Finance Website, Earns 1000 Per Month just with Adsense, Lots of Potential for Much More
http://home-loan-modifications.info/ This site has been listed 1 time previously
Sold at Public Auction
$7,150
Bidding History: 2 bids- Started:
- Fri, Jun 12, 2009
- Completed:
- Sat, Jun 27, 2009
** Update June 13th - Guys - I'm actually going to be ending the auction a little early. I need to get my tuition paid for (its due very soon), so I will be considering any *serious* offers.
Please don't lowball the price - I probably won't even reply to those.
I also lowered the BUY IT NOW price substantially for a quicker sell. **
** If you do not have any positive feedback, Please PM me before you BID or BIN, otherwise I will reject it **
I started this adsense site mid March in 2009. I didn't expect it to take off like it did, but as you can see from the adsense revenue, its a good earner. It's sole form of revenue is adsense, but obviously it can make a LOT more if you know what your doing with CPA's and affiliate offers. I just have not had the time to dive into it, and I won't have the time anywhere in the near future.
I'm selling it for 2 reasons. #1) I need the money for school, #2) I start school in the fall and I will not have time to work on it.
** The site uses a common adsense wordpress theme. If you see similar sites, this is why. It is a very popular theme because of its high adsense conversions. So please do not ask if my site is affiliated with another site because of this. You are of course free to change the theme to how you see fit if you win the auction **
Revenue Details
All revenue is from the google adsense program. Looks like it averages around $1k/month since March when I started it. See screenshots.
Note: For some reason I think the wordpress template I installed is messing up the tracking, because the site is actually earning about $1500/month. I'm not sure why it's tracking wrong, I don't have the time or knowledge to look into it and fix it. The reason I know it's tracking wrong is because the daily earnings do not add up with what the channel is showing, so I think the tracking code is messed up on one of the channels for the site. I'm still getting credit for the clicks, it's just not tracking a portion of them in the channel.
HOWEVER, I am selling the site as if it were earning the $1k/month average in the screenshots. It's only fair to sell it for what I can prove it makes with screenshots.
The income is fairly residual. I submitted a lot of articles in the beginning, but I only submitted maybe 10-20 articles for the month of May, and it was still a very good month. I have not submitted any articles for a few weeks and its still earning well.
With a bit of work I'm sure it could surpass $4k/month purely from adsense clicks. That's about $130 per day, and as you can see by the screenshots it has had a couple days in that range. So it's not unachievable by any means.
March Revenue: $718 (I put adsense on the site mid-month, see screenshot)
April Revenue: $1155
May Revenue: $1056
June Revenue: Screenshot Added
Traffic Details
The majority of the traffic comes from articles on ezinearticles. The articles have also been mass submitted to the top 150-ish article directories. However, as you are probably aware most of the referral traffic comes from ezinearticles.
I haven't counted the exact article count because it would take awhile - but it has roughly 200 articles pointing to the site from ezinearticles. I'm guessing a lot of the articles are ranked on the search engines because they bring in a considerable amount of traffic.
If you want examples of my articles please PM me and I can link some to you.
If you're serious about buying the site, I can provide links to every single article. If you have an ezinearticle account I can transfer all the rights to you. I contacted ezinearticles and they said this was possible.
0 views are from paid traffic.
** Payment Options - I would prefer escrow.com however if you decide to use paypal I will have to make sure the funds clear before I transfer the site. There is a lot of paypal fraud going on and I need to make sure the payment is legit **
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Claimed Traffic
| Page Views Per Month | 8,000 |
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| Uniques Per Month | 4,000 |
Claimed Financials
| Gross Revenue (per month est) | $1,000 |
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| No profit is being claimed. | |
| Warning: The seller has provided estimates (read more) | |
Monetization Methods
| Advertising Sales | No |
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| Product or Service Sales | No |
| Affiliate Income | No |
Site Uniqueness
- Content is not claimed to be unique
- Design is not claimed to be unique
Seller
Attachments
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March Adsense Earnings
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April Adsense Earnings
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May Adsense Earnings
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Awstats
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Google Analytics
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June Adsense - Up to June 12th
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June Adsense Up to 24th
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Contextual Help
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Where did you get the 200 articles that were submitted to ezinearticles?
They were written by several freelance writers. All of them are 100% original.
4000 visitors a month.. 1k dollars with google.. i say no more... :p
What's your click through rate on adsense ads and average earnings per click?
Regarding the articles that were submitted, how much did it cost to have 200 articles written? About how many new articles would need to be submitted per month to keep the traffic at its current level and how much would this cost?
VeraBestia - I'm not sure if revealing my CTR is against adsense CTR but I will just say it USUALLY is in the double digits. I think I can count the number of times the day ended in single digit CTR on one hand in the past 3 months. I'm not kidding.
Earnings per click ranges from .50cents to $5. I've even had a $9 click once when it first got indexed. I've had days where the average was as high as $3 per click, and days as low as .50 cents per click. Recently (past couple weeks) its been a steady $1 per click average by the end of the day.
Curbeo - I'm not sure of the exact cost because I submitted MOST of them all through March and April. The cost of each article varied so much because one article would be 250 words, while another would be nearly 600. All in All I'd estimate I spent around $1000 on articles though.
As far as how many would need to be submitted to maintain it - put it this way: I've submitted 2 so far in June - and my earnings have never been higher. All of the articles were very heavily researched around high traffic keywords with relatively low comp - I put a lot of time into it - so they should be getting a lot of search engine traffic - which tells you the traffic should be fairly steady on a month to month basis.
Honestly - I'm guessing you could probably go 2 months without submitting a single article until you saw the traffic and earnings start to slowly decline - and still make around $1500 each of those months. This is obviously speculation because nobody can say for sure - but just off my experience with how little I've been submitting recently and earnings just keep going UP.
I'm sure you guys think I'm crazy for selling this, or that I must be inflating the figures. But I'm not - I have screenshots to prove everything. I just really need the money for school. That's all there is to it.
Update - I've added June adsense up to today (June 12). Just to show you guys I'm not blowing smoke when I say the earnings are consistent and it's on track for a great month.
Interested, PM sent
Are you including the ezinearticles account? Just wondering what would keep you from changing the resource box after the sale.
The ezinearticle account will not be included because I have too many other niches and articles under it that took me years to build up. However, as stated in the traffic details part, if you have an ezinearticles account I can actually TRANSFER the articles to your account. I have already contacted the ezinearticles team about this and they said this can be done.
Forgot to include this in the last response - but here is the actual email I got from ezinearticles about transferring the articles to a different account:
"Thank you for your email.
You may transfer articles with our assistance. Please respond with the article titles on the account and to what author they need to be transferred to.
Also keep in mind that if it is a different account, we will need to the permission of the primary author on the account in order to change anything.
Thank you,
Vanessa
http://EzineArticles.com/"
One more thing -
I'm getting a few people PM'ing me wanting me to take screen captures of me logging in adsense and showing the earnings. I have showed one person - but then I realized it might be against adsense TOS to do that (showing the CTR etc).
So unless someone can show me where it is not against adsense TOS - I am only willing to show the screen capture to the winning bidder - and if what you see isn't 100% what you see in the screenshots above you are well within your right to walk away.
Hi - I just accessed your site and it is simply a number of adsense adds on one page. Is this your site or am I missing something?
I'm not sure what site you accessed - but the site has a total of 2 adsense blocks per page (2 adsense blocks around the actual content).
Maybe its your browser? - I dunno - but that is definitely not how the site looks.
Hi I accessed your site using IE8 as well and all it had was adsense adds.
If you visit it using firefox, this fixes the problem.
Hmmm I dunno. I tried it with IE and it works fine. I had a few of my online buddies try it too and it works fine. I'll look into it though - if anyone else has the issue let me know.
I'm just using a common wordpress theme so I will see if I can get ahold of the original programmer and ask him if this was ever a problem.
Just checked it in Explorer 8. All the pages look fine, but this one is just a big adsense block:
http://home-loan-modifications.info/home-loan-modifications/
Yea I actually got that too. Gotta love Internet Explorer =)
I just unpublished the page. I don't have enough coding knowledge to go in there and fiddle with it.
Guys - I'm actually going to be ending the auction a little early. I need to get my tuition paid for (its due very soon), so I will be considering any *serious* offers.
Please don't lowball the price - I probably won't even reply to those.
I also lowered the BUY IT NOW price substantially for a quicker sell.
Would you be willing to let the buyer know who the freelance writers are for this website? Do you think the buyer could continue buying articles from them?
Yes of course. That would not be a problem at all. I will respond to all the PM's later on today - got a little busy this morning =)
Would love to see some of the articles, please PM me the links and any further details on earnings.
Would also like to see some of these articles. Very interested. PM info please and maybe an update on adsense earnings?
PM's sent =)
Hi, would you also send me a link to the articles? thanks!
Just added another June screenshot up to today (June 24th, 9pm MST)
Hi, I"m interested... can you please pm me the links to the articles published? Thanks
1 more question: I see only 4 articles on your site. Is that right? Are these unique?
All PM's sent.
Just curious: Why does AWStats show 4513 unique visitors for May, but GA shows only 2204 visits from April 12 to June 5?
I've always thought analytics was kind of a joke as far as tracking traffic volume. I'm either not installing it correctly - or its just not very accurate. I'd attribute that to GA being a javascript (flaky at best). The only thing GA is useful for (in my opinion) is to see your referral traffic, ie. where your traffic is coming from. Awstats is directly from your host, so I would assume its quite a bit more accurate. I don't think I've ever seen awstats and analytics line up, ever.
What's even more funny is that if you look at the adsense screenshots they are more in line with the traffic from Awstats than analytics - and they are both google programs. Go figure =)
FYI, Wes has been very helpful.... allowed me to personally view his analytics. (and if you were wondering... yes they are the same as in the screenshot)
Is http://tipsforloanmodifications.com/ also your site? It looks identical, and also has submissions to ezinearticles.com
Do people even read descriptions anymore? I know the auction is over but I got so many PM's that would have been answered by merely reading the description - such as the one above.
the description says "common adsense wordpress theme", not "site is a verbatim copy of many others out there", unless i missed that?
Congrats to the buyer and seller- a very interesting listing!
BTW, I'm not doubting your traffic, but GA is much more accurate than AWStats in terms of measuring true visitors. Congrats!