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Highly Targeted Niche Website for Sale (Saint Louis Area)

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

For nearly 5 years I’ve run a website called Arnold Talk here in my home town of Arnold, Missouri. The website has gone from a forum to a complete community website that promotes local events and has a very active forum. The site gets well over a half million hits every month, all from very targeted traffic (Arnold residents).

I’ve had a horribly difficult time getting advertisers, therefore I’ve financed the entire thing (minus a scattered donation here and there) and now I must stop. As my business continues to grow, I’ve got to start cutting out some of the things that are not part of my core focus.

Therefore I’m going to shut down this hugely popular website. That is, if no one offers me some buck$ to buy it.

Hyperlocal websites are getting really popular nowadays. This is probably the entirely wrong time to close down this site, especially with the amount of traffic that it gets month after month. But I’m no ad salesman and can’t even generate a decent income to make the site worth keeping. Traffic or not.

Interested in buying it? Here’s the link. Make me an offer (by Oct 31).

Posted in St Louis, domain names, local marketing, traffic | 1 Response »

URL Ranking Ethics

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

I stumbled upon this post a few weeks back thanks to a friend and found it quite interesting. I was intrigued, so I tried it out and sure enough, it’s rather easy to rank for someone else’s URL. You’ll probably never get top spot, but I’ve got a few #2’s.

If you read through the post that inspired me, you’ll see that the SEO community is divided about how to handle these types of rankings. Are they ethical? Is it black/gray hat? Or is it just helping out your client in any way possible? Is it “just another keyword” that you and your competition rank for? Or is it hijacking?

I think I’ll continue to do it for my personal sites (affiliate sites, etc), but I’m not real sure if I want to do this for my clients. I’d love to hear what you think.

Posted in competition, domain names, keywords | No Responses »

Domain Names and Good Ideas

Monday, July 28th, 2008

How many times have you run across a great domain name, got all excited about what you could do with it, and then just dropped the ball?

This is definitely a problem that I see developing in myself lately. It’s not really that I lose interest, but rather that I have (paying) clients who I’d prefer to give the attention to. Since my kids continue to consume food, I have to continue to work.

So while I may get a project going 10% or even 75%, within a week or two I’ve forgotten all about it because of other pressing issues.

How many great domains and great ideas do you have ‘waiting in the wings’?

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Gambling Domains for Sale

Friday, February 9th, 2007

I have two gambling domains for sale. One has a site on it, the other does not. Neither one has been promoted much, and has not made me much income, thus the sale. If you’re interested in more info, email will at TechLH dot com.