What is Your Site Worth? - Website Valuation Tool

I just wanted to share with you all an article that I recently posted on my site that I thought might be helpful/interesting/fun

I recently became interested in finding out how much my site could be worth if I decided to sell it one day, and have come up with a) some metrics for measuring the value of a site (which I've pasted below), and b) a tool to automatically value any given URL.

Here is the link to my Article:
http://www.cwire.org/2007/04/04/what-is-your-site-worth/

and here is the link to my tool:
http://www.cwire.org/website-value-calculator/

Please let me know how accurate it's predictions are with your sites, I'd appreciate some feedback.

Here are some key points from my article for evaluating the resale value of a website:

1) The age of the site - How long has it been around? What are the traffic trends and how does the site respond to traffic spikes? For example after being Dugg, do the new visitors come back often or was it a one-time visit?

2) What is the Google PageRank?

3) Email List Subscribers - Does the site come with a list of email subscribers?

4) Media Coverage - Has the site been featured in any recent news stories?

5) How many backlinks does the site have? This is the number of other sites linking-in to this one.

6) Forum Included - Does the site host a forum, and if so how active is it?

7) Where does the site appear in search engine rankings? Does the site appear in the top-five results?

8) Are there multiple blog authors? If so, what will happen to their content once you take over? Are you willing to continue whatever arrangement they had with the previous owner?

9) How is the site being monetized? What other options could you explore?

10) What is the main source of traffic? How could you drive more traffic?

 

My website is worth 58$, but it still havent got any visitors...?

 

Pretty nice tool, my site is valued at: $85,022

 

Wow! Nice tool!

Gave me a huge ego boost.

My site www.everybodygoto.com is worth $261,573!!!

Anybody interested in buying it at that price

 

Hey that is a cool little tool, not sure how accurate it is but neat anyway, says my site is worth almost two grand. Thanks and that worth some green rep!

 

one of my sites came in at $127,000. I'd say its worth 30-40k

 

I didn't get the exact calculation method.
Can any one help me for my site bollygossips.com ?

 

awww mannn.. i'm only worth $35,500

 

Nice tool, its interesting to see what the bigs sites are worth according to your tool. yahoo.com is worth $4 billion.

-- Phil

 

It shows a different amount if you enter the URL with the www and without the www.

Nice to have some sort of entertainment with.

 

$3,356 for my online games website!

 

wow.. one of my websites will fetch $22,358.00
...

I am selling it.. any takers. ?

 

Http://www.webmastertools4you.com worth 1k ^^ I didn't expect that for the first year.

 

My site 6inthemornin.com is worth $85. Seems accurate as I am currently selling it for $50. Get's traffic from google images.

 

As with any general tool, it's worth crap.

I put in a random site and it said $1,000ish. Of course, it doesn't know that the little site I put in does $3k a month. So, I'm guess it's worth a tad more.

I put in another site that does about $1k monthly and it said it's worth about $350.

So, it's junk. I could sit here putting in 200 sites and I'm sure I'd have similar garbage results.

The main problem is the site doesn't really know what advertising is worth or going for on the site. It also can't account for earnings since it doesn't know what you're doing for cash.

It's just a carnival game. Kind of fun to mess around with.

 

hahahaha oh boy. This made me laugh.

Woo hoo. Tell mama that I'm only 6 months away from getting that Starbucks coffee.

That was fun.

 

It shows one of my sites worth around $1,000.... funny thing is that I make that much money in 2-3 months on average with it.

 

If you want one of these tools that is very realistic and maybe even under-values sites a bit try http://www.dnscoop.com/

I don't have any affiliation with the site.

udpate: I checked a few with http://www.cwire.org/website-value-calculator/ and it is pretty good too.

 

Interesting tool. Very hard for something like this to be accurate for everything, but interesting.

 

Wow, DNScoop gave me a value 20x larger. I like that one better!