ParenthoodHQ.com is for sale!

Website: ParenthoodHQ.com



Age of Site: Brand new - Turnkey

Revenue: None as the site is brand new. Great potential

Description: ParenthoodHQ.com is a self-updating site aimed at new and old parents alike. Articles range from pregancy to teens to general parenting. A new article will be posted every 6 hours until November 9th, 2007! In addition to the automatic article postings, inbound linking RSS feeds are added every 24 hours. These help to give the site hot topic content and keep things fresh. If you never touch the site again, it will still be a great resource for parents and parents-to-be!

You also get a great .com domain name!

Features:

• Updates 4 times daily
• Will update until November 9th, 2007
• Over 2,300 posts in the database
• Archives date back to April 1st, 2006
• Includes 5 different categories
  • Babies & Toddlers
  • Kids & Teens
  • Parenting
  • Pregnancy
  • Syndicated Posts (RSS Feed)
• Completely Search Engine Optimized
• Total adsense integration
• Ads placed in highly clicked areas
• RSS feeds updated every 24 hours
• RSS feeds link to posts on the site and then from the post to the news article itself. This provides unique content and more content rich pages.
• Ability to easily add as many rss feeds as you want to any category you want
• Ability to search site
• Edit all adsense code from the admin control panel
• Built with Wordpress so changing styles is a breeze, SEO is very high, customization is super easy and adding content/categories takes seconds.
• Great looking and the theme matches the content of the site
• Cool "word count/estimated read time/read more..." feature
• EXCELLENT domain name (Expires: 5/30/2007)
• Domain hosted at Enom. Free push to another Enom account. (Enom accounts are free to set-up.)
• Free hosting for 2 weeks
• Free installation if you have phpMyAdmin

System Requirements:

• The ability to run a cron job is helpful but not mandatory. RSS feeds are updated via a cron job which is set-up to run every 24 hours. if you do not have the ability to run a cron job, feeds can easily be updated manually. If you have the ability to run a cron job and have cPanel, I can set this up for you.
• To have search engine friendly urls, you must have the ability to use Apache's mod_rewrite module. If you do not have this installed the site will still be functional except that your URL's won't be rewritten.
• PHP/MySQL installed
• About 25 Mb of space

Type of Sale: Auction

Starting Price: $100

BIN: $500

Auction Ends: When payment is received or Friday June 9th at 11:59pm GMT, whichever comes first.

Payment Method: PayPal

Interested buyers only. Please use this thread for questions and bids only. Please don't clutter this thread with opinions.

Thanks for taking a look!
Eric

 

Ok no offense but your site is brand new (registered May 30th) and you want at least $100 for it, BIN 500 (LOL)? It's not even on google, AT ALL. Basically you installed wordpress, slapped a new theme on, installed adsense deluxe (i'm guessing), added a few rss feeds with cron job, ran the update script and bam, you have yourself a blog which you are trying to sell. Sites like that take 10 minutes to setup, no longer - and that includes registering the domain / changing name servers. It's worth as much as it cost to register that .com domain in my eyes, sorry I won't let someone get ripped off by this.

 

Ahhhh, FuzzyLogic, where do I begin...

First: You are missing most of what the site is! The RSS feeds is just an extra. This site comes with 2,300+ articles that are already in the database and will go 'live' every 6 hours for the next 18 months. These articles are NOT from RSS feeds. Please read my entire listing.

Second: I'm not forcing you or anyone to buy it at starting bid or BIN. I'm mearly offering it up for sale.

Third: I don't look at it as anyone getting ripped off. I don't live my life like that. If you know how to promote a site or this site complements other sites that you may own, it could quickly pay for itself, whether you pay $100 or $500 or anything in between. If it doesn't sell I will GLADLY keep this site, for the domain name alone!

Fourth: You are right, there is no secret as to when i set-up the site and what the backend is.. Most of the information you stated in your post I stated in my initial listing:

1. but your site is brand new (registered May 30th)
   Age of Site: Brand new - Turnkey
2. It's not even on google, AT ALL.
   Age of Site: Brand new - Turnkey. (And if you look at the blog stats there are no links coming to the site. It's Brand New! )
3. Basically you installed wordpress
   Built with Wordpress
4. slapped a new theme on
   Great looking and the theme matches the content

I have offered this information in my listing. There are NO secrets and I want to be as forthcoming and transparent as possible. No need to check PR (there is none) or WHOIS or the "Powered By Wordpress" at the bottom of every page.

Fifth: I am not forcing anyone to buy it. Please don't clutter this thread with opinions. And if you just have to post your opinion, please read the entire listing before stating what the site really is!

Thanks,
Eric

 

How are new articles listed? Is there a script that you have to run to update?

 

Hi,

thanks for your interest.

Basically the articles are stored in the database with a date. If the date is in the past, the article will appear on the site. If the date is still in the future, it will remain hidden until the date comes. Does that make sense?

There is no update script that you need to run to get the articles to appear. They will appear automatically. The articles don't require a cron job or any anything like that. Once they are in your database, you are ready to go!

Just to make the distinction, the rss feeds will require a cron job which I will set-up for you during installation if you have cPanel. If running cron jobs on your server is impossible, the RSS feeds can still be updated manually. The RSS feeds run independent of the articles.

If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Eric

 

I believe this setup is definately worth at least $100. Good luck on the sale.

 

I will bid 100.

Please check PM as well.

 

thanks for your bid.

 

I may bid on this,as i like the way its layed out.But be warned,google threatened to ban my adsense on a site i had where code was listed under Sponsored Links
Like yours.Just to let ya know

 

Thanks for the heads up but this is stated in Google's Program Policies:

I wonder why they warned you...

Anyway, I'm looking forward to your bin.

Eric

 

Well,not to spam your thread,but site in question was jokesshack.com
and they said it was in violation.Anyway,ill watch this for a day or 2.Thanks

 

The reason why you got warned is because you blatantly said VISIT OUR SPONSORS. It's like asking people to click on the ads. That is against TOS with both YPN and Adsense.

Now that you posted the site, you may need to fix it before Yahoo sees it.

 

Is this currently still up? Am I still high bidder?

 

yes the auction is still up and you are still the highest bidder.

auction ends on friday.

eric

 

BIN dropped to $400

 

Does this blog automatically ping when it adds a new post?

 

Good question, and if it doesn't then it would be a worthwhile addition

@FuzzyLogic: There has obviously been some investment of time in this site. It might not be hard to do, but it is a great little package. I sure couldn't do that much work in $100 worth of time.

Bid: $110.

Thanks - pilks.

 

Hmmm, very good question. I hadn't thought about that before but I am looking into it.

I will post my findings asap.

pilky, thanks for the bid!

 

bid 120

thought for awhile this was going to go to me without a fight

 

BIN pending at sitepoint...