Selling adminship of forum. 1000+ members, 2 domains, low reserve

Ok, I've got too much to take care of so I gotta sell the adminship of my forum.

about the forum
http://www.echoearthquake.com
This is a free hosted forum by invisionfree(zetaboards). The skin and graphics were created by myself for the forum. It's a general talking forum just for conversation.


Profit made
you are not allowed to put in adsense. the ads belong to the host. You're allowed to sell resources, pinned advertising topics, and banner spots on the forum, though. I havn't made anything over $30 from the site although I definatly used it to grab some traffic at my other websites.

activity and traffic
It used to be very active but has slowed down a lot because I gave adminship to someone who just left it for months. We've had really good "rap post battles, contents, and a lot of laughs at the place. A lot of the members are very attached to EEQ and were upset that it got inactive. I've been slowly gaining it up to par again. Just take a look at the topic count. If you'll like to see the traffic details just go to the bottom of the forum and click the "extreme traffic button". It'll tell you a lot.

Domains and domain power it comes with[b/]
-It comes with the typical free junky domain http://www.s7.invisionfree.com/echo
-Currently it's been known best as http://www.echoearthquake.com. This is the main domain for the site.
-Pagerank 3 -3000+backlinks -submitted to over 800 directories in the past and advertised thoughout hundreds of invisionfree forums. THis domain is going to expire within a couple of months. I can't transfer it because it's with yahoo, and yahoo is stupid for transfering as we all know.
- IFSZ.info and echoearthquake.info are registered with domainsite and I will transfer them to you. IFSZ.net is invisionfree's highest quality forum. it has around 200,000 members. This domain will come as a good use for traffic is you can seo it.

So basically you get the two domains, and the forum to do what you'd like with it. I'll be comming around a lot of support you, and I'm still pretty attached to a lot of members that do go there.

Bidding starts at $15 (ends Sunday 3:00am Central time Tomorrow(july 30th)
(paypal only, and you should have an account at domainsite.com)
any questions please PM or reply in topic.

 

it looks cool, but i dont really get it, whats the general niche?

 

Go look for yourself. http://www.echoearthquake.com

It's a general discussion forum. People talk about News, stories, cars, movies, women, etc..

 

i have been on a looking about the place, thats whey i said it looks cool, i just didnt understand the domain name link with the forum lol

So how many regular posters are there? a rough daily guess? and are there any staff? they paid or unpaid?

 

i think the bid should start at 5$

 

It's not negiotable. There is two domains that I'm pushing with it.

About the mods
There used to be a lot all unpaid. It seems everyone wants to be a mod at a forum like this, but now I'm the only one in charge except for one other who controls any bots that auto register.

To see the posts of each day you can check out http://echoearthquake.com/index.php?act=Search&CODE=getactive and choose any day you'd like to see how it was. Too bad I started this auction in the middle of the night. It's probably worth a more reliable check during the day to see it's activity.

 

would you still mod on there? and if i did buy i would move it onto my sever, would that be allowed?

 

I will stick around to help and do what I can to get it going good again. I like the place. I enjoy the conversations around the place. The server thing can't be done. It's invisionfree which is a free hosted from. You won't be able to move it to your server. It's fully hosted by this company in return for their rules and google stuff.

 

So can we take all the files off the free host and transfer them to our own server? Do you have a copy of the files? tks

 

Nope. It free forum hosting. You can't see, touch, move, or anything with the files.

They are automatically backed up by the forum host. You can read more about them here:
http://invisionfree.com/

I'm not going to lie. You can't really profit much from a free hosted forum and your under some rules. But it is good to have a support for your site(s) you own. etc.

 

Im sure they can't stop you from taking a backup of the forum archive for "security"

 

They is a way in the invisionfree support forum that you can get a backup, but I never really looked it up. I never had a problem in the 3 years of having this place. Ok, I must sleep, so any questions will be answered when I awake.

 

surely if you have access to the admin panel, you can backup?

 

It is hosted on InvisionFree...

 

$10 bid here

 

$20 here...

 

hmmm, looks pretty cool. I may be interested, what can you all do with the cpanel?

 

The forum Control panel has a lot of functions.

-you can set it to nominate members into special user groups from their post count.
-Shows logs with moderators, topic views, post totals, etc per day or month.
-You can set up a portal page, purchase ad removal(the adsense), manage if the new members should E-mail validate, etc.
-With the forum control you can set basically anything you like. how many forums and where you want them, which usergroup is allowed to see or post in it, or if it requires a password.
-multi-moderation function. You set set this up to have auto-messages. It shows up as a small tab to just click on to create a preset post. It will move the topic if or lock it depending on what you want that automatic message to do. (it's for quick moderating).
-Bulk e-mail for members
-Full access to the board wrapper and style-sheet to change the design. etc.

A lot of these are just common controls you have with a forum. If you never owned a forum before it can get a little difficult as first, but you get the hang out it quick.

(just to be clear to the others. I don't have Webhost cpanel access, I have Forum Cpanel access

 

What about a sql backup of the forums?

 

No sql backing up. If you wanna see exactly what it's like then just register a new forum here. http://invisionfree.com/

then just check out the cpanel, and the forum control.

Basically you get that, but with the whole design, members, activity, buttons, markers, posts, and domains, etc.