Description

I know how annoying hyped up salesletter type of listings are so I am going to leave out all the worthless fluff and just get straight to the information about this site. There's a lot to read because I tried to cover everything...

Basic Site Information:

* Domain and site are 6 years old this year. Created October 14, 2003

* Registered through GoDaddy

* 13,940 inbound links

* 1170 pages indexed in Google

* 12,197 unique vistors per month average. 17,687 total vistors per month average.

* Income averages around $2000 per month. It was over $2500 last month.

* Home page has a PR3. It used to be PR5 with most of the inner pages anywhere from PR5 down to PR1 but everything got lowered at the beginning of last year. I assume it happened because I was selling followed links when the big G decided to start cracking down on that, and I didn't even know it was happening until it was too late. I have since changed all paid links to nofollow even though the lowering never affected the site in any way. If you really care about the PR you could probably get it back by contacting them and explaining the situation. I just never worried about it because it didn't affect my rankings, traffic, income or anything else.

* I'm sure you noticed the domain has "Iowa" in it but the site really has nothing to do with Iowa. That's just where I live and it was the first domain I ever registered so I didn't know any better. However, it does rank in the top ten for most of it's main keywords plus Iowa so it's a little extra traffic.

* 1335 email list subscribers - All double opt-in. All subscribed via form on the site. They aren't purchased or anything like that. You get them all.

Search Engine Rankings:

* This site is ranked in the top 10 of Google for several highly competitive keyword phrases and has high rankings for just about every keyword phrase imaginable related to it.

Here are just some of the Google rankings that this site has...

Home Based Business - #2
Home Based Business Opportunity - #3
Home Based Business Opportunities - #5
Home Based Business Information - #1
Home Based Business Ideas - #20
Free Home Based Business - #3
Online Home Based Business - #3

Work at Home - #38
Work at Home Business - #2
Work at Home Based Business - #1
Work at Home Jobs - #20
Free Work at Home - #7
Best Work at Home - #5
Work at Home Opportunity - #7
Work at Home Advertising - #7

Home Business - #5
Home Business Tips - #1
Home Business Opportunity - #6
Home Business Opportunities - #7
Home Business Ideas - #22
Internet Home Business - #14
Free Home Business Tips - #1
Free Home Business - #5
Best Home Business - #14
Home Business Blog - #18
Top Home Business - #6
Home Business Articles - #15
Free Home Business Articles - #7
Home Business Advertising - #10

Make Money at Home - #14
Make Money Online at Home - #8
Make Money Online Tips #19
How to Make Money Online - #26
How to Make Money - #57
Make Money Online Advice - #9
Ways to Make Money Online - #28
Make Money Online Information - #9

Top 10 Affiliate Programs - #3
Best Affiliate Program - #6
Jobs from Home - #7
Home Jobs - #21
Home Based Jobs - #17
Free Business Tips - #2
Free Money Making Advice - #4
Free Money Making Tips - #4

Most of those rankings were last checked a few months ago. Just like all sites rankings, they do fluctuate up and down a little, but are consistently around the spots listed above almost every time I check them.

This site has a lot of authority and tends to rank well quickly for about any related keyword you go after. It wouldn't take a whole lot of work to get even higher rankings for current keywords or start ranking for even more. Imagine being ranked in the top 5 for home based business, home business, work at home, make money online, and several more! It's not really too far from it as it stands right now.

* Check out the monthly search volumes of the keywords related to this site (according to the Google keyword tool):

1) Home Business = 1,830,000
2) Work at Home = 1,830,000
3) Home Based Business = 673,000
4) Make Money Online = 550,000
5) Internet Marketing = 1,220,000

That's a total of 6,103,000 searches per month. Yes, OVER 6 MILLION searches! And that's not including the hundreds of other keyword phrases related to this site that are searched for millions more times every month.

* Also has home page links from several high ranking sites in the wah, hbb, mmo, and hb niches... Many of them top ten.

Earnings and Traffic Information:

* Averages around $2000 per month profit. Earned around $24,000 in 2008 and about the same in 2007 and 2006. That's $72,000 in the past three years!

* Revenue is from Advertising, Affiliate sales, Adsense, and Business Opportunities. Current subscription advertisers would be cancelled and offered your subscription payment method to re-order.  I cannot guarantee all of them will order again.  With that said, some have been advertising here for a very long time, so I assume you will get a good portion to restart their monthly advertising subscription with you. Just note, I make no guarantees of this. Either way there are new people wanting to advertise all the time.

* Targeted organic search engine traffic (mostly Google) - Which is the highest quality traffic you can get if you didn't already know that! And most visitors are from the United States.

* Traffic and earnings are very residual. You could pretty much "set it and forget it" and they would stay close to where they are now for a long time.

* This isn't one of those sites you see listed on here all the time that was thrown up and worked on constantly for a few months just to build it's stats to make some quick cash on a sale. It has a long history of high rankings, traffic, earnings, content, and everything else.

* Honestly I have never really been too great at monetizing it correctly. I have seen similar sites with a lot less traffic and much lower rankings (less targeted visitors) pull in more money per month. I'm sure if you know (or can learn) how to more effectively monetize this site it can make you a LOT more money than it already does with the traffic and rankings it currently has.

* You would earn around $3000/month just by filling the current advertising options and there's plenty of room to add more advertising spots. Just promote the advertising options more on social sites, blogs, or wherever. And that's not including all the other monetization methods you can use.

* There's still a huge amount of extra potential to increase traffic and earnings if you spend a little more time getting inbound links, marketing, adding content, etc... This site could easily make double or triple what it does now!

* I could have done a bunch of stuff to inflate the stats for this site to make it look better in hopes of getting more out of it, but I didn't. I've never gamed the stats for this site or done anything to spike them artificially just to make it look like I get more traffic than I really do. I've also never done anything blackhat on this site. What you see is what you get.

* Hardly ever used Social Networking / Bookmarking or other Web 2.0 traffic techniques on this site. That's a huge untapped source of traffic that you can implement for this site to boost its traffic and earnings even more!

* There's obviously a lot of room for aesthetic improvements with new themes/templates/graphics and other visual updates. That could go a long way for increasing subscribers, readers, traffic, and earnings. I know the site is ugly but I never had reason to change it.

Time and Money Spent Each Month:

* Very little time spent on it each month - It's basically on autopilot for the most part. The blog is pretty much all I spend time on and even that I only update a few times per month. Otherwise a little time is spent on maintenance, putting up new advertiser links or taking them down, sometimes adding articles, and getting inbound links. A few hours per month is all. You can jump right in and be earning a good income without using up much of your time.

* Don't spend any money on the site other than monthly hosting, and domain when it needs renewed. I also use the aweber autoresponder service that I pay for yearly but isn't a direct cost of this site.

* No money is spent on marketing, advertising, promotion, etc... None! It's all done for free and most of the traffic comes from search engines due to it's high rankings.

* There are membership fees for some of the programs I promote on the site, but that doesn't have anything to do with the site itself and you don't have to keep promoting those particular programs.

How Much Is This Site Worth?

* Premium sites like this one with a strong history of traffic and earnings are worth at least 24 times their monthly earnings, according to most experts. Last month it earned around $2500, so take that times 24 and it's worth $60,000 USD! Even if you take the lower end of $2000 monthly average and multiply it by 24, it comes out to $48,000 USD! Income Value = $48,000 to $60,000 

* This site is averaging over 12,000 unique visitors per month (over 144,000 per year). Let's say you start a new site and generate that traffic through Google Adwords and, for arguments sake, you paid just $0.10 per click (I'm being very conservative), that's $14,400 worth of traffic! Traffic Value = $14,400

  * Also, experts say the general rule of thumb is that each email subscriber is worth $1 per month. Based on that theory the value of the 1335 subscriber list you get with this site is $16,020 per year. I very rarely send anything to them other than free information so I can't say what they are definitely worth. Subscriber Value = $16,020  

* This site has somewhere around 1500 pages. I haven't kept track of the exact number but there are over 400 blog posts, around 900 articles, and probably about 200 other pages of content. If you paid just $5 per page (which is a dirt cheap estimate) it would cost $7,500 to create a similar site. Content Value = $7,500

* So, let's do a little math from the numbers presented above:

Income Value = $48,000 to $60,000
Traffic Value = $14,400
Subscriber Value = $16,020
Content Value = $7,500

>>> Total Value = $85,920 to $97,920

* And unlike many websites and blogs you see for sale, the success of this site is not attached to me personally. That means that it will not lose its traffic or earnings (or anything else) because it has a new owner, unless you simply let it die. You see so many sites/blogs being sold that are highly dependent on the personality, writing style, skills, experience, or knowledge of the original owner and they lose most of their popularity after the sale. That is not the case with this site!

* You see sites and blogs being sold on here all the time for as much, or more, than I am asking and they don't have nearly the credentials. Look at the other premium sites listed right now and you will probably find some.

* Also, according to the http://ebizvaluations.com website valuator that I found in "the ultimate website valuation guide" here on Sitepoint, the estimated price of this site is $38,090

Payment and Other Information:

* Because this is a large transaction, I am only accepting Escrow.com for the payment. This will help protect both the buyer and me. I will pay the Escrow fees. I'll create the Escrow transaction as soon as I have the email address and any other information I might need from the winning bidder. Payment is expected to be sent to Escrow within 5 days after auction ends and I will put that in when initiating the transaction. If payment is still not sent after 5 days, auction will be re-listed and winning bidder will be reported. I will not accept partial payments.

* Only bid if you are serious about buying it and are going to pay if you win!

* I'm sure you will want to know why I am selling and the answer is that I have some personal reasons for needing to sell it. I assure you they have nothing to do with the site itself. It was the first real site I ever started and it has been a big part of me for almost 6 years, I wish I could keep it but right now it's just not an option.

* I'm starting the auction at 7 days but may extend it depending on how it goes.

* I will be available via email, messenger, or phone to answer questions or help you with the site if needed for up to 6 months.

* Bid confidently! I have 100% feedback and if you research my name online you will find only good. I've been an internet marketer for over 6 years and have always been legitimate and straightforward.