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9k Members / PR4 / ~$500 PM / 65k UV / 330K PV / 60k Alexa / 30k indexed pages / Active and Popular Gaming Forum For Sale

100 - 200 Members Per Day / DMOZ Listed / Massive Mailing List / Five Popular Domains / High SERPs for Thousands of Keywords

• URL: http://cod4boards.com/
• Established: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:00:00 GMT
• Uniques/Month: 100,000
• Page views/month: 350,000
• Monthly Revenue (USD): 350
• Google Pagerank: 4
• Listed: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:22:51 GMT

Description:

ABOUT COD4BOARDS.COM

Call of Duty 4 is one of the hottest games on the market at the moment. It is the #1 selling game in 2007, and still remains one of the best sellers in 2008, even beating Halo 3. It is the #1 played game on Xbox LIVE, and probably PSN, and remains a favorite for PC users.

We offer COD4Boards.com as a way for users to not only find loads of useful, and content rich information, but as well as a friendly environment for players of all ages to post, share thoughts, and speak out without having the hate of other forum members bashing them down every other post. Our forum has also other areas of interest from computing, graphics and media, as well as a remarkably large recruitment area for members to find teams, teams to find members, and teams to scrimmage teams. We are also the source for all Call of Duty 4 news and downloads. Users have downloaded over 4500 files from our website.

We also have a dedicated Clan Area, users can customize profile viewing. (Almost like having your very own MySpace right on your Call of Duty 4 profile). Clans can make their owner team pages, and recruit members off our website as if they have their .COM! We have over 400 clans registered on our website so far.

COD4BOARDS.COM STATISTICS

COD4Boards.com generates 60 – 100 sign-ups per day, with roughly 330,000 page views per month (without new updates, patches, and information about the game). We receive 81K visits per month, from over 62K unique visitors. We expect that number to rise in June due to the Map Pack release on the PC. Traffic will probably also rise due to the fact that school gets out for the summer.

Our members have made a total of 15,000 threads, and 42,000 posts!

Ranked #1 in Google for:

COD4Boards (Authority)
Call of Duty 4 Forums
Call of Duty 4 Boards
COD4 Boards
cod4 ps3
Call of Duty 4 (2nd Page)
+ Thousands of other #1/First page listings

COD4BOARDS.COM MARKETING

COD4Boards.com has had over 29 stories on n4g.com (popular gaming social bookmarking sites), as well as other high-end/high-traffic websites (such as digg.com, xbox360fanboy.com, psu.com) with our content being copy/pasted across the internet. 78% of our traffic is based of search engines, 10% from referring websites, and 10% is direct. Most users are from English speaking countries (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Germany).

We also run a one of a kind beneficial point of posting/becoming a member on our forums. It's called "Win Prizes, Just for Posting!" where every time one of our members makes it to our giveaway mark we ship them a PC, PS3, or Xbox type gift (mouse, mouse pad, keyboard, headset, etc..) this has greatly influenced the activity of our members. Currently a user must make 550 posts, and we ship them a prize that only costs around $10-$15. So far we have only shipped around 1 or 2 prizes per month. It gives users a reason to stick around and increases visitor loyalty.

We do not use any other types of advertising, our members benefit from our content and spread the information via word of mouth. We do not pay for advertising elsewhere.

Search Engine Optimization

We only used "white hat" techniques such as social bookmarking, articles, and content optimization. We also purchased vBSEO to take care of the little SEO things in vBulletin such as URLs and duplicate content. As a result the majority of our traffic is from search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and LIVE.com.

Expenses

$35 - JaguarPC VPS -- This VPS should be enough, and is what the website currently runs on. The website currently uses around 300GB per month, this can jump slightly when patches/maps are released. But we also have a very good deal on a dedicated server if you wish to have more capacity and bandwidth. This can be transferable if the buyer wishes to have growing room ($150 per month -- Dual Core/Proc P4, 2GB RAM, 2 x 160GB HDD, cPanel/WHM, 2500GB Premium Mzima Bandwidth)Prizes: $15-$30 a monthStaffWe currently have 5 volunteer moderators, who moderate the forums, coordinate contests/event, and occasionally create content in the form of guides, etc. They will stay after the sale of the site. I will also stay for 30 days for NO EXTRA CHARGE to help with the transition. (For longer if buyer would like, and if compensated.)

Staff

We currently have 5 volunteer moderators, who moderate the forums, coordinate contests/event, and occasionally create content in the form of guides, etc. They will stay after the sale of the site. I will also stay for 30 days for NO EXTRA CHARGE to help with the transition. (For longer if buyer would like, and if compensated.)

What you get
 
vBulletin ($150 Software + Support until March 2009)
vBSEO ($150 Software)
Banners/Graphics/Skins ($100+ in custom design)
Forum Database (Members, posts, threads, clan section, modifications, and more!)
Any and All modifications installed/made/added

Domains: cod4boards.com, cod5boards.com, cod6boards.com, callofduty5forums.com, callofduty6forums.com (if BIN is met) -- As you can see we have bought several domains to ensure the popularity of this website once the next in the series are released

Revenue Details:

AdSense: (April 1st – May 1st)
~$150 - $200 in earnings with ~500k impressions, 900 clicks.

We have not optimized our AdSense, we just stuck a few banners in the navigation and footer. They have not been optimized for color or position. If optimized I could see the site earning around $300-$500 just from AdSense.

Private Advertisers (April 1st – May 1st)
~$200 dollars in private advertisers. (With only a fraction of our inventory sold!)

Info:

$125 – 138K Impressions (Navigation, footer)
$20 – 30K Impressions (Navigation)
$25 – Text Link

Donations / VIP Memberships (April 1st – May 1st)
~$60 – $80 dollars per month in donations

Traffic Details:

Front Page Google Page Rank: 4; Hundreds of Inner
PR1/2/3s
About 30,000 Keywords Deliver Traffic to our website
24,200 Pages Indexed in Google

Alexa Rank: 59,000
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/cod4boards.com

Listed in DMOZ for Call of Duty 4
http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Shooter/C/Call_of_Duty_Series/Call_of_Duty_4_-_Modern_Warfare/

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