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PR5 Technology Blog - $700 a month.

SweetHacks.com - 2200 Uniques Daily. - Potential of over $1000-$4000 a month!!!

  • URL: http://www.sweethacks.com/
  • Established: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:00:00 GMT
  • Page views/month: 300,000
  • Monthly Revenue: 700
  • Google Pagerank: 5
  • Uniques/Month: 50,000
  • Listed: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:55:21 GMT

Description:

Hello all,

 

Up for grabs today we have a Pagerank 5 Technology blog/magazine run by wordpress entitled SweetHacks Technology Blog.

SweetHacks.com is all about Technology such as the latest gadgets, blogging tips, hacking and more. We have been live for nearly one year with the domain being over 1 year old.

SweetHacks.com currently gets 2000-2400 daily unique visitors as stated by the server installed application Webalizer. We have an average of 150 subscribed RSS subscribers that receive our articles/posts directly to their reader/email. Most of our traffic comes from referrals strictly followed why search engine (google, yahoo etc).

Most of my traffic (Roughly 40%) are from the U.S which leaves you room to generate even more money with affiliate deals.

Second is the United Kingdom followed by Australia.

SweetHacks.com runs on the latest edition of wordpress theme designed by Brian Gardner. This theme is not free design which means we have spent good money to get a unique look which really brings out the authenticity of our blog. We believe to be a known figure in the technology scene especially for our guides on cell/mobile handsets and consoles.

Host costs roughly $5-10 dependind on what you use, we recommend a dedicated server which you can get from our sponsors, micfo.com.

SweetHacks gets steady traffic from mentions of similar blogs when a good article has been composed. It is not uncommon to have articles stumbled by hundreds of users when it is interesting and written with passion and brains. Just Check this article which receives a lot of stumle traffic and google search: http://www.sweethacks.com/how-to-put-movies-on-your-nokia-n95/

(Note the post level ad featured)

The total number of pages that contain links to
www.sweethacks.com: 12,550

Now with the introduction out of the way lets talk figures..

 

dnScoop, a great domain name evaluator estimates the total value of sweethacks.com at $10,388

This figure is manily based on the Domain age, Pagerank, Traffic Level and monthly income. I personally want $6000 which is 4,388 saving on the dnScoop suggested price. Furthermore, personal appraisals have suggested SweetHacks.com to sell for roughly $9000 which is based on a lot fo factors such as traffic, value of website due to pagerank, backlinks etc.

Obviously there is room to the wanted price but it does have its limits. Before you bid, please be honest and only bid if you INTEND TO BUY.

All proofs for revenue and traffic can be found via screenshots as attached via the top right corner of this listing.

 

Happy bidding.

 

P.S Reason for selling is because I am extremely busy with my university course (chemical engineering) and must dedicate myself to my studies which carries assignments as well as heavy exams. I have no time to update the website no more.

Revenue Details:

Text Link Ads (TLA):
4 x Advertisers for weblinks each link = $45 meaning we get 50% so, 22.5 x 4 = $90
1 x inline post $2.54

TLA TOTAL: $92.54
Direct Links:
4 Advertisers direct with us for text links:-
Note some people got discounts of the total price because they bought 3 months more.
1st Advertiser: $120 for 12 months (We where PR3 at the time and it was a special offer.) i.e 10 dollars a month.
2nd Advertiser: $120 for 12 months (same as the above)
3rd Advertiser: $100 for 6 months, (Discount given, and we where PR4) - $16.67 dollars a month
4th Advertiser: $75 for 3 months (Discount of $5 given off the then monthly price of $30 @ PR4) - $25 a month.
5th Advertiser: 1 month @ $45
Total monthly: ($10 x 12 months income]) + ($10 x 12 months income]) + ( $16.67 x 6 month income]) + ($25 x 3 month income]) + ($45 x 1 month income])
TOTAL Direct Link Monthly = $106.67
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Click Programs:-
Chitika inLinx: $32.31
This has potential to go higher as you attract more visitors. You can also try Kontera but reports suggest chitika might be more valuable for a tech orientated website.
Adbrite: $15.54
The only unit we use is in the footer of www.sweethacks.com and www.sweethacks.com/surf (our proxy website).
Google Adsense: $155
I used to make roughly $5-8 dollars a day with Google Adsense until I got the dreaded email which basically said I am no longer wanted (banned). There was good potential in adsense as it used to increase everyday. The last few days I was hitting $10 a day with sweethacks only.
Total from PPC Programs: $201.31
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Sponsored Reviews:-
Last 3 month I have been really busy to write up reviews as I have been struggling to complete assignments for my university as well as exams, however I have made really good money from sponsoredreviews.com in the past year or so, the latest being in january where I raked in $136.50 from 2 reviews. Remember, Sponsored reviews, have a 65-35 % ratio policy.
In january, SweetHacks.com was only a PR3, being a PR5, I have 4 pending reviews to write up for $50-100 each. which would make it a minimum of $250 additional income this month. Who is to say it stops there? You could write as much sponsored reviews as you wish.
From 10/9/2007 - 11/22/2007, this blog made $247.50, thats all with a PR of 0. You make more than $250 a month now writing just 4 reviews.
Total sponsoredreviews.com: Average of $200 a month (Check Picture for stats).
Smorty:-
Smorty.com allows you to write sponsored reviews at set prices, last month I have earned around $40.
TOTAL SPONSORED REVIEWS: $240 a month+
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Donations:
$30 from friends.
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Total Earned Monthly = $670+
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Potential Extra Earnings:-
PayPerPost.com - With the website being a PR5, you can expect to make roughly $200-300 extra a month due to the extensive amount of opportunities available. With the PR so high, the opportunities are generally priced higher with many lower paying posts available also. You could literally live on writing reviews.
Potential: $200
Adspace:
You could make a lot more if you look at our advertise page located at www.sweethacks.com/advertise by simply just selling direct ads and nothing else.
6 x buttons @ $75 each = $450
10 x text links @ 45 each = $450
5 x 300x250 rectangle ads @ 80 each = $400
5 RSS Ads @ $30 each = $150
+ X amount of inline post ads @ $10 each (we have over 310 pages of written content) so maximum of $3110 a month.
Total = $3110 + $150 + $400 + $450 + $450 = $4560

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Questions to the Seller

  1. Stupid Sitepoint wont let me upload more pictures, please ask me for any more pictures required as i will email them to you.

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  2. Reason for selling?

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  3. @ minimumrage,

    sorry forgot about that, its simply because I am absolutely too busy with university seeing as I have to do placement (work experience), assignments as well as exams.

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  4. i am unable to open the site. it just keeps loading and loading. is something up? thanks

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  5. It should work fine, I have just restarted the server, please try again and report back.

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  6. Can you provide GA stats please?

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  7. cool site

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  8. What happened last time you tried to sell the site a few months ago?
    Also, is sweethack.com included?

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  9. @ minimumrage

    Yes, sweethack.com is also included. Last time I had a complete timewaster who didn't want to pay anything until I transferred over everything. Also, he wouldn't respond to my messages unless I agreed to his terms.

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  10. @ Cianuro

    GA Stats? Can you please explain further??

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  11. If he was paying via escrow then this is usual process before payment is released.

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  12. @ Robmacleod

    No he didnt want to pay via escrow, because if it was then payment would have been guaranteed which in this case wasnt. I would have not listed escrow if I was sure of the payment process.

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  13. Google Analytics stats.

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  14. so is the site banned from adsense, or just YOUR account? This is very important because many times adsense will close your whole account, but ban a site from being eligible for adsense in the future by other adsense accounts.

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  15. My whole account got banned from Google Adsense nothing to do with the website. I believe one of my proxy websites where banned for invalid clicks not sweethacks. I have tested other peoples google adsense accounts on my website and it works fine. A new owner is eligible to sign up with adsense with sweethacks.com

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  16. I have not been using GA for a very long time because I have heard that its bad for SEO?? (http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-analytics-fails-for-seo-purposes/5722/) etc.

    Perhaps you would want your GA code on the website?

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  17. As you all can see adsense ads work perfect on sweethacks.com

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  18. Have you submitted to DMOZ? I don't see it listed.

    What has Google Adsense been earning since you added it? Daily?

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  19. @ USFK

    I have submitted to DMOZ and it should be ready within 2 weeks or so. As for adsense It has not been 24 hours yet and its not on every single post but earnings stand at currently: $3.68 which is as I have stated before of an average of $5 but I have a feeling it will be more as days go on.

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  20. Ok, 24 hours has passed with adsense and total earnings: $5.58

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