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Unique Blog | $120 a month | Selling at less than less than 10 months rev

motivated seller, my loss is your gain.

  • URL: http://www.postsecretarchive.com/
  • Established: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:00:00 GMT
  • Page views/month: 84,333
  • Monthly Revenue: 120
  • Google Pagerank: 0
  • Uniques/Month: 33,654
  • Listed: Sat, 10 May 2008 05:56:51 GMT

Description:


Stats:
For some reason the stat tracker has gone goofy, and isn't tracking stats that well, showing 2-10 page views a day... which is NOT true.
Feel free to login to statcounter and view the stats, if you go back to April you can see the typical traffic for the site.
www.statcounter.com
User: digipoint
pass: abc123

 

*edit, I just figured it out! I changed the theme and forgot to add the statcounter tracking code back in.

Members

I just recently opened the site up for registration, it has 150 members and is steadily growing at 5-10 members a day. My plan was to use them for some email marketing campaign with CPA ads, selling ads...etc.

 

Content

I will show the new owner how to get new content. There is also a form for users to upload their own content... I will give the new owner the past uploads that I haven't posted... I have a TON of these. Plus a good 50 or so that have recently been uploaded. The site gets 3-5 uploads a day.

Revenue Details:

Revenue
I've recently changed to a new ad network that I'm very happy with. I've been running their ads for 19 days now, revenue for those days is $80 (At a full month it would be in the $120/$130 range)

I did put up a CPA banner just a day or so a go that isn't doing anything, I'm sure my dazzling design job isn't doing much to help.

Traffic Details:

Traffic is organic, mostly from google. StumbleUpon seems to love the site. It will every once and a while get picked up, and uniques and page views will go through the roof.

No, I am not doing stumble exchanges, or paying for this in anyway.

Questions to the Seller

  1. nevg-
    I have no idea why you received this message, I've never used clicksor to serve any ads on this (or anyother of my sites.) The the site does serve popups as a form of revenue generation, but not from clicksor.

    Some other questions I'd like to answer that I've got via PM.

    - Why are you selling?

    Selling simply because I need the money for some automotive issues.

    - How much bandwidth does it take, and what are your server costs?

    The site averages about 7,500 MB bandwidth a day.
    I'm just using a cheap $5 a month hosting plan, for this and a bunch of other sites.

    - How come a lot of the posts show a date of 2005 in the title, but were posted in "07 or "08?

    These are the dates that the content was originally posted...the archive date.

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  2. FYI -- When I hit the site, my virus program alerted and advised it had deleted a trojan. I think you need to run a scan on the server.

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  3. biz-resources, thank you... I guess it's something on my end now that two people have brought it up. I will look into it! Thanks guys.

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  4. It is popups and I think it is more than a bit deceptive to base monthly earnings on a new ad program that has been running for a little over half a month.

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  5. jg123,

    The ad program is new yes, but the site and traffic are not. It is CPM, so regardless of if it is new or not as long as the traffic stays consistent the earnings will to.
    I agree with you that if this was PPC earnings then showing less than a months earnings are nothing.

    I'm lowering the BIN to $900 to try and move this site.

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  6. Is this site banned from adsense?

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    geldesign
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  7. geldesign,

    nope, the site is not banned.

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  8. Wanted to add, that I've fixed the statcounter code. You can now log in and verify traffic, where it's coming from...etc.

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  9. will you give me details of your hosting package deal?

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  10. imglaur-
    It's a small $5 a month hosting package, thats running several other sites as well.

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  11. I just lowered the reserve, one more bid will meet it...

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