1Lit.com - Number 1 for Literature

Award-Winning Book Portal Goes on Sale!


For Sale: 1Lit.com and 1Lit.co.uk

Sites Established: 1999

Site design: It took two professional designer several months to create and perfect the current look of the site. The portal has gone through several revamps over the years to keep it up-to-date and enhance its appearance.

Just to come up with the ideal logo took us several weeks. We had several graphic designers coming forward with different ideas and creating sample logos (all logos will be give to purchaser).

Traffic statistics: Over 40 million hits since 1999. Now c. 50,000 unique visitors a year.

Site demographics: Most people who visit 1Lit.com are university graduates and aged 35+. They are financially solvent and spend far more money buying online than younger surfers.

From a survey we did a few years back, the audience is mainly highly-educated, middle-aged people from Western countries. They are affluent and among the highest online spend. This is a prime demographic.

Source of traffic: In the 'noughties' 1Lit.com hosted a tremendously popular literary ezine which ran for several years. A European ezine ran at 1Lit.co.uk. With over 60,000 loyal subscribers, the domains had hundreds of sites linking to them because of their award-winning content. Some of the links are still there.

We have also spent vast resources obtaining permanent links to the 1Lit suite of domain names from numerous quality web directories. Even if you were never to spend a penny more on promoting the site, it would continue to pull in hundreds of unique visitors a month a long time to come. Those links to the 1Lit domains will be there for a long time: even three years down the line they will be sending traffic to 1Lit. Unlike other domain names and websites, we have invested a huge amount of time and money into 1Lit.com to ensure its long term profitability.

There are hundreds of references to the 1Lit websites in search engines. These include links from sites like Wikipedia and university websites. You can check how many sites mention and link to the 1Lit domain names in Google and Bing.

Due to the significant number of backlinks to 1Lit.com it ranks on the first and second pages of Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. for a number of niche search terms. It takes a phenomenal amount of time and money to get such listings for a site.

Additional Information: Arts/Literature is often the top category in most directories and, because our domains begin with a '1' they are usually listed at the very top of this section!

The 1Lit domain names are extremely valuable for this reason: most surfers click on the very top site. Domain names beginning with a '1' have a huge advantage over other sites.

Source of revenue: Google Adsense and affiliate program links to Amazon etc. (Revenue is now minimal, hence the substantial reduction in the sale price.)

Copyright status of site content: Copyright of text and images passes to purchaser of the business.

Asking price: We have reduced the price and are selling the business, which includes the domain names, back-issues of the ezines, logos, professionally-designed banners and scores of mature, 'aged' links to them from all over the web, for a mere US $3,950!

Special offer for : get 20% off our already-reduced asking price!

Further information: If you may be interested in buying this historic portal please email , Skype AzamMkt or ring our office on +44 (0) 20 33 55 4334 anytime 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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