Established Act Fast - iPodArena.com For Sale

[GeorgeB]

I've gotten requests almost begging me to sell this site (because people know I sell sites often on SitePoint) so here it is!!

URL: www.iPodArena.com

PR4

Members: 77
Threads: 183
Posts: 1,307

vblicense included?: Yes if bidding reaches $1000 (brand new OWNED purchased in your name so no transfer worries)

Unique custom design
vBadvanced installed
Auto NewsBot hack installed (user: iPodNews)

Revenue: Not a lot to speak of. I ran a bunch of different cj.com ads this month trying to capitalize on the traffic but they failed miserably. I made about $5.35 in commisions. But then most people complain that it's hard to make money with CJ. Suggest you switch back to adsense.

Traffic
Traffic is settling at close to 300 uniques per day. I ran a promotion where I got a bunch of people to link to a quiz on the site. It attracted a lot of visitors but the post count didn't pick up much. PLENTY of people have linked to it in their blogs though. The site has 4,895 backlinks and rising according to MarketLeap.com.

The site has natural traffic of it's own outside the quiz. I started promoting the quiz on May 21st as you can see from the screenshots but the traffic was already increasing.

Traffic Proof 1
Traffic Proof 2

This site has great money potential. You can add an Amazon store or some other means to compliment your adsense revenue. I've only owned this site for about a month but before I owned it I'm told the site made $100 - $150 month with adsense. I imagine because of the high paying iPod ads.

Bidding starts at only $850
BIN: $1500

 

[cloakerz]

Seeing how traffic took a turn downhill there I will take a look into this site here. Give me a day or so unless someone has taken it before I get back to you.

Thanks!

 

[GeorgeB]

Ok sounds good thanks.

 

[webmark]

George, can you show us the first few days of visits for June from your Awstats pls

Cheers

 

[GeorgeB]

sure thing.. brb

http://ipodarena.com/ipodstatsjune.jpg

There

 

[GeorgeB]

Stats added, let me know what you think.

 

[GeorgeB]

BIN Dropped to $1000

Looking for min bid of $850

 

[GeorgeB]

Minimum bid is now $700 will probably let it go for the first good offer.

 

[jstep]

my biggest problem is that your traffic is so inconsistent

 

[cloakerz]

update stats please

 

[webmark]

$700

 

[GeorgeB]

my biggest problem is that your traffic is so inconsistent

I understand. Let me explain precisely why that is because I want the buyer to fully understand...

I started out buying the site when it was getting around 500 unques per day. It was making good per click rates via adsense so I got greedy and immediately replaced adsense ads with the affiliate banners (trying to get those $5 per lead rates ) but it failed miserably.

Meanwhile I did nothing else but install vbadvanced and the articlebot. I flat out neglected it. The uniques dropped to abou 200 per day. I figured eh, I just need more traffic so I added the quiz thing to the site a few weeks ago and increased the traffic to like 1000 per day for a few days because bloggers all over linked to it in their blogs for a few days. Now the site has been a PR4 since the last update months ago so this will only increase its ranking.

So even with me still doing absolutely nothing to the site it still gets SE and random blog link traffic in the 300 uniques per day range.

update stats please

Coming right up....

Updated uniques for past few days: http://ipodarena.com/updateduniques.jpg

Factor in a few uniques per day from namepros.. (not many because my sale thread is always at the bottom lol) and it's about 300 uniques per day pure SE and random links traffic.

 

[GeorgeB]

Unless someone bids by midnight tonight this site will be sold for $700.

George

 

[Smurfy]

very nice site George, good luck with the sale