Written on November 5, 2007 – 1:59 pm | by Alexandru |

Shylock Blogging has grown so fast in the last 3 months, and I’m really sad to sell it, but my browser game will take all my time from January, and I have to sell this blog.

Shylock Blogging is on auction at Sitepoint. I’m not desperate to sell, so I’m not going to give it away for peanuts. The auction starts at $2,000 with a BIN of $4,000.

Blogging Fingers sold for $6000 with a similar number of subscribers and RyanShamus.com sold for $2500 with half the subscribers and a pen name as a domain. At a starting price of 2,000, ShylockBlogging.com is a steal.

Stats

• 11,300 page views in October (4,500 in the first 4 days of November)
• 5,500 unique visitors in October (2,400 in the first 4 days of November)
• Technorati Rank: 25,103
• Tehnorati Authority: 221
• Alexa: 79,628
• 72 posts and 319 comments
• 7,300 backlinks according to Yahoo
• PR3 blog with 3 PR4, 14 PR3 and 6 PR2 inner pages

The blog has ~180 subscribers right now, in just 3 months since it was started.

In the first 4 days of November, the blog already has 4,500 page views from 2,350 uniques, mainly from StumbleUpon traffic, which seems to love the articles here.

Revenue

I’ve started monetizing ShylockBlogging.com on October 10 and in these 25 days it made me a total of $305.

• $70 from direct ad sales and paid reviews
• $235 from the business I started here, of creating mini-sites.

The $235 worth of orders came from a single post I did 12 days ago, announcing the service, and just this morning I had to turn down a $60 order because of the blog sale.

I will help the new owner continue with the mini-site business, showing him exactly how I do the keyword research and create the mini-sites.

The new owner can also put a bigger emphasis on the monetization of the blog, as there is a lot of other things he can do, including using affiliate links in the posts, something I’ve neglected to do so far.

The blog has huge potential and it’s main goal since it started was to teach people to blog aggressively, and do everything they can to succeed at making money online.

What you can do for additional revenue:

• promote affiliate programs
• sell text links on the PR3 and 4 pages
• sell ads inside the posts (they are currently only in the sidebar and at the end of the posts)

What You Get

A PR 3 blog, with 3 PR4, 14 PR3’s and 6 PR2 pages, with backlinks from some of the most appreciated blogs and sites in the industry, including SEOmoz.org, SearchEngineLand.com, CashQuests.com, 45n5.com, DoshDosh, BloggingTips.com, DailyBlogTips.com, JohnTP.com, Mashable, Valleywag, Gawker, NYMag.com, Blog.Wired.com and even from a NYTimes blog. These are permanent links, mentioning one article or another from this blog. If you had to buy permanent links from these sites they would cost more then the price I’m asking for this blog.

I will stay onboard until the end of December, writing 2 posts per week for free, to ease the transition for the new owner.

The Shylock Adsense Plugin (spent $200 on it so far), which has over 1400 downloads so far and over 500 links to the download page. It’s one of the best Adsense plugins out there and a backlink magnet. You get full rights to it.

A 2 column WordPress Theme with full rights that I bought, that you can release for free and gain new backlinks from it. You can see it here (comes with PSD file for the banner).

A 3 page mini-site that I did as an example for an article, all 3 pages with PR2, gained from just 2 backlinks to each page from the blog. You can do some link building and make it rank for its keywords.

The mini-site business and I’ll show you exactly how I do it.

Traffic

So far, the traffic comes from search engines, StumbleUpon, Sphinn and the sites that link to the articles.

What You Should Know

• there is one ad that ends on November 12 and one that runs until the end of November. The new owner must keep these ads in place until they run out.

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