Hi guys a little while ago I started a discussion about how to value a link - that is, what elements to take into consideration to get a fairly correct price for a link on a certain page or domain. After reading and studying the issue, I create a link price calculator: I know there already are a few on the Internet, but I hope you'll find mine a bit more useful and complete than the others - and you'll have time to suggest me improvements! Anyway, the tool is at: http://directory.celebritycontest.net/link-price Again, I hope you'll like it and use - and don't forget to send me your feedback! Thanks!
all that time and effort into a tool like this and you host it on a directory? i would host this on a stand alone domain or a site that is more relevant to backlinks and SEO.
Thanks for your suggestion, I want to see the feedback I get for this tool, maybe create a few more and then host all of them on a dedicated site. BTW, what do you think about the tool? Thanks!
It looks great, I would definately host it on its own domain. Keep us posted as to where you move it, if you do because I like it ALOT! I would suggest though that you increase the size of the box that says the price becasue the bottom is cut off a little! But otherwise it looks great! Thanks Mike
it's a very nice tool. The one thing that I don't think is accurate is the code/text ratio factor, it gave youtube a "spammy rating". Otherwise its very well designed, good job.
http://www.talkwebz.com - you want this link for - the link will be placed - this is a [?] A link in this page is worth $31/month Is it overestimating?
Well, all those tools spit out wonderful numbers what whats the point? A link is worth exactly as much as you are willing to sell it for or someone else is willing to buy it for. It doesn't even seem to look at the niche and thats where the problem lies. A link on a Myspace Site would be worth considerably less than a link on a .... <- put in a niche you think highly off.
Hmm, are you willing to pay the prices quoted on this tool? I charge $5/mo on my PR4 site (in sig) and have trouble getting people to buy, and your tool recommends $13 for traffic, $15 for both and $18 for PR... I think it's a little too high. Edit: I checked google.com on it, it says a sitewide blogpost for PR&Traffic is worth $2k and it's not happy about domain age P) or about code/html (I always say, the best seos are the search engines, right?). Anyways, if google charged that price, I could easily imagine millions of links suddenly appearing, heck, I'd buy a link on google for 2k/mo... Make more than that on adsense
This would be classified as a "Fun Tool" It gave www.wwws.org a $35 a month for sitewide (nice) but some wont even consider doing it for $10 a month let alone $35. Once you get that into it's own domain, I wont mind linking it to my blog site Let us know when you do.
I'd be interested to see how you do that (unless it was a typ0 and you meant from). Otherwise, please help me to link Google to my blog.
Well, first of all thank you all for your precious feedback - and for using the tool. What I gathered from this discussion is: - it gives (on average) slightly higher numbers than what people are actually paying for links - blog posts should be considered a one time payment and not a monthly one - outbound links are not calculated correctly - the ratio code/HTML should be given a very low weight Apart from this, a few things to note: - I do agree that the price you actually end up paying (or earning) for a link depends mainly on non-objective factors (I need money, "links inflation", ...): my tool would like to be a starting point and a rough estimate of how much a link, given the current market situation, might be worth - andre75 pointed out that a link value depends also on how close the content of the link page/website is to yours: I think this is correct, therefore I am going to add a drop down box where you can chose, in a scale from 1 to 4, how close the niche of the website where you are buying/selling to the link is to the one who's selling/buying it Again, thanks for all the replies received so far and for the great feedback!
I would make the option boxes a little bigger. It looks like its size 8 or 10 right now. Other than that, nice tool. You might consider adding PR.
I guess there is a bug in this tool. It computed outgoing links as 629 for my PR6 site and estimated link price 8$ because fo that. As you will guess i dont have 629 external links on my homepage. It is counting internal pages too! I dont think number of internal links is an important factor for link price. Let me know if you think the opposite.
nice tool but sometimes over estimates, sometimes under estimates. Regardless these facts, it is a nice tool to make someone happy or sad
I think this would be a great tool for a beginner in Link Sales, it doesn't tell you what price to ask for a link, it helps you make a idea. Nice job picouli, you have a green from me
its saying my gamng-forums site should chrge $15 a month, as stated by someone els, i think its over estimating a bit, i wish i could get $15 a month per link at the minute
Thanks a lot for the feedback - so why do you think the tool is overestimating your link? 1) because some parameters are "wrong" (for example it gives too much weight to PageRank or something like that - just guessing, I don't know your URL...) 2) because the current "market value" of your link is just lower than what the tool predicts 3) because there are other (non considered) reasons (for example links are in the footer and people want to pay less for that)? For how much do you actually sell your links? Thanks again - I really hope this tool can become a useful help for all members here...