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Selling a couple of sites
Old 12-02-2006, 12:48 PM Selling a couple of sites
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I am currently selling Jokechamp.com (humor - PR2) and gold-directory.com (tech - PR3) on ebay. Traffic is negligeable on jokechamp (500-700 uniques/month) and 3k-4k uniques/month on gold-directory.com (traffic stats are down, but it is in the adbrite directory, so you can see the amount of uniques there). Revenue has been negligeable on both those sites, but there is revenue potential which was planned but never exploited - check on ebay if interested.

Interested in selling regardscards.com. Cards were hand-drawn and are unique. Cards have dry humor, which is not for everyone. The site is viral in nature, and there is still time to promote the Christmas cards. So this is a site with potential, but I haven't exploited the potential. $XXX

I am aslo interested in selling flipnsearch.com. This is a metasearch engine that allows one to save its results to some of the major bookmarking sites. And that's what I like about the site. $XXX

Interested in selling j4de.com. Its a 4 letter domain search engine. Last two months it has received more than 1000 uniques/month. Revenue is negligeable as the sponsored matches are provided by revenue pilot and search feed. Someone with technical expertise could probably fit in another feed. I haven't tried implementing adsense, however I am sure this could increase the revenue. $ XXX

I am also potentially interested in selling upithere.com. Need to have the stats back up before I can assess what I want for it. Last two months before the stats went down: 13 000 and 10 000 uniques/month. This will be the last one I sell, as many of the other sites are on the same reseller.

Reason for selling all of those sites:
I have gone in way to many directions, and because websites are essentially a hobby (Im a translator), it makes no sense to have so many, they are just sitting. In other words, I just want to streamline.

Domains are on:
Godaddy, namecheap, domaindrive

Price expectations:
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Old 12-03-2006, 08:00 AM Re: Selling a couple of sites
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Seems that gold-directory.com, upithere.com, regardscards.com don't work. Please also post traffic and rev stats. Thanks
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Old 12-03-2006, 03:33 PM Re: Selling a couple of sites
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I love it when my computer crashes just when I am pressing submit reply.

Anyhow what I was telling is this.

Gold-directory - I am not sure I can post those here as the sale is on ebay. That said, the Stat went down in August. Host wanted me to upgrade, I didn't. But you will find gold-directory in the adbrite inventory and that will give you an idea. I don't know how precise the adbrite stats are, but they are consistent with the CJ ones.

Upithere - Traffic stats are back up and this is what I have noticed: traffic has gone down, probalby because I started to delete porn and adult pictures on the site, and because I removed the hotlinking link. People can still hotlink, but they have to work for it... not that hard really, but its still a bit of work. I chose to do this when I noticed that the vast majority of the people were just hotlinking, leeching the bandwidth, not creating any revenue potential for me. So I have less traffic then before, but a competing chance to benefit, thus countering the high bandwidth.

Honestly, I didn't think that the traffic would drop that much. Judging from the current stats I am estimating 6 000 uniques for the month of December.

Ultimately it is a great little site, its quick and has an easy to use admin. The only downsides are: traffic that has gone down - buts its viral, so it can be brought back up fairly easily - and a bug with reporting - for some reason, the picsearch bot reports pictures (there is no more link to report images, but almost all images have been reported by the bot. For instance:
/report.php?id=7596
Http Code: 200 Date: Dec 03 13:22:49 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in Bytes: 3799
Referer: -
Agent: psbot/0.1 (+http://www.picsearch.com/bot.html)
I don't know why it does this, and the only ways I have found to counter was either to block the bot, which means that the pics wont show in picsearch search, or just make sure to check new pics each day to make sure there is no illegal, porn, adult, some funny guy who wants to show his d**c type of pics. I chose the later. So the site is clean of any of the above, but your reported pics folder is FULL. If you have some technical ability, I am sure you could fix that, and have a nice, clean and fast image hosting site.

So that was is the honesty section about upithere. In any event it will be the last site to go, as the reseller account is registered under that domain.

Alernatively I could sell all these sites for 2000, which is less that what I have payed for all of them, but I would take less $ for a quick and bulk sale:
jokechamp.com PR2
gold-directory.com PR4
flipnsearch.com
upithere.com PR4
regardscards.com

flipnsearch (godaddy) and regardscards (godaddy) are hosted on the same account as upithere (namecheap). Gold-directory (godaddy) is with the same host on another account (I believe there is two month hosting left) and jokechamp (godaddy, I think) is with another host.

At 2000 I would keep j4de.com. I am going to test with other streams of income.
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Old 12-03-2006, 05:25 PM Re: Selling a couple of sites
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For Gold-dir stats, I forgot to mention I uploaded them on upithere, just check

http://www.upithere.com/sitemap1.php
for the following:

Name: Jokechamp stats Number of views: 2
Name: Gold dir stats Number of views: 1
Name: Gold-admin Number of views: 1
Name: Gold-stats 2 Number of views: 1
Name: Gold Stats Number of views: 1
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Old 12-03-2006, 05:44 PM Re: Selling a couple of sites
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what is your BIN price for j4de.com ?. I want to buy it now if possible. PM me the reserve price.
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Old 12-03-2006, 05:47 PM Re: Selling a couple of sites
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Hi, jokechamp stats weren't posted. In addition, it'll be great if you could post stats for flipnsearch.com and regardscards.com. BTW, do you have any revenue stats to post?

Thanks.
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Old 12-03-2006, 10:10 PM Re: Selling a couple of sites
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Hi, jokechamp stats weren't posted. In addition, it'll be great if you could post stats for flipnsearch.com and regardscards.com. BTW, do you have any revenue stats to post?
I seem to have posted the wrong screenshot.

http://www.upithere.com/sitemap1.php

Name: Jokechamp stats Number of views: 2

Like I said, these sites have been sitting so poor stats:

Flipnsearch.com - http://www.upithere.com/view/8255.html

Regardscards.com - http://www.upithere.com/view/8256.html

As per revenue, the same: sites have been sitting, so revenue is not worth mentioning. But this is what you can do with

* Jokechamp: add a free forum from blursoft+free gifts+sponsor offers when sending jokes

* Gold-directory: free girfts+paid posts, you can offer the service on basically any webmaster forum: 5$/10$/15$ /post or whatever. My plan was 5$, but the advertiser writes it.

Revenue on those two was meant to be based on the stream subscribers.

* flipnsearch: Like any search engine...

Bidvertiser is not great, but I never bothered switching to adsense. Bidvertiser CPC is often higher than adsense, but ads are also much less relevant. I was planning on increasing CTR by mixing bidvertiser with images, like some people do with adsense. This is the tool I was going to use: http://dev.shoemoney.com/public-tools/imagegen/. I thought about putting adsense, but I think they would smartprice my account to death (also one of the reasons I didn't put adsense on j4de).

So that was the plan for flipnsearch, the rest is getting people in there. As you may have noticed, its meant to be used by social bookmarkers, all you need is a couple of social bookmarkers liking the results and bookmarking them. You can also easily expand the amount of social bookmarking sites, thus expanding interest: a month a go, I worked on the code for reddit, but I haven't had time to input it, I can give it to you (just one line of code if you want - still need to test it though).

I am not very technical, but if you are, then you may not need the developper's contact information. If you are like me and it takes a full night to write a line of code, then you might need him, and there is also another reason for this... He has asked about buying it back, so if you don't like it, you can make back a bit of money this way.

* regardscards.com - Like any card site... I was going to start sending a card to everyone I know, asking them to send a card to everyone they know, and then go from there. I haven't done this, the only thing I have done is bookmmarking the site. Cards were hand-drawn and are unique.

* upithere - I was going to build more traffic to it before seriously monetizing. CJ hasn't brought any money yet. I tried adsense, but took it off the site when found people still posting porn. Same with bidvertiser. I think the best way to monetize would probably be a combination of CPM and Adbrite. You might have other ideas.

About the reseller account:

Invhosting - Plan 4.
http://www.invhosting.net/reseller.html. Since traffic has gone down on upithere, you definitely don't need that much bandwidth.

So in conclusion, those are all sites with potential that was never exploited. If this is your job, not your hobby as it is in my case, there is no reason why you wouldn't be able to make them work.
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Old 12-03-2006, 11:01 PM Re: Selling a couple of sites
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what is your BIN price for j4de.com ?. I want to buy it now if possible. PM me the reserve price.
There is no reserve on j4de.com or a BIN.

What you can do with that site is sign yourself up as an advertiser, give yourself a million $ credits, and just bid on all keywords imaginable. This is what I have started doing to send traffic to two other search engines I own - allthough not for every keyword imaginable, just for some keywords I know are being searched (a bit of c-panel+analog stats+other search engines I own).

Because, searchfeed and revenuepilot payout is pretty low, its make more business sense in the short and long term, to use this site to bring traffic to your other sites - at least thats the way I see it. The balance I set for myself: Account Balance:1100100.78 USD [add money] [payment history].


I haven't had time to calculate how well this is translating for my other sites, but I am "spending" about 0.50$/week (0.01/click), I could be "spending" more by adding more keywords AND bringing more traffic. If you bring in more traffic, this becomes even more worthwhile for you, both as an advertiser and publisher/CPC search engine. So this ability is the other reason why I haven't put adsense on j4de.

For a 4 letter domain that allows this, very high XXX$ if you let me keep my billion credits (I would be adding more), if not I am open to offers in the X,XXX$
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