Website for sale

[ThomasHardy]

Sadly I have to put my new blog up for sale, I just don't have the time to give it the attention it deserves and I would hate to see it go waste so I am going to put it up for sale and hopefully someone else can keep expanding it.

Domain Name
www.swick.co.uk - The domain name is a mixture of sweet/sick and we have tried to keep our content inline with that by showcasing sweet/sick stuff.

Date Blog Established
Registered on: 29-May-2009 and then launched on 1-June-2009

Google Page Rank
The homepage has a PR of 4 and the blog posts vary from 4-6.

Technorati Ranking
It is currently ranked 72,645 and authority of 46, but I only submitted it two weeks and this is climbing everyday.

Alexa Ranking
It's current 3 month alexa ranking is 78034, but it has only been around 2 months so the ranking is actually quite good.

Google Top Keyword Search Results
Funny Graffiti, Iconic Photographs and a lot of other phrases bring in traffic.

Revenue from Ads
It earns on average £2.57 (roughly $4.40) per day from adsense (Although I only put adsense only onto the website on the 15th july, just as I stopped posting on the website so I have no idea what the earnings would be like when the traffic is high.) (Adsense screenshot - http://twitpic.com/cyuri)
It currently earns $41.25 through buysellads, but this can easily be increased to $101.25 if you can find two advertisers. (BuySellAds screenshot - http://twitpic.com/cyuq1)

A combination of the above puts its monthly earnings are $170+ but this can easily be increased by selling text links with the high PR, posting articles more regularly or finding two advertisers for the buysellads spots.

Web Traffic Stats (Correct as of August 5th)
June - 355,245 Visits 449,791 Pageviews (Screenshot - http://twitpic.com/cyuw8)
July - 132,240 Visits 220,446 Pageviews (Screenshot - http://twitpic.com/cyuur)
August so far - 2,330 Visits 5,157 Pageviews (Screenshot - http://twitpic.com/cyupi)

As you can see the traffic was huge when we posting a lot and then it decreased as we stopped posted, but now in August the majority of the traffic is organic and I expect this to grow as the site ages and ranks better in google.

Feed and Feed Subscriber Statistics
Over 150 RSS/E-mail subscribers

Number of Articles
38 Articles

Number of Comments
317 Comments

Yahooo Inbound Links
Over 30,000 and still growing!

Hosting/Server
The site is hosted on my Media Temple grid server package which wont be included in the sale as I have a few other sites on it, although I will help transfer the site over to your hosting.

My Participation After Sale
After the sale I will be available to help transfer the site and make sure it is all working, but once its sold I wont be able to help out.

Posting Frequency
For month and a half it was 4-5 articles a week but after that I have been unavailable to post.

You can PM me any offers but it is currently in an auction over at digitalpoint forums where you can bid, if you dont have an account on the site but would like to bid please PM me and I will put your bid in. - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1446780

[spidersites]

Personally I dont think this site has valuable content. However I am amazed at how you managed to get a pr of 4 and so many visitors since the beginning of June.

I have several sites one of which is a blog for developers but dont have much luck getting traffic. Whats your secret?

[lesliedocherty]

Personally I dont think this site has valuable content. However I am amazed at how you managed to get a pr of 4 and so many visitors since the beginning of June.

I have several sites one of which is a blog for developers but dont have much luck getting traffic. Whats your secret?

Same here, dont quite believe it, but it seems to be true

[fisicx]

I seem to recall commenting on the amount of work needed to keep the site alive. You adsence earnings aren't going to improve very much and the stonking great t-shirt promos are so annoying. I suspect therefore by the end of August your traffic will have slowed to a trickle making it a much less viable prospect.

[MadWeb]

The home page has a Page Rank of 5 according to my browser, that's unbelievably quick - I'd love to know the secret.

[crossdaz]

The home page has a Page Rank of 5 according to my browser, that's unbelievably quick - I'd love to know the secret.

get a load of links from other sites with high toolbar page rank.

The secret's out of the bag now :)

[ThomasHardy]

I seem to recall commenting on the amount of work needed to keep the site alive. You adsence earnings aren't going to improve very much and the stonking great t-shirt promos are so annoying. I suspect therefore by the end of August your traffic will have slowed to a trickle making it a much less viable prospect.

Hi,

Yes it require 2-3 hours a day to keep the traffic up at the high levels, but it now makes around £2.50 a day by doing nothing, but I had a day where I released an article (http://swick.co.uk/index.php/2009/07/10-cool-bottle-openers/) and it made £4.87 so it does have room for improvement and all it would need is someone who could post regularly.

[fisicx]

Yes I agree but it's not a money maker, it's a labout of love. Hence the value of the site will be low. To get a decent price you would have to show sustainable traffic/income over a longer period of time.

I thought that you had a load of people queing up to advertise on the site? Surely they will earn you morte than adsense?

[ThomasHardy]

Yes I agree but it's not a money maker, it's a labout of love. Hence the value of the site will be low. To get a decent price you would have to show sustainable traffic/income over a longer period of time.

I thought that you had a load of people queing up to advertise on the site? Surely they will earn you morte than adsense?

I agree it isn't a huge money maker but it could probably make around £400-500 a month if I had the time to post 4-5 times a week again, which I am sure would help anyone pay the bills.

I had a few but they wanted to advertise links to gambling related sites I felt my soul was worth more than that. I still have two people advertising on the site and have left two spaces open but I am not actively pursuing people to fill them.

[fisicx]

But you need to demonstrate this. £500/month is £17/day. At best you were earning a quarter of this despite regular posts.

If you got £5/day that's £150/month. 4 posts per week at 2 hours per post is over 30 hours per month giving you an hourly rate of £5. That's less than the minumium wage. I can earn more delivering leaflets.

I'm sure that site has got lots of potential but a serious buyer will want to see sustained traffic over and extended period of time.

[NutPog]

all was rosy before i checked out the alexa rank... http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/swick.co.uk

[lesliedocherty]

??????, im lost, please explain

[NutPog]

the rank of 77715 is a 3 month average

the 7 day average is only 494596

newly started sites getting around 50 uniques a day would get that

basically what i'm trying to say is the traffic on his sites are not very valuable, or he's hardly getting any users anymore.

[crossdaz]

the rank of 77715 is a 3 month average



you are gleaning a lot of assumptions from a very blunt instrument in terms of analysing another site. I'm not sure you understand what the ranking figure relates to?

The guy is offering his site for sale, not asking for in-depth analysis of why you don't think anyone should buy it?

[lesliedocherty]

Ah, that makes sense, sorry for that

[NutPog]

lesliedocherty (http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/member.php?u=6914) said ??????, im lost, please explain prompting me to make an explanation... perhaps i'm reading wrong... lol

you are gleaning a lot of assumptions from a very blunt instrument in terms of analysing another site. I'm not sure you understand what the ranking figure relates to?

The guy is offering his site for sale, not asking for in-depth analysis of why you don't think anyone should buy it?

[crossdaz]

lesliedocherty (http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/member.php?u=6914) said prompting me to make an explanation... perhaps i'm reading wrong... lol

I meant the OP

[lesliedocherty]

The guy is offering his site for sale, not asking for in-depth analysis of why you don't think anyone should buy it?

i asked a question, he answered, and your problem is ??????

[Khalid Bin Walid]

Your website is unique, its has these unique pictures which cant be found in other sites. Guess it was hard to find more unique pictures. You can add another article about Religions, Have the Religion logos as pictures.

I think you should carry on with this site you just need to add a few things to it.

[ThomasHardy]

the rank of 77715 is a 3 month average

the 7 day average is only 494596

newly started sites getting around 50 uniques a day would get that

basically what i'm trying to say is the traffic on his sites are not very valuable, or he's hardly getting any users anymore.

Alexa rank is easily manipulated, one day it got 49,000 views and got a rank of 42,000 then a day a week or so later it got 20,000 views and had a rank of 29,000...

As for 50 uniques a day getting that ranking I highly doubt it unless they all had alexa toolbar installed.

[ThomasHardy]

But you need to demonstrate this. £500/month is £17/day. At best you were earning a quarter of this despite regular posts.

If you got £5/day that's £150/month. 4 posts per week at 2 hours per post is over 30 hours per month giving you an hourly rate of £5. That's less than the minumium wage. I can earn more delivering leaflets.

I'm sure that site has got lots of potential but a serious buyer will want to see sustained traffic over and extended period of time.

I see where you coming from hence why I am not selling it for £6000.

I am looking for around £1300 which considering the site could sit and make me $170 ~£100 per month (this is with me doing 3-4 hours work a month) I feel it is a good deal as someone could buy it and post 1-2 times a month and make £100 or they could attempt to post more frequently and increase the earnings.

[websitedesign]

"takes 2-3 hours a day to keep the traffic up at the high levels, but it now makes around £2.50 a day"

So if I buy this website would be working for £1/hour?

Do you have any permanent links that drive traffic to the site? If so could you please elaborate on the stats

[ThomasHardy]

"takes 2-3 hours a day to keep the traffic up at the high levels, but it now makes around £2.50 a day"

So if I buy this website would be working for £1/hour?

Do you have any permanent links that drive traffic to the site? If so could you please elaborate on the stats

Ok just to clarify what I meant by this is. Right now it gets around 500 hits a day from google and people sharing links to my site on twitter etc and it makes around £2.50 this is with me doing no work.

But when I was working 2-3 hours a day i was bringing in atleast 10,000 uniques per day I just didn't have adsense on the site at the time so I don't know what it would make.

As far permeant links bringing in traffic, it is a regular on www.coedmagazine.com and has a spot in the footer links which is sitewide.

[eventdomain]

Now time for a dose of reality - nobody will buy this, never mind make the kind of money you suggest.

It's just a blog, something anybody can do, and something many ARE doing for a lot less than £1300 :rolleyes: I have a blog and it only cost me £60 to set up, instal etc.

This is a personal site, with hardly enough content to drive amazing traffic, yet far too much resulting in work overload, leading to fast demotivation and thus giving up the site.

could sit and make me $170 ~£100 per month

Could be, maybe. Even if it could make £100 a month, it would take me 13 months @ £100, to just break even on my original investment and that's a long time. There's no way a blog, that's a few months old brings in 10'000 uniques, not even per month, never mind a day. Even per month, you'd need at least 50k of weblinks pointing to it.

[ThomasHardy]

Now time for a dose of reality - nobody will buy this, never mind make the kind of money you suggest.

It's just a blog, something anybody can do, and something many ARE doing for a lot less than £1300 :rolleyes: I have a blog and it only cost me £60 to set up, instal etc.

This is a personal site, with hardly enough content to drive amazing traffic, yet far too much resulting in work overload, leading to fast demotivation and thus giving up the site.



Could be, maybe. Even if it could make £100 a month, it would take me 13 months @ £100, to just break even on my original investment and that's a long time. There's no way a blog, that's a few months old brings in 10'000 uniques, not even per month, never mind a day. Even per month, you'd need at least 50k of weblinks pointing to it.

You just took what I said well out of context, I said it could sit now and make $170, maening it is already making that but it has potential to make more.

As for the price being to high maybe it was, but I sold it for £1,000 yesterday and yes YOU may of set one up for £60 but I highly doubt you would be able to set a blog up making £100 a month with a high PR and over 32,000 backlinks for £60...

Also it brought in over 300,000 uniques in june, if you had bothered to go and check you would of seen that. As for having 50k of weblinks it has 32k of weblinks so you were close.

[eventdomain]

You just took what I said well out of context,

No I didn't. You came on here gloating about your fantastic blog and how you got 30'000 of links and it makes this and that blah blah, but you come up against someone with 8 yrs experience in the publishing industry that knows this just isnt possible to do.

1. Dunno where you got those links from, but its not the number you think it is.

2. There are thousands of blogs - why would 30'000 suddenly link to you - whats so different about your blog, that I can't find elsewhere.

3. It would take at least 2 years to get all those links, and Google would certainly kill your site as a consequence. Linking is tougher than ever anyway, and people just aren't linking like they used to.

4. No way does a 2 month old site get that many links to it - no way, unless you either bought them or their all crap, worthless links.

300k of unique visitors lol, - it does not get that.

I said it could sit now and make $170, maening it is already making that but it has potential to make more.


Sorry I don't believe you, and I don't just believe what someone posts on a forum without evidence, especially when your post looks like a giant sales plug.

As for the price being too high maybe it was, but I sold it for £1,000 yesterday and yes YOU may of set one up for £60 but I highly doubt you would be able to set a blog up making £100 a month with a high PR and over 32,000 backlinks for £60...

Yes I could, with my resources and knowledge of my industry, I could do it so easily. The reason I choose not to do it, is bcos I don't have the time nor the drive to do this, when what I do now brings me significant more traffic than some 2 month old blog with a few images.

Also it brought in over 300,000 uniques in june,

I don't think so, if it were, you'd wouldn't accept £1000 for it so quickly :rolleyes:
That works out to 3.6 million (Per Annum) visitors, and you let it go for £1000 - uniques too :eek:.

See there's just too many things that just don't add up for this story of yours.... 300k of visitors a month for one thing, na, noone flogs that kind of worth for a measly £1000 :( You'd be chucking money down the plughole (if you sold the blog) and that doesn't make sense.

Sorry, but there's just too many factors working that will stop you from getting that traffic. I'm sure others will point them out and agree with me.

[NutPog]

yeh i agree with the above. it all seems a bit too good to be true. to be honest the blog's not that great, so i'm just wondering how it can bring in so many people on auto-pilot. on the plus, i'm glad to hear it's been sold because now this thread can be closed :D

[lesliedocherty]

i agree, done done done and everyones a winner

[ThomasHardy]

No I didn't. You came on here gloating about your fantastic blog and how you got 30'000 of links and it makes this and that blah blah, but you come up against someone with 8 yrs experience in the publishing industry that knows this just isnt possible to do.

1. Dunno where you got those links from, but its not the number you think it is.

2. There are thousands of blogs - why would 30'000 suddenly link to you - whats so different about your blog, that I can't find elsewhere.

3. It would take at least 2 years to get all those links, and Google would certainly kill your site as a consequence. Linking is tougher than ever anyway, and people just aren't linking like they used to.

4. No way does a 2 month old site get that many links to it - no way, unless you either bought them or their all crap, worthless links.

300k of unique visitors lol, - it does not get that.


1. The links came from people liking my articles, 2,000+ alone come from the footer link I was given on www.coedmagaize.com which is one the top websites for 17-34 year old males.

2. Yes there may be thousands of blogs but its all about how you spread teh word about your blog, which I do really well.

3. Nope google rewarded it with a PR of 4 on the homepage and then 4/5/6 on the articles, check ranking number 3 - http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=iconic+photographs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

4. Never paid for a link once all naturally generated.


Sorry I don't believe you, and I don't just believe what someone posts on a forum without evidence, especially when your post looks like a giant sales plug.


Of course what I said was a sales plug I was selling a website...


Yes I could, with my resources and knowledge of my industry, I could do it so easily. The reason I choose not to do it, is bcos I don't have the time nor the drive to do this, when what I do now brings me significant more traffic than some 2 month old blog with a few images.

I don't think so, if it were, you'd wouldn't accept £1000 for it so quickly :rolleyes:
That works out to 3.6 million (Per Annum) visitors, and you let it go for £1000 - uniques too :eek:.


To keep it at 300K uniques per month I would of had to work 3-4 hours a day and I am currently decorating my new house and it has to be ready for me to move in on september 1st so I just don't have the time so it had to go.


See there's just too many things that just don't add up for this story of yours.... 300k of visitors a month for one thing, na, noone flogs that kind of worth for a measly £1000 :( You'd be chucking money down the plughole (if you sold the blog) and that doesn't make sense.

Sorry, but there's just too many factors working that will stop you from getting that traffic. I'm sure others will point them out and agree with me.

I may of chucked money down the plughole but I just didn't see the point in holding onto it while I couldn't work on it, I leanrt a lot of lessons in the 2 months I ran the site and I also have another successful blog (www.webdesignerhelp.co.uk) which I am happy with just running one for now.

Hopefully this will answer your questions, I just dont understand why you find it so hard to believe I could I bring in huge traffic and generate links so quickly.

[ThomasHardy]

yeh i agree with the above. it all seems a bit too good to be true. to be honest the blog's not that great, so i'm just wondering how it can bring in so many people on auto-pilot. on the plus, i'm glad to hear it's been sold because now this thread can be closed :D

Well if you had of read it all properly you would understand that on autopilot it was only bringing in 500-1000 a day, it took alot of work to keep the traffic at high levels.

And yes this thread can be closed.