who can write such stuff? At least I dont know of people who can produce this style and calibre. how can buyer continue to add posts like this?
Extremely popular blog. 300 500k pageviews, up to 2,000 per month.
8500 RSS subscribers, including 2,700 direct email subscribers
http://violentacres.com/
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- Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:20:39 GMT
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Description
Violent Acres is a popular blog with observations on real estate, financial planning, child abuse, the fat acceptance movement, mommy blogging, and other various social and political issues.
Since debuting in October of 2006, VA has gained a strong, rapidly growing audience. The site has been featured in reputable online publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and MSNBC. It has also been at the center of internet dramas that have at times rocketed it to the top of Technorati’s top search terms, Alexa’s Movers & Shakers, and other popularity indexes. Over 30 articles have made it to the front page of Digg and seemingly half of everything that’s written makes it to the front page of Reddit at some point.
- The site receives more than 300,000 page views per month. That’s in a slow month. When things pop on Reddit, Digg, Fark, or StumbleUpon it’s reached as high as 700,000. The average is in the 300,000 - 400,000 range.
- Top 10k Technorati ranking. This has been as high as 1,500 at times.
- Google Pagerank of 3. It was 5 until the Text Link Ad hammer was dropped. This could probably be fixed by someone experienced with SEO optimization. A Google search for “violentacres” returns over 21,000 results. This was a term invented by the author and every result has something to do with the site. It’s also highly ranked when searching for “Nyquil” (4th) and “How to Fight” (2nd), for example.
- 8500+ RSS subscribers, including 2,700+ direct email subscribers.
When an effort was being made to monetize the site, monthly revenues were as high as $2,000 per month. Lately that’s dipped as the owner pursued other endeavors and hasn’t had the time to maintain and test out different monetization methods.
Currently the site is monetized via Google Adsense, Feedburner Ads, Text Link ads, various affiliate programs, and private ad sales. Screenshots of this year’s earnings can be found below. Traffic has stayed steady throughout the year, so you can see how the owner’s attention has waned when it comes to optimizing revenue. This could be fixed and surpassed by someone experienced in the field.
Recently the owner has had success bringing in guest authors to write content in exchange for plugs for their own blogs. Many writers have been happy to do it for the traffic bump. Significant traffic can be generated by hiring a motivated writer or by finding new ways to promote existing, popular content.
Early on the author was approached by publishers looking to print the content in a book as well, though she wasn’t interested in that at the time. You may be. It’s great content; with a little work you could definitely get that going.
Recently the site raises $5,400 dollars for the West Valley Child Crisis center in Arizona through its readers. The readers are a passionate bunch.
No work has ever gone into promoting content. Zero. Traffic is not reliant on relationships with other bloggers; there aren’t any to maintain. All of the traffic has come from natural, viral methods. Like I said, it’s awesome content and really strikes a chord with a lot of people. Read through the site’s Most Popular Posts.
Outside of Sitepoint an offer of $10,000 has been made, so that’s where we’re going to start the auction. If you need any other information, please leave a comment and I’ll try to answer your question.
The auction is for the website and all of the content.
Revenue Details
Google Adsense, Feedburner, Text Link Ads, Private Ad Sales.
Questions 16 public, 5 deleted
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- Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:46:46 GMT
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- Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:00:43 GMT
[quote]who can write such stuff? At least I dont know of people who can produce this style and calibre. how can buyer continue to add posts like this?[/quote]
An ideal buyer would be someone who writes themselves and is looking for an insta-audience, or a company with a network of sites and relationships with writers who are willing to write in exchange for the exposure. The current author would also be willing to write a few transitional pieces for free and is open to the idea of writing for a fee in the future. Mostly she just doesn't currently have the time to handle the responsibility of running the site solo any longer.
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- Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:01:05 GMT
Well, quote obviously doesn't work. :)
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- Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:09:56 GMT
I just read The Worst of All Possible Vaginas and it was hilarious, god i laughed so bad.
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- Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:24:46 GMT
you get this much traffic with three posts per month?
PM me stats please.
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- Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:28:12 GMT
I included this screenshot in the post. What other stats are you interested in seeing? http://violentacres.com/ss/analytics.png
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- Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:37:03 GMT
1. How much time does the site take currently to maintain? # of hours per week
2. What is the hosting cost?
3. How technical does the owner need to be? Does the site have a content management system that allows easy site updates?
4. Can you provide more detailed earnings information either publicly or in a private mail?
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- Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:36:51 GMT
"1. How much time does the site take currently to maintain? # of hours per week"
To maintain the status quo, none. When the author was writing every day, it was probably about 8-10 hours per week. At one point another 5 hours or so per week went into monetization efforts, but those have stopped over the last year.
"2. What is the hosting cost?"
It's hosted on a shared server with apisnetworks.com. The cost is around $9 per month.
"How technical does the owner need to be? Does the site have a content management system that allows easy site updates?"
It's run on the latest version of Wordpress. It's a very easy system with a lot of help available.
"4. Can you provide more detailed earnings information either publicly or in a private mail?"
Send me a PM with exactly what you'd like to see. I tried to include as much as I could.
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- Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:50:09 GMT
No hours per week? Doesn't that contradict this? (quoted from your listing above)
"When an effort was being made to monetize the site, monthly revenues were as high as $2,000 per month. Lately that’s dipped as the owner pursued other endeavors and hasn’t had the time to maintain and test out different monetization methods. "
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- Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:19:33 GMT
To maintain the status quo, you would make zero effort. No marketing or optimization has gone into the site in the past year. None. Zero hours. In the past three months she's spent about 2 hours total writing a handful of things and posting them. That's it.
However...
"Like I said, when an effort was being made to monetize the site, monthly revenues were as high as $2,000 per month. Lately that’s dipped as the owner pursued other endeavors and hasn’t had the time to maintain and test out different monetization methods."
Prior to the past three months she was spending about 8-10 hours per week writing. Roughly 3-4 posts per week. Her posts are generally pretty long though. So if you were looking to get return for your investment, you would probably want to give it a little more loving, like the amount of time I mentioned in a previous comment.
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- Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:53:54 GMT
Hello. We are a full-service domain acquisition company located in New York, NY. We are fully prepared to offer any BIN price listed within three days via escrow or a check. Please let me know if you have any questions.
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