The owner of a website, initially based on Pligg and later utilizing a Vbulletin Forum, is seeking funds to customize and market the site further. This site, operational for about 8 months, is the primary source of income for the owner, owing to its high organic search ranking for key terms like "Cricket Highlights" and "IPL Highlights." There are approximately 4500 members, including three premium members paying $25 annually, though premium services have not been extensively promoted. The owner employs a staff member for $150 monthly to upload match highlights, requiring minimal additional work to maintain the site, such as creating predefined threads 12 hours before a match to optimize search engine indexing. Operating costs include $5 monthly for shared hosting.
The site boasts significant SEO achievements, including a PageRank of 4 and thousands of backlinks from Yahoo and Google. Revenue streams from the site include Adsense ($600-$650), Bannerconnect ($100), Axill.in ($60), cricket affiliations ($50-$100), and CPC ads in signatures ($60). Premium memberships have brought in $50 so far. The website also offers for sale its domain name, database, Vbulletin Forum license, and VBSEO license, seeking to leverage its high Alexa rank of 50,000. The traffic is primarily from Google search (55%), followed by direct (35%) and referral traffic (10%), with no paid traffic investments besides a brief $4 adwords test.
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