Turn My Failure into Your Success

A couple years ago I came up with a harebrained idea that I wanted to start a blog network. Did okay for a year or so, then decided it was too much work for too little $$$.

The site up for auction today http://www.hometurfmedia.com/ was the main site for the network.

This auction is for the domain name (Godaddy) and the content on the site (a WordPress blog). You’ll get the domain name pushed to your account and a zip file containing the database and all WP files. Sorry I won't be available to install it for you.

--Domain name--

Created: 2006-10-25
Expires: 2009-10-25


--SEO Stuff--

This site was a PR4 at one time and has a lot of high quality incoming links:

(3,634 incoming links on Yahoo site explorer)

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=hometurfmedia.com&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=s

However, I had paid links on the site for a while and Google removed my page rank. The paid links have been gone for a long time (more than 6 months) but the page rank still shows as PR0

It is my belief that if you go to Google Webmaster Tools and submit a "Re-inclusion Request" that Google will restore the site's pagerank, but no guarantees. I've had sites also regain their PR on their own after the paid links have been gone for a while.

There are 146 pages indexed in Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:hometurfmedia.com&num=100

--Traffic--

Is pretty minimal, has averaged 6 visitors a day since Jan 1, 2009.

This is a No Reserve Auction

Starting bid is $1

Auction goes until Sunday June 28, 2009.

To have a little fun, I'll be accepting bids in the form of barter as well as cash amounts.

I have many sites, so my needs are just like every typical webmaster: links, content, social bookmarking etc.

So if you have a service or talent and you'd like to bid that, go for it. The only provision is make is specific. For example if you are a writer, then bid 5 x 500 word original articles. If you want to include a value for your service, then do so, but I will apply my own value to it for the purpose of determining highest bidder.

You are welcome to put a link to your service so I can check out the quality or get more details (free advertising for you too!).

Let me know if there are any questions...

Be creative, it could be a very valuable site, even if you just redirect the domain to catch the link-juice from all those incoming links.

 

I'll bid $1.

 

Bid $2. You still have some paid post with many outbound links. This may be a factor why your PR is not restored.

 

Thanks for the bid.

I assure you that there are no paid posts on that site. We hosted a "blog carnival" that linked out to many sites each week, but there was never any sponsored posts and there are no paid links remaining on the site.

 

Google sees trends. That is how Google's algorithm works, it doesn't check your bank statement. The trend throughout your blog is numerous outgoing links in every post - which is exactly what blogs created for the sole purpose of selling links usually do.

Remove the obvious outgoing links, the home page must have at least 40 outgoing links to various sites - of course this flashes *paid links* to Google.

$3 bid and a half-pint o' bitter

 

Makes sense, tough to believe that every blog carnival would be seen as a paid post, but I guess if there are too many of them in relationship to more "normal" content, then it may trigger a penalty.

I remembered that I had registered the site at URLTrends, and from this graph:

http://www.urltrends.com/viewtrend.php?url=http://www.hometurfmedia.com&p=rankings

You can see that the site actually was a PR5 before the penalty.

 

5$ from me, then.

 

mmm $5 for 3,600 incoming links... this recession is rough

 

6 lol if its open