Award-Winning PR5 Gaming Site - GameAlmighty.com

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Award-Winning PR5 Gaming Site - GameAlmighty.com - ~100k Uniques

Professional site ready for new webmaster - just add content and go!

URL: http://www.GameAlmighty.com/
Established: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:00:00 GMT
Uniques/Month: 100,000
Page views/month: 220,000
Monthly Revenue: N/A
Google Pagerank: 5
Listed: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:28:04 GMT

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OVERVIEW
GameAlmighty.com provides video game enthusiasts with a wide range of offerings, including video game previews and reviews, the latest industry news and commentary, informative video features, as well as user-generated editorial and creative content – all in a wildly entertaining format.

WHY WE ARE SELLING
Frankly, we expected to be able to eventually compete with IGN and GameSpot, but we ran out of money. The site has tons of potential still, but we have already invested a lot of time and money and are moving on to something else. But our loss is your gain - you get to take the business from where it is now after we have spent all of the time, energy, and money to get it here and you get it all at a fraction of what we spent. All you need to do now is add content!

REVENUE
We never focused on revenue AT ALL. We were building the platform, building the brand, and working on perfecting content. We ran some AdSense, but it never added up to more than a few hundred $ a month. We were approached by some companies for direct ad deals, but were a little too small to close the deals.

TRAFFIC
We have been able to generate good traffic. The formula has been to create good content and then seed it through social tools (digg, etc), forums, and other normal marketing methods. At our peak we did ~100k uniques in a month (as counted by Google - our other analytics package counted much higher). Lately we have not been able to focus on the site as we are winding down our operations. Traffic has still held up though.

TECHNOLOGY
GameAlmighty.com is built on the super-solid professional CMS & framework Typo3 (see www.typo3.com). It is easy to customize and very powerful. The purchase of this site includes 20+ hours of email/phone training for Typo3 CMS and other site questions. We are currently paying WAY too much for hosting at RackSpace.com. This auction includes 2 weeks of hosting, but we highly recommend you move to a cheaper host.

AWARDS
We won 3 "Best in Class" design awards from the IMA for "Entertainment", "Ratings & Reviews", and "Web Design & Development". See http://www.interactivemediaawards.com/winners/certificate.asp?param=41255&cat=1 and http://www.interactivemediaawards.com/winners/winners.asp .

BUZZ
Game reviews by GameAlmighty.com are listed in GameRankings.com! Also, GameAlmighty has received significant buzz from YouTube videos, bloggers, etc. Just google it and you'll see TONS of links and hilarious videos.

PRESS
We have received a lot of press for our creative site and articles. See the examples below:
The Orange County Register: http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/money/article_1591732.php
Tied The Leader: http://blog.tiedtheleader.com/article/757/game-almighty
Wired Magazine – Chris Kohler Blog: http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/04/jack_thompson_b.html
Joystiq: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/04/school-of-rock-free-guitar-hero-strategy-guide/
Kotaku: http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/guitar-hero-ii/frankenreview-guitar-hero-ii-xbox-360-249801.php
GamingTalkHQ: http://www.gamingtalkhq.com/gamingtalkhq-home/guitar-hero-2-video-strategy-guide.html
Perpetual Entertainment: http://community.godsandheroes.com/press/gamersday07/preview_preview_gamealmighty
VCblogger: http://www.vgblogger.com/?p=723
Game Daily: http://www.gamedaily.com/blog/2007/04/20/jack-thompson-on-the-rampage-again/
N4G: http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-33976.aspx
GameSpice: http://www.gamespice.com/2007/04/05/reviews-roundup-guitar-hero-ii-xbox-360/
5WG: http://www.5w-g.com/?p=159

Feel free to PM any questions. Thank you.

(NOTE: we are also selling our News/Blog site InfoAddict.com here: http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/39660 )

Revenue Details:

We have NOT focused much on revenue AT ALL. Our focus was on building content and infrastructure to be able to get traffic and scale the business.

Traffic Details:

~49% of traffic from other sites

~38% from search engines

~14% from direct navigation

Traffic numbers presented above are PEAK numbers. See images for Google Analytics snapshots and current numbers.

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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:35:32 GMT

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Does the site perform auto updates ? Do you have game suppliers that you are dealing with for the games ?

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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:41:32 GMT

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Great site. Plese pm me your reserve price.

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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:43:49 GMT

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Awesome site. I have to ask, you say the site is hosted by Rackspace? They should do some server tweaking cause this thing is majorly slow.

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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:57:34 GMT

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When you mean a % of traffic came from other sites, do you mean like link exchanges or from the social networking sites?

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Are the writers staying on? Is there any staff that would stay on?

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:39:33 GMT

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Very nice site. Please PM reserve or BIN please.

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:36:17 GMT

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"Frankly, we expected to be able to eventually compete with IGN and GameSpot, but we ran out of money."

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:13:04 GMT

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Any autoupdating? Any writers you are currently paying? Will they stay?

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:53:24 GMT

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A few answers to questions:

We do have relationships with publishers to get games. However, you need to manually update game listings, etc.

Yes, with Rackspace. And yes, it isn't ideal. :) Should be changed very soon by buyer because of high costs and mediocre performance.

I have posted referrer info for the last 30 days. The site does well with SEO.

Reserve is a very low $10,000! :)

No staff is staying on, though one former employee may be interested.

Thank you!

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:33:35 GMT

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I'm assuming those numbers you posted (100k Uniques/220k Pag views) were some time ago? Youe Google Analytics is way off those numbers.

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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:02:02 GMT

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I really like the design. Good luck with the sale from one game site webmaster to another ;)

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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:51:05 GMT

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Getting this error on your site.

Database Error

The current username, password or host was not accepted when the connection to the database was attempted to be established!

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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:59:13 GMT

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error with hosting. will resolve ASAP.

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create input and mybase links are broken

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Let me start of by saying Very nice site, I have a few questions before I bid. I don't see listed anywhere your ongoing costs. What did you pay your writers per hour $ and how many hours did they work to maintain the site. What were your server costs $? Could you include any other costs I may have forgotten to list here. I'm not a web designer, I'm more of a business man with an extreme interest for video games, how difficult would it be for someone with limited html experience to maintain this site and update the articles? Are the trademarks and patents included in the sale, do you have any? Were they prepared by a professional attorney who completed a comprehensive search against other trademarks/copyrights? It says site access is not verified, can you have this verified, I think it would make everyone a little more comfortable. Thanks in advance.

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I almost forgot, as far as marketing is concerned how many hours did you spend, sources you used, costs $. You can PM me the answer to this one if you would like. I have a sense of the marketing strategies you used from the screen shots provided, but I would like to clarify with you also. I'm trying to get a sense of the profitability.

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the ultimate demise of your site is that it's rarely available...and parts of your site are broken.

I've tried several times to access your site in the past few days...it only came up once. It either never loads, returns errors, or is very slow.

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I completely agree with jpollar. Your site has perhaps the single worst server in the world.

Also, your stats indicate that each visitor (statistically) visit 2.2 pages. In other words, the majority leave at the first page view, and a select handful actually go further into your website.

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agreed - server needs to be changed ASAP :)

2.2 pageviews per visitor? not that unusual for sites that get traffic from social media like stumbleupon and digg.

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Please PM the reserve price. Very interested

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He said it was $10,000 in an above reply.

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What are the specs of the server that is performing so poorly?

Rackspace is supposed to be high end - redundant.

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