Selling An Old Custom Health Blog All Niches Great Links

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Deliguy

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I'm selling the site and domain. It's cpanel and I'll perform a straight transfer.

Domain: HealthInLife.com
Registered: April 6th, 2007 (almost 3 years old)
Inbound links: 46,106 (it actually has over 110k but yahoo recently lowered their link count results)
Pagerank: 3


It covers all the highly profitable niches and keywords including:

Anti-Aging
Bodybuilding
Hair Care
Nutritional Supplements
Skin Care
Weight Loss

Traffic:
It currently gets between 300-400 uniques/day
And ranks for a lot of general and long tail keywords such as #3 in google for Health Blog.
Most of its traffic comes from Google and rss subscribers.
Every article of the site has been individually SEO'd and promoted through article distribution (spun articles), social bookmarks and hand picked link exchanges. About 80% have also been autopligg submitted to 5k sites
The main page and all the categories have been SEO'd to their keywords using lots of blog comments on similar blogs, articles, directory submissions, and social bookmarks as well as my own sites (i'll leave those links up) as well as autopligged. It also has link laundering and automated link promotion equating out to about 75 new links/day from sites in its niche.
The site is basically a link juice monster on the verge of becoming a hard authority blog.

Content:

The blog has 143 custom articles. None are automatically generated, they are all custom written by hand by three professional writers on this board. Each are around 400-600 words. Each blog entry also includes an image that fits and perfectly seo'd for easy image search traffic. I haven't done any articles since October unfortunately which is why I'm selling this site (i never sell my sites). I just can't find time to give the site the attention it deserves.

It also has two related and custom database sites as subpages to give it more pages for indexing. However recently due to permission errors I haven't fixed yet they aren't on the site, but they are built in so when we transfer they will show up again.
They are a subdirectory of a vitamins directory and Recipes. They come out to about 30k extra pages total.

The site actually gets a lot of comments on each article but I haven't taken the time to filter out the enormous spam it gets so none are approved atm. The site could really use an owner who can give it some tlc :)

Profit:
The site has no ads yet but each individual post that comes up quickly ranks for the medium to med-low competition keywords. I was originally planning to start making salescopy posts that push offers for each individual category and subcategory, but never found the time. Once that is done I have no doubt the site will make some great revenue. I also get several offers a month to sell links on it from acai berry and weight loss folks.

Price:

I'm wanting to sell for at least 10k, but I've only ever sold one site of mine in my life so I'll consider all offers. So feel free to make a deal for yourself.
 
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yes it would be one of them. In fact it might have been the one i used specifically in the example. I'll have to reread the post

I also forgot to mention that nearly all posts on the blog have been autopligged
 
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Have you tested any monetization at all? What is your asking price based on?
I haven't tested at all. I was going to use the blog as more of an authorative thing so when a new health related niche or offer came out i could throw it up with some salescopy and be the first to rank and start making money off it. When goji berry offers first went up I put up a post but then the offers dropped within 2 days and unfortunately i didn't get ranked until 5 days. Then it held its top 10 rankings for goji berry and goji berries for 2 months. I never updated the post so I didn't make any conversions.
 
^ this.

Sorry Eli, but if any noob would come waltzing in and wanting 10K for a non-profit blog, you would be the first laughing him out of the room.

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300-400 uniques/day? Measured how exactly? Compete suggests there is an extra zero here :)

Post your goji berry rankings, traffic and conversion stats to get a fair valuation.
 
^ this.

Sorry Eli, but if any noob would come waltzing in and wanting 10K for a non-profit blog, you would be the first laughing him out of the room.

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Guess, we will also laugh at someone who comes and asks $750,000 for iReport.com... It isn't about generalizing. That's his price, if it doesn't suit you - no biggie, next deal! Simple.
 
damn.. I am just still miffed I missed that iReport deal, that was a good one.

And yeah, Eli can ask what he wants. Also knowing Eli, his stuff is good.

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it really depends on the business model you have in mind, and the one I'm thinking about might work, but 10k for just 143 unique articles and 200-400 UV/day is a bit of a brave try...Eli I PM'ed you, lmk if you able to do that...
 
yeah you guys are probably right. The price i'm willing to part with one of my babies for isn't what others are willing to pay. Plus the effort i'd put into selling it would probably be about the same as if i just gave the site what it needed with some new posts and some salescopies and i'd make that money anyways. Plus I got plenty of other health sites that could really use the authorative links I just need to get off my ass and put em up. So theres no point.

Site is no longer for sale.
Thanks for setting me straight. I'll never make a rash decision to sell another site again. I was just being cranky and pissy bout all the work i had on my plate that wasn't getting done and looking for the easy way out.
 
yeah you guys are probably right. The price i'm willing to part with one of my babies for isn't what others are willing to pay. Plus the effort i'd put into selling it would probably be about the same as if i just gave the site what it needed with some new posts and some salescopies and i'd make that money anyways. Plus I got plenty of other health sites that could really use the authorative links I just need to get off my ass and put em up. So theres no point.

Site is no longer for sale.
Thanks for setting me straight. I'll never make a rash decision to sell another site again. I was just being cranky and pissy bout all the work i had on my plate that wasn't getting done and looking for the easy way out.

Anddd there goes the gem.
 
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