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Entrepreneur Blog For Sale - 1,000 RSS Subscribers, 20,000 Backlinks

Looking For Someone To Take It To The Next Level

  • URL: http://theuniversitykid.com/
  • Established: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:00:00 GMT
  • Page views/month: 11,000
  • Monthly Revenue (USD): 900
  • Google Pagerank: 4
  • Uniques/Month: 5,000
  • Listed: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:12:12 GMT

Description:

Today I'm listing my online 'baby' - a blog that I have developed for the last year and a half and made thousands of friends and even more money off. I'm sad that I have to do this, but life calls.

Up for auction today is my entrepreneur blog, The University Kid.

It can be accessed at http://www.theuniversitykid.com

Why I'm Selling

A few things have come up - I'm at university, so will have exams for the next month (and thus will be unable to do much online); I will then be off for near the whole of January on vacation, with the next term staring soon after. Online, two months is a long time and I do not want to pad them out with numerous guest posts and would rather a like minded person took it over and took it to the next level.

The Blog

At the moment, here are some statistics:

1,150 RSS subscribers (that read the blog whenever it is updated, through a feed reader or email).

20,000+ backlinks. You can check this through:

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theuniversitykid.com&y=Explore+URL&fr=sfp

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Ftheuniversitykid.com&y=Explore+URL&fr=sfp

(with and without www)

5,000 visits and over 11,000 pageviews directly to the blog last month.

Around $500 - $1,000 in revenue monthly.

372 unique posts written by either me or guest posters.

Over 7,100 comments on posts.

Alexa ranking of 67,000

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/theuniversitykid.com

This blog is more than just a blog... it's a brand name, a place to network, a place to share ideas and a place to make money.

I started it in October 2007, which was around the time that I first started looking at how to make money online - it was basically a journal, a competition between friends to see who could do best. The competition ended, but the blog continued to thrive.

What The Site Needs

At the moment, the blog is at a comfortable level... 1,100 subscribers, a post goes out every 3-4 days and it gets a comfortable 15 - 30 comments on each post. For the last few months, I've done no promotional work on the blog whatsoever - all I have done is write posts. This is mainly because I've been busy with university.

The domain is brandable, so that you can take it in any direction you wish - internet marketing, entrepreneurship or even make money online. What I was looking at was a refocus into a make money online blog, as the advice TUK provides is seen as some of the best on the Internet. For example, it's the eighth blog on 45n5's top blogs list. :)

http://www.digitalproductreporter.com/make_money_online/

It is setup on a customized version of the Milk It theme (no longer available) however I was going to do a 2.0 launch and have had a new custom theme developed which you can use if you wish. It has a high quality, custom header, will come with the rights to everything I've personally given away on the blog - the Wordpress themes, a few free products, all blog posts of course.

At the moment there are 372 posts each around 500 - 1,000 words each - if you take an average of $10 per post (it would normally cost a lot more than that for high quality blogging) that's $3,720 right there and that's not even including traffic, backlinks et cetera. These is a high quality blog which has helped numerous people over the time it has been up - be it those starting out or those looking to do more than they were already doing.

At the current moment, the blog has a Google Pagerank of 4 and a Technorati rating of just over 12,000.

This is an amazing platform to launch projects off - I consider those that read the blog personal friends and they're some of the most supportive around. I've launched other blogs, a blogging forum with 10,000+ posts (see below) and various other projects off it.

IF The Blog Is Bought At BIN Price

If the blog is bought at BIN price, I will add the blogging forum currently at www.blogpremiere.com/forum to the sale.

I started Blog Premiere with an idea in mind for it to be the first ever print blogging magazine - that didn't happen, but the forum grew, and pretty rapidly at that.

I haven't promoted it in a while, but at the moment it has 10,000+ unique posts, and is setup on a custom vBulletin design. It will come with the vBulletin owned license if it can be transferred and also 50+ tshirts I paid to have created to market the forum if you want them. The blogging forum niche is grossly undersaturated - it would be an easy project to get back off the ground and monetize again.

I would be willing to help the buyer after the sale via instant messenger with regards to how s/he can promote it, as well as post once a month on the blog should you want it.

You can contact me via Sitepoint private message or through the below channels:

MSN Messenger: JPereira.Owns@gmail.com

Yahoo Messenger: jasonpereira34

Email: admin@theuniversitykid.com

If you have any questions, feel free to ask - screenshots of traffic are included on the right, and I'm verifying the blog right now. Payment would be through Escrow.com with the buyer paying the fees.

Revenue Details:

The blog earned its revenue last month in a few ways. I personally do not aim to monetize it, as I have other projects which earn more - it has pulled in near $1,000 this month though. If promoted, you could probably double or even treble the figure.

Earnings in the last month were via:

Referral to Hostgator (paid through Paypal) - $100

Two paid reviews (StoreStacker and T3Leads) - $200

Six 125 x 125 ad slots (currently up - all ads are paid except the Dat Money one) - $180

One 468 x 60 ad slot (currently up - the MarketLeverage ad) - $60

25 sales of eBook - $373.75

Total - $913.75

A few of the ad slots are on a subscription basis, which means I have to do no work on them. The money is paid through Paypal, and if you promoted the blog a little bit you could probably sell more / increase the prices (they're one of the relative lowest out there).

As I mentioned earlier, I don't aim to monetize the blog - and thus I do not really promote affiliate products on there, or in the IM niche because I prefer my own. At the beginning of the month, I released a product (which I no longer own) about website flipping and it accumulated around 25 sales at $14.95 directly as a result of being promoted on the blog. There were probably more but I can directly count those sales from the blog, the others I'm not sure of.

If you were to promote affiliate products, you could probably much more, as long as they were high quality of course.

 

 

 

 

Traffic Details:

As of the last month the blog had 5,500 visits and 11,000 pageviews. This is without me promoting it.

When I was promoting it, it was getting around 10,000 - 20,000 visits monthly and a few posts have done well on various social networks. The blog is constantly linked to by others due to the high quality of posts.

Screenshots of traffic (last month and all time) are shown on the right. In it's existence, the blog has had more than 111,000 visits and more than 206,000 pageviews.

 

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  1. Posted date:
    Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:45:52 GMT
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    lol cant belive is for sale Jason

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    Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:51:23 GMT
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    I love this blog. Hope the owner will continue to make it one of best blog. I think you should not sell..

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    Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:06:44 GMT
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    I hope someone pays you the BIN for this Jason-- I know a lot of work and real first class knowledge is contained on this site.
    Good luck in the future, and thanks for the ideas/help.

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    Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:32:10 GMT
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    I'm rooting for you Jason. BIN FTW!

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    Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:35:37 GMT
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    Great Blog Jason!

    Sad to see it go, I know you'll get the BIN. ;)

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    Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:38:34 GMT
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    High quality blog for sure. But I was expecting it to have much higher traffic than it has. I think this would be really good for anyone wishing to get into the online money making/entrepreneurship niche because the blog is already an excellent resource for someone to build on. Personally I am not really into this niche, but I definately can see the potential. Good luck!

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    Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:35:00 GMT
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    I don't want to see you go, Jason. But I guess things just come up sometimes.

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    Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:56:22 GMT
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    Very interested in buying, 2 things:

    25 sales of eBook - $373.75 - What page was these sold on? Can we have proof of this.

    Referral to Hostgator (paid through Paypal) - $100 - Does this happen most months? What page did you sell these two on? Can we have HostGator backend screen shot please.

    Will make a BIN depending if I get the right answers.

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    Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:02:07 GMT
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    Damn! Jason, I never thought you gonna sell that one.

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    Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:09:55 GMT
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    I think you made the right choice in letting it go ;) - Good luck with the sale!

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    @ ShoutGroup, sent you a PM but answers are below too:

    The eBook was sold through the below post:

    http://theuniversitykid.com/website-flipping-report-released/

    From the 2nd to 13th, it was ONLY promoted through the blog so all sales between those two dates are as a result of being promoted there. It was promoted at other places from the 14th onwards, so there were probably more sales as a result of being promoted through the blog (in total the report has made 104 sales) but I cannot prove those were from the blog so I'm sticking with the revenue I can prove, ie the 25 sales.

    Screenshot:

    http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/2093/ejunkieqc4.jpg

    If you want to see Paypal screenshots too, let me know. There were 28 sales, three fraudulent buyers so a total of 25 x $14.95 = $373.75. My readers will buy products, but quality ones only - which is why I'd suggest you create one yourself or pick a high quality affiliate product which you know is very good if you want to promote it.

    As for Hostgator, I only count sales that have actually been paid into my Paypal account (as to show in the HG backend, all you need is a $0.01 buyer which IMO shouldn't count). The $100 from HG has happened once or twice more in the last couple months, there was also a $300 payment received on the 28th of August.

    http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/8398/hostgatoryh2.jpg (last month paid)

    Sales were through the "How I Make Money" page which has had a decent amount of traffic - if this was updated with various programs you'd make money. Again, my objective is not really to make money off the blog, which is why I haven't pushed anything hard over the last few months. :)

    Let me know if you have any more questions, cheers.

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    Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:58:27 GMT
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    One of my favorite blogs. Good luck with the sale Jason! Sad to see you go.

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    I wish I could afford the blog *g* Then the name TUK would actually make sense :)

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    Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:12:02 GMT
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    To bidders - the reserve is $7,500 and I'd prefer not taking any kind of installment plan unless it was over less than three months. Bidding $50 more than the last bid is just a waste of your time. :)

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    Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:15:57 GMT
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    Interesting, Jason. I've been away from the blogosphere for a while now, and I'd want to take a shot on maintaining another IM blog. So yeah, I placed a bid. ;)

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