Selling Solid Technology Site - Strong Foundation and ready for Monetization!

I don't understand why the market place populates the stats incorrectly however below is verified through DNSCOOP:
The total number of pages that contain inbound links: 3,051
Current AlexaRank: 2,981,062

I'm selling the site because of my new job and the time commitment I need to have with it... I don't have to time for my side businesses anymore.

Due to the recent change with EPN I changed the platform over to wordpress. It is a custom layout which comes with the site. The only thing that you would need to do to keep it the same is purchase PHPBay Wordpress plugin. The move dropped the PR and caused me some issues but after the next pr update I would assume it will return to a PR3. Again it isn't a PR3 as I write this so I've decreased the asking price to reflect it in case it doesn't move this update and I"m not promising anything.

Overall this site has made me a load of money, I estimate it has made over $4,000 the past 23 months but really has never hit it's true potential (or when it starts to bring in $500+ monthly eBay changes things around and it starts over). If you are looking for a site to monetize then this is the one because it has a solid foundation.

PM me your questions, serious bidders only and I reserve the right to remove if the reserve is not met.

 

FYI,if you choose to sell it a higher price & claim to have earned thousands of dollars with the site,you have to
* Post proof of Income
* Post proof of Traffic
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Without these,nobody will contact you !!

 

Understood and I was thinking about that today and forgot to mention a few things. Since this site is a big purchase this will be a long post, but you asked for it

This has relied on eBay for revenue. If you are familiar with Ebay you know they were on CJ, then moved to their own program and then changed it to QCP program... each of these changes hurt my revenue and drained my desire to build it back up. That is due to my lack of desire rather then the lack of potential with the site so don't confuse the two.

** TRAFFIC **

Traffic stats by QTR.. You can see that while at CJ it was thriving, the moved to EPN stunted my desires to keep the site at it's full potential and has been dropping off because I've left it sit - consider this site has been making me passive income since the second QTR of 08'.



The big drop in the last QTR is me moving it to another platform where I screwed up the move and have since corrected my mistake which has regained most of the 4k back links that I had. Additionally the traffic is not paid for it is organic search, I don't use adwords or anything else to drive traffic to the site - pure organic search results! So if you use adwords or something else to drive traffic this foundation is strong.

Inbound links


** REVENUE **

Unfortunately I cannot provide one screen shot for the revenue because the affiliate program changed and at one point my eBay affiliate program was canceled it took me a month (early April - Mid March 2008) was back on their program. So this is the best that I can provide:

1-01-08 - 4-30-08 (via CJ. The april payment was partial and I lost about $200 in commissions due to account cancel but that is neither here nor there for this purpose)
$285.35

5-22-09 - 11-25-09 (this is after the move from CJ and EPN revenue only) $2,919.32



Total for the proof for ebay is $3,204.67

Other sources of revenue on this site have been selling links (I've stopped this) and a few small campaigns over the life of the website which don't quite add to $1k but due to the fact that I've never treated this site like a business, rather a side project used for learning, I cannot show this other 20%.

** MAILING LIST **

I've had a way for visitors to request updates when I make site changes, I email them once every month or two but have never really tried to "build a list" so it is a background option on the site. Right now the list has 69 active after my last mailing who only want to know when the site is updated. Additionally when I send out a broadcast I get about 80 people who click the link because the email is being forwarded to others by my members. Although this list doesn't come with the site I will send out a broadcast for the winner (must be done within 3 months of purchase) to tell them what is going on with the site and help you start the new site. This should help encourage them to sign-up with your list if you are going to put this on your website.

** ADDITIONAL DOMAIN **

Details in the next post due to image restrictions on the forum

 

** ADDITIONAL DOMAIN **

Also with this you will get the domain in the .co.uk format - this site is also live however this is the domain only, that site is not provided (this is the old platform). This site is new (6 months)





** WORD TO THOSE LOOKING AT THIS **

To summarize. I've never treated this as a business but rather a way to learn and teach myself through trial and error. This isn't a site for someone like me at this price because if kept the same and never changed it would take a year to make what you paid. However this doesn't require a "guru" to blow it up either. Consider the amount of money I have made by playing with tactics and letting it sit for long periods of time.

DNScoop says the domain name alone is worth $1,250. The market continues to remain strong for the products and asus continues to expand its line of related products. . Even if you removed the ebay side and monetized with ad sense and built the content I think you would find this to be a diamond in the rough and a steal with the foundation this site has.

Again you get the .com (through godaddy expires Jan 2010) website with custom theme that I built and no one else has (obviously), the .co.uk domain name only (registered with 123-reg.co.uk and expires on 31-May-2011) and a custom broadcast to my site update members.

If you have a plan and the drive this site is for you, if you don't well I would say stay away buy a cheap website or better yet buy a domain and start from scratch.


ANY QUESTIONS???