casemodworld.com 1-3k daily uniques + copyrights

[chrisw007]

My website www.casemodworld.com is for sale.

1-3 thousand unique hits per day
type casemodworld in google and get 36 pages of links back
Over 1730 registered users, gallery, reviews, articles etc
You will also become the new owner of the sites copyright

Companies send products for you to review and keep, which you can then sell on. E.g Belkin sent me an Omniview worth £200 and other companies send items from Korea and Japan.

Offers?

 

[storebuilder]

Hi Chris,

I've got some good experience with nuke so I may well be interested in this.

Let's have a ballpark.

Tony

 

[chrisw007]

£2,000 sound good?

 

[domaingenius]

That sounds a reasonable deal given the amount of
UV's per day.
DG

 

[storebuilder]

£2,000 sounds OK - how much is the site making per month?

 

[chrisw007]

The site used to make around £60 a year from banner adverts but i replaced these with links to companies that sent review products to return the favour.

If your good at nuke you'd be at a great advantage if you implemented a shop as theres already thousands of visitors interested in case mods every day. You could even mass mail the 1730+ members advertising deals etc.

If your willing to keep writting reviews there isnt really a limit to how much money you make. Belkin sent me an omniview worth £200 to review which i then sold on so it would be easy to make money if you get the right products. The income is mainly effected by how much you wanna do.

 

[storebuilder]

OK - so are you facing financial ruin?

You have a site with a steady 1,000 UV's a day, a great niche market, software installed but it's making Zilch. Nada.

You need to learn how to make money from your traffic - many people reading this would be very envious of your traffic stats but if you can't make money from it then there's no point in owning the site.

I'm tempted to grab it from you but I already have several other nuke sites and I know how much work goes into setting these things up. Have you installed an anti hack module like Sentinel or anything.

If you are absolutely desperate for cash then I'll take the baby off of your hands - but it will be for a lot less than 2k because the site is not making any revenue.

If you spent some time implementing some of the traffic mod's that I made for the storebuilder site then you could have a serious earner on your hands.

Something that I learned from working with a property millionaire is that any website that is making money is an Assett and Assetts should never ever be sold.

You need to explore more ways of making money from your site - turn on google adsense, sell some text links at http://www.textlinkbrokers.com, put some real effort into your reviews and sign up for the associated affiliate programs. Ask other webmasters to trade links - get some "site wides", a lot of your forum posts are very dated so try seeding your forums with some new content.

If you follow my mods for gaining traffic and learn to monetise your visitors you will be making £500 month easily in a couple of months time.

I have been down the exact same road as you and many others who give up on sites because you don't see how they can make money - but once you learn how to make revenue it's like riding a bike - and it keeps coming in month after month which is far better than making a small once off domain sale.

If you insist on selling then I'll take it off your hands - but I can tell you that it will be making more than I paid for it every month in very short order.

 

[chrisw007]

Site still available for sale, offers?

 

[rob]

Site still available for sale, offers?

Just ignored the above post !?

£0 revenue... thus why not making an offer. Certainly not at the £2k mark.

 

[chrisw007]

IM sorting out some proper banners etc as we speak

 

[rob]

IM sorting out some proper banners etc as we speak

Do a month or so development on it then come back and sell it... ought to have solid figures to base stuff on.

However as storebuilder said, with that traffic you ought to be able to make it pay its way very well so will probably be looking nearer the 5k mark based on earnings

 

[storebuilder]

I agree with you Rob and on MSN I've offered £500 for it. Which is being thought about.

For me personally it's a horror story to see someone giving away something that could have some real intrinsic value with a small amount of work.

 

[charlie]

Personally I cant see the problem?

chrisw007 is offering a highly focused website with possible 1700+ returning users who potenially are highly likely to buy computer components - something highly available if not not brilliant mark up.

So whether he makes money from the site now himself seems irrelevant. What you are buying is the potential - which you can all obviously imagine looking at your comments

So if anyone already had some links with a computer component supplier or ran a shop then this to me would be worth more than £500 (one PC or a single fancy graphics card sale)

if you can easily make £500 a month then thats £6000 a year then the business in traditional terms is worth roughly 3x times this - surely £500 is an insult? (i know this is not really applicable for Internet business)

Please explain why this is wrong?

 

[chrisw007]

Thanks Charlie,

The site is still for sale if anyone wants it, just to clarify if anyone has got lost amongst the recent posts.

Offers around £2,000 please as i dont want to run the site anymore.

 

[storebuilder]

Edit - I didn't say you could "easily" make £500 a month. I said I could edit

The site is making a loss after you take hosting into account and the amount of hours required to bring the site up to scratch.

One of the great features of building a database site is that it is very susceptible to being hacked via sql injection exploits and so the security of the site needs to be thoroughly examined. I have hack attempts on my site every week which is why I asked if Sentinel has been installed. Which version of nuke is it and have all of the patches been installed? Hackers look for the "made by phpnuke" byline which is why I remove mine.

Secondly any coder will tell you that it's often easier to start a site from scratch than it is to try and decipher someone elses code and build on it. Bolting on a shop is easy if you know which shop to use. You choose from calloways cart, emporium, nuke royal etc. I know which I'd use from experience.

Thirdly, statistics can be very misleading. Just because a site has 1,700 members doesn't mean that they are active. Many sign up for free downloads.

They are certainly not active in the forums. By default the phpnuke option is NOT to opt in members to the mailing list so my guess is that the actual numbers belonging to the email list is in the ten to twenty range. You'd be hugely disappointed to spend 2K on a site and find only 20 opt in subscribers.

One of the first mods I made to my site was to change the default opt in status so that all new members get my newsletter.

Fourthly - if it was a plain vanilla HTML site then it would be worth more money - because the average joe with some limited coding experience and Dreamweaver could build on the site

Lastly I'm not being insulting. My time is more valuable to me than rectifying a loss making site. However to Chris, as a student, his time would be well spent learning how to make his site into a traffic monster.

Oh and I forgot - I spent weeks learning how mod_rewrite works so that I could make those pretty, google friendly HTML files generated on the fly and I did this because google wouldn't index url's like this properly http://www.casemodworld.com/modules.php?name=How_To&rop=showcontent3&id=4

But loves this: http://www.storebuilder.co.uk/content-196.html

If I was buying potential then I would simply register another domain name. A domain name has potential.

Any investment has to be properly researched and the only reason I was interested was because I know about this stuff - if it was an ASP site then I wouldn't have any interest whatsoever.

Plus I don't have any interest in Case modding so how would I add new content? I only build sites that I have an interest in the subject.

So I just talked myself out of buying this - :shock:

 

[charlie]

Edit - I didn't say you could "easily" make £500 a month. I said I could edit

The site is making a loss after you take hosting into account and the amount of hours required to bring the site up to scratch.

One of the great features of building a database site is that it is very susceptible to being hacked via sql injection exploits and so the security of the site needs to be thoroughly examined. I have hack attempts on my site every week which is why I asked if Sentinel has been installed. Which version of nuke is it and have all of the patches been installed? Hackers look for the "made by phpnuke" byline which is why I remove mine.


One of the first mods I made to my site was to change the default opt in status so that all new members get my newsletter.

Fourthly - if it was a plain vanilla HTML site then it would be worth more money - because the average joe with some limited coding experience and Dreamweaver could build on the site

Oh and I forgot - I spent weeks learning how mod_rewrite works so that I could make those pretty, google friendly HTML files generated on the fly and I did this because google wouldn't index url's like this properly http://www.casemodworld.com/modules.php?name=How_To&rop=showcontent3&id=4

But loves this: http://www.storebuilder.co.uk/content-196.html

If I was buying potential then I would simply register another domain name. A domain name has potential.

Storebuilder - thanks for the reply very complete!

I'm have been looking to convert a few of my domains to websites and test out the profitability of affiliate schemes etc

I understand what your saying about the statistics, thiis very true for what ever you read in what ever industry I take your point here and unfortunately chris the forum figures back this up

What most interested me is your statements about HTML sites being worht more. Is this true or does it depend on how well a database drive site is designed?

can you quickly say what Sentinel does - is there a ASP version or do I not need this, I may end up using a MySQL with an ASP front end just because access is not "man enough"

I looked at the two URLs but need a quick explaination why one is better than the other - and if you know anywhere i can read more about this and how I should layout my pages before i get too in it - i would appreciate it.

Regards

 

[rob]

What most interested me is your statements about HTML sites being worht more. Is this true or does it depend on how well a database drive site is designed?

It is probably more how easy it is to 'plug in'.

ie. there is a site xyz.co.uk which makes £500 a month for sale. I would buy for say £5k if it is ready to run right away however if it requires me dusting off an obscure programming book, installing special server side stuff and generally a pain to get going then I would be less interested.

Saying this if the site is amazon affiliate and its got the worlds most complex system it would matter very little if I just had to change the affilite ID in a config file!

The more technical the system the more unique the buyer will be, however if you have a good site the right people will always be interested

Cheers,
rob.

 

[chrisw007]

I would appreciate it if you didnt make comments about my website which arnt true. You can actually email everyone whos a member of my website even if they clicked not to be on the newsletter.

Im only trying to sell my website site guys i dont need your oppinions on how to imporove it, i would rather help on how to sell it. If your all so good at making money from websites why arnt you millionares already?

 

[rob]

I would appreciate it if you didnt make comments about my website which arnt true. You can actually email everyone whos a member of my website even if they clicked not to be on the newsletter.

Perhaps a fuller information pack would have been useful, as 'x,xxx visits' is only one aspect of a site.

Im only trying to sell my website site guys i dont need your oppinions on how to imporove it, i would rather help on how to sell it.

Well it wont sell for £2k without some work, so either lower the price to a few hundred quid or do some work The help selling it = improve. If you dont want to improve it wont sell :roll:

If your all so good at making money from websites why arnt you millionares already?

There are a fair few millionaires floating around here, the rest of us are not doing too badly from the web either.

One bloke probably spent £200 the other day and has a £xxx,xxx return on his investment immediatly but was still on here picking up scraps within 24 hours

 

[charlie]

Chris i think your site got made an example in this case for what people are looking for when looking for a wbsite to buy. I certainly have taken on board the suggestions and when storebuilder lets me in on the secrets of effective web design i will attempt some of my own. :?
apologies