Web hosting directory for sale!

[RBs]

New (innovative) site plans! :D
Sale removed.


BTW- Czar, if still interested private message me and I will show you a list of all purchased advertising transactions. Just to prove I am not just some hot shot BS'er.


Kind Regards all,
-Mike

[Czar]

That's a very sexy design job, but I find it impossible to believe that a hosting directory whose actual directory pages only feature links to a single host could generate $320 over 43 days.

The site is also filled with broken links and a few small but significant typos.

Even the graphical links to your advertisers have been established incorrectly, thus leading again to pages that do not yet exist.

Please provide some more details here as to where you sourced that $320 of revenue, and whether you are willing to back up those claims by revealing documentary evidence to prospective buyers.

Also, who or what has been supplying the site with traffic?

The Alexa rankings are inaccurate as this seems to be hosted as a cloaked subdomain under tangy.com, the site is not listed in Google and the Internet Archive has no record of FindHost.com.

I'm not usually one to bash websites for sale in quite this manner, but asking $6500 for a brand new, incomplete and content-free website that seems to be invisible to the web's most popular search engine is something reminiscent of eBay, not a community such as this. If you can answer the questions posed above, though, prospective buyers may appreciate the value of the property.

[RBs]

Hi Czar,

The directory itself is not necessarily a directory. But rather a showcase area, which has yet to be established. That is not, nor was it stated to be our traffic draw. Additionally, our income was generated through our various ad creatives. Again, not via our showcase (directory esque) area. As for the graphic advertisements being linked erroneously; Basically the hosts had not renewed their campaigns. Since then we have been unsuccessful in selling those spots. However to avoid any sacrifice in design, we kept the advertisements up, and removed the link so the nonpaying advertiser would not benefit.

Although we rank well on Alexa, you are correct. FindHost.com was purchased off a broker; tangy.com . In any such case, I made no mention of our alexa ranking. So I do not quite understand why you are disproving the evident. Of which, I had made no reference to. In addition I would think in a "community such as this," we would all know Alexa rankings mean absolutely nothing. Webmasters use their every whim to inflate rankings by downloading the toolbar and refreshing their own site pages. To use alexa as as justification to prove whatever point you were attempting to make is quite 'reminiscent of ebay newbies'. By the way why would you have searched Internet archive when I clearly stated the site is only two months old? Even if I claimed the site to be five years old why should that be a deterring answer in how long a sites been in existence? Are you not aware, their are sever based text files that can block any caching of a site.


Please provide some more details here as to where you sourced that $320 of revenue, and whether you are willing to back up those claims by revealing documentary evidence to prospective buyers.

Show me the money and I will show you each and every 2checkout/paypal transaction in detail.



The site is also filled with broken links and a few small but significant typos.

Thank you for the heads up. By tomorrow, hopefully all of which will be resolved.

[RBs]

By the way Czar can you please private message me a standard rate list for hostingclick(s) publishers.

Thanks.

[Czar]

I mentioned the tangy.com Alexa connection only to demonstrate that it's impossible to use Alexa to gauge traffic or inbound links in this case since the site is/was hosted as a cloaked subdomain of another property. It was the lack of content and the 'turnkey' comments that triggered my eBay radar, not the Alexa condition. That was, however, far from the crux of my position.

The two key questions that remain unaddressed are as follows:
1. From which avenues does the site generate revenue? Advertising? If so, why are no ads passed through tracking software? Are they purchased on a time-based model?
2. From where does the site source its traffic? (apparent Google ban or non-inclusion ties into this)

I'm so resolute about these two points because I know the buyers associated with some of the hosts featured on your index page, and would be surprised to see these companies purchase ad space on a brand-new, content-free and traffic-starved property without demanding third-party tracking (or, at least, tracking of some variety).

Additionally, without answers to these two basic questions, I imagine that our members will see this solely as a template sale due to the complete lack of original or directory content, and web design templates go for well under $6500 these days.

I genuinely am sorry to hit you so hard on these points, but I'm dismayed by the offer price on this property given its apparent incomplete status, and would love to know how it secured the level of revenue that has been claimed.

[BigMike]

What was that domain again? I'd like to keep an eye on its developments.

Regards,

Mike

[Browsehosts]

FindHost.com

[BigMike]

Thanks,

Mike