Comments on: Hit a gusher!

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:06:09 +0000

Wow, what a find with tvs.co.uk! I cant believe you found those…

By: Baby England Kit

Baby England Kit — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:55:44 +0000

wow i can’t believe you own pcs.co.uk and tvs.co.uk. That’s really impressive, I’m sure it wasn’t cheap tho…

By: ditigalass

ditigalass — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:59:23 +0000

It seems any animal wildlife name domain that was created by hobbyists in the past then left to dry up is always a good investment. I picked up a few with established nitche followings that are return well. Sports wildlife gaming is an area I expect to explode more because of the proliferation of geocentric apps and lower bandwith costs. If you have knowledge of linux, own server access and can take time with Drupal and other 2.0 dare I say 3.0 tecnology its money in the bag..
The investment of money is low-the time however and the technical knowhow to keep overhead low is the X factor..
Buf if you lose track of time tinkering under the hood then you know its not all that bad

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:05:59 +0000

Sent you an email Andy, income is up for the games site.

By: Andy in Tenerife

Andy in Tenerife — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:25:50 +0000

Even at $22 a day it is still 100% in 15 or so months – great investment comparatively.
For the games site to have paid itself off already is pretty amazing – why on earth did the previous owner sell it so cheap or have you increased the income a heck of a lot???

Any chance you can give us the URL of the games site – I´m having a very slow afternoon here in Spain – yawn…

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:10:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I’m experiencing similarly low cpm on a pet site.

I guess though that even if the animal site doesn’t pay for itself within the year combined with the games site you’ll have your total investment back within 12 months.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:25:35 +0000

No joy with the charities, the animal site makes around £14($22) per day just now. The games website also bought for $10,000 has just finished paying itself back in full.

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:01:29 +0000

Do you mind sharing the sort of CPM have you been seeing from the animal site?

Have you had any success monetising the animal site with any charity affiliate programs?

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:37:57 +0000

A nice find with the animal site although I’m surprised at how much it cost but if you can recoup your costs quickly then it’ll have been worth the outlay. I like the TV and PC sites.

By: Jonathan Malory

Jonathan Malory — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:07:58 +0000

Scott, traffic is lower during the summer for a lot of websites. In fact Google does most of their large scale testing of new code, such as the upcoming Caffeine update everyone’s talking about, during the summer because they’re not as busy. Matt Cutts said in a video I watched the other day that they like to mess around with stuff during the summer when less people are using the internet.

Also people in America are back at school this week (some at different times actually but a lot just after Labor Day) and most UK schools are back in now or very soon, which means a lot more hits for factual type sites.