Massive Design Tutorials Website

This website was established in 2003 and quickly became the largest tutorial search portal catering to graphic designers, programmers and webmasters and remains one of the most popular search tools for design tutorials. It has been featured in webmaster magazines, television and radio programs and has received numerous awards for design and innovation.

This website, project under proper monetization, has earned up to $90,000 in a single year through network ads such as YPN and Adsense as well as affiliate sales of stock graphics and photography and features a completely scratch build in-house advertising system that allows advertisers to purchase and create their own PPC ads with a full suite of reporting options, geo-targeting and daily caps. Through pure organic traffic and no paid advertising, it continues to host tens of thousands of tutorials and receives 20,000 to 25,000 daily visitors with a member base of over 42,000 members, however the focus of monetizing this traffic has not been fully explored as we work on new projects for earning potential. As such, the website runs only an in-house advertising system as a bare minimum and this easily earns $1000 per month with absolutely no effort.

The seller is looking to explore new ventures outside the world of tutorials and would like to focus on these efforts without compromising the services that this website has been offering for the past 6 years. This website is a massive traffic resource that could easily be monetized for significant revenue by implementing several programs. The addition of other ad placements through the in-house ad system, affiliate placements of professional training software such as Apex Media, stock graphics and stock photos as well as other webmaster related products would all perform exceptionally well. YPN was also an extremely strong performing ad network for the site, with some months yielding well over $10,000 per month.

The seller would also suggest re-establishing the newsletter to their huge member base and promoting affiliate related items within the content as well as the benefits of the low cost advertising system. They also recently began the production of video podcasts, which was immediately popular and could easily attract potential advertisers to promote their products in the videos. The seller will work with any potential buyer to explain all of the key areas they feel could be monetized and optimized to the current traffic for maximum conversion.