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LigableONo.com - Website For Sale

What’s It All About: LigableONo.com - www.ligableono.com is an increasingly popular “hot or not” style dating website for the Hispanic/Latin America community. The website is only 7 months old and is already in the top 20k in Alexa and is growing fast with currently 41,000 users and counting.

How Long Established: Since April 2007.

Traffic: Around 5000 Visitors Per Day currently

No Of Members: More than 41,000

Current Revenue: $1,200 USD per month from Adsense

Expenses: Hosting costs: $80 USD per month

Price: Looking for offers in the region of $10,000 USD

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

Website For Sale - Foxbroker.com

Here at Midascode we get a large number of websites offered to us every day. If we are truthful (and we should be) many of the sites are of very poor quality and often those that are OK, do not meet our criteria for buying (not an industry that we wish to work in etc)

But of course, just because we are not interested, does not mean that other Website Buyers would not be interested.

Consequently we have decided to add to our Websites For Sale section details of some of the sites we are not interested in purchasing ourselves - in the hope that some of the many Website Buyers who visit our site would be interested.

The offering below is a bit of a strange one - if for no other reason that the site is making Nil revenue but the owner is hoping to get around $59,900 CAD. The sums don’t stack up for me, but perhaps I am missing something?

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

Foxbroker.com - Website For Sale

What’s It All About: Foxbroker.com is a stock market entertainment site, that offers exciting stock market competitions. Users compete with virtual money in real time using real stocks from the NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges. All games are free to join. They can compete for fun or enter in a game that awards cash and prizes to the winner. An alternative format available has users pay an entry fee and win the pool, similar to a fantasy sports pool. This site is unique, has received great revues and has the potential to be THE stock market game site on the web!

How Long Established: Foxbroker.com has been operating in its current format since August 2007.

Traffic: Avg 2000 unique visitors a month with no advertising.

No Of Members: 280 members registered.

Current Revenue: Nil.

Expenses: Hosting costs: $110 per 3 months. Stock market feed (XML): $160/month.

The Future: Lots of potential games and options to improve the site. To be discussed with serious buyers.

Price: Looking for offers in the region of $59,900 CAD. (Circ: 61,118.68 USD)

Ariel Web Design.com may be for sale.

Here are the website details for this web design website:

Unique Visitors: 40-50/day

Google PageRank: 4

Alexa Rank: ~ 825,000

Annual Revenues: $60 – 70K

Here is a list of keywords and phrases and their rank in Google’s first page (last updated on 9/12):

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To get in touch with the owner and find out more about this remarkable website contact us.

I am interested in possibly selling my website.

www.riderfans.com

Site traffic can be found here: http://www.riderfans.com/webstat/

Search engine ranking on Google…www.riderfans.com shows up at the #5 result when searching for the most commonly searched term “Saskatchewan Roughriders” It shows up only behind the official team websites, and a media outlet.

Monthly revenue sits at about $350 in Google Adsense revenue, along with approximately $2000 annual advertising revenue…so approximately $6200 annually. I personally believe it even has a lot higher potential than that, but I simply do not have the time to exploit it. I have never had to “sell” advertising, it comes to me.

The site began officially in 2000, but didn’t become www.riderfans.com until 2002. The message board is the busiest message board in pro sports fan sites in Canada.

If you are interested then please use the Midascode contact form.

We were recently contacted by the owner of MyspaceForBusiness.com who is considering selling his site.

If you are interested in buying this site then please contact us here: Contact Us and we will pass you on to the site seller.

Here are the website details:

We recently launched a new Business Networking Web site: www.myspaceforbusiness.com. Just as the name implies, it is MySpaceforBusiness.com’s mission to become the MySpace for Business, modeled after the popular myspace.com, except that we focus exclusively on business networking, targeted towards SMBs.

The site includes free tools and features such as:

A new member generated content management and customizable multi page system that allow users the ability to submit business profiles to create a free website. An extensive and growing collection of business content, which include useful links to additional related resources, relevant sponsored links and featured solutions from third party partners, Online office applications and e-mail capabilities, Business matchmaking services, Downloads and calculators, Articles, blogs and forums

We created an essential technology platform for the site based on research and conversations with entrepreneurs aimed at what is required of today’s online properties. We are committed to empowering users with interesting tools that they can use to further improve their online experience and individuality.

Effective content search and easily accessible tools for content creation have completely changed readers’ relationships with the internet from passive to active. Our site can respond to what our readers need and how they want it delivered. We also offer advertisers the ability to reach these highly qualified prospects, while they are browsing for specific solutions.

We are currently considering selling this site.

Would you like to know how much traffic a specific website is getting?

If you are buying websites then it is vital to know how much traffic a site is getting.

Here are some tools that will let you know if they are low traffic or mega sites.

Compete Compete give a great overview of a site’s traffic. It shows visitor info, growth, traffic counts, and you can put multiple sites in a portfolio as well.

Alexa - Alexa is the obvious choice, but whilst it is not the gospel that many webmasters think it is, it still provides a good rough guide to a site’s web traffic details.

SEO analyzer This tool will highlight any weaknesses on a website. Then, you simply fix them and BAM! a nice traffic boost.

Statsaholic This will show stats about a sites rankings, page views and a lot more.

When buying a website….

Keywords equals profits.

What does this mean?

Well, we know that search engines are by far the biggest traffic referrer on the Internet. So therefore it is vital that we have good positions at places like Google.com in order to get a lot of daily visitors.

However, some sites rank higher than other sites, and ideally we want to purchase sites with high rankings….

Sounds easy enough, but there is one major problem.

Not all keywords in Google are equal.

For example, being number one for “Web hosting” is far better than being number one for “Web hosting services in the south of Texas”

The first will provide tens of thousands of visitors per day, the latter may provide one per year.

So when we buy a site we must first ask the current owner to show us the main keywords the site gets traffic for.

Here is an example:

web hosting 7890234
Internet hosting 35433
Hosting online 3434

With these sorts of rankings we know that the site in question is clearly hugely powerful in Google, there is no way a weak site could rank for such competitive terms.

The next area we need to look at is are the keywords profitable?

By this I mean that some keywords are hugely valuable, whereas some are virtually worthless.

e.g

Buy Cars Online - what does this tell us? Well, it tells us that the person is looking to buy a car or cars online.

Firstly, this is hugely valuable, as the cost of cars is high (i.e better to sell one car than one pen), also, we know from the word “buy”, that the person is towards the end of the buying cycle.

e.g if they had typed “photos of cars” then that would suggest the research stage, and you are unlikely to make many sales from the term “photos of cars”. At best you may be able to sell a few photos.

So look at the types of keywords and ask yourself, could I make money from these?

This should be done prior to buying and website.

When buying a Website……..

Check the Stats for the Facts.

Many site sellers love to how shall I say this….. bend the truth a little. But the stats do not lie. So ensure you get access to the stats.

The best way to do this is via Google Analytics, but you can also ask for screenshots of any other program they are using.

In particular you will want to see the main sources of traffic. For example:

Google 70%
Yahoo 10%
Buy-Crappy-Traffic.com 9%

In this example we can see that the site is doing well in Google (always a plus), but we can also see that the site owner is buying traffic from a suspicious looking website (not good).

You can learn a lot from these stats.

In the next edition we will look in more detail at the search engine keywords stats.

When buying a website…. Google the Domain Name

This may surprise a few people, so bear with me.

To do this you simply go to Google.com and type the url into the search box. e.g midascode.co.uk

As you can see, Midascode.co.uk shows as number 1 in Google, and so it should.

However, certain sites have been very naughty, and Google has given them a slap on their little digital wrists. A high profile example of this is with the blog JohnChow.com - a hugely powerful blog with tons of links, yet up until very recently it wasn’t number one for it’s own name.

You can still see some of the effects of this here: John Chow Google

This shows us quite clearly that the site has been hit hard by a Google penalty.

Generally it is best to avoid such sites, as all future work may be virtually worthless in terms of increasing your rankings… and remember, search engines drive over 70% of traffic to most websites.

So next time you consider buying a website… Google the Domain Name.

Other Half = Wife, partner, husband, girlfriend or boyfriend

They say that “behind every great man is a good woman kicking his butt”, well anyone working online will know that support from a good woman is extra important.

So I suggest that today be forever known as the official “other half day”.

After all, how many women would look at their husbands tractor and just laugh at it? But not this woman: