Some of you may already know this, I are currently selling Pocket-Bike-Racing.com.au to the highest bidder. I will share some stats all about the site below and what kind of potential and income it brings in. The reason I have decided to sell PBR is so that I can focus on one of our other sites, namely MiniRiders.com. This is a massive opportunity for one lucky person to snap up a bargain, let me explain to you why. Before you start reading why, make sure you read all the way to the end to see how much I are giving the site away for and how you can score $500 for nothing.

Who is ideal  buyer for this site? Someone who has a business in the PBR industry and wants to send a ton of traffic to their website, someone who is an enthusist who wants to make $100-500AUD/month by building and growing this community or so one who just wants to buy the site so they can take it the direction that they want. If any of these are you, I would encourage you to contact us ASAP before its too late. Contact details are at the bottom of this blog post.

About the sites and this listing:
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In this listing, im going to referr to each site with an acronym to make things easier. From now on Pocket-Bike-Racing.com.au will be known as PBR.

PBR is one of the most well established, long-standing online community for Pocket Bike Riders in Australiasia. It has a very loyal and giving user base with hundreds of thousands of articles and threads which help everyone from the newbie rider to the experienced rider out. The site has been around a very long time and has a very long standing membership base. (Its almost 6 years old). The community is currently built up of 10,000+ members and over 90,000 posts. This community shows great potential for further growth in a great, expanding niche.

PBR runs an owned license of vBulletin (version 3.8.0), and is heavily modified to work exactly as needed to as a secure online community, many of these modifications and manual template/php edits being our own design and implementation. The license and access to forum upgrades has will be included in the sale. License information for vBulletin will also be provided, along with upgrade scripts to 3.8.5 should you wish to undertake this task.

Although both sites a really targeting Australia about 50-60% of traffic comes from international sources.

Hosting: Both sites are hosted on a Sydney CPanel based VPS and will be moved to your host (best to run them on cpanel) after all payments have been recieved. They were hosted in the US until around November 2009 when I moved them to Sydney which increased their traffic and SEO domination in Google by around 15-20%

What you will receive on purchase of PBR website:
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1. Freshly designed *ORIGINAL* vBulletin community and blog Pocket-Bike-Racing.com.au – domain and existing community

2. PocketBike.com.au – A second, parked domain redirecting traffic to Pocket-Bike-Racing.com.au

3. vBulletin licence and software with access to upgrades.

4. A server side email marketing suite (Interspire Email Marketer 6.0)

5. Access to and ownership of all associated accounts (analytics, email marketing, forum, ftp & CPanel).

6. A video distribution website which has a great SEO presence and relatively large list of members/subsribers.

7. Full migration assistance and/or a done-for-you migration onto a new server/VPS.

8. Transfer of all domains over to you.

Pocket-Bike-Racing.com.au has first page of google and first position for highly competitive keywords like:

pocket bike, pocketbike, pocket bike racing, pocket rockets for sale, pocket bikes, blata ultima, pocket rocket for sale, repsol bike, pocket bike forum, repsol, blata ultima (Some of these keywords are for Google.com.au (Australian Google) and others appear globally.)

Why Am I selling PBR?
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It come’s down to one very simple thing, Time. At the end of the month I would have to say I only spend 1-2 hours working on the site because the other site I own takes up such a large amount of my time.

I know both of these sites have massive potential and I have been holding onto them because I thought I would start to work on them to increase the revenue, but I just dont have the time and the main motorbike website I own is making alot more money on its own than these two put together and then some. Its a real shame, but in me holding onto them, Im stopping someone else from using their skills to turn them into a real asset.

I have put a screenshot of the income for Pocket-Bike-Racing.com.au for Jan 1st 2008 to Jan 1st 2010 when it was making much more money. When I re-designed the forum, the adsense income dropped by around 50% for these two sites and it was at this time that I would proceeded to focus on the other main site I own because it is bringing in much more revenue.

The PBR site has potential to make $500-1000USD per month as a minimum.

This is not including the sponsorship potential, we sell banners to five sponsors per month at $200USD for each banner on our main motobike site. The site is setup to insert either adsense ads or sponsor banners ads using Google Ad Manager.

Again, this is also not taking into account the fact of the lists that are attached to both sites. The following super quick ways to add potential earnings to this site is to:

* Advertising space on newsletter
* Affiliate links to products
* JV with niche product owner
* And many more.

The sites are truly untapped and have incredible opportunity to grow revenue.

Oh and yet again, another monetization strategy is the users keep asking for t-shirts/stickers/hats/hoodies which is another way to increase the revenue.

Support after purchase:
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I will help with the migration of the sites and will give you a period of 2 weeks where I will offer any support or fix any server side bugs which may arrise from moving servers, as well as help you understand how everything works and how to manage the sites.

Terms of Sale:
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I will only be considering serious offers, these sites are not making nearly the kind of income they are worth, but the work that has gone into them, the money that has been invested, the SEO work that has been done and of course the list which gets quite a great response rate.

As Owner of www.pocket-bike-racing.com.au I would like to wish the chief mod and all PBR mods and all our members my very best wishes for 2010. It is still my goal to turn PBR into the best Pocket Bike Forum in the world and to greatly expand the benefits and advantages of being a PBR member. But to do this I need your support and I need the support of sponsors and advertisers. I need more of you to step up to the line and tell me – “I want to help make PBR the best of its kind in the world. Please tell me how I can help.”

We are looking for more quality advertisers on the site.

We are looking for members who would like to become regular bloggers.

We are looking for people who would like to have a go at running a competition or two.

We looking for members to send us in their favourite pics and videos each month.

We are looking for members to supply us with race news, with self help articles, with bike and equipment reviews and with some incredible videos that we can post up on a PBR You Tube site

And keep telling us how we can improve the site and give you more of what you want. A good place to do this is when you are leaving the site and the 4 questions pop up that allow you to give us feedback – use that opportunity to give us that feedback so that we can act on it.

Enjoy the New Year Festivities and talk to you again in 2010.

Owner

Pocket-Bike-Racing.com.au

Over the last 6 weeks we have been fighting an invasion on the site by phishing fraudsters who planted a number of illegal phishing virus files that kept firing off attempts to steal confidential information from a number of major sites around the world. Because of the size of the recipients of the illegal activity they put enormous pressure on our hosting company to close us down. The Hosting Service Provider kept putting us on strict deadlines to eliminate all the illegal files and when we failed to stop the phishing they closed us down – firstly for a day or so and then second time for almost a full week.

We have now found a technician who is very experienced in how to combat phishing and he is now working on PBR to ensure that the problem does not occur again. We have also moved the whole site to a new hosting site where, should this ever happen again, it is unlikely that the site will be closed down before we have fixed the problem.

So we are very sorry to all of our members who were inconvenienced during these recent closures but now that we have successfully responded to the threat and moved the site to a new place we can enter 2010 a lot more confident that we can start implementing our New Year agenda for PBR without fear of being taken by surprise by another invasion.

PBR Admin

Last week the site went down for over 24 hours. This happened (we think) because when we re-designed the site in late 2008 and re-launched the pages in early 2009 someone managed to insert a fraudulent phishing virus into one of the folders and it was timed to start its phishing activities a few weeks ago. This led to the hosting company giving us multiple warnings to cleanse the site of the fraudulent files responsible for the illegal activity. Even though our technical team worked tirelessly to locate and remove all the fraudulent files they failed to meet the deadline given by the hosting company and they closed PBR down along with Minibikevids.com. The virus had infiltrated both these sites.

We are now continuing the work to ensure the site is 100% free of the virus and we plan to upgrade the security features.

Spammers have also been attacking the site and trying to infiltrate it via the optin for the ezine. So we will have to address that problem as well to keep spammers out as much as we can.

Should the site ever close down temporarily again it will be for one of these reasons.

PBR Admin

The main thing to remember is that the blog is different from the forum. The blog is here as an add on to the forum where anyone who wants to share something of value with all members can do so.

If you want to post something on this blog just reply to this blog post and we will get in touch with you to review what you have and if it meets the test of quality and value add we will certainly post it for you.

Alternatively just use the CONTACT US and send us a message that you have something to go on the blog and we will follow that up with you.

The future of this blog is in your hands. We just set up the facility for you to make use of as part of the total value offered to members on this site.

If any of you would like to consider becoming a full time blogger or a part time blogger on this blog just tell us and we will get in touch with you to talk about how this can be arranged.

Blogs are a great way to bring more people to your forum. It can attract attention from people anywhere in the world and the more global reach this site gets the more interesting and exciting it will become as we get input from pocket bike riders from all around the world.

Our message to members is always the same – what you get from this site will always depend on what you put in to it. The more of you that are willing to step up and offer ideas and assistance the bigger and better PBR will become.

Have a great day.

PBR Admin

We conducted the same survey on the Miniriders.com.au site.

The results were almost identical on both sites – about 97% who took part in the survey were very keen for us to negotiate these deals and bring them to them.

However, there is one big difference between what happened with the Miniriders survey and the PBR survey. A large number of Minirider subscribers took part in the survey but just 16 members of PBR were willing to take the time to let us know their views on this. That is such a low participation rate that we have judged it not to be worth our time and effort to go to work on this for PBR members at this point of time. We have always made it clear that we are willing to go to great lengths to bring new value to members if we are able to gauge from our surveys that members want it enough. Clearly not enough members on PBR want us to do anything more for them than what we are currently providing. So we conclude from this that we should just leave things as they are on PBR until we hear a strong enough voice from PBR members that they want more.

One way that they can tell us what “more” they want, and keep telling us until we hear, is to use this blog and just keep sending us in their comments in response to any of our “Member Survey Results” blog posts. Alternatively they can send us in their messages via the “Contact Us” on the home page.

We are here to serve your interests but it is up to enough of you to tell us in a loud enough voice what it is you want us to do. We will be listening and if the noise gets loud enough we will realise that enough of you want us to do certain things that we will then say  ”HEY, THESE GUYS REALLY WANT THIS – SO LETS GIVE IT TO THEM.”

Keep enjoying the forum.

PBR admin

Gen Grace is a talented photographer and she is now attending many of your races and capturing some of the exciting moments on her camera. She has supplied us with some samples of her work to publish on this blog so that you can see the quality.

Please let us know by your comments whether you like her photographs and would like to see more of them published on this blog as a regular feature.

Here they are -

I told you in an earlier blog post that I would add value to your membership on this site by bringing to you a range of products and opportunities that you may be interested in.

Please trust me that I will not abuse your trust in me to not waste your time or your money.

I believe in education for life and there is never a time that I am not still a student of something or studying something or with some one that I think has something valuable to teach me.

I have always had mentors and coaches who have helped me along the way.

I know your chief interests on this site is pocket bikes and that will never change.

But some of you may wish to at least be given the opportunity to check out other things that may have a positive impact in your lives.

The Team at Pocket-Bike-Racing is planning a great many things to keep bringing you more value – and many of them will be centered on pocket bikes, but some of them will be in other areas of interest.

Loral Langemeier has been my personal coach and helped me a great deal and so I have no hesitation in recommending her to others.

She has already released 3 books that became best sellers all over the world. She has just launched her fourth one.

Here is my message to you to personally introduce you to Loral and her new book.

THE MESSAGE

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Pocket-Bike-Racing.com.au

Please read the Special Forum Conduct Rules just published below. As a mod you would be expected to help enforce those rules within the forum. 

Cheers,

PBR Admin

It seems that some members are not clear on some core forum conduct rules and this is spoiling it for the majority of members. PBR admin is therefore taking this step of publishing these core conduct rules on this blog and also in the announcements box.

Here they are -

SPECIAL FORUM CONDUCT RULES

1.    Be polite and courteous at all times. Any posts that include bad or foul language or which consist of a personal attack on someone else will be removed without notice.

2.    Any posts that defame or seek to injure another’s reputation or good character are expressly prohibited and anyone who wilfully engages in such conduct will be banned from the forum.

3.    No spamming is permitted.

4.    No pornography, warez or other improper material is permitted in the forum.

5.    No offensive photographs or images are to be uploaded.

6.    Signatures must be less than 255 characters.

7.    Members who are not paying sponsors or advertisers are not permitted to post any link to any commercial website that is offering products for sale to forum members or to include such a link or banner ad in their signature.

8.    Try to post in the correct forum for your topic of interest.

9.    Impersonating any other forum member is prohibited.

10.                 Each forum member is restricted to a single username and account in the forum.

11.                 Read, understand and apply forum rules and directions.

12.                 Personal attacks and public criticisms of forum moderators are prohibited. If any member has a complaint about a moderator’s actions they should go to the CONTACT US page and send in a message to the site administrator.

13.                 Familiarise yourself with the information contained in the FAQ – see in the main menu on home page.

14.                 Do your best to help new members learn how to use the forum. 

Please do your best to stick to these rules.

Thanks,

PBR Admin