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    Arrow Huge Forum - $4,000+/mo - ZeldaUniverse.Net -PR6- 260k+ visits - 227k pages in Google

    URL: http://www.zeldauniverse.net - Big Board #1243 Zelda Universe

    Age of site (months): 5 Years, 3 months

    Monthly revenue: $4,000+ (over past 12 months, average income is approximately $4,269.45 a month)

    Revenue details: The site has consistently made about $4000+ a month for the past year. There has been a slight drop in the past few months due to my lack of time to continue with my monetization efforts. Revenue comes from YPN, Tribal Fusion, Adsense, Vibrant Media, Azoogle, and link sales. I have included MANY screenshots below as I normally do. I want to be upfront and as helpful and informative as I can!

    Revenue Overview:
    Prior to July 2005, the site would earn a solid $2,000 - $2,500 a month without effort!
    July 2005 - $2,650
    August 2005 - $2,765 (this month I began to test new ad networks)
    September 2005 - $4,033
    October 2005 - $5,082
    November 2005 - $3,566
    December 2005 - $3,299
    January 2006 - $6,246
    February 2006 - $10,535
    (I got busy with travelling and other numerous projects, thus a drop off in earnings in months following.)
    March 2006 - $4,299
    April 2006 - $3,227
    May 2006 - $2,786
    June 2006 (Partially through the 18th of the month) - $1,542

    Monthly Earnings Spreadsheet
    Monthly Earnings Breakdown Aug 2005 - June 2006

    Adsense Screenshots
    All Time Adsense Spreadsheet

    Yahoo Publisher Network Screenshots - Totals since I began in September!
    Archive Channel
    Site Pages Channel
    Forum Channel

    Vibrant Media Screenshots
    June Totals
    May Totals
    Impression & Click Totals

    Tribal Fusion
    All Time Earnings

    Azoogle Ads
    All Time Azoogle Earnings

    Links Sales through Paypal - I also have IGN as a yearly advertiser. They bought 3 links for $800 for one year.

    A few link sales - These bring in an average of $100+ a month with no work!

    Monthly unique visits: 260,000 - 390,000 Unique Visits

    Traffic details The site has consistently average 8,000-12,000 unique visits DAILY for the past year or more. I basically quit working on the site and promoting it about 2 months ago. There is a new game "Twilight Princess" coming out in the next 3-6 months and traffic will absolutely explode at that time as during past new releases, traffic has double or tripled. I would estimate traffic to jump to at least 12,000-15,000 visits a day when the game is released.

    Stats By Month
    Daily Stats for June
    Daily Stats for May

    Links in Google: 3,630 (using link:www.zeldauniverse.net )

    Pages Indexed in Google: 227,000

    Keyword Rankings in Google: Zelda - #2

    Page Rank: PR6

    Forum Stats
    Registrations Per Day: Averages 35
    Posts Per Day: Averages 1,200+
    New Threads Per Day: Averages 40-60
    Members Online Per Day: Averages 550-650

    Who's Online Stats
    Members Online At One time: Normally between 50-100+
    Guests Online At One Time: Normally between 75-150 throughout the day!

    Total Registrations: 25,170
    Total Threads: 42,720
    Total Posts: 868,261

    Forum Features
    ~ vBulletin Forum Software (license included)
    ~ Joomla CMS - Hundreds of content pages for everything related to Zelda! (well integrated with vBulletin)
    ~ Wiki - Zelda Encyclopedia - large source of user submitted Zelda information
    ~ Gallery - OVER 3,200 PHOTOS! A very popular part of the site!
    ~ Active IRC Chat Room with 10-40 people chatting at all times!
    ~ Clan Tests - A unique feature of our site and something fun for the users.
    ~ Behind the Rupees - Extremely well known writing team in the Zelda world.
    ~ Zelda Mailbag - another popular feature, a Q&A for the users.
    ~ Multiple customized skins on the forum with custom graphics.
    ~ Zelda Music, Artwork, Wallpapers, Ringtones, and More!

    Other Details
    There is huge potential for this amazing forum with so much history. It is clearly the ultimate Zelda forum on the web in terms of size, member base, and quality content. I think there is plenty of traffic to be gained from SEO work, but this is not something I know how to do. The simple reason I am selling is that while running multiple "Big Boards" is exciting, I simply don't have the time needed for this anymore (I have been neglecting the site recently). The staff (of nearly 30 moderators, global mods, super mods, admin, and webmasters) is absolutely amazing and very much dedicated to seeing the site continue with its success. I have a fantastic assistant admin/webmaster (volunteer) who leads the site staff and handles basically everything outside of the monetization of the site. You see I maybe only visit the site a few times a week now days, yet I have complete confidence in the fantastic team of staff to handle things. The site really needs a new owner that will promote the site and manage it to prepare for the coming growth in the fall of 2006 when the most popular and most expected Zelda game, Twilight Princess, will be released.

    Licenses: Owned vBulletin (included)

    Expenses: Server space. I currently have the site (along with several other sites on a 2 server set up with an additional media hosting server (cheap one). We have the main server, a DB server, and the inexpensive media server. This site would perform well on a single dedicated server if it had plenty of RAM and it sat on the server alone.

    Bandwidth Usage: Typical month is between 400-500GB, high month was around 800GB.

    Starting Price: $40,000

    BIN PRICE: $65,000

    Ending Date: June 26th, 2006 @ 3:00pm CST

    *I reserve the right to not sell the site if an offer I don't like is made, and I reserve the right to sell immediately if an offer is made I am happy with.

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    Pending Sale with Spdude at the BIN price. Deposit to come and I will post a status update if anything changes.

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    Who is Spdude? I think think that person is a member of this forum?

    These sales just seem fraudulent to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deronsizemore
    Who is Spdude? I think think that person is a member of this forum?

    These sales just seem fraudulent to me.
    The buyer or the seller? The seller is the real deal and a well respected forum master.
    Last edited by moonshield; 06-19-2006 at 06:21 PM.

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    Well I meant both. I thought it seemed fraudulent just because I always seen these types of posts with no replies and always the person posting has low forum posts and then I didn't see spdude as a member of this forum, so I thought it was more fishy.

    My apologies to the seller! :-)

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    spdude is big at DigitalPoint Forums...

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