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Reason for Selling
Sadly the driving force behind coolosxapps.net's success has recently passed away and thus have made the painful decision to sell Cool OSX Apps . The reason for selling is that the son no longer has the time to dedicate to Cool OSX Apps.
Background
Cool OSX Apps is widely known amongst the Macintosh community as arguably the most popular freeware Mac OS X application site on the Internet. Cool OSX Apps features the daily software dose of the best Mac apps, Mac utilities, Mac freeware and Mac games, with over 5,295 posts and counting. Cool OSX Apps is powered by Wordpress.
Cool OSX Apps been featured on Digg's front page a couple of times, and has over 46 articles about the site which have appeared on Digg, and on most of the high traffic Apple sites as well. It gets 6,000+ unique hits a day (12,000+ page views per day). Cool OSX Apps comes up as #1 in several search results, in the top 3 in dozens other search results, and almost always on the front page of Google and other search engines.
Traffic Details
Additional traffic rankings are available upon request through multiple website analytics trackers (above traffic details provided by Google Analytics) for the most accurate statistics possible.
The site uses about 1GB per day for bandwidth, and is currently hosted on Mosso. You would have the option to remain on Mosso (if you choose) and receive completely free hosting, valued at over $100 per month base price (but for the given statistics of Cool OSX Apps, around $650 per month).
Assets
Upon payment via PayPal, the entire site will be transferred to you, with complete access to all of the following:
This site is valued at over $690,000 according to Glurk.com, a relatively accurate website value calculator.
Bidding
Bidding starts at $9,000. Buy It Now is available for $500,000. Payment is via PayPal.
Please PM me with any questions.
Revenue comes from mainly from advertising (we have five clients whom are charged $90 per month for one 125x125 advertising space) and our rapidly expanding user database, growing at 15% a month. Our site features a member database that has generated over $1,500 from members alone just in the past four months.
Several major advertising companies also generate a fair share of monthly revenue for Cool OSX Apps, with the average monthly revenue of $1,700 for member subscription payments and advertisements combined.
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Sorry, but valuations from that site are basically worthless.
How much are you paying per month in total expenses for the site? From the post on the site explaining why you have changed to a subscription model, it sounds like the site is not profitable. Also, how many people signed up for subscriptions in the past couple weeks, and how has it affected the visitors and pageviews for the site?
Total expenses are $100 per month for hosting, but the new site owner may choose to stay hosted with us free of charge. Other than that, there are no expenses per month that need to be paid.
In the past two weeks, we have received a total of 23 subscription payments. The site is indeed profitable currently, and still maintains solid traffic ratings, even after moving to a paid subscription model.
6000 uniques and 12000 PV can easily be handled by a reseller or a DH shared hosting if that is the only expense.
Also the eCPM from adsense for Macware niche is quite high 5-6 and above which will bring u a good revenue stream.
1) Why haven't u put up adsense? Is the site banned by adsense? DOn't tell me you have never tried or something.
2) What is the primary traffic source?
3) Where do you get the topics or blog posts including games and freeware info. I mean, do u have a list of source where u get this consistently so that new owner can update?
Can u post traffic detail screenshots?
Please show proof of revenue and traffic and list the revenue sources in detail. Why did you make it sound like the site is nonviable when changing to a subscription model if you are really making $1600 per month?
I am interested in seeing the traffic sources, not really concerned about the numbers...please post so this auction has some transparency. Thanks.
Assuming other number are ok (I do see only PR3 though) on what basis do you expect to get 20 years of earnings for this site? Its pretty unconventional. Three years would sound OK.
FYI: Subscription areas of the site can easily be bypassed. Even the RSS feed provides links to the unprotected content.
To sitespotter, RE: Question 3: Looking at the RSS feed, the previous content included individual posts of Firefox several times recently, whole posts for Adobe Flash and Adobe Air (separately), Vuze, Limewire, NeoOffice, Google Sketchup, etc.
Anyone who is interested in viewing site statistics, please PM me with a request for credentials to login to Google Analytics, and I will be happy to supply them to you.
PageRank of the website is 3 but your listing mentions 5.
Can you provide access to analytics?
if u want check pagerank try using this www.mypageranker.com
If you were logged in you could post a question.
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