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I am looking to sell my site:
http://www.forumhoster.com
Pagerank: 6
DMOZ Listed
Alexa Traffic Rank: 25,618
Buy it NOW - $10,000 for forumhoster.com
BUY it NOW - $12,000 for forumhoster.com + afreeimagehost.com talked about below
You are free to make offers via PM. Don't bother offering less than 50% of my buy it now. I know the site can fetch more than that easily.
I have too many projects on the go and with the success of one of my e-commerce sites I need to focus on it instead.
ForumHoster.com provides free forum hosting based upon the invision powerboard software. I know this site has
massive potential with the right buyer, I simply have no time. I will even state below recommendations that will easily increase
the profit of the site.
I can't really show webalizer stats as they are very skewed since that would also include all the free forums hosted and not simply the site.
I have Google ads on all of the ForumHoster.com site and they tell me I average 2,000 page views daily.
I do use an external script to analyze all traffic to the forumhoster.com site and can give the login info to you, if you are serious. The large majority of all
traffic comes from Google as we are ranked:
#2 - free forum hosting
#3 - free forum
#4 - forum hosting
I am sure we have lots of rankings under other terms too, those are the only ones I watch.
The site is currently hosting 2760 forums. These are active forums, unlike many other free hosting sites that keep all forums, every month we purge any unused forums.
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****PROFIT****
The site earns money from 4 different avenues.
Re-occuring premium accounts at $5 per month
Google Adsense Ads on the main site and all free forums
use of 2 different ad networks that have their ad integrated into various aspects of the sign up process.
- Google Profit
September: $341.31
October: $380.65
November: $451.34
December(1st 29 days): $427.47
There is still HUGE potential for more money with Google Adsense. Currently all free forums have a banner at the top. A little playing with the sizing, colors, positioning etc could
led to much more in profit. The actual pageviews of the free forums averages around 50,000 - 60,000 pageviews per day, So even a little bit of tweaking could lead to a lot more click throughs.
- Premium Member Subscriptions
September: Received 72 payments @ $5 each = $360
October: Received 66 payments @ $5 each = $330
November: Received 76 payments @ $5 each = $380
December(1st 29 days): Received 81 payments @ $5 each = $405
This subscriptions are done through PayPal. I think the premium member avenue is still fairly untapped. With 2760 forums hosted all they need is a little incentive to convert to premium members and
you could have a nice increase in revenue from that.
- Focalex
September: $146.70
October: $36.10
November: $33.41
December(1st 29 days): $58.16
These ads are integrated into the sign up process.
- Primary Ads
September: $89.60
October: $290.50
November: $154.90
December(1st 29 days): $6.60
These are also integrated into the sign up process. As you can see the high month of October and then a decrease in november and a severe decrease in December.
PrimaryAds.com has hundreds of different ads to use. In October, I tried a new ad and then profit increase substantially, however the ad offer was discontinued in
November and since profit dropped I just grabbed the best offer I thought at the time being. I am sure with a little trial and error and testing of different ad
campaigns the profit could be back up to $300 or so per month.
So to sum up the profit of the site it is:
September: $937.61
October: $1037.25
November: $1019.65
December(1st 29 days): $897.23
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The only cost is $500 for a server per month. That is however skewed as you don't need a $500 fully managed server. I had set it up on this Dual Xeon 2.4ghz, 2 gigs ram, Triple SCSI 73gig 15k drive server as I was planning
to add other sites to this server and allow for alot of growth of this site as I was planning to put a lot of work into it. I have simply ran out of time.
This server is fully managed, so you don't need to worry about anything. I am sure this site could be run on a server for around $200 or so per month, but that is up to you.
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As you can see the site brings in on average $1000 per month. If you kept the current server you would be profiting $500 per month. If you simply went with a cheap server you could be profiting around $800 per month.
The free image hosting site afreeimagehost.com that is advertised on the site is not included with the sale. You can however buy it also if you wish. It is a perfect mix as people frequenting forums also need a free image host. The actual site
makes around $150 profit per month. It could be moved to the forumhoster.com server so that $150 per month could be pure profit. The real beauty of the site is the custom image hosting script that is used. It is not like the other hundreds of sites that
use the same script, this one is unique. I would be looking for around $2,500 for the free image hosting site because of this. I am not really looking to sell this seperatly unless the price is right. More interested in selling together as they compliment each other so much.
If you have any questions at all, please either PM me, email me or msn me at [email protected]
http://www.forumhoster.com
Pagerank: 6
DMOZ Listed
Alexa Traffic Rank: 25,618
Buy it NOW - $10,000 for forumhoster.com
BUY it NOW - $12,000 for forumhoster.com + afreeimagehost.com talked about below
You are free to make offers via PM. Don't bother offering less than 50% of my buy it now. I know the site can fetch more than that easily.
I have too many projects on the go and with the success of one of my e-commerce sites I need to focus on it instead.
ForumHoster.com provides free forum hosting based upon the invision powerboard software. I know this site has
massive potential with the right buyer, I simply have no time. I will even state below recommendations that will easily increase
the profit of the site.
I can't really show webalizer stats as they are very skewed since that would also include all the free forums hosted and not simply the site.
I have Google ads on all of the ForumHoster.com site and they tell me I average 2,000 page views daily.
I do use an external script to analyze all traffic to the forumhoster.com site and can give the login info to you, if you are serious. The large majority of all
traffic comes from Google as we are ranked:
#2 - free forum hosting
#3 - free forum
#4 - forum hosting
I am sure we have lots of rankings under other terms too, those are the only ones I watch.
The site is currently hosting 2760 forums. These are active forums, unlike many other free hosting sites that keep all forums, every month we purge any unused forums.
**********************************
****PROFIT****
The site earns money from 4 different avenues.
Re-occuring premium accounts at $5 per month
Google Adsense Ads on the main site and all free forums
use of 2 different ad networks that have their ad integrated into various aspects of the sign up process.
- Google Profit
September: $341.31
October: $380.65
November: $451.34
December(1st 29 days): $427.47
There is still HUGE potential for more money with Google Adsense. Currently all free forums have a banner at the top. A little playing with the sizing, colors, positioning etc could
led to much more in profit. The actual pageviews of the free forums averages around 50,000 - 60,000 pageviews per day, So even a little bit of tweaking could lead to a lot more click throughs.
- Premium Member Subscriptions
September: Received 72 payments @ $5 each = $360
October: Received 66 payments @ $5 each = $330
November: Received 76 payments @ $5 each = $380
December(1st 29 days): Received 81 payments @ $5 each = $405
This subscriptions are done through PayPal. I think the premium member avenue is still fairly untapped. With 2760 forums hosted all they need is a little incentive to convert to premium members and
you could have a nice increase in revenue from that.
- Focalex
September: $146.70
October: $36.10
November: $33.41
December(1st 29 days): $58.16
These ads are integrated into the sign up process.
- Primary Ads
September: $89.60
October: $290.50
November: $154.90
December(1st 29 days): $6.60
These are also integrated into the sign up process. As you can see the high month of October and then a decrease in november and a severe decrease in December.
PrimaryAds.com has hundreds of different ads to use. In October, I tried a new ad and then profit increase substantially, however the ad offer was discontinued in
November and since profit dropped I just grabbed the best offer I thought at the time being. I am sure with a little trial and error and testing of different ad
campaigns the profit could be back up to $300 or so per month.
So to sum up the profit of the site it is:
September: $937.61
October: $1037.25
November: $1019.65
December(1st 29 days): $897.23
**********************************
The only cost is $500 for a server per month. That is however skewed as you don't need a $500 fully managed server. I had set it up on this Dual Xeon 2.4ghz, 2 gigs ram, Triple SCSI 73gig 15k drive server as I was planning
to add other sites to this server and allow for alot of growth of this site as I was planning to put a lot of work into it. I have simply ran out of time.
This server is fully managed, so you don't need to worry about anything. I am sure this site could be run on a server for around $200 or so per month, but that is up to you.
**********************************
As you can see the site brings in on average $1000 per month. If you kept the current server you would be profiting $500 per month. If you simply went with a cheap server you could be profiting around $800 per month.
The free image hosting site afreeimagehost.com that is advertised on the site is not included with the sale. You can however buy it also if you wish. It is a perfect mix as people frequenting forums also need a free image host. The actual site
makes around $150 profit per month. It could be moved to the forumhoster.com server so that $150 per month could be pure profit. The real beauty of the site is the custom image hosting script that is used. It is not like the other hundreds of sites that
use the same script, this one is unique. I would be looking for around $2,500 for the free image hosting site because of this. I am not really looking to sell this seperatly unless the price is right. More interested in selling together as they compliment each other so much.
If you have any questions at all, please either PM me, email me or msn me at [email protected]
