Comments on: How much is your site worth? http://www.webmasterblog.com.au/how-much-is-your-site-worth/ News & Advice for the Australian Webmaster Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:27:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Poker Domains http://www.webmasterblog.com.au/how-much-is-your-site-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-3862 Poker Domains Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:54:56 +0000 http://www.webmasterblog.com.au/?p=82#comment-3862 A domain with a low (Good) Alexa score doesn't necessarily mean it gets traffic but if a domain gets lots of traffic then it's Alexa score should be low. You can use many tools to check backlinks and ranking on a list of domains and filter the bad apples from there but in the end it is experience what tells you which one to register. It all depends on how you interpret the data, to know what to look for and everybody has his own formula. For domain name value i personally like estibot for non-gambling names and buypokerdomains.com to check the value on gambling domains. A domain with a low (Good) Alexa score doesn’t necessarily mean it gets traffic but if a domain gets lots of traffic then it’s Alexa score should be low. You can use many tools to check backlinks and ranking on a list of domains and filter the bad apples from there but in the end it is experience what tells you which one to register. It all depends on how you interpret the data, to know what to look for and everybody has his own formula. For domain name value i personally like estibot for non-gambling names and buypokerdomains.com to check the value on gambling domains.

]]> By: Aussie http://www.webmasterblog.com.au/how-much-is-your-site-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Aussie Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:56:04 +0000 http://www.webmasterblog.com.au/?p=82#comment-444 Cool article - here are some of my thoughts on the matter. Most valuation tools estimate the domain name value rather than a the complete website and can be good for a laugh, but that's about it - don't be disappointed when your 100,000 domain fails to get a bid of $10 at auction, these free appraisals are worthless (as are paid ones in my opinion). I have had hand registered domains sell for a thousand a week later because someone really wanted the name and websites that earn me regular money struggle to gain interest with buyers and bring in offers of less than I make a month from the site - go figure! Alexa ranking is not even considered any more and people are just starting to wake up to the fact that Page Rank is almost completely irrelevant (other than for selling links to new webmasters who don't know that yet and think PR is very important) There are many things that can help you work out if your website name is any good (age (older is better) traffic (lots of it is good) keywords (the most important factor for me when buying a site or domain) search etc (if people aren't looking for it your not going to make money) and the same can apply to websites (although site value is usually based on site income) but the fact is at the end of the day your site is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it and is effected by many things that these valuation tools can not calculate. Cool article – here are some of my thoughts on the matter.

Most valuation tools estimate the domain name value rather than a the complete website and can be good for a laugh, but that’s about it – don’t be disappointed when your 100,000 domain fails to get a bid of $10 at auction, these free appraisals are worthless (as are paid ones in my opinion).

I have had hand registered domains sell for a thousand a week later because someone really wanted the name and websites that earn me regular money struggle to gain interest with buyers and bring in offers of less than I make a month from the site – go figure!

Alexa ranking is not even considered any more and people are just starting to wake up to the fact that Page Rank is almost completely irrelevant (other than for selling links to new webmasters who don’t know that yet and think PR is very important)

There are many things that can help you work out if your website name is any good (age (older is better) traffic (lots of it is good) keywords (the most important factor for me when buying a site or domain) search etc (if people aren’t looking for it your not going to make money) and the same can apply to websites (although site value is usually based on site income) but the fact is at the end of the day your site is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it and is effected by many things that these valuation tools can not calculate.

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