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Established Unlocked iPhones site - 18,500 visitors & $1000 revenue in less than 4 months !

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unlockediPhones.net

We have developed this site over the last year since mid 2009. We initially focused on search engine optimization and aggregating quality content and making it easily accessible for visitors to view, discuss and rate. The content aggregation system is automated and tweaked, and the site requires about 5 minutes per day to optimize article tags and clear out spam comments.

It is powered by WordPress (free) along with several plug-ins and everything has been optimized to attract natural organic traffic that is relevant to the content of the site.

Traffic & Revenue

The traffic was light until about March 2009. Since then we have seen steady growth;

2009 April
1900 visitors, 2500+ page views, $109.22 revenue

2009 May
4800+ visitors, 7500+ page views, $225.91 revenue

2009 June
7073 visitors, 9966 page views, $346.41 revenue

2009 July
6977 visitors, 9824 page views, $569.11 revenue




SEO & Traffic Analysis

The site is well positioned in the search engines, with about 6400 pages indexed in Google and 950 in Yahoo.

In addition, the site content is promoted (again, in automated fashion) using social media. The twitter account @iphonesunlocked has 195 followers and is included as part of this site sale.

Overall, in 2009 so far, there have been 22,000+ visits from 176 countries, 81 % of which were from search engines using 9300+ different keywords.

The top 5 countries, by number of visits, are the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and India.

If Google PageRank is still relevant to you, well it's PR2 for this site.

Revenue sources

The revenue is from Google Adsense and the eBay Partner Network – there are also direct affiliate banners in rotation on the site. The numbers quoted above are only from the eBay & Adsense revenue and don’t account for possible (based on visitor cookies) further revenue from direct affiliate relationships.

Sale terms

We’re selling the name and site in order to finance other projects – this is a most promising site in terms of further growth (and revenue) for a market (unlocked iphones) that will only continue to flourish!

Payment terms are PayPal MassPay (verified and confirmed accounts only)… mandatory escrow for transactions over $5K with buyer paying fees.

Screenshots of revenue & traffic

See the following traffic screen-shot that shows the nice steady traffic from this spring, covering April 1 to July 20, 2009:

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Here, we see the revenue generated through the eBay Partner Network for the site (April 1 – July 20, 2009):

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Serious buyers only; listed on multiple forums. High offer, as of July 31, is USD $3000. While there is no guarantee, obviously, of future traffic or revenue… consider the proven traffic and profit in the last 4 months and you’ll see the real current value and future potential.

Cheers,

Rob
 
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High offer now at $2900.

July (to date) revenue: $375

BIN: $EXPIRED - TAKING OFFERS PP MassPay only from verified and confirmed member.
 
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High offer now at $3K.

July (to date) revenue: $405

Some Q&A:

What is needed to host the site?

  • A standard Linux / UNIX server, though it may work on Windows Servers as well
  • MySQL
  • PHP
  • WordPress (with various plugins)
  • Ideally, access to your server web traffic logs, in order to run traffic analysis and SEO. Otherwise, you can just use Google Analytics.

What is needed to (continue) to monetize the site?

  • A valid Google Adsense account
  • A valid eBay Partner Network account
  • (Ideally) an account at Commission Junction, Linkshare, and other affiliate program managers.
  • Ability to receive payments (by PayPal, or check) from the above affiliate programs!

BIN: $EXPIRED - TAKING OFFERS PP MassPay only from verified and confirmed member.

Note: not interested in trades or financing.

Cheers,
Rob
 
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High offer at $3K.

Previous BIN offer withdrawn, taking offers.

We will begin experimenting with PPC in order to take the revenue / profit higher!

Rob
 
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July revenue (to date) now at just over $500 :) A new milestone and the month is far from done!
 
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July revenue at $550+

BIN: Expired - taking offers. (Paypal Masspay only - or escrow, buyer paying fees.)
 
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Rtm.. .com here.. wait till fall begins.. then you will see some crazy numbers. I promise you if you hold onto the site and continue promoting it.. you will hit over 2k from epn alone in dec.

Recession smecession americans are americans and they are going to buy buy buy iphones this coming dec. I unloaded my site cause i needed the money for an offline project and pretty sure i can buy it back if i want to if the guy doesnt take care of it.

This site is a cheap sale on a solid niche. Think about it ATT has the contract for the next 3 years or something along that line. Mix that with other aff programs in the iphone niche and you are golden.

Cheers Nick.
 
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July numbers just coming in, but we're at about $565+ in profit for the month.

BIN: Expired - taking offers. (Paypal Masspay only - or escrow, buyer paying fees.)

Considering relisting on eBay and SEDO for end user opportunities.
 
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Care to address this?

***NO LINKING TO OUTSIDE FORUMS*** UsualCliche
 
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Rtm.. .com here.. wait till fall begins.. then you will see some crazy numbers. I promise you if you hold onto the site and continue promoting it.. you will hit over 2k from epn alone in dec.

Recession smecession americans are americans and they are going to buy buy buy iphones this coming dec. I unloaded my site cause i needed the money for an offline project and pretty sure i can buy it back if i want to if the guy doesnt take care of it.

This site is a cheap sale on a solid niche. Think about it ATT has the contract for the next 3 years or something along that line. Mix that with other aff programs in the iphone niche and you are golden.

Cheers Nick.

Congrats on your sale of the .com version! I agree, this one will only go up - no idea about what revenue streams will be like in December (I can't predict the future) but since our profit has been pretty much doubling every month since the spring, things are looking good.

We're selling to finance other online start-ups, but will definitely not sell at a ridiculous price... it's already tough enough putting a BIN under 12x monthly revenue, but that's the current market.

I agree that unlocked iphones are a huge market... just looking over all the eBay sites with real sales and bids, it being a high ticket (average 3G unlocked iphone averaging $500-800 sold on eBay) item and all the neverending consumer fervor for all things iPhone - it's a winner.

We may just pull the site and go full out on PPC and further SEO optimization to take it to the next level....

Care to address this?

Certainly, I had contacted the OP / buyer for that domain a bit over a year ago by email to address his concerns and provide some tips and tricks on improving his CTR and conversion ratios for the domain he purchased... I'll post an update in that thread you referenced. Basically, when buying a site with established revenue, it's obviously not a guarantee of future returns as with any investment. That said, I was pretty forthright and transparent as far as the sale went, with full stats and screenshots and the transfer of the domain and website went smoothly.

My []Trader feedback on DNF over the last 4+ years[/URL]; all positive.

Cheers,

Rob
 
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Certainly, I had contacted the OP / buyer for that domain a bit over a year ago by email to address his concerns and provide some tips and tricks on improving his CTR and conversion ratios for the domain he purchased... I'll post an update in that thread you referenced. Basically, when buying a site with established revenue, it's obviously not a guarantee of future returns as with any investment. That said, I was pretty forthright and transparent as far as the sale went, with full stats and screenshots and the transfer of the domain and website went smoothly.

My Trader feedback on DNF over the last 4+ years; all positive.

Cheers,

Rob

Care to reference said email(s) as you have not responded at all to numerous emails and PMs.

As for tips to improve CTR / conversions - how can you improve on sending the domain directly to the affiliate program? The name went from over $100/mo to $0/yr after I bought it.
 
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As for tips to improve CTR / conversions - how can you improve on sending the domain directly to the affiliate program? The name went from over $100/mo to $0/yr after I bought it.

As I mentioned, I'll follow up over on DNF. Obviously, there was no ROI guarantee, although phpfox.ca is a pretty premium name depending how one uses it. The email I had sent with tips had ideas about using iFrames vs. 301/302 redirects and also the variability of phpFoX Konsort conversion given that 1.6 was launched around when we were converting well (2.0 is around the corner in late beta etc)...

I don't want to take this too far OT, so please follow with me over in the DNF thread.

Rob
 
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August numbers for unlockediphones.net, thus far (August 1-9):

2600 visitors
3600 page views
$169 revenue

Site has been listed on eBay.

BIN: Expired - taking offers. (Paypal Masspay only - or escrow, buyer paying fees.)
 
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I can't seem to access unlockediPhones.net ...
 
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I can't seem to access unlockediPhones.net ...

Should be fine now.

Latest August stats (Aug. 1-13):

Revenue $215
3600 visitors
5000 page views
 
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Offer of $3500 received by PM.
 
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BIN: Expired - taking offers. (Paypal Masspay only - or escrow, buyer paying fees.)
 
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High offer now at $3625

BIN: Expired - taking offers. (Paypal Masspay only - or escrow, buyer paying fees.)
 
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BIN: Expired - taking offers. (Paypal Masspay only - or escrow, buyer paying fees.)

Latest numbers for August thus far:

7150 visitors (all organic thus far in August 1 - 26)
10,000 page views
$330 revenue
204 followers for the (included) iphonesunlocked Twitter account...

Serious buyers only, please.
 
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