Administrators Nathan Posted March 13, 2012 Administrators Posted March 13, 2012 So what do you guys think about his domain? I purchased a while back and the domain has never been dropped, so it's age goes back to 2007. Seems like a pretty decent domain for a humor forum and would be easy to get it to rank in the SERPS for "lol forums". Between "lol forums" and "lol forum" they receive 180,000 searches per month. I talked to a few people over at DNF.com and they said it's worth $1500 undeveloped as is. Crazy thing is that I purchased it for $8 bucks Quote
ChuckTesta Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Yo, that's nuts!! You def need to develop that site. Throw up some software and direct a couple funny feeds to populate it. After that, it will probably take off on it's own... especially with that many searches. Good god! Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted March 13, 2012 Author Administrators Posted March 13, 2012 Hmmm...well I figured maybe an IP.Board install create some boards and start adding content. Where would you get these "feeds" from? Quote
ChuckTesta Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 You can get feeds from anywhere. Any site that is "funny". Break.com cracked.com stuff like them. Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted March 13, 2012 Author Administrators Posted March 13, 2012 Yeah the RSS feeds normally suck though. Like they will import a link to the content not the actual content. Quote
TehPhantom Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Lol you should do something with that domain, maybe create a meme baised forum. There isn't a lot out there. Quote
ChuckTesta Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Yeah, i know they have links. You would just use this to jump start some content. You can always edit the posts. It will just give you some ideas and some start out funny content. Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted March 13, 2012 Author Administrators Posted March 13, 2012 Yeah, I had figured on including them, but didn't know if I should specifically hit just memes. Here is a general idea for some of the boards so far. a. Pictures b. Memes c. Animated Gifs d. Video Clips e. Jokes Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted March 14, 2012 Author Administrators Posted March 14, 2012 Well it's up now, let me know your thoughts! Quote
ChuckTesta Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 I think it looks great! It will def be a much butter place once people start contributing. Looks Clem and easy to navigate. Quick question, when setting up new ipboards, can you customize the mobile theme to fit the colors of the full site? Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted March 14, 2012 Author Administrators Posted March 14, 2012 Probably so, right now it's just the default IPB one. I've never tried, but sure it's possible as I see the mobile skin in the editor within the AdminCP. Quote
ChuckTesta Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 I think the mobile skin is one of the best, but I'd def customize it. When switching from here to lolforums it's like nothing changes. Wouldn't want to confuse people. Quote
Godric Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 Just joined the forum. Nice one if you ask me. We can create galleries of funny pictures and memes that we can reference to later. Now only if you could host the images and memes on your image server that would be cool. Also hold a contest for weekly meme or funny pictures would be great too. I will start posting memes from today night. This one has got potential. Quote
ChuckTesta Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 I agree. I bet that place is going to grow like mad. People are always drawn into funny shiz. I'm in that category too. Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted March 15, 2012 Author Administrators Posted March 15, 2012 Just joined the forum. Nice one if you ask me. We can create galleries of funny pictures and memes that we can reference to later. Now only if you could host the images and memes on your image server that would be cool. Also hold a contest for weekly meme or funny pictures would be great too. I will start posting memes from today night. This one has got potential. I do have my own image hosting site http://2pic.net/ I like to host my own images so that I don't end up with a bunch of dead links on my forums. Quote
DarkGizmo Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 Nate you are sitting on a goldmine! Tell ya what. I'll buy that off you for $16. That's twice as what you paid for it. Quote
Godric Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 Nate you are sitting on a goldmine! Tell ya what. I'll buy that off you for $16. That's twice as what you paid for it. I will buy that for 32$. And whats the BIN price? PS: Thanks for the Image Hosting site. Will use it when posting on the forums. I also think you use a FB fanpage to get some more traffic and posting the weekly best Over there. Should get you some more mebers easily. Quote
Godric Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 I got $50 on it Thats it man. Thats the last straw. You ARE now officially on my hitlist. I got 52$ on it BTW. ChuckTesta 1 Quote
Godric Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 I do have my own image hosting site http://2pic.net/ I like to host my own images so that I don't end up with a bunch of dead links on my forums. I started using this site today. It would be cool if you could add some functionality like resizing and stuff. Also if it gets tied to my lolforums account, that will be the icing on the cake. Possible Suggestions: 1) Addition of a Browse box. 2) Addition of Remote Upload( Thats a bit far fetched, No one offers that) Check this for reference Postimage.org Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted March 17, 2012 Author Administrators Posted March 17, 2012 Nate you are sitting on a goldmine! Tell ya what. I'll buy that off you for $16. That's twice as what you paid for it. Yeah, hopefully I can do something with it, not very good at monetizing websites yet I started using this site today. It would be cool if you could add some functionality like resizing and stuff. Also if it gets tied to my lolforums account, that will be the icing on the cake. Possible Suggestions: 1) Addition of a Browse box. 2) Addition of Remote Upload( Thats a bit far fetched, No one offers that) Check this for reference Postimage.org It was originally just created as an internal thing, I do need to update it though, so I will keep this in mind. To everyone else bidding, it's def not for sale Godric 1 Quote
Jessi Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 Wow, you got that for 8 bucks?? I take it the previous owner didn't really think it had any worth? It certainly has some great potential, no doubt. The search engine traffic alone is awesome and if you spend some time building it up, it could be amazing in a rather short amount of time. Quote
TheMightyEddy Posted March 20, 2012 Posted March 20, 2012 To be honest, that's a really good domain for Google searches such as "lol" or even "lol forums". Though it's only when you're bored that you will go that route. Quote
Jessi Posted March 20, 2012 Posted March 20, 2012 Though it's only when you're bored that you will go that route. Do you realize how many people are bored on a daily basis? People love funny things to help get them through the day, so all the more reason to grab a name like that and market towards them. Quote
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