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http://thebasementgroup.com/

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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

Questions 16 public, 0 deleted

  1. Avatar for noiamtheone
    Posted by:
    noiamtheone (+2)
    Date:
    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:41:05 GMT

    I have been asked a couple times in PM about BIN. At this time there is no BIN.

  2. Avatar for noiamtheone
    Posted by:
    noiamtheone (+2)
    Date:
    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:39:51 GMT

    To date july stats posted per PM request.
    Thank you

  3. Avatar for bijiny
    Posted by:
    bijiny (+1)
    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?

  4. Avatar for talkhomebusiness
    Posted by:
    talkhomebusiness (-4)
    Date:
    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:19:34 GMT

    Can you please post revenue proof?

    Thanks

  5. Avatar for noiamtheone
    Posted by:
    noiamtheone (+2)
    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

  6. Avatar for noiamtheone
    Posted by:
    noiamtheone (+2)
    Date:
    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.

  7. Avatar for savagemp5
    Posted by:
    savagemp5 (+3)
    Date:
    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 ?

  8. Avatar for topsite
    Posted by:
    topsite (+6)
    Date:
    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:05:03 GMT

    Please show where the traffic came from.

  9. Avatar for noiamtheone
    Posted by:
    noiamtheone (+2)
    Date:
    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.

  10. Avatar for noiamtheone
    Posted by:
    noiamtheone (+2)
    Date:
    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

  11. Avatar for richard3i
    Posted by:
    richard3i (+5)
    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

  12. Avatar for noiamtheone
    Posted by:
    noiamtheone (+2)
    Date:
    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

  13. Avatar for haroldskywizard
    Posted by:
    haroldskywizard (+1)
    Date:
    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

  14. Avatar for noiamtheone
    Posted by:
    noiamtheone (+2)
    Date:
    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

  15. Avatar for richard3i
    Posted by:
    richard3i (+5)
    Date:
    Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:54:37 GMT

    please please m tribal fusion for july to date

  16. Avatar for noiamtheone
    Posted by:
    noiamtheone (+2)
    Date:
    Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:18:30 GMT

    pm sent

    thanks

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