So what us the income for the last 3 months ? breakdown per month please.
REVIEW SITE EARNED OVER 40,000 in Under 1 Year, Needs New Owner With Enthusiasm A Few Hours / WEEk for Easy Marketing
A little marketing effort will bring sales back up, potential to triple revenue.
http://www.governmentauctionsitereviews.com/
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Description
Up for sale is my Review Site. Established just over 1 year ago, GovernmentAuctionSiteReviews.com was created when I left the post of Affiliate Program Manager for one of the largest Government Auction Membership sites.
I took what I had learned there, plus my long experience in Affiliate Marketing, and created this site. Revenue is generated from affiliate sales of membership sites, all on Clickbank.
The site averaged over 2000 visitors per month from May until November when I shattered my arm in an accident. During my "recovery" period, I began getting involved in other projects, and lost much of the enthusiasm I once had for the site.
Marketing has consisted almost entirely of article submission, blog posts, and a Squidoo Lens, which I will include with the sale.
I will also include dozens of articles, some of which have never been submitted, and all of which can be 'spun' and re-submitted. These were all either written by me, or outsourced professionally.
The site cleared between $5k and $7k it's first few months. With just an hour or two per day spent submitting a couple of articles, writing blog posts, etc., the site will return to its previous sales numbers, and frankly, if the new owner wanted to really make a go of it, there's no reason it couldn't double, perhaps even triple it's revenue achievements. As the former Affiliate Manager for the largest Gov. Auctions membership site, I can tell you that one site alone receives hundreds of sign-ups per day.
It's worth noting that 80% of the traffic is organic with an average visit of almost 2 minutes - meaning visitors spent time reading the reviews, and then clicked through and purchased.
The site has a Google Pagerank of 2, with over 300 inbound links.
In addition to the Squidoo Lens optimized to send traffic to the review site, I will include a Blogger blog that I used to "funnel" links and traffic as well.
Also, I will do all the necessary transferring and setup of the site, and include 6 months free hosting.
And on top of all that, I will spend whatever time the new owner would like to teach you how to market the site and grow revenues, something I know how to do very well.
(you can read a brief bio on my marketing background on my blog http://ImproveYourInternetMarketing.com under the "About" tab)
This is not a "set-and-forget" site, though it will generate recurring revenue even if you do just that. However it is best suited to someone who wants to put a little effort into basic marketing, and will provide a huge return on time spent.
Revenue Details
The site has generated $44,000 in affiliate commissions in 1 year, giving it a monthly average of $3,666.
Sales have dropped since November when I shattered my arm in an accident. I curtailed most of my promoting activities in December.
A few hours per week promoting the site will bring the revenue back to where it was, and beyond, almost immediately.
Traffic Details
80% is organic, coming mostly from MSN and Live, with about 15% of that coming from Google.
The remainder is 'referral' coming mostly from Ezinearticles, the Squidoo Lens, and the Blogger blog.
Please keep in mind, traffic averaged around 2000 uniques per month when I was actively promoting it, but has dropped sharply.
This is where the opportunity lies, as just a few hours per week will bring the traffic back to where it was, and beyond.
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- Fri, 16 May 2008 17:18:02 GMT
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- Fri, 16 May 2008 17:30:20 GMT
I would also like income since November.
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- Fri, 16 May 2008 17:49:10 GMT
Hi plse send traffic stats and proof of income thx
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- Fri, 16 May 2008 21:41:56 GMT
Income, traffic, refferal stats etc? Thanks
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- Sat, 17 May 2008 02:10:18 GMT
The revenue is 100% affiliate commissions.
I am pasting in my Clickbank 'paycheck' export for the last 12 months (hopefully it will format correctly). There are a few other products mixed in that account, however 90-95% is from the review site.
Please note that I stopped most of my daily marketing activities cold in November, and have only done sporadic promotion since then.
Also, I am willing to allow access to my Clickbank account for verification as a condition for closing a sale.
The numbers for 2007 are what can realistically be expected with an hour or two daily marketing effort. A full time effort could possibly double or better the numbers.
Traffic was steady at appx. 2000/month up until my accident. I ran a PPC campaign for a little while when I first launched the site, but felt I could do equally well without paying for traffic. The paid traffic gave me a bump in June and July.
It's worth pointing out that the average visitor spent appx. 1.66 minutes on the site visiting 2 pages, which is exactly how the site was designed: to "sell the click". A SERPs listing, Ezinearticle, Squidoo or blog visit brought the visitor, they took the time to read the home page, clicked over to their page of interest, read it, then clicked through to the membership site.
Hope that helps, and thanks for your interest-
05/01/08 05/15/08 $295.30
04/16/08 04/30/08 $195.31
04/01/08 04/15/08 $165.49
03/16/08 03/31/08 $462.76
03/01/08 03/14/08 $638.90
02/16/08 02/29/08 $496.91
02/01/08 02/15/08 $161.76
01/16/08 01/31/08 $110.55
01/01/08 01/15/08 $188.72
12/16/07 12/31/07 $477.41
12/01/07 12/14/07 $1,003.81
11/16/07 11/30/07 $1,444.86
11/01/0 11/15/07 $1,593.45
10/16/07 10/31/07 $1,534.25
10/01/07 10/15/07 $2,415.78
09/16/07 09/28/07 $2,163.47
09/01/07 09/14/07 $3,589.46
08/16/07 08/31/07 $3,457.35
08/01/07 08/15/07 $5,627.66
07/16/07 07/31/07 $4,169.06
07/01/07 07/13/07 $5,322.36
06/16/07 06/29/07 $4,600.43
06/01/07 06/15/07 $3,663.33
05/16/07 05/31/07 $3,593.56
05/01/07 05/15/07 $1,449.89 -
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- Sat, 17 May 2008 07:17:48 GMT
where do you get content from?
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- Sat, 17 May 2008 07:20:20 GMT
and are you an affiliate of the auction sites?
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- Sat, 17 May 2008 07:25:14 GMT
Hi
Please add Pictures of CB income from the clickbank transactions page.
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- Sat, 17 May 2008 08:31:11 GMT
Can you attach some screenshots of all the stats please?
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- Sat, 17 May 2008 16:36:18 GMT
can you please remove the "other products mixed in the account" and total the revenue so that we can see realistic figures. If you have been an Affiliate Program Manager you will understand why we ask this.
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- Sat, 17 May 2008 19:13:15 GMT
Actually i am not sure weather this is the right place or not for
writing this type of message.
I am from Bangladesh. I hard that many people around the world
earning money from online work at home.
Is it possible for me to do this type of job?
I found some company wants charge for the registration/sign up!
But my problem is its not possible for me to pay through online
or something like this.
So can you people tell me where and how can I get this type of
job.
I am really very interested to work like this. My email address
is chitara1970 at yahoo dot com
thanks
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- Mon, 19 May 2008 06:31:38 GMT
I have attached a screenshot of my Clickbank account "Paycheck" page. It would take about 75 screenshots to get all the screens from the individual sales view, but I will email a csv of the file minus the email addresses to anyone interested.
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- Mon, 19 May 2008 06:38:39 GMT
j.cardell01 - the site was up as a subdomain before I registered the domain. The first sale was 4/19/07.
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- Mon, 19 May 2008 06:42:40 GMT
NOTE: j.cardell01 asked why there seemed to be a lot of sales in the first three days the site was registered. I inadvertantly removed his post and don't want to give the impression I was trying to avoid the question (answered above).
j.cardell01, if you see this, please re-post, and I apologize for deleting your post.
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- Mon, 19 May 2008 19:31:40 GMT
Hmm, sorry mate...I can't remember word-for-word what I wrote, you shouldn't have deleted my query, since it just makes this look even more fishy.
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Anyway, 19th of April first sale eh? So your clickbank revenue is an acrruel of 13 month duration, also around 90% of the revenue from your clickbank account was through those government auction affiliate sales, as you stated, therefore, taking the above two points into consideration, your average revenue is really:($44K x 0.9)/13 = ~$3046 p/month!
Oh, and thats "Gross Revenue"...not "Net Profit"..which I think serious bidders will want to know, considering we have no idea whatsoever, rgearding your PPC Expenditure which you've conveniently missed out..This niche has quite expensive PPC keywords, so I imagine quite hefty budget would have been used.
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- Mon, 19 May 2008 22:41:26 GMT
Revenue for the site is 100% affiliate commissions. Hosting is negligible, leaving appx. 98% of gross revenue as net profit. A total of $560 was spent on PPC when the site was first launched. All of it was spent on relatively inexpensive long-tail keywords.
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- Tue, 20 May 2008 00:18:17 GMT
So why are you selling? Also, How much time did you spend daily when you was making a lot more?
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- Tue, 20 May 2008 02:12:36 GMT
Adrizzl, I was spending 1-2 hours every day up until last November. During the time that I was 'out of commission' - I had to have a series of surgeries on my left arm - I got involved in other projects. The site has been mostly just sitting around, with a minimum amount of effort put into it. What it needs is someone who is motivated to put in the time and effort.
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