I'm may put www.theforumzone.com up for sale in the next 1 - 2 weeks and wanted to get some feedback from people on an estimated value. I've bought quite a few websites but have never really sold any worth mentioning. Some basics... What's would be included: Everything - content, domain, vB license. Revenue: $0 - I've never put any ads on the site. Traffic: 1,000 - 2,000 uniques a month. I haven't really promoted it at all in the last year. it's just been sitting there collecting dust. Links: Yahoo: 20,700 MSN: 128 (nice, lol) Google: 307 Pages: Yahoo: 21,500 MSN: 367 Google: 844 Posts: 6,924 Threads: 1,414 Memebers: 823 DMOZ listed here What do you think a ballpark value of the site is?
Its hard to say - less then 1000 pages indexed in google, nearly dead forum - no revenue. I would say, not much unfortunately.
I'd say I have to agree that at the moment it isn't worth much as it stands. Having said that, if you were to work on it a bit you could turn it into a decent resource. The frontdoor is a bit disappointing, however, if you were to replace what you have now with a CMS, for example, Joomla, and built the content as well as promoted the forums a bit, you could turn it around. It may take a few months but it would increase it's value, imho.
That's probably the road I'm going to take. I hired someone last week who's going to start making changes for me in the near future. I'm in no hurry to sell so I can take my time