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Meggo

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SaltyHashes

@Meggo - Thank you for providing a great introduction for our community. Can you provide some context on what happened with the transition? I know that InfoSec Institute has been advertising on techexams.net for some time. Did InfoSec Institute acquire techexams.net?

Meggo

Hey @SaltyHashes, 

That is correct. We acquired the community from Johan (Webmaster) in 2016. I was not working for the company at the time, but my understanding is Johan was looking to step back and take a break. 

Until recently, we've been really quiet hosts. The community here is great and very well maintained, thanks to an awesome team of dedicated mods. Reasons for the migration were to refresh the site's architecture and reinvigorate the community. A lot of Google's recent search changes hit TechExams hard, so it was time for a refresh. 

I hope this helps!

-Megan 

TechGromit

Makes me wonder what it was acquired for. There's sites that estimates a websites value, based on traffic, but this is potential earnings based on how much revenue can be obtained from advertisers on the site and how much traffic a site gets. Take Microsoft.com, the value estimates for the site are in the billions of dollars, but it's a product support website for Microsoft, it cost them money to run it, no tangle profit. It may offer returns in in-tangle ways. "I'm going to buy a Microsoft product because they have a great support web site", but it's difficult to measure this.  

Back to the topic at hand, estimates are the site is worth 105k based on traffic volume. So I question why you would sell a website that can earn 7k a month without any real effort on your part other than maybe $1,000 hosting costs. I've never seen a email from the admin before this recent site redesign.  

thomas_

@TechGromit  - TechExams was obviously acquired because Infosec Institute saw business value in owning it.  I would guess they are using it to inprove Infossc Institute’s website SEO and thus their organic search traffic.  This increase in organic search traffic can potentially translate into more sales of their products and services.

As far as the previous owner, it’s hard to say how much money he/she was making.  Unfortunately, online communities can be rather fickle and the moment you try to monteize it you can end up killing it in the process.  I don’t know how much traffic TE was getting before, but maybe it wasn’t getting as much as one would expect.

impelse

This is really a surprise for me, lets see

JDMurray

I can't go into the background details of when/where/why/how much, but TE moving to the ownership and care of InfoSec Institute was the best for all parties concerned. TE was stagnating under the previous ownership for several reasons and could not grow despite its potential. For those that have creative and optimistic vision, the future of the TE community is much, much brighter now.

AvgITGeek

Glad to be here. Not sure what the hubbub is all about.

beads

Ugh! Take a year off and look what happens! Sheesh! Certainly things I miss but the UI looks a bit more up to date.

impelse

I think certs give you a good chance to get your knowledge, without those certs I would not able to reach the wide knowledge that you need when you are on the field, it opens your mind and allow you to view the things from different perspective.

I think a lot of people left because they are going more to networking sites like facebook, twitter, etc, etc.

E Double U

certforexxx said:

impelse said:

I think certs give you a good chance to get your knowledge, without those certs I would not able to reach the wide knowledge that you need when you are on the field, it opens your mind and allow you to view the things from different perspective.

I think a lot of people left because they are going more to networking sites like facebook, twitter, etc, etc.

Yes and leeches !!!! 


So many people just used this site and left

Certs are good ! But people **** ! So they worthless

You seem to have a chip on your shoulder or you might just be an overall negative person. I've seen a few of your posts lately calling people leeches and saying other things that don't really add anything valuable to the discussions taking place. You have no idea what is going on in people's lives that make them move on. Even you have used the site in the past and left for a while which has led to your magnificent return 

People come, people go. Not a big deal.