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Best Celeb Gossip [dot] com – PR6 – 2,000 visits/day – 402,000 Backlinks – 120+ RSS subscribers/day

More than 50,000 uniques/month

  • URL: http://www.bestcelebgossip.com/
  • Established: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:00:00 GMT
  • Uniques/Month: 55,000
  • Page views/month: 100,000
  • Monthly Revenue: $120/month in Google Adsense
  • Google Pagerank: 6
  • Listed: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:37:21 GMT

Description:

Best Celeb Gossip [dot] com is desirable due to its domain name, and it’s specialty (one of a kind) Wordpress theme and header. It receives over 50,000 uniques/mo and about 100,000 page views. This blog is extremely well linked with other members of the celebrity gossip community and has reciprocal links with all the blogs on its blogroll (such as: TMZ, Splash News, etc.) Best Celeb Gossip is also listed in Google, MSN and Yahoo. Best Celeb Gossip has over 402,000 backlinks, over 1300 posts in more than 250 categories, and has posts picked up by big media publishers, such as USA Today, Radar Online and FARK.

It’s a PR6, which makes Best Celeb Gossip that much more valuable since most celebrity blogs are PR0 to PR5. Only a select group are PR6 and PR7. As well, it has about 120 RSS subscribers/day and was built-up without putting any money into advertising.

Bonus: You'll also be receiving the customized/coded MySpace page for “Heidi”. You can continue using it or take the code and most/all/none of the write-up and customize for yourself. What else… oh ya, you’ll be getting plenty of emails on a daily basis with news agencies and PR companies sending you gossip/pics, etc. (including, but not limited to Hollywood.tv, Page Six (NY Post), Ability Films, Marie Claire UK, etc.).

Revenue Details:

The blog was not monetized like it could be. The current owner was mainly focused on growing its traffic and now doesn't have the time to continue building or monetizing it. The new theme (with the 300x250 and 728x90 ad spots) was just implemented @ the end of March 2008 and will make monetizing the blog that much easier!

DNSCoop.com appraised the site:

The estimated value of http://www.bestcelebgossip.com is: $430,334

Traffic Details:

The blog's traffic comes from many different sources and it's believed that a large % of it's readers are women aged 15 to 35.

Organic: 10-15%
Referring sites: 70-80%
Direct traffic: 12-15%

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  1. Posted date:
    Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:53:18 GMT
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    How is the site updated and how much time does it take to run the site? Also could you pm me the bin?

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    Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:51:56 GMT
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    Where is the traffic sourced from? Would you consider lowering the minimum bid?

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    Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:02:14 GMT
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    Take care not to show your ctr information on adsense. I would also not show email and pub id.

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    Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:26:16 GMT
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    Thanks tattobit for the help. It's my first auction. The traffic is sourced from an insane amount of sources, some from reciprocal links from the blogroll, some from websites/blogs that I don't link to, search engine traffic (Google, MSN and Yahoo!), and link-love posts reciprocals. I hope that answers your question vanalli. Oh, and I don't think that I'll be lowering the minimum bid. I've received a lot of interest since the auction went live and it's only been up for a matter of hours. Hi Codybraxton, the site's updated with 4 to 6 posts daily, written by myself and my friend Claudia. It takes about 30mins to 45mins a day to run the blog. Plus, every two weeks I switch the poll, which takes about 20mins. Oh, and then there's the horoscopes page... once a month, 20 mins. Thanks, Heidi

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  5. Posted date:
    Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:45:30 GMT
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    price kinda steep heidi.

    usually its 24 month rev max. i mean...its rare i even see 24 month rev as the sale price but...if the site is really good, you can swing that.

    8000/120 is what?

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  6. Posted date:
    Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:16:49 GMT
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    your minimum bid is way too high heidi. i think there is interest here, i would recommend starting out at 3x monthly revenue and getting the buyers to bid it up, you are not going to get $8000 for this.

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    Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:58:19 GMT
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    Hi eron and infoshowzen. I'm into celebrity gossip and not into monetizing the blog. It's the only site/blog I've ever created and like I said, I was 95% focused on building the traffic and dishing the dirt. I've only put up Google Adsense and now I added 1 Linkshare banner @ the beginning of April. I've only ever tried 1 other banner... the Smileys for a few days. So, three times monthly revenue is not an accurate predictor of this site's value. If you're only interested in this blog for Adsense revenue, then it's clearly not the blog for you.

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  8. Posted date:
    Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:45:38 GMT
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    Hi Heidi, how long has the site been PR6 ? Thanks, Art

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    Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:50:09 GMT
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    Hi Art, The site's been PR6 since early Feb.2008 when Google had their last PR update. Before that it was PR5 (October 26, 2007 PR update). The blog's only gone through 2 PR updates since it's been live and it's only ever been a PR5 and then PR6. Thanks, Heidi

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  10. Posted date:
    Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:55:19 GMT
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    Ahhh, 402,000 backlinks? That's really good and think it's worth more than 8k. Heidi, I really wouldn't take anything less. Dnscoop.com has your site valued for a lot more than 8k.

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    Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:03:44 GMT
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    have you had any issues regarding your picture use yet? Are you paying for them or just pulling them off other sites?

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    Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:07:54 GMT
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    Hi John, I've had photo subscriptions to a number of the different media agencies, such as Splash News, Pacific Coast News and Wire Image. If you have any other questions, I'd be happy to answer them here or via pm. Thanks, Heidi

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    Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:50:30 GMT
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    Hi---how much do these photo subscriptions cost? Thanks.

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  14. Posted date:
    Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:47:47 GMT
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    Can you email me details of the image licenses with each agency (and eihter the account pricing or per-image pricing)? jeremy@b5media.com

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    Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:39:07 GMT
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    Can you also message me with details of the image licenses with each agency other then wireimage(and either the account pricing or per-image pricing)? Also what server/hosting are you using, how long will you support after purchase?

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    Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:43:10 GMT
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    Just sent you the same information I sent Jeremy yesterday. The hosting is at HostMonster and costs ~$7 a month.

    Thanks for your interest and to everyone sending me inquiries through pm.

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    Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:16:07 GMT
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    Please note that I will not be able to use my PC from 8am until ~7PM tomorrow. I will be online from ~7PM until auction close.

    Thank you,

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