Midascode | Buy & Sell Websites

The time to sell has come for my beloved blog. Let me try and answer the first question that comes to mind, why?

Because I am entering an extremely busy period in my personal life. Moving from Europe to Australia soon, having to find a new place to stay for a couple of months first, before the big move, I am going to be spending most of my time moving house, filling out tons of paperwork, then shipping everything over to Aus and trying to get a new house there. With all this going on, I won’t have much time to attend to my online business, so I’m probably going to take a break from the Internet for a few months.

So my loss is your gain.

JohnCow.com is a widely known and popular MMO blog. Ever since the blog launched on the first of July 2007, it has hit the ground running and within just a few months its build up a very recognizable name within the make money online niche. It would be very easy for the new owner to continue the site, as its obviously being authored under a pseudonym. I’m not really a cow

The stats:

• PageRank 3
• Alexa 22,100
• Compete 41,020
• Technorati 1696, Authority 1457
• 382 Posts
• 13,417 Comments
• 47,412 Backlinks (Yahoo!)
• 2,830 indexed pages (Google)
• Average of 30K uniques per month (without social media)

I’m sure there’s more stats potential buyers would be interested in, and you can just shoot me a PM for further questions.

Now, besides the stats, there’s a lot of extras that will be added to the sale.

Looking at SEO, in a highly competitive niche like MMO, the blog currently ranks 5th place for “making money online” and 1st place for “John Chow” in Google’s SERPs.

For branding purposes, besides the .COM I’ve secured .BIZ .INFO .ORG and .US so the brand can be expanded to different business models. Think about blog consultancy via .BIZ, or a MMO forum on .ORG for example. .INFO right now has a facebook games app on it, which we will include. The .US is currently used to promote a unique wordpress theme I’m selling and has a Pagerank 5.

I’ve also got several unique creatives (header, mascot, banners and wallpapers) that were designed especially for the site. All files are available in PSD format so you can modify them as you see fit, and I will introduce the new owner to my designers to continue the relationship I have with them.

Speaking of relationships, because of the popularity and the nature of the blog, I’ve made a lot of influential friends in the business, obviously John Chow himself being one of them. I will introduce the new owner to my contacts. I get emails every day from people who are willing to setup a JV of some sort because of the blog’s status, I receive Beta invites and the occasional free stuff that companies sent me, looing to get promoted by John Cow. The new owner can obviously build on this.

We’ve currently got a massive quadcore dedicated server (details here) worth about $300 per month ($3,600 p/y), fully sponsored by our web hoster. Besides the free server, they also sponsor huge contests (XBOX Elite and a copy of GTA4 this month), and let us give away massive discounts to our readers and let us use our affiliate links for it too. This will all be included in the sale, the web hoster has agreed to leave the current agreement in tact for the new owner.

Besides all this, we are also including relevant site memberships like MyBlogLog (community of nearly 1,250 members) Feedburner account, twitter account. The non-free plugins we use like the advertising engine, WP affiliate pro and WP Auctions (with tailored design). Heck, I’ll even throw in the 30GB iPod video that’s currently listed in our WP auctions plugin

The blog is not banned anywhere (think Digg, Reddit, SU whatever) because we never really tried to play that field. So the new owner could focus on this market if they’d want increase traffic via social media.

I’m sure I’ve missed some stuff, so feel free to ask me whatever you’d like to know if you’re a serious buyer.

Revenue Details:

Private ad sales, some sponsored reviews, affiliate promotions etc. The site is currently not using adsense because I’ve been experimenting with different income streams. The new owner can obviously put up adsense or whatever. The site is not banned by Adsense.

The blog has a fully automated advertising script, so clients can buy a spot in seconds. Saves me a lot of time because I don’t have to chase up for sales.

Free sponsored dedicated server worth $300 per month. (I didn’t include this in the income).

Traffic Details:

The blog receives highly targeted traffic from other people in the MMO niche. This is one of the best niches to be in because people really do spend money on promoted items on the blog, like ebooks etc. 

Organic: 20-30%

Referring sites: 50% 

Direct traffic: 20% 

Website For Sale - Online shop for organic skin, body and hair care For Sale

A stylish online retailer for fabulously pure skin, body and hair care that is organic, cruelty free and kind to the environment.

Purely-Natural.net - Website For Sale

What’s It All About: Purely-Natural.net - Purely-Natural.net is an Online shop for organic skin, body and hair care. The site can be fully adapted to sell any kind of product. Categories can be named and assigned to suit, all done through the CMS.

How Long Established: Since September 2006.

Traffic: Monthly visitors over 2500

No Of Members: 300+ customer accounts

Current Revenue: £1200 to £1500

Expenses: Hosting £12.50 - Google AdWords £100

Price: In excess of £2500

Some further information:

The website and management system is run by osCommerce, an Open Source based e-commerce solution.

It features a rich set of online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved. The shop can easily be adjusted through the CMS (content management system) to sell any kind of products.

CMS features:
- User-friendly stylish design
- Permission-based access system
- Easy to catalogue products/services
- HTML E-mail feature: Each message, order confirmation email, order status change notification, newsletter etc. is in HTML
- Gift Voucher/Discount Coupons feature
- Easy to manage page contents
- SaleMaker
- Multiple images per product
- Wish List
- Attribute management
- Download Controller
- Easy import/export feature
- Create new/edit orders feature
- Meta Tag Controller/Generator
- Print order/invoice branded with store logo
- Who’s Online feature
- WYSIWYG HTML Editor for product, category, and text editing
- FAQ Desk
- News Desk (for magazine part of the website)
- Banner-ad-in-a-box
- Shop by Price filter
- Links feature
- Accept offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)
- Accept online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize.net, iPayment, WorldPay etc.)
- Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis
- Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
- Free shipping based on amount and destination
- Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis
- SSL Certificate feature - gives a website the ability to communicate securely with its web customers
- Affiliate scheme/registration. Allows for managing affiliates in the Admin panel, and setting default commission % per affiliate. Allows for managing linking materials (banners) in the Admin panel. Runs a number of sales and turnover reports per affiliate account and supports multi-tier affiliate programme

Even if you are not interested, feel free to leave a comment - I am sure the owner would welcome Feedback either way

We have been contacted by the owner of a popular free bets site. (BetBonus.co.uk)

We are sure that not all of our readers will have an interest in gambling related sites, but for those of you who do, this may well be worth looking into.

Bet Bonus.co.uk

Domain: betbonus.co.uk

Google Pagerank: 5

Traffic:

Refferers

Keywords

The website appears #’1 on Yahoo for “free bets”.

Revenue Details
The website has not been touched since the summer but has still earned the following amounts over the last three months from bookmaker commissions:

December - £1,272.12

November - £1,187.99

October - £768.75

If you are interested in knowing more, contact us

Erotica Website For Sale

Midascode has been contacted recently by the owner of an independent video production company - a company that owns an erotica movie site which celebrates sexuality between couples.

Owner claims films are non-p0rny and artistic and promoted to couples.

Seller is looking to achieve something in excess of current Yearly income (Monthly income is in the region of $1000 - $1100)

Not the usual kind of site that Midascode would get involved in marketing - afterall with have a strict NO P0RN policy - but we did think perhaps some of our readership would be interested, so we are mentioning it here. (We have seen the site and can confirm it is not your usual P0RN site)

If you would like to know more Contact Us Here or email us at info@midascode.co.uk

Looking for domains and websites on ebay is like looking for money in the streets: there is lots of it out there, but it takes too much time and effort to find it.

But today I stumbled across a 3 letter domain name that is currently for sale at Ebay.com

8UI.com

Not a bad domain name, and the ease at which you can type it is certainly a plus factor. So let’s see what the seller has to say about this domain name:

There are only 17,576 (26 x 26 x 26) 3-letter .com domain names. All of them are already registered. The last one was registered sometime in the beginning of 2000.

For those who are curious, all 3-letter .net names were registered by 2001. The last 3-letter .org name was registered in 2003.

The prices have been rising ever since, with 3-letter .com names selling for about 10 to 15 times the selling price of an equivalent .net domain.

The average annual return of a 3-letter .com domain has been ever 30%, with some names providing 100% gain per year! More recently, 3-letter .com domains have been appreciating at a rate of 5% to 7% per month.

Here are some recent sales figures for 3 letter .com domains from domain name industry journal Dnjournal . com:

NHS $151,300
GLU $75,000
OLT $93,000
GED $150,000
VIP $600,000 cash & $800,000 in stock ($1.2 million!)
UJC $17,400
SCW $60,000
ASB $50,000

Here is some examples of what you can use it for:

1- You can invest in it and resell it within a year (or 2) for 30% to 60% of the price you will pay now.
2- You can resell it immediately to any of the following ui abbreviations:
* User Interface (advanced programming language)
* University of Indonesia (sell to students)
* University of Idaho (sell to students)
* University of Illinois (sell to students)
* University of Iowa (sell to students)
* Universal Indicator (???0
* Unit Intervals (Serial Data Communication)
* Unemployment Insurance (sell to ferms)
* Ui is also a surname
The possibilities are endless (search Google ui= 120000000 results and 8ui= 104000 results)
3- very easy to remember (look at your keyboard now) all three keys next to each other.
4- forward domain to your existing site whether business or personal (name don’t matter if it’s not related to your site, after all what was the meaning of Google or xanga)
5- start a whole new brand to do business with.
6- You will profit from it.
7- UI is also a music band name.

Winning bid: The domain 8ui.com will be yours and it’s valid till 07/2008 and you can renew for $8.95 a year after.

Upon your request I will provide you with info on how to get a real good traffic and hosting plan to host your new site (Hosting plan not included with this sale and this is only a one email sent for ideas, no further info will be sent) last but not least if you (the buyer) like I can give you some business ideas (Also a one time email deal with ideas and no further support will be provided without a fee).

note: Midascode are not recommending that you purchase this domain, and we certainly feel the $9,000 BIN price is too much, but you can see the listing for yourself here: ebay domain names

MMhousehold.co.uk - A Pre-Built Website about UK Domestic Services - Website For Sale

What’s It All About: MMhousehold.co.uk - http://www.MMhousehold.co.uk - This is a website that is all set for promotion and content. Ideal for someone who doesn’t have the knowledge, time or budget to develop a website from scratch.

The site hasn’t been launched yet, so traffic and revenue are zero.

Site was created, coded and designed by a professional design studio.

Here is some additional info:

DOMAIN: www.mmhousehold.co.uk (pre-paid for 2 years, site can be
transferred to a new domain name upon request, at no extra charge)

HOSTING: 1500 MB web server space, 15 GB traffic/monthly, pre-paid for 1
year (site can be transferred to customer hosting service, transfer is
free of charge)

Platform: Joomla CMS (PHP/MySQL)

Categories fully customizable: YES /no extra charge

Logo can be changed with customer logo: YES /no extra charge

Logo can be modified with buyer’s company initials: YES /no extra charge

Initial content fill/add-on: YES/no extra charge

Support: YES - 3 months included, ICQ or e-mail

Security: DOUBLE secured - standart Joomla security + server side
security (double login, first one uses server’s Password Protect
Directory function)

SEO Optimization: YES, but after adding the content to the site / no
extra charge

Search engine submission: YES, 40+ world wide search engines submission,
including Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, etc. /no extra charge

Option for upgrade: YES - with virtually any Joomla module (for example
- banner system may be added) / additional cost negotiable

Further support: YES if desired/additional cost negotiable

Price: Owner is open to offers

Even if you are not interested, feel free to leave a comment - I am sure the owner would welcome Feedback either way

QuizTelly.com - A Website about Quiz Television - Website For Sale

What’s It All About: QuizTelly.com - www.quiztelly.com We set the site up back in the summer of 2005 of the back of our very
popular main website - www.shoppingtelly.com and since then it has grown to be extremely popular with people of all ages who addictively tune into the various quiz television programmes on television and look maybe for help with answers or just for a place to share their interest.

Sadly due to other commitments, we just don’t have the time to put a full effort into the site. There are many ways that the site and brand could be
developed, and included in the sale would be the domain www.roulettetelly.com which was going to be our next extension to the site,
promoting the latest trend in quiz television covering the raft of live roulette programmes broadcasting late night.

How Long Established: Summer of 2005

Traffic: The site has a solid followership.

October Stats (up to 28th October)

> Visits 19861
> Unique visitors 5262
> Pages viewed 197188
> Pages per visitor 37.5
> Pages per significant visit 12.5
> Average visit duration 10min 34s
> Average time by page seen 1min 3s
> 1 page visit rate 22%

Current Revenue: The site in the past year has profited around £3000 from advertising
which to be honest has been through little effort. Last month we also
introduced some affiliate advertising which brought in additional £102.05 in
its first month. It is felt with someone who could take on the site and give
it more attention; it could be making a great deal more.

Expenses: We utilise a dedicated server that we have run ShoppingTelly.com on, so no additional hosting or server costs are incurred. The only other real costs are the vBulletin license which is currently $85 a year. The new owners would therefore need to set up hosting - at say around $200 PA

Content The content is a mixed bag really, we do get press releases from some channels and companies who work closely with us, also from freelance presenters letting visitors know of their latest jobs, but a lot of it is our own content that we write after finding out