Selling network of 100 BANS Sites - $300-$600 Revenue Monthly

**dturnbull** · 04-11-2008, 07:15 PM

At the start of December last year I launched 100 BANS sites over a 1 week period.

Here are some facts about the network:

Hosted on a VPS at Servint ($49 per month)
Every site has it's own cPanel account under WHM
All domains are .com and keyword rich, at GoDaddy.com
All domains expire around the beginning of December this year
All sites are running BANS 2.0 without the EPN Fix (except one I upgraded as a test to BANS 3.0 with EPN fix) - I recommend finding someone on eLance to upgrade all the stores with EPN.
The sites cover a huge array of niches I picked from eBay's categories, ranging from rock climbing gear to artisan jewelry.

Revenue
At this point the network of sites has earned: $1,307.01
December 2007: $1.24
January 2008: $345.10
February 2008: $570.28
March 2008: $363.02
April 2008 (until the 10th): $109.81

Very little promotion has been done. I had two of the sites submitted to directories and I had a blog on blogger.com where I mentioned a few of the sites. The only content is on one site (which is actually the highest earning) which is just a couple of articles I had outsourced.

Why am I selling?
This type of network isn't for me. I am far more interested in building up a small amount of quality content-rich websites and communities. I have an idea for a site that I feel could be very profitable so I'm making sure I have enough funds to pay a couple of writers to write content with me.

My Recommendation
The most profitable site has some content on it, and a simple design I made for it. If you were to go through the most profitable sites (I can give you a list of the top ones) and add some quality content you could turn the network into a great venture. Also, by the time domain renewing comes around you should have an idea of which sites are earning and which are not. I made 100 sites to see which niche's would stick, so you could probably drop (or sell) a decent amount of the sites/domains to save costs.

I am in no particular rush to sell, but will entertain offers above and around $3000. At this rate the site is set to earn about $4000 per year at its current rate, and with some proper content that figure would surely increase.

I'd prefer not to release the domain names of the sites, but the sites are no more special than a default BANS site, although most of them have a unique that doesn't look great, but hasn't seemed to be an issue so far.

I can accept PayPal (I'm a Verified Premier member) payments or direct deposit - PayPal is probably safer and more convenient.