I have been asked a couple times in PM about BIN. At this time there is no BIN.
Established Game Portal
900 members Premium Games This is not a another Arcade Script site
http://thebasementgroup.com/
Auction
Congratulations to the winner!
- Winning Bid:
- $5,200
- Bid History:
- 20 Bids (0 Pending)
- Listed:
- Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:11:01 GMT
Accepted Payment Methods: PayPal, Western Union, Escrow.com
Description
thebasementgroup.com was started in mid - March, by April the site was generating significant traffic. Since then we have continued to provide new and popular games - work on features and design - and establish the site. Our current Alexa rating is 159,000 but you will see it ranks very well in its core countries - and has been lower recently.
Monetizing the site was not a priority initially. Our first real effort saw the inventory being handled by ValueClick Media - however this month the inventory has been given to Tribal Fusion. Below are detailed revenue stats:
Other nominal revenue comes from the mochiad publisher network where we are certified. They share revenue with approved sites from ingame advertisements - and also provide access to over 1000 games that are updated every day.
Detailed analytics were not added until May through Quantcast and Google. Screenshots are included - however both have seen "blackouts" during updates and site revisions.
Traffic is generated from search / direct and a small group of referal sites that focus on casual gaming. We have never advertised nor paid for links. Many sites link to us without solicitation - while we provide links regularly to 3 or 4. Other sources are traditional link sites such as Digg.
The site currently operates in a shared hosting environment so cost is negligible. Obviously it should be moved to a more powerful server. However, we don't currently run into difficulty until 400-500 visitors are online at once.
The entire is built using the Joomla CMS framework. Template and core feature mods were done by me and I will include all source, images, and templates. This framework provides many easy to integrate features that are installed - but not currently published - such as forums and further community features.
The games are primarily sourced through mochiads - however we also use approx. 6-8 additional sources which will also be provided - none are cost based.
All code is open source so their are no licenses to concern yourself with.
There have been private offers for this site - and because of other project demands - I have decided it is time sell.
Please do not pm me and offer me very low prices for this site after asking many questions and making many requests. The site is worth what is worth - and with the right buyer will trend up very sharply. There is no current bin.
Revenue Details
March :
AdBrite- $5.07
Google - $6.02
April :
Adbrite $30.45
Google $2.70
Valueclick $90.57
May :
ValueClick $281.91
Adbrite $15.67
June :
ValueClick $340.93
Adbrite $24.16
mochiads $15.17
July: ToDate
ValueClick $36.58
TribalFusion (first 3 days) $51.28
Attachments 8 public (0 verified)
Questions 16 public, 0 deleted
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- Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:41:05 GMT
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- Posted by:
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- Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:39:51 GMT
To date july stats posted per PM request.
Thank you -
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- Date:
- Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:41:03 GMT
Hi, I'm concerned about promoting the site; you mentioned that you don't use paid advertising so do you have to post regularly in forums etc? or do you just wait for the SE to pick up your content?
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- Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:19:34 GMT
Can you please post revenue proof?
Thanks
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- Date:
- Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:10:07 GMT
We submit new content to approx. 6 sources/sites that are involved or focused on games in one way or another. In June we received referrals from 324 sources. If the game content remains high quality and fresh - those sources pick it up unsolicited.
Revenue from May and June with ValueClick posted.
Thanks
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- Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:45:02 GMT
I realized that the valueclick screen grabs did not have thebasementgroup.com selected......even though I only have one site with them - i did it again with thebasementgroup.com selected and displayed - just so you don't think anything is not right!
Thanks all.
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- Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:49:17 GMT
wow i love ur value click profits... care to share pte or wat how u did those ?
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- Posted by:
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- Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:05:03 GMT
Please show where the traffic came from.
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- Posted by:
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- Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:21:06 GMT
Aside from organic and direct traffic - the site has seen referrals from 236 different sources so far in July.
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- Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:30:37 GMT
I have gotten a lot of questions - and comments - about search and SEO. While we have not put forth a concerted SEO effort yet - here are some results based on popular casual games right now. You will see we regularly rank very high -
The Last Stand 2 - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=The+Last+Stand+2&btnG=Search
Meat Mansion - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Meat+Mansion&btnG=Google+Search
Totem Destroyer - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Totem+Destroyer&btnG=Search
These are just a few examples. There is obviously a lot of opportunity.
Thank you
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- Posted by:
- Date:
- Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:02:02 GMT
how long is this auction going to go for, I would like to know before placing any bids
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- Posted by:
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- Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:55:14 GMT
I will shorten this auction to 7 days or less when we have some bids that are in line with what this site is worth. I appreciate all the interest - bids - and inquiries up to this point.
Thank you
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- Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:39:56 GMT
Please email me the stats of income and how is the income arrived? I have a gamesite and is very interested in expanding my collection.Also how did you build your backlinks? I noted you have 23,685 backlinks or so. This is quite a lot for the
age of the site. Please give live number so I can chat directly. Thanks, haroldskywizard@gmail.com -
- Posted by:
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- Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:26:34 GMT
For some reason i cannot seem to upload the tribal fusion revenue July screenshot. however for those interested - pm me and i will forward it to you.
Thank you
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- Posted by:
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- Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:54:37 GMT
please please m tribal fusion for july to date
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- Posted by:
- Date:
- Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:18:30 GMT
pm sent
thanks
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