Selling Football (soccer) site - high google ranking

I am selling:

joeybarton.net

PR-3.

The value is estimated as $3,371 @ http://www.dnscoop.com although I'm not expecting anything near that.

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ABOUT THE PLAYER
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If you don't know who Joey Barton is. He plays for Newcastle United and gets in the media for his off-the-field antics as well as his football skills. He has also appeared for the England National team.

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REASON FOR SELLING
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The reason for selling the site is that I haven't had time for it recently. I have quite a few sites and I find it hard to manage them all.

There isn't too much work involved. Just news story updates and other details on the profile. The site is based on modified wordpress template and is very easy to update.

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WHAT IS ON THE SITES
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I have recently updated the site from its old design. As I said before, it is now based with a wordpress cms. I put a few adsense units and some affiliate banners on the site to show you what they can look like. There is no proof of revenue from these as I pasted the adsense units from my other site to save time. I can proove visitor stats though.

-There are news stories you will need to add. I will give you a website where I read current football news and base the stories on.

-There is a photo page. You can add as many as you want. There is a nice little script to make the photos load (have a look).

-There is a video section. You don't need to touch this. Videos will automatically update with the latest videos from youtube.

-I have also added a page for a shop. There is nothing in this yet as I thought there was no point as you will have to change it for your affiliate links anyway. You can sell kits, books, other football items through it. I have found it quite good on my other sites.

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GOOGLE RANKING
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The site ranks 1st or 2nd in google for the "joey barton" depending on how wikipedia is feeling:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=joey+barton&btnG=Google+Search

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LINKS
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I have spent a lot of time link building. The site has 139 google backlinks with over 20,000 in the link popularity check if altavista is counting.

search the domains here: http://www.submitexpress.com/linkpop/index.html

All links that appear on the site must stay because obviously, people linking back will remove their links if you do.

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VISITOR STATS + SITE REGISTRATION
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Visitor stats for the last 2 months

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii106/fadetoblack22/stats3.gif
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii106/fadetoblack22/stats2.gif
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii106/fadetoblack22/stats1.gif

Registered with GoDaddy. I was not planning on selling it, so renewed it recently. This will save you money, so something to think about when bidding.

JoeyBarton.net expires: 7/26/2009

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So to recap:

joeybarton.net

PR-3 with 139 google backlinks

Domain Registered at GoDaddy and has a few years before expiration.

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I will set this thread off as an auction and will add a BIN once it gets going. There will be a hidden reserve because I don't want to let it go too cheaply.

I will set an auction end date & time once it gets going

I am based in England so if anyone bids from here you can pay in GBP.

Auction starts at $30......

 

$30, any revenue?

 

As I said above..."There is no proof of revenue from these as I pasted the adsense units from my other site to save time"

I redesigned the site to sell it and rather than make new adsense ads, I just pasted the ones off my similar site to show buyers what it could look like.

 

How about a BIN price or auction end date?

 

BIN: $325

Auction end date: Monday @ 18:00 GMT if it reaches my reserve

 

I will try and update the traffic stats with the last few days traffic later on.

 

this is the updated stats:

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii106/fadetoblack22/stats4.gif

 

whats your reserve?

 

The reserve is hidden. Thats why I have a "buy it now". The reserve is just there to stop the site going for a price lower than I want to sell it for.

It will change depending on what bids are made. If I revealed the reserve price at the moment it may effect people's bids.

Basically I have done a lot of work on it since I bought the site a while back. I don't want it to go for less than what I paid.

Keep in mind that the site has well over 100 google displayed backlinks and is a solid site that gets top search engine placement.

It is also a powerful site for linking to others.

 

You purchased the sites off me a while back.
The design is definately better now and much easier to navigate.

Im only asking for a reserve to stop people wasting their time with $30/$40 bids im guessing were looking at a minimum of around $150, i cant honestly remember what you bought it off me for but i think it was PR1 when i sold it to you with about a third of the visitors

 

Ah, I forgot it was you I thought I recognised the username.

The reserve I am setting at the moment would be $200 or £100 GBP

 

Visitor stats for today ended 331 uniques at 21:00 GMT

 

updated stats:

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii106/fadetoblack22/stats5.jpg

 

do you get the news from anywhere or do you have to write it urself?

 

I write the news myself because its best to do that rather than copying other sites on the internet. I do have a website though where you can type in the players name and it will list all the current news for him. I often base the stories on what I see there.

I will give the link of this site to the winner of the auction.

 

It doesn't look like there is much interest, so I may withdraw the auction.

stats for the last 3 days:

176
203
150...current at current time

 

I am interested in the site, but it's a risk to take it based on current stats because of the publicity the player has been getting in recent weeks. You have probably had the site at the peak of its activity and traffic will likely never reach that level again (unless he decides to attack someone else!).

That said, it is a nice site and is probably worth your reserve, or towards it. Just higher than I would personally pay right now.

(ps - if you'd rather I delete this comment and stay out of your sales thread, please just PM me or let me know.)

 

No, thats fine everyone is entitled to their opinion. It reached its peak when the uniques are 1,600+ views in one day.

I have put a lot of work into it since I have had it. Its solidly in 2nd place of google behind wikipedia, with a 137 quality google backlink count. Plus a link popularity of over 20,000.

I have been trying to sell my non manchester united player sites for a few months now. I need to keep the numbers down.

This could be a nice addition to anyone's website collection. It also has the power to push other sites up the rankings by linking.

 

Ive read someone say the site has reached his peak, personally i still think Barton will still end up playing for england even if its 2 years down the line, i think he will be in the Next major Competition - who will his competition be?
Scholes has retired, Gerrard will be past his best, lampard i think is already past his best so i think the midfield will be hargreaves/carrick and barton, i think he will knuckle down now and work hard

 

Yes especially now with the new manager. Plus he has already got one england cap.