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Selling Nail Tech Forums - Acrylic Nails Niche

Discussion in 'Sites' started by rluna559, Nov 1, 2011.

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    I previously had this site for sale, but it was affected in one of the later rounds of Google Panda updates, but I have made many SEO changes and the site has started to receive traffic from Google search as normal, which is steadily growing. Also during it's sandbox downtime, revenue tanked, so I don't have recent revenue stats, but do have them from June, 2011.

    Nailforums.com is forum dedicated to the discussion of everything about acrylic nails, nail care, and nail products. The target demographic is women from their teens and up. Members of the forum can discuss acrylic nail and gel nail techniques, nail art designs, and related products.

    This forum is a PR2 site which I created in April, 2010. The forum runs on vBulletin 3.8.7. A vBulletin Classic 4 license is included, although I choose to run vBulletin 3.8.7 instead.

    Initially the content on this site was scraped from Yahoo! Answers. This helped jump start the forums with content that our real members would reply to. This feature has is still running to help stimulate activity among real members, but can be turned off. The users that were used to create the Yahoo! Answers threads are saved in their own user group and are not mixed in will regular users.

    This forum currently has 10.8K users, with 472 being actual real members, and another 100 that need to confirm their email.

    TWITTER
    Along with forums comes its own Twitter account. The Twitter account has over 2.9k followers. The Twitter account is fully automated and helps generate targeted traffic. New threads created on the forums will automatically be tweeted to Twitter with a bit.ly link to the thread.

    The Twitter account is a very intricate and automated method of generating extremely targeted traffic to the forums.

    You can see the Twitter account here: http://www.twitter.com/nailforums

    A bit.ly and Twitterfeed accounts are also included.

    WHY NO ADSENSE?
    I am not running Adsense, because I do not have an account. My Adsense account was 'bowled' years ago, in which someone copied my Pub ID and placed it on a German site about Adsense tips, which was clearly in violation of the TOS. Adsense contacted me about the violations coming from that particular site, with a threat to ban if they weren't removed. I replied that I didn't owned the site and couldn't remove the ads numerous times as I didn't want to be banned. I tried contacting the site owner to remove them and Adsense again many times explaining my situation, but received no response, only a ban from Adsense. I tried to appeal, but was unsucessful. Since then, no Adsense.

    WHY I'M SELLING
    Nailforums.com is a great site, but I would like to focus my attention on a new project I am starting. I won't have the time to focus on numerous projects and would hate to see this site not get the attention it deserves.
    Financial Details

    REVENUE
    Nailforums.com is currently only being monetized with ePN. With an average EPC of .25, with 645 clicks total, for a total earnings of $162.35 for June 2011.

    There are many ways this site can be monetized, here are a few below:
    1. ePN - Using the Rewrite eBay Links plugin, any link made to eBay will automatically be parsed with your ePN affiliate ID.
    2. Adsense - Insert your Adsense blocks forum wide, easily with the vB Ad Management System.
    3. Amazon - Insert your Amazon banners forum wide, easily with the vB Ad Management System.
    4. Commission Junction - Sally's Beauty on Commission Junction would be a perfect program to advertise on this forum.

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    Remember I only used ePN for June to monetize the site. The full revenue potential has not been tapped!

    This forum has great potential of becoming a huge money maker. It has a huge growth potential of members who would also be buyers. These members would require supplies, including acrylic powder, nail polish, nail art supplies, etc. You can monetize this need through many different ways using ePN, Amazon Associates and Commission Junction. Pair with Adsense, this site is capable of bring in a substantial increase in revenue. As the site grows, your profits will to.

    I can't make any claims as how much you can make if you added Google Adsense or other affiliate networks to the site, but I assure you that the addition will increase the amount of money this site can earn.
    Traffic Details

    TRAFFIC
    All traffic is either from organic search, direct type in, or from Twitter.

    Hhere are my current traffic stats from statcounter.

    http://statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=5866633&guest=1
     
    rluna559, Nov 1, 2011 IP