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BusinessForum.net / 7,200 members / PR 3 / 12,000+ unique/month

well maintained, business oriented forum, finance forum, backlinks, huge potential!!!

  • URL: http://www.businessforum.net/
  • Established: Thu, 04 May 2006 14:00:00 GMT
  • Uniques/Month: 12,000
  • Page views/month: 250,000
  • Monthly Revenue: NA
  • Google Pagerank: 3
  • Listed: Sat, 24 May 2008 17:25:41 GMT

Description:

I bought this forum in November 2007, for $11,600.  The domain name is premium (itself is worth a lot), and a niche market.  I started improving the website up until April, and now; I don’t have more time to work on the site due to a career change.

The potential is very high with this forum, since it’s a business, finance, money making niche.  

When I first bough it, it was a PR 4, but since I did a complete revamp of the site (new theme, vbSEO setup and optimization), I think Google reduced the PR to 3 since during the shifting phase (many urls changed).  The previous owner was using Zoints for SEO which is free, but I purchased a copy of vbSEO.

I haven’t really tried to generate revenue from the site, even though I received many enquiries about advertising on the forum.

 

Summary (When I purchased the site in November, 2007)

  • Established:  5 May 2006
  • Uniques/Month: 7,000
  • Page views/month: 127,000
  • PageRank: 4
  • Members 4000 +
  • Total Posts 14,000 +
  • Listed in premium Internet Directories
  • BigWeblinks.com
  • Alive Directory Featured Link
  • Blaze bid directory
  • Aviva Directory
  • Elegant Directory Listing
  • Other directory listings and submissions
  • Other promotions and expenses

Summary (As of today)

  • Established:  5 May 2006
  • Domain Registration: GoDaddy.com (Registered until Jan 19th, 2014)
  • Google PR: 3
  • Google Backlinks: 5300+ (When you do a “site:www.businessforum.net”, you get only 36, but with Google Webmaster Tools [check attached screenshot] you will see its 5300+).
  • Yahoo Inlinks: 45,000+
  • Indexed Pages in Google: 7900+ pages (total URLs in the sitemap is 37,000+, and Google is indexing them slowly).
  • Indexed Pages in Yahoo: 40,000+
  • License: vBulletin License included.
  • SEO: Licensed vbSEO script.
  • Alexa Ranking:  131,630
  • Members: 7200 (was 4,000 in Nov 2007 when I first purchased it, put into consideration the amount of work I did to eliminate spam as well)
  • Threads:  5,700+
  • Posts: 23,000+
  • Unique Visitors/Month (April,2008): 12,200
  • Pageviews/Month (April,2008): 400,000+
  • Directory listings: I think they are listed in the above list mentioned, still.
  • Traffic Source: 70% Organic search engine. 

 

If you have any questions, just ask.

Site Statistics

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Payment & Delivery

  • Payment will be via escrow.com only.
  • All licenses will be included (vBulletin & vbSEO).

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  1. Posted date:
    Sat, 24 May 2008 21:59:04 GMT
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    What is your Google Traffic, not AWStats.

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  2. Posted date:
    Sun, 25 May 2008 16:32:06 GMT
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    why havent you tried to get revenue?

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  3. Posted date:
    Sun, 25 May 2008 18:18:14 GMT
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    Awstats is more realistic than GAnalytics.

    I haven't tried to generate revenue because i was focusing on improving the forum since my purchase.

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  4. Posted date:
    Mon, 26 May 2008 11:14:44 GMT
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    The forum is overpriced.

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  5. Posted date:
    Mon, 26 May 2008 12:20:27 GMT
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    >> Awstats is more realistic than GAnalytics.

    errr.. what? GA is far better at gouging actual human traffic figures than awstats. The fact that you chose to show awstats instead of GA shows that real human traffic probably is much lower than what it should be. Anybody with any experience would pick up on this. From the traffic sources screenshot it looks like you got just under 10k visits. Is this for the last month?

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  6. Posted date:
    Mon, 26 May 2008 17:35:07 GMT
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    Edman, it was just easier for me to get the Awstats. thats all.

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  7. Posted date:
    Mon, 26 May 2008 20:35:36 GMT
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    Hey HiSoC8Y, are you answering PM's?

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  8. Posted date:
    Wed, 28 May 2008 11:51:50 GMT
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    nice forum but i think 12k is too much

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    PeterMar (60%)
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