Selling Photo Sharing Site And Premium Domain

Stockphoto.com recently sold on in December 2012 for $250,000:

Up for sale in this auction: Stockphotograph.info.

Low Reserve

Stockphotograph.info is a generic TLD premium domain. The name is extremely brandable and the CPC rate of stock photograph has one of the highest rates in the industry up to $8.81



"Stockphotograph" is one of the most targeted keywords ever to be offered for sale.



About the website being sold with this tremendous domain.



The site is a photography blog that showcases the work of other photographers as inspiration.

VISITORS MAKE THE CONTENT uploading their photos, comments, tips, and ratings.

Free members can show 2-5 photos of there best work.

Premium members get their own portfolio page and unlimited work to show.

Premium members pay $27 monthly or $197 per year for their membership.



Currently there are over 55 members signed-up, 150+ posts, and almost 300 hires (public domain) images (since posts are multi-photos). Plus comments and ratings. (All of this done by hand of course, since the site is new).

Once members join (which takes 1 second), photographers (always eager to show their work) get exposure and links to their websites and Facebook pages.

Visitors can view their work, make comments, vote, share via the social icons and so on. In addition, clicking on any username under each thumbnail shows the permanent link to the page of that particular photographer, so photographers also get a (free) portfolio page/website to which they will be obviously eager to backlink and promote (people promoting the site for you, 24/7, for free)



We had to use a membership system (otherwise all posts authors would have been ‘by admin’ instead of the actual author).

The membership plugin is very sophisticated and it is used at its minimum potential, but if you want you can add different levels of memberships, even upon Paypal payments and many other options.

To submit images, visitors need to register, after that they are immediately taken to the upload page (this behavior can be changed). Automatically and transparently they become WordPress members as well (even though they don’t see the standard WordPress default login page).

The submit page is a quite sophisticated form that allows members to enter their details, upload photo(s), a comment (gear used, photo tips etc.), and tags (very useful for SEO, imagine all the keywords you’ll get). You can change how this form looks. Obviously you also collect all members details such as email address for newsletters or further marketing.

To keep the site simple (especially for you), you don’t have to approve anything, everything gets done and populated automatically. Actually you only get one email when someone posts a photo (you don’t have to do anything but you may want to go to the site and see if the images are appropriate). You can easily change this behavior, if you want, in any combination: photos, comments, new members posts/accepted only upon your approval). You can also change whether you or the member get an email upon registration. Of course you can get notified also when there is a new comment. Basically you can get all the notifications you want or none at all, your choice.



Currently all 55 members signed up free and I have moved them all to premium members for being the first photographers to support the site, so no income has been made yet.

I have not setup and traffic tracking so I donot have any proof of that, I have been more focused on SEO, Backlinking etc..



Never the less this is a very valuable domain, with a even more valuable photosharing site included.

Page rank has moved up very fast, I expect this website to become very popular in the near future.

I have submitted the webite url to 1000's of directories and done some backlinking with high pr and wiki sites, so new buyer will begin to see organic traffic increased.



Currently site is monetized with ads from CJ.

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/StockPhotograph



Smart investors (Domain Investors,Website Developers) will see the value in this domain and website combination.



The domain is registered at Namecheap and will be a free push to your account.



Please only bid if you are a serious buyer and please read all of the above to really understand everything and before you ask questions or place bids.