Has anyone here thought of a formula on how to value a domain based on the Google data for its keyword? What we have to work with: global monthly search volume, number of organic results, number of adwords results, adwords cost per click
Anything generic is going to have value... for example.. jobs.com, employment.com, personalloans.com, creditcards.com, mobilephones.com etc. Other then that, Google Keyword Tool will help you a little bit too.
Lets be honest in this day and age most domains are pretty worthless. Only keyword domains and big brands are worth a lot.
i dont agree with jamiee a good chosen domain can change the projects future - unless you are not doing a project totally focused SEO - but it is a dumb idea anyway. even you have SEO tactics, you need direct users! so a good product!
Google keywords data is not far from useless in my opinion. I have domains with 300k plus EXACT matches that get minimal visitors despite ranking top of all the search engines
True but a new domain is good if you plan on building a new brand or something.. for usual site i prefer havening keywords domain since the work becomes so much easier in those sites
I wrote a deatiled article on Buying and Selling wbesites which includes a website valuation aspects around the exact things there have been discussed in this thread, except in more detail, you can view it here . Hope it helps you to put a value on any future sites and where you can go to sell your website or domain