Established ianag.com/arcade: PR6 index - ~20k gp's/day HUGE

[iamnotageek]

URL: http://www.ianag.com/arcade/

Age of site (months): 7 (domain is older)

Monthly revenue: 6k

Revenue details: http://www.ianag.com/sale/ypn.png

Monthly page views: 1.5M

Traffic details:
http://www.ianag.com/sale/aw_april.png
http://www.ianag.com/sale/aw_march.png
http://www.ianag.com/sale/aw_feb.png
http://www.ianag.com/sale/aw_jan.png

Almost 92% of the traffic is DIRECT bookmark/typein traffic! http://www.ianag.com/sale/aw_source.png

The search term ianag has brought us over 1k visitors from google in the first 11 days. This says alot about the name recognition.

Description:
This is a VERY well established and highly profitable arcade. This site has been the gamescript main demo since I purchased gamescript. This site can remain the demo only if the site continues to use the latest release version and stock template with text changes only. since gamescript only provides a SMALL amount of the traffic most people won't care about this.

This site honestly got big on "accident" I set it up and pushed some links to it and over time it grew steadily! I never launched any large ad campaigns! I have done some small adwords and adbrite campaigns from time to time. Last month I spent about $150 on ads and this month I have about the same in my budget.

Type of site:
Established and functional website with traffic

Price (or starting bid): 50k

Is an auction?: Yes

Google page rank: 6

Alexa site rank: 66k

 

[fryman]

Yahoo ads are meant to be shown to US audience. If you are not targeting it you are in a high risk of having your account closed.

 

[iamnotageek]

I know of plenty of people who have been using unfiltered ads for months now without a peep from yahoo. and YES these people I know of are in fact doing hundreds/day.

 

[kanoodledood]

400 dollars in 24 hours with 1,500- 2,000 teenagers? Its really impressive.

 

[dewpoint]

I am a bit confused. Your sales were 'flying" as was the traffic. So, why did you redirect a successful site to another unrelated site, potentially losing any search engine positioning and your bookmarked, type-in visitors, right at the same time that your profit was significantly increasing. And right before you decided to sell?

 

[iamnotageek]

dewpoint, what are you talking about?

ianag.com was always another name for iamnotageek.com which I moved most of the content to networktechs.com.....

 

[jacksonmui]

i knew your site used to PR7, it PR6 now?

 

[dewpoint]

Still confused. Do the stats provided show income for ianag.com, or are they from iamnotageek.com or are they from networktechs.com.

The confusing part is why, after finding out that you could make $400 a day off of ianag.com, you would then forward the domain, and give up on the income, and run the risk of losing all bookmarkers and search engine positioning.

 

[iamnotageek]

the arcade which is what all of the stats are for is at ianag.com/arcade

ianag.com/ has been forwarding to networktechs.com for like 6mnths now. This has been to try to teach the type in traffic what the right address is. for probably about 6mnths before this forward I forwarded the people to iamnotageek.com.

ianag.com/arcade WAS a PR7 in the previous round of the google PR merry go round. It dropped to a 6. PR7 is rather hard to maintain and it is very common for sites to bounce around a bit. 2 updates ago this arcade was a PR6 so the past 3 updates its been 6-7-6

 

[dewpoint]

Ahhh..I get it now. My apologies. I was clicking on the link in your first post, whick went directly to your network site. And the wording about you forwarding the domain further confused the issue for me. I see now that it is ianag.com/arcade that is getting the traffic, and revenue.

 

[chimaera]

So the Google revenue was from when you filtered who saw the Yahoo ads? Now everyone sees the Yahoo ads?

Also, will you still use the site as your 'demo' from GameScript?

 

[iamnotageek]

sorry about the late night post

The site can remain the demo if the site remains completely stock templates and at the latest release version WITHOUT mods other than the basic information page changes. Obviously it cannot be the demo if it doesn't accurately represent how the site is supposed to be out of the box.

Yes, this big jump was from when I took the google ads out. Yahoo's stats are based on "impressions" while adsense stats I believe are based on pageviews.

Please take a look at the awstats daily stats. You can expect a good 70k impressions/day on weekdays with big drops on weekends.

Yes, I know the big numbers are recent. I thought I'd start things rolling along and update throughout the week as the numbers come in. Larger sales tend to have alot of questions

I realize most of the value of this site hinges on what happens this week. I'm confident its going to show great numbers

 

[tattoobit]

yahoo ad content

Most of the ads seem to be about attorneys and such. Are you using targeting in Yahoo? I am puzzled as to how you can achieve ad revenue in the hundreds per day from your audience. What is the basis for asking 40k?

 

[iamnotageek]

take a look at the revenue numbers since switching to YPN only... This week I'm betting on it averaging $250/day. Links sales on this site could bring an incredible amount of revenue but I simply haven't had the time to focus on that. I get frequent requests for link sales but simply don't want to deal with it since I have so many other things going on.

As stated in my previous post I'm trying to get things rolling on this sale even though I know most of the serious bids won't come until this weekend when I have great stats for the week.

Yes I use YPN targeting... Who doesn't? I juggle categories at least once a week to try to keep the ads fresh. Mainly using financial and legal types. it kills the CTR but averages out ahead.

Also j0n recently sold onlinegames.net for what is believed to be around $100k after talking to him I decided it was time to look into selling this one (which at this point makes WAY more $$$)

 

[kanoodledood]

Why is that? http://iwebtool.com/www.ianag.com

PageRank Checker will check your page and determines how important it is on the Web.

http://www.ianag.com has PageRank 2/10.

 

[iamnotageek]

The key is ianag.com/arcade the front page has just been a redirect for nearly a year

 

[iamnotageek]

3/19 made $33.46 on 14,737 impressions
3/20 made $177.64 on 61,247 impressions

3/21 stats should be really good but I don't get channel stats till the next day. my "daily balance" is really quite high for this time of day though.

past 7 days average is sitting just under $175/day

 

[iamnotageek]

3/21 $210.75 off of 75,168 impressions.

BTW anybody sending me PM's asking for tips on how I got my revenue so high:

I have been posting tips on my forum! I have a private licensed member only forum

 

[iamnotageek]

I picked up a '68 Mustang yesterday so I wasn't around all day

03/23/2006 IANAG arcade 82,138 $229.17
03/22/2006 IANAG arcade 79,188 $209.47

eCPM for YPN jumps around quite a bit from what I've been seeing across my network.

 

[chimaera]

Congrats on the new car! And nice revenues.