www.DublinWork.com for sell, first on google for key words, pagerank=4

[DublinFrench]

Hello,

I want to sell my website DublinWork.com because I don't live in Ireland
anymore.

The website is PageRank 4.

The website is first on google with the key words "Dublin Work" :
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=en&so...i=g10&aql=&oq=

We have 952 registered candidates and a total of 4000 candidate emails.

The website makes around 25,000 pages per month.

Please make your offer. I will sell when I will have an offer I like.

Best Regards,

Stephane L.

[DublinFrench]

Q: For what other keywords you are in top?
A: The site is for people looking for work in Dublin. To be first with "Dublin Work" was exactly my target when I took the domain name and created the website. You can make more search tests if you wish, and you will see the website is on the top of returns for the Irish recruitment and job offers market.

We made big sensation a couple of years ago, with a strong advertisement campaign. We gave flyers and made a few partnerships with a lot of immigrant resources.

We have pages about Ireland translated in a lot of different languages and we have new candidates posting resume every weeks.

This is why we have the page rank, and these good Google results.

If someone wants to go inside this Irish market and try to monetize the domain name and the traffic, it will give him a very good entry point.

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Q: Why you want to sell it?
A: I moved to Thailand where I live for 2 years with my wife and our new daughter. I'm totally outside of the Irish market now. I cannot take care of it anymore.

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Q: you're selling it because you moved, that means it can't be run remotely? It looks like the past listings are pretty old... does it have active members anymore? How much work is involved? Any income? Is the submission of resumes and jobs completely automated? Did you write the site yourself? Thanks!

A: I did it myself during my free time in 2006.
It can be run remotely, but you need to give it time. For example, I had some partnership opportunities in the past but or that you need to go to see the people, or at least to talk to them by phone. If you want to make money with it, you will have to continue promoting, add some content, and find more partners. I did noting of that for the last 2 years.
The advertisement listings are quite old, for 2 reasons : there are not as many jobs than before in Ireland. And most of all, I stopped asking companies and recruiters to use it. If you want people to use the website, you have to go to them, and this is not done anymore.
There are candidates answering listings almost everyday. There are new candidates registering with their resume and creating alerts constantly.
Today the work to do is mostly to validate the new registering companies to allow them to publish offers. You can as well send them an email to thank them to come publishing, but I stopped doing it as well.
The website is free to use, I never really monetized it. I'm better making things than making profit from them. And yes, I made it myself in 2006, and took care of it until 2009. The style is oldschool, no CSS, no Object programming (shame on me...) because I had poor time and at the beginning it was mostly a side project. Then I put a lot of time and some money into it to have the content and the visits and it grown with time. It helped a lot of people and it was good fun to do.

The website can be interesting if:
- You want to catch the visitors and members for your own project.
- You can make partnership with companies and monetize the emails with side services. I had good results with taxback.com and this will continue. It's possible to find more partners like taxback but once again, it means time and personal involvement and I don't have it anymore. You can try to make partnership with Celtic Halls, offer some helps for resume, candidate coaching, find some English school and work with them... There are a lot of possibilities, Ireland is still a very active country full of foreigners coming to learn English and find a job.
- You work in the Irish recruitment business, or you want to. It will give you a wonderful entry point with the google ranking and everything existing.

The website is still quite famous, people know it there, you can be sure they had the flyer with the logo at least once in their hands

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Q: Where do you mean by "there"?
A: by "there", I mean "Dublin". A big part of new comers to Ireland passes into DublinWork.com. It comes from some article we have with some international expatriates forums and the translated pages. People already in Dublin certainly had the flyer in 2007 as we made big campaign during 6 months.
Anyway as the promoting stopped for more than 2 years, I cannot garanty the reputation is as strong today as it was a few years ago. But there's still the potential

[Fergal]

Welcome to Business Advice Forum DublinFrench. Good to meet you here, thanks for joining.

Do you have a selling price in mind for this site?

How many unique visitors is it receiving per month?

[DublinFrench]

Hi Fergal. My pleasure to be here.

1/ This is the big point. I have no idea. If I put together all the costs and the time I spent in it I will be over 20,000 € and I know I will never sell it this price. But I don't want to give it for free as well as there are a lot of me inside of it.

2/ I have a google analytic and for the last 30 days, it says :
* 1 768 Visits

* 5 339 View Pages

* 3,02 Pages per visit

* 56,11 % bounce

* 00:02:07 average time on website

* 78,11 % new visits

[Fergal]

Thanks for the additional information DublinFrench. I'm sorry but that price range is well outside my budget at this time, please note that this is not to suggest that your site is not worth that.

Good luck with your sale, I hope it goes well for you and I've sent you a couple of suggestions via PM.