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Selling Wedding niche site - has had over 5 million views

Discussion in 'Sites' started by bravely, Feb 23, 2010.

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    OK, this was my first successfull website. I created a custom bio (profile) building tool for TheKnot.com which helps 'brides-to-be' create what they call a bio. They can put in pictures of all their wedding planning stuff like their dress, location, shoes, cake, etc...

    It is running on a heavily customized version of Gallery.

    Over it's lifetime, it has had over 5 and a half million page views across it's 4 domains.

    The domains were just renewed but there was a few days lapse and that's why the traffic dropped to zero for the last few days.

    It was set up as a free version and a pro (paid) version with a monthly subscription fee. I still have a few active subscriptions, but I will cancel these upon the sale. I will not get into trying to transfer subscriptions to you.

    At the peak of it's popularity, it was bringing in over $2000 per month in subscriptions. That has slowly dwindled down and I am selling this as a no revenue site. You might be able to revive the subscription service to some degree, but I am selling this site as a great advertising site for a wedding related businesses. I would recommend giving away the pro version for free, build the traffic up, and use the bios as advertising tools.

    Some of the hosting on the bios is tied to a specific IP address at Westhost, so you will need to leave it there. I also simply do not have time to transfer to a new host right now. So I will allow you to take over the current hosting accounts (3 accounts) and you can transfer it yourself to a different host if you wish.

    If you build the traffic up to what it once was, you will probably need a dedicated hosting account.

    The site has not been maintained for a while. The bio activation tool needs to be updated (which helps them link their TheKnot.com profile to their Bio Builder Pro bio.

    There is a free Bio Building tool that draws people in but it isn't as good as the pro version and doesn't allow picture uploading.

    Here is the traffic (look back to 2007 for the large stats)
    Bio Builder Pro bio views:
    http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=1063014&guest=1
    Bio Builder Free:
    http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=700045&guest=1
    Bio Builder Pro user admin area:
    http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=1062995&guest=1
    Bio Builder Pro Main Site:
    http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=880706&guest=1

    Hosting account and domain will be transferred after payment is received and verified through PayPal.

    The domains included are:
    TheBioBuilder.com (Main Page)
    TheBioBuilder1.com and TheBioBuilder3.com (points to the bio servers)
    KnotHelp.com (An old domain with a little traffic that redirects to TheBioBuilder.com
     
    Last edited: Feb 23, 2010
    bravely, Feb 23, 2010 IP