Comments on: UK Voucher Code site for sale (spendlessonline.co.uk)

By: can i make money

can i make money — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:04:22 +0000

Doesn’t it consume a lot of time to keep your weblog so intriguing ?

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:23:00 +0000

Hi Gary,

thanks for dropping by. Site was sold just over a month a go. I keep meaning to write an update on the whole process, but other projects keep taking up my time/energy.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:54:37 +0000

Great site, if only I noticed this back when it was first posted, we may have considered putting in an offer as we’ve spent loads of time since the begigging of the year on our own site. Will take quite a lot longer to get to where your site was, but did manage to learn everything from the ground up so any changes we need to do, we know the code and can be fixed fairly easily.

Not sure if you managed to sell the site. Would be interested to know.

By: Update on the Spendlessonline sale: | One Man Went To Mow

Update on the Spendlessonline sale: | One Man Went To Mow — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:12:33 +0000

[...] So firstly, the site is still mine. Offers have come in, but nothing I would be willing to accept. If you missed the post about the sale then you read it here. [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:13:57 +0000

Hi Darren,

thanks for the compliment

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:12:37 +0000

Great site Peter and in my opinion well worth the money. Good luck with the sale.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:01:05 +0000

Hi Mike, i have over 6000 negative keywords added to comply with merchants t&cs. I think it is nearly impossible to be 100% up to date. But i do also have a fair few direct arrangements that i am sure can be passed on.

By: MikeH

MikeH — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:59:15 +0000

Pete,

I’ve noticed that Ads for your site appear on a lot of searches for merchants that have tightly restricted PPC terms.

Is this a special arrangement you have set up with the merchants and could this be transferred over to the potential new owner?

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:01:00 +0000

Hi Richard,

thanks for the for comment. If i dont get an offer that i am happy with then i certainly need to look down the outscourcing route as i have other projects that i really want to dedicate more time to.

Hi Joe,

that is a very good point. Looking through my top performing merchants i dont seem to be on increased tiers in most cases (there is either only 1 tier, or the increased ones are private). When i do go up the tiers it is normally via direct negotiation for increased exposure on the site. There are a couple of exceptions, but looking at the figures, the numbers are not really significant. However, i should say again that i dont have comprehensive enough tracking in place yet to say for sure what effect dropping the ppc would have.

If someone was to buy the site then i am happy to provide all my ppc keywords/negatives/ etc so they can just continue running the site. So whilst 50k sounds like alot, it is money that is invested to make more money.

By: Joe Connor

Joe Connor — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:23:41 +0000

Pete, does your guess that the site would make 46k (55% of 85k) take into account without the PPC you drop back down the commission tiers?
From experiments with my own sites I know this, along with a few other side effects, can be a significant factor which affects the overall profitability.