I'm developing a bit of an automatic “ready reckoner” to assess the value of an expired or for sale domain name. To do this with some speed on a first run through, I'm trying to allocate a weight or a score for each essential component. I know this is probably going to be almost impossible but I'm just toying with it. Can anyone suggest a weight for each of these components? For example: Backlinks from unique IPs. My base requirement is a minimum of 50 backlinks. So if I find a domain that has 50, this gets a tick - which is great - but as this is only one of many things to check, what weight would you allocate to this tick? I need a formula that gives me a number for each component and all components need to add up to 100. After I get a number for each component, I'll break that number down into small pieces so I can allocate a different score for variations in each component. So below is what I would consider my minimum targets and if I found a domain with this makeup then at the right price, I would buy it. If it was better than this it would probably cost more, but I would always be interested in buying it. So I need a score of 100 when everything is like this and below 100 if it's worse than this. Which means if all components had equal weight, I would allocate a weight (or score) of 6.6 to each of these 15 items which would total 100 points. But not all of these things are as important as the other. So how would you distribute these points? PR Min 3 Total Backlinks, Min 200 Age, Min 5yrs Alexa Rank, Min 10m Dmoz Listing, yes Site Category, General blog SEO Free, (wayback - not used for seo) Registrars (number of times dropped), Max 3 Pages Indexed in Google, Min 3 No artificial PR rank (redirect from other URL), clean Backlinks from Unique IPs, 50 Trust, 15 Citations, 15 Ratio Trust:Citation 1:1 Good Anchor Mix, yes Any thoughts? Anything you would check that I haven't?
Is there a way to check for anchor text in relation to the domain? Like, if backlinks have a whacking great proportion of exact match anchor text, as opposed to related word anchor text, it might be a red flag.