***Windows Vista - Earned $9,000 - Since 2005***

I'm selling one of my first websites - a Windows Vista resource website that's been around since September 2005: VistaUltimate(dot)com. It's based on the most powerful version of Windows Vista, i.e. the Vista Ultimate edition.

Domain Name (GoDaddy)
Registered - 2005-09-10
Expires - 2007-09-10

Ranks
It's been a PR5 for a while and was once a top 100,000 Alexa site (in case you plan to sell TLAs). The site has quite a number of good backlinks, including DMOZ and Wikipedia.
(Search Stats)

Traffic
I've not updated the site since May 12th but it's still getting traffic from type-ins and search engines. There were 127,000 unique visitors in August, i.e. down from 448,000 in March. Actually, traffic was highest in February but I had server problems in Jan/Feb and lost traffic data.
(Traffic Stats)

Earnings
The site earned about $8,000 in the last 12 months from Adsense alone - max. was $69 in a day. 5 months of these earnings were before Windows Vista's launch, so there's really more potential than this. There are lots of other ways to milk the site, e.g. I received requests from companies to blog about their product or to advertise.
(Earnings Stats)

Outlook
Windows Vista was officially launched at end-January 2007. Adoption of Windows Vista has been slow because of software incompatibilities but the number is growing. Hence, expect both the traffic and earnings to increase from hereon.

Miscellaneous
I bought a forum last year to complement VistaUltimate(dot)com but that's not included in this sale. It's because the forum makes under $300/month and knowing how most DP forummers calculate the value, it'll be severely under-priced. FYI, I rejected a $26,000 offer for both the site and forum in February.

Why Am I Selling?
I started providing online marketing consultancy (mainly SEO) in Nov 2006 and that business has grown significantly, to a point where I've no time for my sites anymore.

Price
Looking for $12,000 and above for VistaUltimate(dot)com.

 

is the traffic all organic or are you doing any paid advertising ? Any chance you could post details of referrers ?

 

Never done paid advertising before. All the traffic is organic.
(Referrers)

Btw, I'm the guy behind sites like YoutubeX(dot)com, which achieve 7,000 visitors/day and sold for high $x,xxx in under 3 months.

 

That's a REALLY impressive site. I think it's a bit overpriced though. I don't have $15,000 dollars.

 

I think it's more attractively-priced than the Youtube site I sold. Consider these:
- total earnings included 5 mths of pre-Vista release earnings
- more advertisers now and higher $/click
- increasing adoption, i.e. new PCs being configured with Vista
- site has not been updated since May 12th
- I've spent time optimizing the ad placements
- I did not include Amazon and Dell affiliate sales
- I never sold TLAs or banners on the site, or did paid reviews

 

hey...can you provide latest adsense stats. They are almost a year old.

 

DenisB - the screenshot shows earnings for the last 12 months up to September 12th 2007.

 

Hi, I think he means could you take a screenshot from the bottom of the adsense stats page, so potential buys are able to see what type of revenue its making these days.

 

Still looking to sell this website - earned $456 from Adsense so far this month (see attached screenshot).

I'm lowering my asking price to $10,000 ONO.

 

Does forum comes with the price ?

Thanks.

 

Obviously not.

The forum gets close to 400,000 unique visitors and 6,000,000 pageviews.

 

Can you provide me last two months traffic and revenue stats ?

 

cooolapts - the stats, referrers, 12-mth earnings and this month's daily earnings have all been posted above.

 

I am sorry but it shows me Oct '06 earning stats.

 

Huh? The Adsense screenshot in the first post shows earnings from Oct 2006 to Sep 2007. The attachment a couple of post above shows the latest daily earnings for October 2007.

 

what happen to traffic? Traffic is down every month. can you include forum DB ?

 

has microsoft ever said anything to you because of the domain name?

 

Site has been sold! You snooze, you lose.