2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
Old 01-02-2007, 05:57 AM 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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Hello. My Automotive Resources Website is now available (www.automotiveresourcesonline.com). I spent a lot of time promoting this site awhile ago and was planning to use it to help promote a number of automotive clients, but my company has moved in a different directions. If you see my present sites, you will see this site doesn't really fit, which is why I am selling

The site is a PR 4. According to MarketLeap.com, the site has 5,373 indexed pages in Yahoo, MSN, and Google (combined) and 2,098 backlinks in Yahoo, MSN, & Google (combined). The past 3 months the site has gotten around 1,000 visitors a month and has been averaged around 800 visitors a month for all of 2006.

STATS: Overview | This Year | Traffic Location

The Google AdWords averages just about $10/month but the clicks price is very good, ranging from 25cents to $1/click and the CTR is solid. Here are the stats for the AdSense. These stats are from the first time AdSense was Added until December 30th and include about July 1st - December 31st. Nearly $60 for 6 months.

Google AdSense Stats: PAGE 1 | PAGE 2

I sell sitewide navigation footer links for $10/month and usually sell 4-5 and sold 2 sitewide links on the left navigation for $180 for the year. The "year" was up this month and I did not contact the owner about renewing because I am looking to sell the site.

Selling links has been quite sporadic and usually just happens when I am selling for my other sites... I have never had problems selling links on this site, but honestly, this site has never been at all a priority, so I don't really have "proof" per say. Right now the site has 3 paid links, all which expired earlier this month.

On average, this site makes between $90 and $100/month.

Like I said, I have never really focused on this site, nor promoted it after the initial design. The site was registered in May 2005 and I have been the soul owner. It has been a PR4 for as long as I can remember. I spend maybe an hour a month going through the site to insure that everything is working and all that, but have never spent the amount of time needed to really grow this site expodentially.

The content is a mix of RSS feeds, a directory, free for all articles, and some original content that was added when the site was first promoted. Ideally I will just push the domain and give you access to the CPanel and let you grab everything you need. If the sale is dependent on moving the site over, I can help in that also.

This is a site with lots of potential and a very solid base to work from. The domain name allows for the new owner to take the site in numerous directions and build on a very solid foundation.

I believe everything you need to bid is in this post, so please read it carefully before asking for more information. If you do find something that would be useful, feel free to ask.

Starting Bid: $200
BIN: $1200
Payment: Paypal

I do have a reserve in mind and will not sell the site for less than 8 months revenue (that's a hint). I will set an end date when we are getting in the range of the reserve.
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Old 01-02-2007, 05:03 PM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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what do you need to do to keep this site updated?
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Old 01-02-2007, 06:20 PM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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The site is updated automatically with New RSS feeds from topix.com for each individual car company. To add articles, I just have created a new page for each article and linked it, but if the bid gets close to BIN, I can create a quick admin panel to add articles dynamically from all the pages.

The navigation bars, header, and footer are PHP includes that you can edit very easily and will change sitewide. The Automotive Directory is a directory script and has an admin panel that you can approve/ad new sites to the directory.

All in all this is a very easy site to update and maintain.
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Old 01-05-2007, 02:02 PM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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Starting Bid Lowered to $100... BIN set at $800. Looking for a quick sale.
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Old 01-05-2007, 02:06 PM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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I'm concerned about the maintenance time on this...
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Old 01-05-2007, 02:17 PM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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I would be more than happy to discuss how much work it takes and help you code an admin panel to help make the updating of the site smoother. I already have a very basic dynamic article updator written for a couple other sites of mine that I could impliment into this site if that would help.

Feel free to contact me via aol (kyrobbin4iu) msn (kyrobbin@hotmail.com) yahoo (kyrobbin) or ICQ 236-406-909 to chat and get all your questions answered.

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Old 01-05-2007, 05:13 PM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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$100 bid recieved at Digital Point.
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Old 01-06-2007, 12:20 AM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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I will bid $125

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Old 01-06-2007, 02:39 AM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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Bid recieved, Wappmanb is the high bidder...
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Old 01-06-2007, 05:23 PM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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I will bid $150
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Old 01-07-2007, 05:12 AM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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$400 Bid at DP Recieved
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Old 01-08-2007, 03:28 AM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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Site Sold at BIN. Thanks everyone!
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Old 01-08-2007, 11:01 AM Re: 2 Year Old Automotive Website For Sale
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Who purchased it? Id like to talk to them about linking up as My client has a pr 4 auto site aswell 2 infact.
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