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Scilynt
August 10th, 2007, 04:06 AM
I really didn't want to do this as this is one of my first sites and has always been good to me but I am in pretty deep debt and broke and need to pay my dues. This site is about a year old and although I have never given it much attention it had done pretty well on it's own. I kind of ignored it to work on my other sites so if someone can spend some time promoting it, it could easily do very well. The ONLY reason I am selling this now is because I am too far in debt and need to get caught up.

Not blocked by myspace as far as I know and not banned by adsense (or any other negative thing like that that I know of).

The only real advertising/promoting I have done ever on it was paid links and some link exchanges.

This will be crossposted on DP and SP.

All Layed Out

http://AllLayedOut.com

longtime PR4. Good domain with no trademark issues.
alllayedout.com (expires 8/14/08)
also includes alt spelling domain AllLaidOut.com (expires 8/2/08)

Site is about a year old now.

Sale includes:
- Two domains: AllLayedOut.com (main), AllLaidOut.com (redirected to main site...decent domain on it's own though lol)
- MSRS script ($300 retail value)
- Lots of paid content (many layouts, comments, images and generators. A small selection of comments may be tagged for my other sites).
- All content seen on the site.
- limited help transferring/installing on your server. It's not hard but I am a noob with some server stuff lol.
- Access to the MSRS private support forums on myspacepros after appfoval of transfer by Greg.


Revenue:
adsense total since late september last year $1,906.78 (was making more overall before my adsense account seemed to get "smart priced" in December affecting all my sites earnings)

adsense lately
march $190.94
april $151.94
may $97.91
june $66.08
july $94.36
august so far $43.63

valueclick (didn't start till mid march)
march $87.22
april $140.74
may $110.09
june $87.53
july $106.84
august so far $32.58

link sales
~$200-300 a month (~10 spots at $20-30 each)

azoogle
maybe $30-50 a month?

adultfriendfinder
maybe $25 a month?


traffic:
down to about 1100-1200 uniques a day now according to google analytics (just installed Extreme Tracking as well). This is with no real advertising or promotion for months. Didn't even buy any paid links or more than a couple link trades in maybe 6 months.

current traffic breakdown
62% search traffic
25% referring sites (myspace profiles being about 6% total traffic)
12% direct traffic

SEO
Ranks well for a few decent keyphrases. Here are some as of right now.
awesome myspace layouts - 2nd
crazy myspace layouts - 3rd
cool myspace stuff - 5th
cool myspace layouts - 10th
best myspace layouts - 11th


So the site has done pretty well on autopilot and could easily do much better with someone who takes the time or has the cash to do some real promotion. I haven't spent much time or money on that for this site as it was always considered one of my "other" sites while I concentrated on the others.

This would be a great site to start off with if you wanted to get into the myspace game. Just needs some good promotion/advertising. Well any promotion and advertising would be an improvement.

Auction will end in about a week. Most likely Next Sunday night. Bin later maybe.

NYCBORN
August 10th, 2007, 05:24 AM
Where's the post on Sitepoint with the bids?

Scilynt
August 10th, 2007, 07:12 AM
There are no bids yet as it was just posted after this post. But here is a link (ending date/time now based on this SP time to make it easier):


http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auctionimage/11613 (http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auction/11613)





Already had two pms on SP asking for BIN though...they are agressive lol. Don't have a BIN yet as I replied.
(http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auction/11613)

spaceboos
August 10th, 2007, 07:48 AM
Hey Ron

First look at your site in IE 6 not working right. Second put up a BIN Im leaving today for holidays i will check back before i go. Im very interested.

NYCBORN
August 10th, 2007, 11:50 AM
Looks like a great buy. Too bad you are selling.

Scilynt
August 10th, 2007, 01:35 PM
Hey Ron

First look at your site in IE 6 not working right. Second put up a BIN Im leaving today for holidays i will check back before i go. Im very interested.Man I don't know. I think I am too attached to be objective lol. Part because I know how well it has done with so little attention and knowing it can do so much better with just a bit of promotion and part because it was one of my first sites. I know it sounds like marketing bs but I really haven't done much at all with this site in the last 6 months or so, so anyone that takes the time/effort to promote it would probably be able to bump up the profit even more very easily. It's set on auction for another week, will you be back before then?


Looks like a great buy. Too bad you are selling.Yeah, tell me about it. I always wonder why people sell sites making decent passive income when they can just earn from it forever. I wouldn't be selling this if I didn't have to come up with some cash.

Ad disengaged
August 10th, 2007, 01:43 PM
Nice site
wish I had the money to bid

money_train
August 10th, 2007, 10:23 PM
i hope you get the best price for your site.
you have always been nice around here.
best wishes.

Scilynt
August 13th, 2007, 02:58 PM
Thanks guys. Yeah, I wish I didn't have to sell it but have to take care of things :). Just hope someone sees the real potential and offers up a fair price. The money it makes now is completely automated without any promotion at all and with my kind of bad account eCPM. Someone that isn't smartpriced would instantly make more and with any promotion at all could easily double or triple the traffic/earnings or more with some real advertising.

Scilynt
August 17th, 2007, 07:14 PM
Someone on SP asked for screens of adsense/vc for proof so figured I would post them here too. Also including a screen from Nov 06 before my account got smartpriced to show the difference and the potential of instant profit for someone with a non smartpriced account.


april adsense (http://hotlinkstop.com/fx_images/scilynt_adsense_april.png)
may adsense (http://hotlinkstop.com/fx_images/scilynt_adsense_may.png)
june adsense (http://hotlinkstop.com/fx_images/scilynt_adsense_june.png)
july adsense (http://hotlinkstop.com/fx_images/scilynt_adsense_july.png)
august adsense so far (http://hotlinkstop.com/fx_images/scilynt_adsense_august.png)

april vc (http://hotlinkstop.com/fx_images/scilynt_vc_april.png)
may vc (http://hotlinkstop.com/fx_images/scilynt_vc_may.png)
june vc (http://hotlinkstop.com/fx_images/scilynt_vc_june.png)
july vc (http://hotlinkstop.com/fx_images/scilynt_vc_july.png)
august vc so far (http://hotlinkstop.com/fx_images/scilynt_vc_august.png)




Here is a screen from November 06 before my account was smartpriced in December to give a better idea of the potential. I did some minor promotion during that time as well. But ended with $670 just from adsense.

November 06 adsense (http://hotlinkstop.com/fx_images/scilynt_november06.png)


As for why my account was smartpriced? I have no idea to be honest. But I have MANY myspace sites and some that get really crappy CTR so odds are it was one or more of those crappy free turnkey scripts that caused it. But honestly not sure though I do doubt it was from this site specifically.


a little over 24 hours left in the auction.

BIN was lowered to $6,900 ;)