NeoNewsNow.com (5,000 unique/day)

[sweet9]

First off, this is not a final thing, I'm seeing what type of offers I can get. If I get good offers, I may CONSIDER selling.

I bought a previously popular web site a few months ago for about $25.00 or so (the site had been dead for about a year), and developed it into its former glory. Previous to the site dying, it got about 7,500 unique hits per day.

Some stats:

Month: Jan
Unique: 25359
Bandwidth: 9.16 GB

Month: Feb
Unique: 34101
Bandwidth: 13.03 GB

Month: Mar
Unique: 51521
Bandwidth: 36.89 GB

Month: Apr
Unique: 74324
Bandwidth: 60.47 GB

Month: May (as of 5/18)
Unique: 46414
Bandwidth: 27.61 GB

The site is active, and has a forum (IPB) that is fully modded, and customized with roughly 3,100 members, and about 100,000 posts. It's fairly active and gets about 30-40 new members a day.

Within the last few days we've been getting about 4,000-5,000 unique hits per day, and that is increasing. We are busiest during weekends.

The actual site has over 400 pages of content, run from a custom made content management system, hundreds of guides, lots of tutorials, daily posted news (by unpaid staff), a portal, and more.

The site is run by about 15 unpaid, yet very talented staff members.

The site does require a lot of updates in order to mantain traffic, and is a fan site for a popular online game (Neopets). I've run it purely as a hobby, not a job, and due to time limitations and the site getting expensive due to bandwidth (images are hosted on another site that uses 50 GB/month) costs, actual site uses 80 GB/month.

I'd still be able to manage the web site, the bills would just be sent to you. The site which we are a fan site of has fairly strict terms regarding ads, as does our site. We do not allow popups or spyware, or anything that could harm a user's computer. Google Ads or related would be best.

Offer what you'd like, I'd be interested. Nothing less than $250 though.

[alaxsxa]

i get this when I visit the site Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


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Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.neonewsnow.com Port 80

[GenericTypo]

pm sent

[LeeD]

pm sent

[DNjet]

pm sent

[Try-Searching.com]

pm sent with additonal questions

[DavidAusman]

Any revenue with your web?

[sweet9]

Not currently, but ads could be put on the site, and revenue wouldn't be a problem.

[Sub]

Are the unique figures Unique Visitors or Hits? What are the updates required to be made? Also, how much do you pay for hosting? Please let me know.

[petertdavis]

Did you come up with a buy price?

[sweet9]

Well currently the bidding is at $2,250.

[DavidAusman]

Why are there so many question mark on the nav bar, or maybe the encoding doesnt fit my browser ?

[pelican]

when will this auction ends?
any BIN?

[sweet9]

Bidding is up to $2,300.

[DNWizardX9]

interested but due to your PM i'm a bit confused. Are you selling this site as 100% ownership? as you're saying you want to stay on and manage and telling us what ads we can run and not run. Will the buyer be able to 100% fully own the site and put up whatever advertising he wants?

[bluemoon]

Ditto!

I submitted my BID and this is what he replied: "Would I still be able to manage it? Where would the ads be, etc.?"

Very Confusing!

[sweet9]

I want to still mantain control, while the other person is paying for and generating income from the site

[octobus]

When do you stop taking offers?

Why do you want to maintain control?

Does the buer need to pay you something for maintaining the site?

I'm a bit confused too...

[sweet9]

I've found a deal that meets my needs, can a mod close this?