[Sale] Established Proxy Site | MySpace & Bebo Favorite | $100/month!

Site: www.sneakonline.com

Description:
SneakOnline is a free web proxy which is extremely popular with American office and school users. The site uses the CGI proxy script which allows users to log into Myspace and Bebo etc making it very user friendly unlike alot of the PHP proxies around.

The site is mostly recongized for myspace users where it gets most of its referrals from (see traffic referrals proof)!

The site has an admin panel which allows you to add/delete/edit site links and proxy-top-sites banners on the site. This makes it alot easier for the admin to quickly promote the site rather than having to manually add links each time.

Please note that I'm looking for a trusted buyer who is respected in DP and not a "fly-by-night" buyer. This will help ensure that the sale is concluded successfully and securely for both the buyer and the seller, thanks.


Traffic: 800-1,300 visitors per day
proof:
Sep- Dec 06 - http://sneakonline.com/traffic_prejan.jpg

Jan 07 [Bought over site] - Visits: http://sneakonline.com/traffic_jan_oldserver.jpg, Referrers: http://sneakonline.com/traffic_jan_oldserver_ref.jpg, Geography: http://sneakonline.com/traffic_jan_oldserver_geo.jpg

Feb 07 [Server Switch so stats are inaccurate & have discrepancies I apologize but these are the only stats I have..] - http://sneakonline.com/traffic_feb_newserver.jpg

Alexa Ranking: 450K

Bandwidth Usage: Small usage since it uses a CGI proxy ~ 500Mb/month

Established: September 2006

Page Rank: 4

Indexed Pages: 75,600 [Google], 494 [Yahoo]

Advertising:
Little to no advertising has been done for the site. The previous owner did not spend any money advertising the proxy and neither did I. All the advertising that was done is one submittion to sumbleupon and digg. Other than that, it is just the 3 proxy top sites you see at the bottom of the homepage.

Reason for Selling:
I bought this from a member here at DP (Khalid) about one month ago with the intention of running this for a long term project. Since then, I have redesign the site and added an admin panel. The site has picked up its traffic and grew from 800 uv to 1,300 uv a day since I bought it.

However due to my university offering me a course which starts earlier than I expected, I need to let go of this baby.

N.B. My host, IX Webhosting, just forced me to get the proxy website out of the hosting server because it supposedly violated their tos. Since then I have hosted with Xperhost.com. I am positive that you can still remain hosted on this server as long as you have the link up as it is now. I can verify this for you if need be.


Revenue:
Since the previous owner (Khalid) did not have any adsense ads on the site and I have been busy preparing for uni, I did not put any ads on the site still the last week and a half of which I have proof that I have earned a steady $3+/day from adsense [http://sneakonline.com/rev_adsense.jpg]

*If you put on YPN, you will definately earn 3-5 times more than my earnings on Google Adsense.

On top of just adsense, there is also revenue from adversal popups which sums to about $4-6/month - [sep-dec: http://sneakonline.com/rev_adversal.jpg, jan: http://sneakonline.com/rev_adversal_jan.jpg]

As you can see, from 9 days earnings there is a total of $28.50 from adsense.

Hence 1 month adsense = 30/9 * $28.50 = $95 (if you put on YPN it would at least $250)

Total = Adversal ($4) + Adsense ($95) = $99 for one month


Starting Bid: $400


BIN: I need this to sell before I head back to uni so I am willing to negotiate a BIN for a quick sale.

N.B. I can accept payment via paypal.

Please posts all Bids here. Any questions can be sent via PM and I will respond asap. Thank you everyone.

 

How did the site violate the TOS?

Vic

 

They just said that I was on a low level shared server and the proxy site should not be on it... Ixwebhosting.com TOS did not even state that proxy sites weren't allowed (you can see their TOS here: http://www.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.tos).

They were very uncooperative with my appeal so I had to host it with XpertHosting in turn for a link to his hosting site, which actually turned out for the better.

 

you have adsense on proxified pages, that is against Googles TOS. You should replace it with adbrite or adversal.

Goodluck with your sale once the issue is resolved.

Cheers

 

This is a GREAT looking site, but you're breaking the TOS rules with Google. I believe they only allow 3 of their ads per page. Your front page has at least 4. Also you're not allowed to put their ads on any framed page, as is the case with each proxy page that is displayed.

 

You can't have Adsense on proxy sites? I think every proxy site I've seen for sale has adsense on it. Or am I misunderstanding your statement?

Thanks,

Vic

 

You can have adsense on the main page, but not on "proxified pages"

 

Thank guys, I didn't know that - nonetheless I have replaced the proxified page's adsense with clicksor ads.

Most of the adsense clicks come from the homepage rather than proxified pages anyway. This is why the revenue was still stable although my proxy was undergoing a server switch.

Schnibitz - Adsense allows 3 ads + ONE links ad on a page which is exactly what I have . I am not violating their TOS...

 

Can you bear with a noob a bit longer? I assume that by "proxified page" you mean the target page being viewed through the proxy. How the heck would you put YOUR adsense code on the target page anyway? Or am I misunderstanding?

Thanks,

Vic

 

Vic,
Many times a proxy has its URL in a URL text bar at the top of each of the proxified pages. You can control what is in the top part of this page, even though most of the page is a proxified page. Some people put affiliate links, sell link spots, etc on these proxified pages at the very top. You cannot control what is below that very top space.

 

Ah, I see, like using frames.

Thanks so much!

Vic

 

The site is still for sale. Please PM me if interested, thanks

 

Today's adsense earnings has tallied to $3.48 and counting... The revenue is very stable.

I do believe asking for $400 as a starting bid is a fair offer since the monthly income is $100+.

 

I'll bid $400.

Vic

 

Thanks for your bid Vich. You have the high bid currently .

 

I am interested $440.00

 

Thank you flavoflav. You are currently the highest bidder

 

Ok, today's total earnings for adsense has just finalized and tallied at $4.81! Again the rev is very stable. I will post an updated adsense screenshot if anybody wants one.

 

I have one person interested in a BIN but he hasn't confirmed yet. If anyone is interested please PM me asap.

The BIN is set at $650