FORUM WITH 378K POSTS, 100000 pageviews/month

Pro wrestling VB community with 4 custom skins

http://www.24forums.com/

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Auction

Congratulations to the winner!

Winning Bid:
$1,500
Bid History:
2 Bids (0 Pending)
Listed:
Fri, 15 May 2009 23:00:42 GMT

Accepted Payment Methods: PayPal, Escrow.com

Description

http://www.24Forums.com/

It's currently a pro wrestling/sports-entertainment discussion forum. The 7,470 members are members who have been active in the last year. At one point had 46K+ members but inactive members/members without confirmed email addresses were pruned.

Threads: 18,323, Posts: 378,969, Members: 7,470

Revenue Details

The site as been accepted into several ad networks, has a loyal returning community and versitile domain name. Someone with good knowledge of running forums would likely be able to monetize it much better than I have.

Reasons for selling are personal, not business related.

Traffic Details

Search engine, word of mouth

Attachments 4 public (0 verified)

Questions 20 public, 4 deleted

  1. Avatar for slaydragon
    Posted by:
    slaydragon (-7)
    Date:
    Sat, 16 May 2009 02:57:13 GMT

    so are you earning $150 from adsense monthly? can you show the screenshots? thanks

  2. Avatar for TimBrown
    Posted by:
    TimBrown (+5)
    Date:
    Sat, 16 May 2009 06:28:14 GMT

    The revenue is the combined total from all of the ad networks im currently running, which are:
    - Adsense
    - Adbrite (the highest-earning one i believe)
    - Kontera.com
    - MyAxxess.com

    I heard there are good ways to integrate Adsense into VB forums but I never got around to figuring them out

  3. Avatar for webmaster5
    Posted by:
    webmaster5 (+6)
    Date:
    Sun, 17 May 2009 00:59:58 GMT

    Can you provide proof of revenue (including breakdown)?
    I see you are also using "CPX Interactive" which is on the list above.

    Also details of all expenses including space & bandwidth requirements.

    How much time do you spend on the site on a daily basis?
    How many active moderators are there on the site?

  4. Avatar for TimBrown
    Posted by:
    TimBrown (+5)
    Date:
    Sun, 17 May 2009 03:49:03 GMT

    I've spent 0 hours and minutes daily working on the site in the last year or so. The stats shown in the screen shot are with absolutely no promotion or work from me in those entire months, so there is definitely room for growth. There are 9 moderators and 3 admins, no pay.

    The space it takes on my server is 318.69 MB, however almost all of that is in the 'Arcade' folder which is an optional VBulletin plugin I added.

    The forum MySQL database (which I backed up to my hard drive last night and will back up again just incase before the sale) is about 100 MB.

  5. Avatar for Domainerator
    Posted by:
    Domainerator (+5)
    Date:
    Sun, 17 May 2009 06:10:16 GMT

    100,000 pvs/month and Alexa 1,171,444 = Impossible.

  6. Avatar for TimBrown
    Posted by:
    TimBrown (+5)
    Date:
    Sun, 17 May 2009 08:27:51 GMT

    Hey Domainerator I'm definitely not trying to mislead anyone. I went back further in the stats and put up screenshots from Jan 09-Dec 08, and Nov 08-Oct 08. I also put up a screenshot of the referrals page from last month to show I didn't do any promotional work. The averaged out pviews number is actually 102622/month. http://www.csgnetwork.com/averagecalc.html

    I don't pay much attention to Alexa but maybe the low ranking is due to lack of incoming links from outside sites?

  7. Avatar for Kamran
    Posted by:
    Kamran (+3)
    Date:
    Sun, 17 May 2009 11:28:35 GMT

    At the bottom of the forum you have links to 'Network Sites', are these your sites also? Do they all link to the forums?

    DailyWrestling.com
    Check out the all-new DailyWrestling.com
    - - -

    TheWrestleWire.com
    The original newswire for wrestling fans is back.
    - - -

    TheWrestlingOutlaws.com
    The #1 site for wrestling diva lovers. Tons of galleries and hot new pics along with the latest news.
    - - -

    24Wrestling.com
    Find out why 24Wrestling is one of the internet's most popular wrestling websites.

  8. Avatar for Zilmil Inc
    Posted by:
    Zilmil Inc (+3)
    Date:
    Sun, 17 May 2009 16:06:57 GMT

    What is the antcipated price you plan on selling it at?

  9. Avatar for TimBrown
    Posted by:
    TimBrown (+5)
    Date:
    Sun, 17 May 2009 17:38:37 GMT

    Yes those were also my sites and they were how I initially promoted the forums in 2006. However they no longer have links to the forums in the navigation, the only links to the forums from those sites are old ones on pages on my server that people may come across via google.

  10. Avatar for TimBrown
    Posted by:
    TimBrown (+5)
    Date:
    Mon, 18 May 2009 03:59:35 GMT

    @Zilmil Inc
    Not sure what to expect for a sale price but whatever the auction ends at is what it's going for

  11. Avatar for webmaster5
    Posted by:
    webmaster5 (+6)
    Date:
    Tue, 19 May 2009 18:52:03 GMT

    I see you also have 24wrestling.com on the same IP.
    Is that yours also, and if that is included?

    If it is not it seems like you will be competing against 24forums.com after the sale.

    Other Site On 74.53.64.58

    1. 24wrestling.com
    2. 24forums.com
    3. hellarious.com

  12. Avatar for TimBrown
    Posted by:
    TimBrown (+5)
    Date:
    Wed, 20 May 2009 00:06:54 GMT

    no it is not included this auction is for 24Forums.com. I have no plans on "competing" against 24forums.com any time soon.

  13. Avatar for seaneking
    Posted by:
    seaneking (+3)
    Date:
    Tue, 26 May 2009 13:40:09 GMT

    Could you please provide some form of revenue proof.

    Thanks

  14. Avatar for forumrating
    Posted by:
    forumrating (+5)
    Date:
    Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:55:34 GMT

    whats the bin price ?

  15. Avatar for TimBrown
    Posted by:
    TimBrown (+5)
    Date:
    Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:38:41 GMT

    no BIN price on this auction sorry. auction ends in 4 hours! happy bidding!

  16. Avatar for TimBrown
    Posted by:
    TimBrown (+5)
    Date:
    Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:08:03 GMT

    less than an hour left!

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