Offers AnimeOnline.net 4+years old Solid site

[Webnx]

This is hard to do, but I must put my prize site up for sale. I need the capital to finish funding my new business. I Bought this site about a year ago, at that time the site was rebuilding after loosing the database w/o a backup. just a little over a year ago (use wayback) you can see the site was HUGE. within the last year, you can see the site has been on track to rebuild itself, it already has over 20,000 members in only a years time. its coming up on 100k post in that time, and the gallery is a HUGE success. I myself am not big into anime, and have never been good at making huge portals. I want to pass the torch onto someone else, and If that person knows what they are doing, they can turn this into a HUGE site.

Here is a awstats showing the past few months (I will try to dig up the stats before I moved it to my linux server)
http://vwsport.com/servers/ao1.jpg

and here is the stats showing 90% of the traffic comes from the USA
http://vwsport.com/servers/ao2.jpg

and little comes comes china or other Asian countries, you can use this quality traffic and build on it.

The site does come with the vb license and the photopost license.

I will sell this site for $9,000 and I am open to offers for a week or two, I am in no hurry and would like to get my asking price. This is a high quality long term site, please check back links, the way back machine, and so on, you will see what I mean. About 5 months ago it was listed in the top 100 for the search term “anime” its slipped some, but with some good SEO you can get this site booming. Please email me any questions at webmaster no(at)spam vwsport.com thanks for looking!

Dan

 

[John D]

What type of revenue?

 

[LeeD]

Also interested in more stats and revenue figures...

 

[Steen]

Revenue please.

 

[Webnx]

last month was $8x and this month is at $3x cia google adsense. last month had over 600k impressions. I am sure google adsense banner at the top isn't the best for this site, tribal fusion, or the forum mod to put google ads within the messages. something like a pay gallery, who knows, as you can see I am not the best when it comes to marketing / getting the worth out of the site. for the past 2 months I haven't done much of anything to the site, other than update to the newest vb and newest photopost.

I am sure I am going to get "how can you ask 9k for a site making under 100$ a month" if you are going to ask the question, please keep it to your self, surely the site isn't for you. But I am sure someone will spot the gem here. Thanks for looking!

Dan

 

[HostBidder.com]

How many posts is the forum getting per day, on average?

 

[impulse]

Do you pay any money to advertise the site, or to anybody to run it for you?
Also, several years ago the site had over 10000 wallpapers, fan art, etc..
in gallery. Is all that still there, or was that lost when the database was lost?

- Eric
Bored.com

 

[cybertrash]

where does the traffic come from?

 

[Webnx]

sorry, I was out of town for a day, and DNforum messages were posting in my spam box. here is some info / replies

>where does the traffic come from?

Good question, from all over, alot of search engine traffic as this site is high on alot of terms. here is a screen shot of the search engine traffic
http://vwsport.com/servers/ao3.jpg

>Do you pay any money to advertise the site, or to anybody to run it for you?
>Also, several years ago the site had over 10000 wallpapers, fan art, etc..
>in gallery. Is all that still there, or was that lost when the database was lost?

I have never paid for any traffic / advertising for this site. I also do not pay anyone to run the site, the mods / jr admins are good people and love anime. No, those 10k walls are gone, however what you see in the photo gallery is just under a years worth of walls / pics, look at how fast its growing.

>How many posts is the forum getting per day, on average?

I will check the statistics on that and let you know. The good thing is the post count is real, we don't let people start more than 3 topics a day and the mods are out / lock junk topics quick. this isn't one of those "bump me until we reach 10k replies" type of site.

someone also pmed / asked about where its hosted / what does it cost. right now I have it on my spair linux server, and you can see it loads / runs fine, however its a dual 2.8ghz w/ lots of ram and raid 5, with only a few sites on it. the site uses over 100gb of xfers a month, which is nothing, you can pretty much get any dedicated server. I might be willing to contine hosting it for a fee, that can be talked about after the sale.

Dan


***update friday oct 21***
there have been a few low offers. I am still open, I could use the money for my new project. if any more info is require feel free to ask. I have over 270 feeback on ebay (7+ years now) and over 100 on paypal (5 years now) send over some decent offers and you might own a large site / forum. thanks again for looking!

if you guys have any more questions or need any more info from the stats let me know.

I have had a few low ball offers. I am still open to offers and 9k was just a number that would make it an instant sale. if you have an offer over 4k send it over, you never know I just might take it. I have 270+ feedback on ebay and been a member for over 7 years, I also have been a member of paypal for over 5 years w/ over 100 feedback / xfers from verified users.

Dan

 

[Webnx]

Okay, seems like the best offer is $4,500 anything better? I will be deciding this weekend, or early need week.

Dan

 

[impulse]

How often do you get dcma notices, or complaints from copyright owners of the graphics that are posted?

- Eric

 

[Webnx]

How often do you get dcma notices, or complaints from copyright owners of the graphics that are posted?

- Eric

In the last year (the time I have owned the site) not one.

Dan

*** update 10/22/05 5pm est***

Looks like the high bidder / offer does not have the money, I am going to post this sale on two more webmaster sites, see how it goes, if nothing comes up by next weekend (my deadline for the project) I will end this / drop the sale of the site.

 

[Webnx]

just a heads up, I have a new offer of $4k, and the site was posted on sitepoint, I will be selling the site to the best offer by friday of this week. Sooner if someone is willing to buy it out right for $7,500

Dan

 

[Webnx]

Okay, after 2 weeks of trying to decide if I am going through with this, the bill came for the cage at the data center I am getting, looks like there is no options I must sell this site soon. I will sell outright for $5,000 if sold within the next 2 days, if not I might have to get a quick loan. I played with the banner a bit and saw $1 more a day on adsense, I would also look into doing small memberships for the site, I think that will go over pretty good, like $2-5 a month and give a little more space in the gallery. The site also has enough traffic to get into the bigger adverting sites, which I hear does better than adsense on forums. I will continue hosting the site until the first of Jan, which will give the new owner plenty of time to move the site. Let me know if you have any questions. thanks!

Dan

 

[spdude]

SOLD, subject to a few quick checks.. and communication with the seller via instant messenger.

 

[princy88]

Very Good Site. Missed it.