Website sale over
Despite the goings on this month, on the website front things haven’t been going too bad.
The month started with the sale of my first ever website purchase, RateCarPics.com. I liked the site very much, still do, however, it had stagnated and I didn’t feel up to redeveloping it, so when someone followed up on their interest, I eventually sold the site.
I also sold my football forum, EnglandFootballForum.com. Reason for this was because I felt that I needed a forum for FootballTransfers.info for fans around the world.
Another automotive site sold was CarPhotos.org. The site had suffered after the then hosts upgraded to PHP 5. I didn’t notice until three months afterwards that the ‘friendly urls’ facility had failed, meaning traffic fell.
I sold three small sites plus my Photoshop site PSTutorials.co.uk. I had moved to Ubuntu, so felt it was time to sell.
Despite all these sales, I didn’t actually move all the sites I was looking to sell, but will keep those for now.
With the sold sites and the credit card hassles, I did manage to buy two sites - one of them is MSharapova.info, which as you can guess is about tennis star Maria Sharapova. The other is about a rock star. It’s quite old as its been around since 2001 and is DMOZ listed. It needs a lot of work, so I’m currently rebuilding it. I hope to have it done as soon as possible, as I don’t want DMOZ to de-list it!
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on June 17th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I was quite surprised to run across this post and must say it was nice to get some of the background about CarPhotos.org website which I now own.
Happy to report the site is once again gaining traffic and popularity. It was only last night that we finished the Photopost Gallery and vBulletin forums integration with the homepage design, which I love! Its the reason I bought the site, along with the site logo, which is a perfect match for the site. Now with the site design extended to the gallery and forums, we will be adding much more content including interesting car related articles with lots and lots of pictures to the gallery.
CarPhotos is one of my sites that I thoroughly enjoy working on and am looking forward to further developing it into a first rate Car Enthusiast community where we don’t discuss how to fix or hop up your ride but instead focus on the cars auto enthusiasts love, and why. Thank you for selling me the site!
on June 17th, 2008 at 11:59 am
It’s good to see and hear the site is doing well, although I must point out I didn’t sell you the site, it was GeorgeB.
Good luck with the site!