had the MyBB theme up and analytics installed and it received about 1500 UV in roughly 2 weeks, but I cannot prove it because when I switched from MyBB to Vbulletin, I deleted the analytics to start fresh with the new theme. Since having Vbulletin installed, it has had about 420 UVs, and gets anywhere from a low of 40 to a high of 130 daily UV. Update: 570 UVs now and 902 visits since changing the theme.

Traffic Origins:

It gets a lot of free traffic from a blog about the release date of MW3 Forums. It gets traffic from all the search engines, but mostly Google and from some other referrals.

Keywords Placement in Google: (Note: Some of these figures may have changed and other keywords may also have some placement.)

mw3 forums...page 1, pos. 7

mw3 multiplayer weapons....page 1, pos. 10

mw3 forum...page 2, pos. 12

mw3forums...page 1, pos. 4

gun for mw3...page 2, pos. 20

e3 mw3 videos...page 1, pos. 4



NOTE: The path to the forum WAS this: mw3forums.net...when I had the new theme installed, I had the coder change the path to this: forum.mw3forums.net

This is better for SEO, but it is taking some time for the new path to be indexed. Previously, the old path had more keywords in the first page of Google, but now those are dropping off and being replaced by the new path.

FACT: Pretty much any new thread with any substance at all is being quickly indexed by Google and ranking on page 1 or 2 for any keywords. All you need to do is create more threads using keywords in the threads.

Activity:

It gets the visitors and they click on the ads and view the pages and about 5 to 9 register, but only a small number ever post anything. I think because MW3 has not been released yet, so it is getting members in anticipation of it coming out. With some promotion and as the MW3 release date nears, activity should pick up, but no guarantees. It really needs someone who has time for the forum. I don't have that time.

Why the sub-domain path?

As I said, it is better for SEO. Also, this way you can create unlimited sub-domains, such as "blog.mw3forums.net" or whatever, and start to dominate the front page of Google with each subdomain tied to the main forum name. This is how you will crack the competition when MW3 is released and the number of searchers increased dramatically. Create several sub-domain blogs if you wish, targeting different keywords, and you will soon see what I am talking about.

What You Get:

The domain: mw3forums.net

Fully customized theme with a lot of added functionality. Coded by a team of guys, not just one.

VBulletin 3.8 License account....You get the whole account. The license I cannot transfer. You get the previous owner's account just as he gave it to me. If you want to use your own license, you can do that.

30 days on my VPS. Move it at your convenience. I will not pay for the move. If you do not know how, you will need to hire someone for $20 to $30 to do it for you.

I recommend you get a VPS to start. Right now this runs on a standard HostGator VPS with only 768 MB RAM, 30 GB Hard Drive, 1.13 CPU. Costs me $49.95 a month with cPanel selected.

After you pay for it, I will give you the login for the cPanel, login for the Super Administrator account, and login for the vBulletin account, and will push the domain to your Namecheap account. If you don't have a Namecheap account, you can create one free.

 

I uploaded Analytics to show visitors. I guess it takes some time to show up.

Serious Bidders: Send me a PM with your email and I will send you the Google Analytics for General, Traffic Source, and Keywords.

 

5-10 New Members Daily. Are you serious?

 

Yes, 5-10, but no activity. I clearly said in the description above: It gets the visitors and they click on the ads and view the pages and about 5 to 9 register, but only a small number ever post anything.

Before I switched themes, it was only getting 1 to 3 new member signups daily.

Either way, it is going to take some promotional effort to get members to be active...run some contests or what have you. When MW3 actually comes out, I think things will pick up a lot, but it's really what you put into it, same as any other website.

When I bought it, I was member number 161. That was almost a month ago. It now has 353 members to date. Figure 1 to 3 for the first two weeks, and 4-9 and then 5-10 for the remaining two.

 

18 total clicks now for the top left ad banner, and 9200+ impressions. 386 Members now. 33 new members over the past two days, some of them DP Members checking out the forum.

I'm not letting this go for under $150. And I doubt the bidding gets up that high here on DP, so if any of you top bidders want to make a deal, pm before the auction ends or forever hold your peace. Thanks.