Selling Blog Valuation Site, Unique script PR2

http://www.blogcalculator.com

This site that is a unique blog valuation tool which comes with a script.

The script was written by me and the script is unique, it calculates the value by taking the elements from the form and giving an approximate valuation based on what the person put in and by fetching some things such as Alexa rank and page rank.

I basically created the site way back in 2008 and just stuck it up on the internet and forgot about it, I've never done any linkage for the site and stuck some affiliate banners on which made like 1 sale in the 2 years they've been up, but maybe you can change that or stick different click banners on or sell links on it down the side.

I made it when I was learning PHP and so the script may contain a couple errors and is a bit of a mess, but the script works and gives a reasonable value approximation and most importantly works. I've never given the script to anyone else and is yours to keep, update or even sell on yourself.

Site is registered with Name.com, you pay the transfer fee and I'll send you the site in a zip file.

Site comes up for me number 1 for searches on Google such as "blog valuation", "blog value" "blog value calculator", "how much is my blog worth" and a few other similar ones, you'll have to check these out for yourself as it might just be for me in the UK.

 

Could you elaborate more on the type of errors in this site?

what is the formula you wrote to evaluate the website/blog?

Any recent revenues made?

 

What I mean by errors is that I made the script when I was in the process of learning PHP, so the script may not be up to a great standard and therefore may contain sections which some people would describe as "bad code" because it may not be the best way of going about things, so when someone puts in a malformed URL or something it might throw an error which isn't great for the user, rather than giving them the chance to correct it.

The formula is just a running total which adds or multiplies values given to pagerank, alexa rank, and monthly profit, and then does a running total by multiplying that number by various factors including as listed on the site...

Google Page Rank
Alexa Rank
Domain Name
Domain Extension
Domain Length
Indexed Pages
DMoz Listing
Pillar Articles
Unique Design
Global Appeal
Visitors Numbers
Monthly Income
Monthly Outgoings
Blog Age
Post Frequency
Post Length

I think the valuation is pretty decent and is more realistic than similar tools out there, it's pretty simple to edit the formula too for example here is a bit of the code that adds valuation for blog age in years, so you could easily just change all those final numbers up or down depending on how much you want blog age to affect the valuation given.

if ($blogage >= 1 && $blogage < 2) $runningtotal = ($runningtotal * 1.05);
if ($blogage >= 2 && $blogage < 3) $runningtotal = ($runningtotal * 1.08);
if ($blogage >= 3 && $blogage < 5) $runningtotal = ($runningtotal * 1.11);
if ($blogage >= 5) $runningtotal = ($runningtotal * 1.17);

No recent revenue made. I just stuck some bluehost banners from CJ up a few years ago, in that time it only got 1 sale. You might do better with adsense or selling text links on it.

 

Also to add that the site has a few nice back links including an article on about.com

http://weblogs.about.com/od/monetizingablog/p/How-Much-Is-My-Blog-Or-Website-Worth.htm

http://blueblots.com/tools/20-highly-useful-tools-to-help-you-calculate-the-value-of-your-website/

Also on the results page there is a way for people to post the result on their site, which sometimes a few people put on their site for example on this site in sidebar, see http://iheartshabbychic.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/shabby-chic-apartment-ideas.html in the sidebar maybe someone has the coding knowledge to extend this so that these are in an iframe which fetches the value rather than just being a static value on the other persons site...

 

I'm going to let the bidding run, no BIN price will be posted.

There is no earning proof because there is no earnings apart from I remember 1 sale through the bluehost affiliate program on Commission Junction, but Commission Junction stats only go back 120days and it was before then. So basically no earnings