Site sold: ArcadeShack.com

Note: Take a look at my project, I offer you a professional website for free with N.nu.

I bought ArcadeShack.com on an auction on NamePros for $75 in April 2005. I then spent a week or more improving the default site and added many features such as highscores, rating etc. I also did a real on-page optimization with mod_rewrite and KW density on game pages etc.

The site has been very successful and really shooting off the last months with 300-1200 uniques a day and around $100 made for adsense per month. Most of the traffic comes from search engines and it has many thousands of backlinks.

Anyway, I just sold the site today to a person on DP for $1700 .

Reason for selling:

Getting funds and more time to work in the niche that is my business instead, namely the SEO niche. For example I could not do anything with those visitors except give them adsense, I could not promote my services and for me the arcade games was really boring, resulting in the highscores not being updated and the site neglected.

It will be interesting to see now what happens to the site.

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8 responses »Leave a comment

Praveen
said on January 4, 2006 at 10:44

thats a nice profit

i remember you buying it.. but never visited it.

now, i am sure i wont visit it again
Alex McArthur
said on January 4, 2006 at 19:58

Impressive. Nice quick turn around.
Nathan
said on March 8, 2006 at 22:18

Do you personally think that GameScript is the best script out there for a site like Arcade shack?
Jim Westergren
said on March 9, 2006 at 00:08

Hi Nathan,

Yes, I think so. But I am not sure if their new version of the script is better.
Paula Jordan
said on May 3, 2006 at 18:05

I can’t ger into arcadeshack.com no more you ass hole give that game site back now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yellow Pages
said on August 11, 2006 at 22:14

Congrats on your great $1700 sale. Which is probably the best option for starting a game site. Buy a site already index and already backlinks for XXX or start a new site and use that XXX on the site: getting backlinks, etc.
ToHAmy
said on October 15, 2006 at 05:11

[xxx] I WANT THAT SITE BACK..!!!
Jim Westergren
said on October 16, 2006 at 20:38

ToHAmy,

I really don’t know what you are talking about and I am not the owner of that site anymore. Why don’t you annoy the new owner instead? Thanks.