Site has great traffic for a 2yr old site!
Alexa shows 60% -+ of traffic from outside of us..does this affect revenue?
Are you going to post a bin?
13styles.com all organic traffic, needs some TLC
1K uniques per day
http://www.13styles.com/
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- Bid History:
- 50 Bids (0 Pending)
- Offer History:
- None accepted (0 Pending)
- Listed:
- Sun, 11 May 2008 20:32:35 GMT
Accepted Payment Methods: Credit Card, PayPal, Electronic Transfer, Escrow.com
Description
Looking for a quick sale. I launched another site a couple months ago (http://buysellads.com) and am no longer interested in running this hobby site of mine, http://13styles.com. The last time I posted an update to the site was about 5 or 6 months ago, but it continues to receive great (all natural & unpaid) traffic. This site is a great fit for someone who knows a little CSS and can contribute to the site more.
The site used to require login and had a whole menu building system. I took that down and just provided the menus because I didn't want to deal with programming the back end anymore. The database will be included with the sale and it contains ~5K registered users.
Some quick stats:
- roughly 30K inbound links
- frequent StumbleUpon bursts of traffic
- PR 5
- Alexa 83K
- Compete 83K
Revenue Details
$170 in banner ads (was @ $370, but two recently cancelled)
$30 in AdSense
$50 in Text Link Ads
$120 in source file sales (average of 4 per month)... (people can buy the PSD's for some of the menus)
Traffic Details
all natural, tons of inbound links, regularly featured in list of css menu sites, stumbleupon frequently picks up for at least a few hundred and sometimes 500-1500 uniques here and there, ranked well organically for the following terms and plenty more:
css menu
css menus
menu css
free css menu
free css menus
menu styles
"css menu"
css menu builder
css menu styles
13 styles - yeah, not surprising, but a sign of good recognition
Attachments 2 public (0 verified)
Questions 23 public, 0 deleted
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- Sun, 11 May 2008 22:29:42 GMT
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- Sun, 11 May 2008 23:14:20 GMT
is it jsut me or are ther eonly about 10-12 menus on that site?
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- Sun, 11 May 2008 23:23:52 GMT
Do you have a BIN price in mind?
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- Mon, 12 May 2008 02:58:49 GMT
@68c10, thank you. alexa is sooo accurate... as far as I know countries other than the US have money too (sometimes much more). nope, no BIN, this is a regular auction.
@eron19, nope, not just you, that's all there is.
@QualityNonsense, nope, this is a regular auction. please make an offer.
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- Mon, 12 May 2008 09:49:10 GMT
What is the reserve price?
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- Mon, 12 May 2008 12:08:26 GMT
the reserve price is high enough so that I don't have to sell it for pennies. it's a traditional auction, please no more questions about BIN or reserve. sorry for being cranky, but I've already answered this many times via PM.
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- Mon, 12 May 2008 12:55:46 GMT
Nice Site, I remeber making the logo for it. :) Good luck with your sale toddynho
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- Mon, 12 May 2008 23:49:58 GMT
yeah, the logo is sweet, thanks dante!
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- Tue, 13 May 2008 01:04:03 GMT
So your actual monthly profit is $150 as the text link ads are not ongoing?
JohnT
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- Tue, 13 May 2008 04:43:19 GMT
oops, I made a mistake. When I posted yesterday there were actually two $100 banners ads live @ $100 each instead of just one. Today, we sold another, so the banner ad total is now at $370 instead of $270. Sorry for the mistake ;)
@designcrowd, not sure I understand your question... before I posted the update above the monthly profit was $370, but after I realized the mistake I made and from the new ad sale today the monthly profit is @ $570/month.
You can see proof here: http://buysellads.com/buy/detail/33/
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- Tue, 13 May 2008 10:24:59 GMT
The point I am amking is that if I buy this site I am only more or less guaranteed around $30 in AdSense and $120 in source file sales (average of 4 per month)...next month or am I missing something?
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- Tue, 13 May 2008 11:48:50 GMT
sure, that's one way to look at it. a bunch of the banner ads are favicon ads at only $5 each. then, there are three banner ads at $100 each, and then two text links @ $25 each. The odds of everyone canceling at the same time is slim to none. all of the advertisers (except for the ad that sold yesterday) have been there for at least 3 months each. the site is probably going to sell for more than what makes sense from a monetary perspective anyway.
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- Wed, 14 May 2008 01:39:16 GMT
Hi Todd, regarding the banners, is it true that you keep 25% of the numbers you mentioned via buysellads.com? Just want be sure because thats what I have read on the front page of your new great project.
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- Wed, 14 May 2008 02:25:07 GMT
Yes, 25% goes to buysellads.com. So, I've obviously made a mess of the ad stats (and another was sold again today), so here goes, one final time:
- $352.50 in banner ads (75% of $470)
- $30 in AdSense
- $50 in Text Link Ads
- $120 in source file sales (average of 4 per month)... (people can buy the PSD's for some of the menus)Total: $552.50
Sorry for all of the confusion around ad revenue. And yes, I can provide proof for the winning bidder, nothing shady going on here (unlikely that I would risk my reputation on this sale).
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- Wed, 14 May 2008 02:30:41 GMT
Reason for selling?
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- Posted by:
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- Wed, 14 May 2008 02:44:59 GMT
I haven't updated the site in over 6 months. I launched another site noted in the description that needs my attention.
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- Wed, 14 May 2008 03:08:00 GMT
I didnt wanted to suggest that there was anything shady, as you said you wont risk a project like buysellads for this one, I just wanted to have the numbers right :)
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- Mon, 19 May 2008 10:28:49 GMT
does thename mean anything 13styles? i mean 13 because there are 13 styles?
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- Mon, 19 May 2008 22:23:28 GMT
well, it would be nice if there were 13 styles, but I never got around to doing #13... currently only have 12 ;)
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- Thu, 22 May 2008 13:16:48 GMT
Ok, I just bid again. Now I am starting to feel uncomfortable because we are above 22x the revenue you posted originally on the site and the reserve has not been met. I have been bidding for days, I PM you, but if you want to keap this bidder, please make a reserve price public. Thanks
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- Thu, 22 May 2008 15:07:58 GMT
10K
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- Posted by:
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- Thu, 22 May 2008 15:23:05 GMT
I really appreciate that, I didnt PM you because I consider that it would be fair to make that number public. Thanks
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- Posted by:
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- Thu, 22 May 2008 16:14:36 GMT
no problem, hopefully we can get there ;)
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