Unique Automotive Transport Site (PR3, 1.5 year old, makes $450 a month, great SEO)

URL: www.extratowing.com
Established: Aug 2006
Uniques/Month: 2,000
Page views/month: 25,000
Monthly Revenue: $450
PageRank: 3

What is ExtraTowing.com?

It’s online load board for auto transporters, which helps carriers find loads entered by brokers, dealers, auto auctions, manufacturers, rental agencies and others across the US. Membership to post loads only is free. Members who want to see poster contact information get a 14-day free trial and then should pay a monthly fee*.

Currently registered over 150 transport companies and over 100 public users.

* - never launched monthly fee.

Site Features:

(a) Public users
• Registration. Administrator does not need to confirm users by hand. User must click the link in verification e-mail or will be automatically deleted after 10 days.
• Free access to post new/edit/delete loads.
• Edit account information.

(b) Broker/Carrier users
• Free trial for Brokers and/or Carriers
• Registration. Must be confirmed by administrator.
• Access to post new/edit/delete loads.
• Access to post new/edit/delete trucks.
• Edit account information.
• Listing to auto transport companies’ directory.
• Carrier can upload documents package online, don’t need to fax any papers.
• Powerful load and truck search tool (can see contact information).
• Saved search criteria for later use.
• Feedback system.

(c) Administrator (2 levels)
• All above and…
• Master administrator can create lower level administrator assistant account.
• Full control of registered users: registration confirmation, pending list, add new/edit/delete users.
• Full control of posted loads and trucks: add new/edit/delete.
• FAQ control module.
• Page control module (include text, meta tags, url).
• Article/Tips control module.
• Terms and Agreement control module.
• Broadcast email to all registered users.
• Ads and paid links control module.

Marketing

- Press Releases. Submitted paid press releases to prweb.com, prleap.com, przoom.com and others. Some visitors still coming from them.
- Directories. Listed in more than 500 directories.
- Articles. Distibuted unique articles about auto transporting in ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, ideamarketers.com, articlecity.com and others.
- High PageRank Sites. Paid for couple lifetime PR6-7 links.

I will give more detailed information about all that to serious bidders.

SEO

There is done great SEO work. There are thousands long tail keywords in the top google results, but the main traffic comes from these:
- towing
- towing companies
- towing company
- auto transport loads
- car transport loads
- towing quotes
- towing services
- tow companies
- auto transport companies
- rv transport companies
- etc.

Landing Pages
There are about 39k indexed pages in google today. But there is created about half million landing pages for adsense. Every state divided into cities and counties (example http://www.extratowing.com/AL-Alabama.Transport and http://www.extratowing.com/AL-Alabama-Abbeville-City.Transport), every page has choosen keywords and adsense ads.

In CMS you can easy control all these landing pages, by changing titles, description, keywords and url. All corrections will be made for thousands pages at once.


Revenue Details:
Google Adsense last 4 months (High CTR, average click around $0.8 - $1):
- $316 September
- $357 October
- $300 November
- $200 December (18 days)

Paid links:
- $540 (3 links for 6 months, orders from transport companies)
- $51 (from TextLinkBreokers.com)

Traffic Details:
50% from bookmarks/direct address.
40% search engines.
10% external links.

This is 7 day auction. BIN $5500. I have right not to sell site if suggested price is too low.

 

any reserved price ?

 

i guess the 3 links are sold for the next 6 months so you already earned on them.
i offer $1,000

 

BIN $5500.

 

how many landing pages you have on Google?
I mean pages receiving traffic from Google out of the 34k indexed?