I lowered the minimum bid to $1k, and got a bid of $1k at DP. :) I'll just update you guys whenever I get a bid over at Digital Point.
Established Internet Marketing Blog for Sale
PR4, 10 15k uniques/mo, 400 revenue/mo
http://www.tw3o.com/
Auction
Congratulations to the winner!
- Winning Bid:
- $4,200 Buy It Now bid
- Bid History:
- 3 Bids (0 Pending)
- Listed:
- Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:26:30 GMT
Accepted Payment Methods: PayPal, Escrow.com
Description
Hey y'all... I'm selling my internet marketing blog called "The WWW Observer" because I need to find time to concentrate on my studies once I'm back to school.
Stats
- Daily RSS readers: 220+
- PageRank: 4
- Alexa: 130k
- 247 posts (as of this writing) - ALL the posts are unique, and there were only around 10 guest posts. Everything else was written by me.
- 500+ indexed pages in Google
- 8,000 backlinks in Yahoo!
- 15,000 to 20,000 uniques per month
- Technorati Authority: 250
- Technorati Rank: 26k
- Domain is registered at NameCheap and will expire on May 2010.
Other Info
The blog has a custom blog theme, and a custom logo. I've got an avatar that you can use in forums to further promote the blog as well. Of course, the PSD files of the theme and logo will be sent to the winner of this auction.
The blog is listed in several premium directories, in case you're wondering about that. ;)
This blog ranks in the 2nd page (formerly 1st page) of the term "SEO Blog", without the quotes.
As I mentioned above, almost all the posts were written by me, and only a very small percentage were written by guest posters. All the posts are unique and 100% original.
I'm including the FeedBurner and MyBlogLog accounts with this sale.
Any more questions? Don't hesitate to ask!
Revenue Details
The blog earns mainly from private ad sales. Currently, I offer six 125x125 ad spaces for $25 a month, but of course you can increase the number of spaces to eight or even ten for more revenue. Sponsored reviews go for $50 and the 468x60 ad spot goes for $60.
The blog also earns a bit from AdToll (CPC ads and sponsored ad bookings)
Of course, I have earned from affiliate sales as well -- the affiliate program of Revolution theme and some web hosting deals. Products/services that are for bloggers/webmasters usually do well.
You can use AdSense; the blog isn't banned from using AdSense but I haven't really tried using it.
Traffic Details
Around 70% of the traffic comes from other sites (other blogs which link to me, etc.)
15% comes from search engines, people who search for what I reviewed (like web hosts), and some topics which I have written about.
15% are direct hits
Most people who visit my blog are bloggers, webmasters, and internet marketers.
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Questions 11 public, 1 deleted
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- Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:56:11 GMT
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- Posted by:
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- Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:32:48 GMT
Could you show some proof of ownership & revenue?
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- Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:35:11 GMT
how would the new owner manage it.....i mean the new contents beacuse of which this blog gets traffic?
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- Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:20:40 GMT
farhan713: I'm not sure what you mean, but it's WordPress so all you have to do is write articles. I'd be willing to write 3 to 5 more posts if you'd like.
MatthewDP: Proof of ownership -> http://www.tw3o.com/i-own-this.html
I attached the screenshots to prove revenue (affiliate and ad sales). :) -
- Posted by:
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- Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:14:48 GMT
Hi guys, I received a bid of $1,200 at Digital Point. :)
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- Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:21:23 GMT
Do you have any commitments for advertising? You state $400 a month, is that likely to occur in the future?
You also stated that 70% of your traffic comes from links on other sites. Can you expand on that? Are these friends? Links that will remain after sale?
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- Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:55:03 GMT
USFK: Yes, I have just uploaded a screen shot of the payments I received. This month, I sold five 125x125 ads already ($125), one 468x60 ad ($60), five text ads ($60), and one review ($50). Total of $295 for April already. If I don't limit myself to 2 reviews/month, I could actually earn more.
$400 a month, yes it's likely to occur in the future. If you sell all ad spaces (six 125x125's for $150, one 468x60 for $60, five text ads for $60) you'd earn $280/mo just for the ad spaces. Reviews go for $50 each right now and I limit myself to 2 reviews per month. You can review more sites per month and earn $400+. Affiliate stuff which are related to bloggers/webmasters tend to do well; I've sold premium themes as an affiliate already.
As for the traffic from referring sites, not all are friends. A lot of them are blogs which linked to my posts (they feature my posts in their weekly "best posts", something like that) and which "blogrolled" my blog. Some are web forums such as Digital Point, and some are from social news sites like Sphinn. I can guarantee that most of the links will remain after the sale.
To everyone:
This is about the earnings report... Not much for October and November 2007 as I stopped selling 125x125 and 468x60 ads that time - I just served some of my other sites' and some affiliate banners (which didn't work that well, I figured that blogger-related affiliate stuff such as XHTML/CSS coding services and premium theme affiliate links are better).I don't have earnings report for January 2008 'cause I didn't sell any ads that time - I was out of town and just posted a few posts (11 posts to be exact), but as Feb and March came, earnings gradually went up again.
Any more questions, don't hesitate to ask. :)
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- Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:17:14 GMT
$1,300 private bid received via PM at DP.
Here's the DP thread:
forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=796884 -
- Posted by:
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- Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:55:12 GMT
$1.5k bid over at DP. :)
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- Posted by:
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- Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:35:35 GMT
BIN has been made (USFKclassifieds), but it's still tentative. :)
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