I have started a new site that gives web site appraisals based on search engine information. The site is: SiteAmount.com check it out and tell me what you think. I am looking for feedback. Thanks.
It says that Google is only worth $232,877,140 and Digital Point is worth: $173,620 and it took a long time to process.. i thought it was broke because it took so long. Also, your "information" and "algo" links dont work.. Great idea, but still needs some tweaking. If it was faster, and if I knew I could trust the amounts i would use it a lot.
Thats why I am asking for feedback. The links at the bottom are out for a reason right now. Keeping in mind that this bases the price ONLY off search engine information. Traffic and revenue are not factors right now. The script processes all of the information from th search engine, strips the data it needs, and then displays it. When its under heavy load it does go slow. I am looking for ways to speed it up. As for it being on target with price, when the revenue and traffic information is worked into the system, I think it will be much more accurate. I just wanted to get some feedback for how it's working so far.
I like the simple yet good looking design. I love the service, even though I'm not a big believer of appraisals. How accurate I couldn't say, but if nothing else it gives some good details, and it is fun to use! you may want to try and speed it up, or putting a progress bar on the site so people know that its actually working.
Thanks for all the really good feedback guys. (Sorry i cant show my algo though ). I will try and work in a progress bar... it might take a while though because I have never done one before. I tried a bunch of site that where in the selling thread and for smaller sites this tool is actually pretty accurate. Its when you get to those really big sites (Google for ex.) that things get hairy because theres no way to value a site like that lol. I looked through my logs at some of the sites people where putting in (cuz im cool and I track stuff like that ) and a few where off... I will probably take the site off line later tonight and make some changes. I know I will be adding some Alexa stuff to it to try and create a better value. I am also thiking about adding a little thing at the bottom that shows how sites have been tracked and other stats... Do you guys think that would be a good idea?
It is a cool idea and a nice site, but ya, the values are off. I entered my personal website and got a value of over $4,000, lol ... I'd be lucky to get a tenth of that. Then I tried my highest earning site and got almost $130,000, which is probably around 20x what I could actually sell it for. Maybe if you shared some of your algo we could help tweak it
@ Sketch What sites did you enter? Also please tell me what values you got. I will take them into considerations when I do the next batch of algo updates Thanks.
I tryed it on a few of my sites i got a value of $1,706 for GodsofWarfare.net and a value or $7,326 for Gow-solutions.net , $328 for chipstacked.com i have to agree the value is way of but good idea hope it works better when its tweaked more.
I imagine you are making a lot of queries to feed into the algorithm. After reading the thread, I was surprised how quick it actually was - perhaps I was lucky? If your next step is Alexa, you might be interested in looking at http://www.quantcast.com/ and http://www.compete.com/ as alternatives or additions - they both hope to replace Alexa. Oh - and on the algorithm side - I certainly understand you not exposing it. Are you looking to potentially sell scores in bulk as a service?
@Phynder Sometimes its fast for some... Sometimes its not. I think I have pinpointed it down to the Altavista and Alltheweb quries which I will play with later. As for those other two sites. I am defiantly looking into them. Selling bulk scores is in the future of the site. Right now I am looking for a solid algo and ways to evaluate certain things in a site. It kind of sucks not being able to ask certain things because you dont want your ideas spreading wild lol.
@Skull I did a quick run through of another algo and got $430 for GodsofWarfare.net Would that be a lot closer to the sites value you think?
That is a balance we ALL are faced with, but that is also why any project like this requires constant improvement and evolution - else others will over take you. One critique - it is very difficult to put a price on a site without consideration for revenue. I understand the direction you are trying to go, but ultimately - two sites that have the exact same PR, number of indexed pages and traffic will not have equal values if one site makes significant revenue and the other has zero.
Well thats why I added that little note about revenue to the bottom like 15 mins ago when I thought the same thing. I am thinking of adding the 12x revenue option displayed under the other total... 12x is still the model that most use still right? Another idea: If you evaluate your site and you think it is way off, please post your sites url, and what you think it should be worth. Thanks.
I think 12x monthly revenue is generally accepted. Of course that depends - if you are a buyer you hope for 6x and seller you hope for 24x
That is one sexy design I really like it, plus the site wasnt slow for me, but then my site has no SE results...