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Aged Authority Video Game Forum - 300,000+ posts, 6,000+ members

DMOZ and Yahoo Directory Listed, Premium Domain Name

  • URL: http://www.pspforums.com/
  • Established: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:00:00 GMT
  • Uniques/Month: 6,000
  • Page views/month: 25,000
  • Monthly Revenue (USD): 0
  • Listed: Mon, 05 May 2008 23:20:46 GMT

Description:

I have redone all the categories, cleaned up the SEO (added better meta tags, titles, description, ect), converted the forum from myBB to vBulletin. In my opinion vBulletin is the best forum software out there. I have a paid license that would come with the sale and has updates until 2009. I have been focusing on the natural aspects of the forum since taking it over last month. The old owner had severely neglected it but the rankings are coming back pretty fast. The forum has about 10 moderators that I have contacts for all of them. I got most of the old posters back that had a large count and asked them if they wanted to be moderator again. They are all strictly volunteer and do it because they love video games.

Ideas for Expansion:

  • A store that sells psp gear, games, accessories, etc.
  • Ebay affilate links to the site for auctions
  • A point system to buy gear from the store at a deep discount or free
  • A premium members area
  • A main page with news, reviews, cheat codes, etc.
  • Custom skin

Search Engine Rankings:

#1 Yahoo and #3 at MSN for “psp forum”

#1 Yahoo, #3 MSN, #44 Google for “psp forums”

Posts/Members:

Around 1/3 of the posts (about 100k) have been moved to the archives. The previous owner pruned the members database losing around 7,000 inactive members.

Price:

I have received two offers ~ $2,000 and that is how I have came up with my starting bid. The domain alone is a very premium domain and has a lot of value alone.

Revenue Details:

Site is not monetized. Site is not banned from any affiliate networks. I have kept the site ad-free since taking control of it about six months ago.

Traffic Details:

Traffic is primarily organic based (Yahoo, Google, MSN) and from the United States. More detailed stats are available by request.

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  1. Posted date:
    Mon, 05 May 2008 23:23:03 GMT
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    Please refrain from putting irrelevant comments that do not relate to this auction. I will be deleting any at my discretion. Thanks and Good Luck!

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  2. Posted date:
    Mon, 05 May 2008 23:43:15 GMT
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    How many of the members are active?

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    Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:26 GMT
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    @Msg.com - My stats show 480 active members. Thanks for asking, forgot to mention that.

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  4. Posted date:
    Tue, 06 May 2008 02:21:53 GMT
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    Hi. Nice forum. However, I just noticed that the site has no PR or ads. Is this forum banned from Google?

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  5. Posted date:
    Tue, 06 May 2008 02:26:42 GMT
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    @Checkmate - No it is not banned from Google.

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  6. Posted date:
    Tue, 06 May 2008 17:06:33 GMT
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    This is not custom skin, Its default skin.

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  7. Posted date:
    Tue, 06 May 2008 21:33:00 GMT
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    @mf1983 - I never said anything about it being a custom skin. I gave advice saying the new owner should add a custom skin. Read the auction before posting stupid comments.

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  8. Posted date:
    Tue, 06 May 2008 22:12:41 GMT
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    Since about the middle of last month, the traffic plummeted. Due to what?

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  9. Posted date:
    Tue, 06 May 2008 23:55:17 GMT
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    @quetivity - Traffic has stayed pretty consistent for the past for the past 3 months but has gone down since January due to lack of new content. PM me for more detailed stats.

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  10. Posted date:
    Sun, 11 May 2008 15:27:06 GMT
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    please PM me with stats, Thanks

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  11. Posted date:
    Tue, 13 May 2008 12:40:30 GMT
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    I am interested in the site, but can you explain the Pagerank of 0

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  12. Posted date:
    Tue, 13 May 2008 16:16:32 GMT
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    @smikel

    It has been predicted with a Pagerank of 5 the past few updates I checked but obviously those are inaccurate. I have neglected to do the proper link building since taking this site over six months ago but with a little link building it should essentially go 4-5. I have not sold text links or done anything that google would discourage. Hopefully this clears your question up and if you have any other questions do not hesitate to pm me

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