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DNLodge.com - Top Webmaster Forum - 3 Years Established - $200 PROFIT/mo - Threads: 8,100 / Posts: 44,000 / Members: 6,850

15,100 Pages Indexed On Google, Prior PR5, New Beta Version Not Released!

  • URL: http://www.DNLodge.com/
  • Established: Tue, 31 May 2005 14:00:00 GMT
  • Page views/month: 90,000
  • Monthly Revenue: 200
  • Uniques/Month: 5,000
  • Listed: Fri, 09 May 2008 23:33:58 GMT

Description:

*Relisted

This site was on Sitepoint a couple weeks ago for sale, with a winning bid of $3,000 with 28 bids. Unfortunately the winning bidder was unable to produce the necessary funds when I contacted him. The original listing of this site was by mpcovcd who was brokering the site for me. I have decided it would be best to relist the site on my own. I am the owner (and founder) of the listed site.

*Questions

If you have any questions, you may contact me and I'll respond ASAP:

Email: brandon@dnlodge.com

Email: cell@dnlodge.com (forwards to my cell phone)

AIM: imtallbp

MSN: neomania60@hotmail.com

You may also comment on this auction or PM me on Sitepoint. For an immediate response, send an email to both of the listed email addresses listed.

 

Description

DNLodge has been a dream site to own, for over three years I have been laboring day and night making the forums the best they could be. The day has finally come for me to sell off the site for off the web / local ventures I am pursuing. Over the past 6 months I’ve been neglecting dnlodge while taking on different projects offline which took the majority of my time. I’ll be using funds collected from this sale to aid the development of my offline venture.

DNLodge is a rapidly growing source of information catering specifically to webmasters, designers, developers, and web professionals since 2005. We strive to provide a wide variety of unique content that proves valuable to all of our visitors. DNLodge is divided into six major content areas; forums, articles, tutorials, interviews, web tools, and miscellaneous services (Please check beta version – details below)

The forums as you can see currently are very active, with many guests online at any given time and many active members. We prune the forums periodically, thus showing only active members, recent threads and posts. There are 8,100 Threads, 44,000 Posts, and 6,850 members and growing at a rapid rate. The forum runs on a owned license of vBulliten ($160) and vBSEO($150), with a 100% forum design.

 

BETA

I am also excited to announce that our beta version of the site (not yet released) will be included in the sale. I had high hopes for this beta version, but do to the negligence put forth on my side I was not able to do much for the past few months. The beta version of DnLodge is an amazing addition to the initial site here are the details;

Access: www.beta.dnlodge.com

User: beta / Password: dnlodge

-Custom Coded CMS (NOTE: All content is from SitePoint, which was used to see what actual articles would look like in the system.)

-Custom Design ($550)

-Custom Code ($1000)

-100% Automated Advertising System! Check beta.dnlodge.com/advertising – an easy way for advertisers to order advertising. Its completely automated, once campaigns are approved by the administrator, they appear on the site automatically in the appropriate locations!

-Ajax Comment Submission

-Ajax “rate this article” feature

-Integrated into the vBulletin forum database for usernames and passwords

DN Lodge 2.0 is ready for launch. It just needs content to launch with.

All content in the Glossary is unique (http://www.beta.dnlodge.com/glossary). It was custom written. It is included in the sale.

Refer to www.beta.dnlodge.com/about for a complete history of DN Lodge.

 

Free Dedicated Server Included

The site runs on a 100% Sponsored Dedicated Server from HostGator, which has been sponsored since March of 2007. Current Sponsored contract runs from October 2007 through 2008 guaranteeing the free server until October 7th, 2008 at which you can request to renew the contract. The contract requires keeping the text links to HostGator. The server has a $200/monthly value. By purchasing DN Lodge, you acquire a free $2,400/year server! Specs of the server are as followed:

- Xeon 2.4 GHz
- 4 GB RAM
- 2 x 73 GB SCSI
- 2,500 GB Bandwidth
- 5 unique IPs
- cPanel and WHM

(Proof of Contract available via PM REQUEST)

 

Domains Included

All expire sometime in 2008, except dnlodge.com expires 2010.

dnlodge.com

dnlodge.net

dnlodge.org

dnlodge.us

dnlodge.info

dnlodge.biz

Revenue Details:

All revenue comes from advertisement and link sales. We do not use a third party advertising platform such as Adsense (But it would boost revenue greatly) we have our own system. The site pulled in about $200 monthly from advertisement sales, as you can see the full details from last year (attached). There is a wide margin for growth; we never really concentrated on revenue generation. Please see attached AWStats Screen shots. Also keep in mind the traffic has been slipping because the site has been running itself for nearly 6 months now.

Traffic Details:

I spend $0 on advertising on this site. This site hasn't been promoted in 6 months at all. Traffic easily reached 1,000 uniques PER DAY when I promoted it.

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Questions to the Seller

  1. Posted date:
    Fri, 09 May 2008 23:49:28 GMT
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    Please keep bidding to a $50 minimum increment.

    Contact here or post here if you have any questions. I will respond ASAP.

    Happy bidding!

    Posted by:
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  2. Posted date:
    Sat, 10 May 2008 00:31:39 GMT
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    Why has this site no PR?

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  3. Posted date:
    Sat, 10 May 2008 00:56:19 GMT
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    @k3nigmatic Link Selling

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  4. Posted date:
    Sat, 10 May 2008 00:56:34 GMT
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    k3nigmatic: The site had a PR 5 homepage (dnlodge.com) and all sub pages were PR 4 and 3's.

    In anticipation for DN Lodge 2.0 I moved the forums to dnlodge.com/forums which forced Google to reindex all pages of the site (lost some major rankings). In effect, most the site is currently PR 0.

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  5. Posted date:
    Sat, 10 May 2008 01:00:13 GMT
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    @babyboy808: Link selling may contribute to the decrease in pagerank, but the reason it's at 0 is above. Selling links would never bring a PR 5 site all the way down to PR 0.

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  6. Posted date:
    Sat, 10 May 2008 09:56:45 GMT
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    The site was sold for $3000 under an agent - how come you cut out the agent and have increased the BIN by $600?

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  7. Posted date:
    Sat, 10 May 2008 12:29:21 GMT
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    @designcrowd: $3,000 was not a BIN. It was simply the highest bid. A BIN was never set for the last auction.

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  8. Posted date:
    Sat, 10 May 2008 12:45:24 GMT
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    Very nice site, are ALL pages editable via the CMS or not? for example: the about page, is it easily editable? what about the advertising prices, how complex would it be to change the prices without getting problems with current recurring advertisements?

    - Will you stay around for 2 months to assist new owner with settling in?
    - Do most members know you by name? don't you think it will make them leave if you sell to a new owner?
    - What Geoserv and the other two moderators, are they willing to stay with the new owner coming in?
    - How many new posts/day?
    - How do you explain the very small member:guest online ratio? 2:203!

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  9. Posted date:
    Sat, 10 May 2008 13:38:32 GMT
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    Actually, I had a PR6 site once upon a time which was penalised dropping to PR0 for 3 months. It does happen. Nice site though

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  10. Posted date:
    Sat, 10 May 2008 14:47:59 GMT
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    Heatmaster:

    1) I will definitely assist the new owner in any way possible.
    2) I dont think members will leave just because there is a new owner.
    3) I haven't talked to the moderators about that. Since they are volunteer, I can't gaurentee they'll stay.
    4) About 20-30 news posts per day.
    5) The guest count is guests in the last 90 minutes. I think search engine spiders may inflate that number.

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  11. Posted date:
    Sat, 10 May 2008 15:36:20 GMT
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    *Screenshot of the advertising admin added upon request.

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  12. Posted date:
    Mon, 12 May 2008 23:01:15 GMT
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    I think there was BIN on this auction? Just wondering why didn't you accepted that?

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  13. Posted date:
    Tue, 13 May 2008 21:22:59 GMT
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    Wow, I'm surprised nobody has snatched this up. I certainly would if I didn't have my hands full with a lot of things. Worth far more than the BIN price IMHO...

    Make your money back in 7 months.. have mailing access to 6,000 webmasters.. existing established forum...

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  14. Posted date:
    Tue, 13 May 2008 21:34:45 GMT
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    I have a private offer of $4,500 pending.

    PM me if you would like to match or beat that amount.

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  15. Posted date:
    Wed, 14 May 2008 07:17:00 GMT
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    4500 is the best price for this forum i guess and you shouldn't wait for any other offer and better sell him right now.
    whosoever had given you a private bid of 4500, why didn't he simply get this site on 3600 BIN price here on this thread? lol.

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  16. Posted date:
    Wed, 14 May 2008 10:25:35 GMT
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    A lot of great "offers" on this website (there are even guys who would pay $4500 even though they can have it for $3600), but its never being sold and listed off. What's going on ?

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  17. Posted date:
    Wed, 14 May 2008 10:35:10 GMT
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    juliensa, if you need an explanation, when I submitted the listing I had the BIN at 3600. In the old marketplace, you were able to adjust (raise and lower) the BIN price all you wanted. I was not aware that you could ONLY lower the BIN and not raise it. As soon as I realized this right after I submitted the listing, I emailed sitepoint and asked them to raise it for me. They responded 3 days later (great service huh?) and said it was too far into the auction to do so.

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  18. Posted date:
    Wed, 14 May 2008 10:35:38 GMT
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    Auction has ended.

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