Sorry dargre but your post makes no sense, if a directory is making $5k per month it won't sell for $1K-$2k or $5k ever.
Just wondering how much does my directory worth: www.vastdirectory.com It has PR3, but not that much traffic, about 1200/month.
I didn't wrote 1-5K about this specific site at current moment. But it is very possible for this site in few months. Then it won't be making even 0.5K/month for sure. And it's not even making this now. Just take calculator, find links and you will know that. Very simple. Also the guy fairly wrote it's not only from links... Sorry jg, seems you didn't notice what's going on around directories lately. Whatever - posting about specific directory earnings was the most stupid thing could be done these days! Ok, I won't say any word more. Some surely know what I meant, some surely know I am right.
@dagre: I was making 3k when I was pr4. pr is not important dagre, at least not in the services area. I have returning customers back from a year. And please don't call me a liar, I haven't attacked you in any way. More than that, I have installed that renew mod of yours. Supposing only 500 sites renew their featured plan each year, that would still be more than 1k/mo. And I wasn't positing my earnings in this tread, I was just asking your opinion. But it seems you aren't so friendly these days.
This is what I am basing my comments on: I just don't think it is anywhere near as bad as you are stating. Negative 20 times is a big exageration. A directory that could have sold for 10k a few months ago and then got some sort of search engine penalization would maybe go down to 7k or 8k value and then only because of a a revenue drop. A directory I sold a few months ago was making over 1k per month with zero Gooogle search traffic, so even some sort of penalty would not really effect me and I think it is similar for many other directories. I do agree with you that there might be a few big directories that have had their value drop by 2 or 3 times but not 10 or 20 times.
And how much would you pay for a directory like www.vastdirectory.com I'm just wondering, I am not eager to sell, but who knows!?
I won't sell my directory for any price, reason, i 've just started a new webdirectory, and like promoting it and it's listed websites.