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Premium Entertainment Website for Sale

50,000 Inbound links, Alexa 24k

URL: http://www.wackyarchives.com/
Established: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:00:00 GMT
Uniques/Month: 600,000
Page views/month: 860,000
Monthly Revenue (USD): 600
Google Pagerank: 4
Listed: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:38:30 GMT

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The website has been launched at the beginning of the year and grew considerably. It has received links from important websites such as Gizmodo, BoingBoing, NewsWeek and CNN, high SERP and several inside pages with PR1-6. Little effort is needed to promote the articles, since the readers do it on their own.

The website has a custom design based on a 200$ Wordpress theme, with added features for reducing bounce rate and increasing number of page views, now at 2 per visit.

The blog has provided a steady income from PPC and CPM networks, as well as advertising contracts and featured posts, at around 300-600$/month in april. In May, we signed a contract with a top advertising network that handles all the US impressions. We are currently in beta tests with a Nokia company that will export the content to mobile phoes.

- Traffic: Minimum 500k unique visitors per month, 70% US traffic
- eCPM and conversion rate available upon request
- Alexa: 24k, to go below 20k
- Technorati: 12k ranking, in the Top 5000 websites
- RSS Readership: Feedburner, 600 subscribers on average
- 291 Indexed Pages, InLinks 50k (According to Yahoo), 385 Indexed Pages (according to Google)

We can provide sources and support for a month, after the website is sold.

Live traffic stats available upon request.

Revenue Details:

April earning details:

AdSense (only top link unit) - $115
Sponsored articles (or permanent links) - $250
CPX Interactive - 230$

May earning details:

260$ for the last 7 days with the new CPM network
391$ Adsense

Traffic Details:

May stats

Referring Sites 539,512 (89.70%)
Direct Traffic 51,118 (8.50%)
Search Engines 10,610 (1.76%)
Other 221 (0.04%)

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Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:47:23 GMT

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Your site is interesting but frankly the price is way out of market..if you could lower it you'd probably get more responses

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Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:40:02 GMT

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I'm curious why your minimum bid is over 3 years worth of the site's income. I'm not saying your site is not worth that, but at that price point your going to have to provide a few reasons why anyone would be interested in paying 40 months worth of income for this.

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Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:55:55 GMT

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Yes, price very rich.

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Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:16:32 GMT

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You've been in existence for less than five months and almost 90% of your traffic is referrals. Am I safe in assuming that a good chunk of those are paid referrals or ads? If so, how much has been invested in paid traffic or advertising?

Also, I'd be interested in seeing your traffic stats.

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Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:52:30 GMT

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A few of the reasons would be that the website is constantly growing, experiencing a 120% growth in the last 3 months. The premium advertising is served by Break, while the non-US impression can be filled out with any other network. Exporting the mobile content can mean an increased number of unique visitors and the possibility to serve mobile ads. We have also started monetizing the hot-babes subdomain, with CPM ranging from $1 to $10.

None of the traffic is paid. We never needed to pay for traffic or advertising for that matter, all of it is organic.
The Sassy Eskimo - PM'd you the traffic stats.

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Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:45:12 GMT

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How can you ask $24k and post no proof of income or stats on the listing?

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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:57:29 GMT

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I agree. Pricing is fairly high.

How much time is spent is spent each week researching new articles, gathering images and copyrights, etc?

Your traffic numbers in such are short period of time are impressive. Great job.

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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:25:17 GMT

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24k for only 600 a month revenue. I dunno man...

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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:46:00 GMT

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I wanted to edit the revenue, since it's not totally accurate, but I get an error everytime I try to save the new details. Here are the traffic and revenue stats for last month: http://www.wackyarchives.com/stats/.

mimmson - It usually takes us 1-2h a day.

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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:07:00 GMT

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"mimmson - It usually takes us 1-2h a day."
Let's take the average and say 1.5 hours. That means you work 45 hours a month to make $600. If you value your time at $20/hour you're making a loss of $300/month.

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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:26:37 GMT

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Well, this is done 5 days a week and it's not a full time job. We haven't focused on finding advertisers so with some other deals, your time would probably be worth more.

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Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:49:30 GMT

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Hi Marius,

Where does the content originate and how much time is spent managing the site?

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Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:47:26 GMT

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Hi Valerie,

Content originates from several sources we will provide. We also feature content from large websites, when we feel it will interested our readers. We spend around 1-2h daily managing it, free weekends :).

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:37:21 GMT

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Alexa increased to 22k. Earnings until 18th of June: 340$ CPM + 100$ Hot-Babes Ads + 115$ Adsense.

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Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:32:30 GMT

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I'm interested - send me all relevant screenshot and ad agreements, in addition please ecpm and cpm rates. Do you have any paid writers?

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Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:34:12 GMT

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Do you accept paypal verified members?

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Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:49:47 GMT

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Hey, replied you via PM.

Thank you for the interest.

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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:17:08 GMT

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how much money you give for hosting

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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:44:44 GMT

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The hosting is around $10-15 per month and holds up pretty well, considering the traffic.

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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:44:32 GMT

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Hi, I have some questions:

- What are your monthly expenses, gross and net profit?
- What is your monthly bandwidth usage?
- What should be the server specs to run the site proper
- Will you do the install and setup on my dedicated server including DNS setup?
- How much HD space are you using right now and what's the growth rate?
- Do you use load balancing?
- Where do you get the content from?
- What did you do for marketing?
- What's your price for buy it now?
- How many ads do you have in rotation and can you control what ads will be shown and what not?
- Can you put up own ads not from an ad network? Basically selling the ad space directly.
- You are using wordpress or just the design? Is this based on a CMS and if so is there any custom coding involved in it?
- Do you have a trusted developer or did you develop your self?
- What backed/admin features does the site have. If you are using a known CMS then pleas provide the link?
- Do you have a business or any kind of project plan?
- Any contacts you have? You mentioned Nokia!?

Thank you for answering my questions.

Best regards

More questions will probably come!

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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:46:22 GMT

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Sorry typo *- Any contRacts you have? You mentioned Nokia!?

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Ok, addressed all your questions in a PM.

Thank you.

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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:35 GMT

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What exactly is the 'new CPM network' you earned a lot from in the past 7 days?

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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:51:59 GMT

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Messaged you.

Regards.

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