PR3 Train Ticket Site!!!

[domainseller200]

Come on the site isn't that bad

Well heres the site, www.cheaptraintickets dot info

No I agree that the site isn't that bad at all mate, as I had already seen it before making my comments, so don't take offence I was just bantering with Ty due to the "mysterious cicumstances" of this website as a whole etc.

The extension isn't my cup of tea but everyone is different of course.

If the earnings were not so low I was considering buying it for using on my own domain traintickets / org / uk, however the earnings definatly don't add up

Thetrainline offers 1% and railsaver offer 2% commisions so based on your figures, it should have earnt approx £320 - £640 based on your sales of £32,000 if those 2 merchants had been used.

I am keen to develop my traintickets / org / uk domain as I worked it out as this (on loose figures)

[train tickets] gets 246,000 local searches a month

Lets just say my site saw only 20% of that traffic = 49,200

Lets say it had a 10% conversion rate from traffic to sale (which I would say is quite reasonable due to the majority of train tickets bought online) = 4,920 sales

Lets say the average ticket price is only £30 so thats 30p to 60p commision per sale

Outcome = £1,476 - £2,952 of monthly income based on just 1 keyword being ranked, without any of the long tail stuff.

NOW :

[cheap train tickets] gets 165,000 local searches a month, so you can see it has approx 66% of the potential of the [train tickets] scenario, if you could rank it for it's main keyword and complimented with long tail traffic also.

Train tickets commissions are very very bad, and you need large traffic to make decent money from it.

Just food for thought but it won't make you rich, but a nice lifestyle website for quite minimal input once up and running.

Good luck with the sale, I do believe there is a good opportunity for someone with your website.

 

[matty281k]

Hi

Yes some good advice, but they do add up, i was using virgin trains affiliate programme on commissions junction they ONLY paid me £4 per lead, which is horrible considering the big sales I gave them i wish they payed 1%-2% com as I would of earned some big money.

I didnt use railsaver or thetraineline.

 

[domainseller200]

Yes some good advice, but they do add up, i was using virgin trains affiliate programme on commissions junction they ONLY paid me £4 per lead, which is horrible considering the big sales I gave them i wish they payed 1%-2% com as I would of earned some big money.

I didnt use railsaver or thetraineline.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and if you decide to keep the site, I would be using thetrainline / railsaver asap, as you may earn more money on autopilot with the site in it's current state, than selling it outright for mid-high £xxx

Good luck whatever you decide anyway

 

[yesterday]

matty

I was just considering this site, and had a look at some of your previous posts.

Can you please explain what your deal is with hotels.

quote:
"50-100 bookings per day is what i average at! not that complicated"
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/affil...w-can-you-make-living-hotel-affilliate-4.html

and then quote:
"I've had 3 hotel sites fail!! Although made about £100

I was up against big companies like laterooms, who have amazing interlink structures and good back linked deep pages from local press and pr sites. And they operate in just about every city.

http://www.laterooms.com/en/k1628726...gh-hotels.aspx has 58 good links.

Unless you have good backlinks and good content I wouldnt bother with hotels"
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/mini-sites/66652-hotel-sites.html

end quotes.

I don't want to stir things up unnecessarily, but by giving you an opportunity to clear this discrepancy up publicly will help your credibility with your train tickets figures. (at least with me).

thanks

yesterday

 

[matty281k]

re

I dont see what your problem is with my hotel post, and why it has anything to do with this. I have several hotel sites many fail, some are doing great.


My figures are correct, i've shown a screenshot straight from cj.com,

Do I make the commission rate with virgin trains? NO I DONT!!!!

matty

I was just considering this site, and had a look at some of your previous posts.

Can you please explain what your deal is with hotels.

quote:
"50-100 bookings per day is what i average at! not that complicated"
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/affil...w-can-you-make-living-hotel-affilliate-4.html

and then quote:
"I've had 3 hotel sites fail!! Although made about £100

I was up against big companies like laterooms, who have amazing interlink structures and good back linked deep pages from local press and pr sites. And they operate in just about every city.

http://www.laterooms.com/en/k1628726...gh-hotels.aspx has 58 good links.

Unless you have good backlinks and good content I wouldnt bother with hotels"
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/mini-sites/66652-hotel-sites.html

end quotes.

I don't want to stir things up unnecessarily, but by giving you an opportunity to clear this discrepancy up publicly will help your credibility with your train tickets figures. (at least with me).

thanks

yesterday

 

[kendalcottages]

If you're looking for something £xxx, why does it have a BIN of £1,100... ?! The figures seem somewhat screwed in this thread.

 

[yesterday]

I'm out.



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yesterday

 

[domainseller200]

If you're looking for something £xxx, why does it have a BIN of £1,100... ?! The figures seem somewhat screwed in this thread.

 

[matty281k]

re

Because my bin price inst made up from the profit its made, its based on other things such as rankings, backlinks.

And I originally posted the wrong bin price, and i've had so many ppl contact me about prices I've got mixed up who I have responded to. DOH!!


The figures are correct, just low commission

 

[rob]

Because my bin price inst made up from the profit its made, its based on other things such as rankings, backlinks.

'goodwill'

 

[matty281k]

yep! sure is good will

 

[kendalcottages]

That's not my point. You said you were looking for £xxx.

You then posted a BIN of £1,100.

So, although you're looking for £xxx, you appear to be asking for £x,xxx.

That, coupled with the figures not stacking up in other areas, means I'm out, too.