What is the value of a website with 250k members ?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by jb007uk, Aug 12, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    Just out of interest, how much is a 10 year old website PR5 with 250k members ?

    Thanks - JB
     
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  2. And!

    And! Well-Known Member

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    What do you mean how much?
    Are you just showing off?
     
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  3. jb007uk

    jb007uk Active Member

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    I do not own the website - if I did I would not be asking on here !

    I am going to built a website using the same niche and was simply interested so that I can retire in 10 years :)
     
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    mickscool Active Member

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    Go to this site and put that site's name and check yourself:
    http://www.dnscoop.com/

    That will give you a very good idea !!!
     
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    jeffbeer09 Peon

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    @jb: First off, I'm assuming you mean the $$ value. To answer your Q... well, it can't be answered :p
    TO determine the worth of a website, it depends on what exactly is your service/product, market, target audience, the trends, forecasting and developing a business plan in regards to a time frame of 1 yr., 5yr., and 10 yr. ... so if anyone could make a very uneducated guess, more details would need to be shared, if possible.

    However, my advice is to research sites that have 250K members, see what their success has been from when they started to today... and from their make your own conclusions.

    From experience, community sites and basic social media sites are what make the most $$... but again, it's all not clearly determined in regard to "value". My advice is a business 101: make sure your site has a service/product that someone wants/needs. If you can provide that service/product effectively within a site, then the next step is to build a community that not only has people coming to your site, but staying there for a long time.

    Hope that helps :)
     
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    hostingspeak Peon

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    Traffic is also very important. Members don't mean anything if they aren't active. For it being 10 years old, and only a PR5, it might not be doing incredibly well. I mean DP and WHT are PR7's. My mother's site is PR4, but I don't know a whole lot about PR.
     
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  7. jb007uk

    jb007uk Active Member

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    DNscoop tell me that the website has 33,000 pages that have links and a value of $23,000

    Rgds - JB
     
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    mickscool Active Member

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    DNSScoop does not takes into consideration the number of users... it just takes factors liek siteage,links,pages,alexa rank etc

    Since the site you are mentioning have a large user base, you need to take some apprximation for them e.g $1/10 users or so...and then add that to the value given by dnscoop.
     
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  9. Proximity

    Proximity Banned

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    It depends on many factors such as traffic, income, etc
     
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    hahaha DNSscoop will give you a stupidly inaccurate figure its just for fun never use that for a serious value of your website or any other site.

    Now this answer can not be accurate, considering there are many other factors to take in to account such as earnings, traffic, active members, members joining per week, backlinks, search engine positions and a hell of a lot more.
     
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  11. mentos

    mentos Prominent Member

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    The price is depend on a lots of thing such as
    member base
    traffic
    active member base
    PR
    backlink
    etc
     
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  12. bobchrist

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    I think it depends on how much profit it is currently making on and its future profit ability. Hardly any tools can compute accurately the value of a website.
     
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  13. Parka

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    It's not how many users you have. It's how your website monetize those users' activity.

    You can get a rough idea from your cash flow.
     
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  14. Barefootsies

    Barefootsies Well-Known Member

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    Sites like this are a joke, and so are anyone who would even recommend them seriously. :rolleyes:

    There is a REAL WAY to value internet real estate. It's been written about many times, and you can find it doing a search.
     
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    Kwaku Well-Known Member

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    Not really... They value certain factors and *if* those factors are spot on for your site, the value is accurate. We tested Cubestat with a lot of sales and it for a category of sites (sites that value members and traffic) it is accurate and in a lot of SP sales even exactly what the BIN was/is. But no, it doesn't work for all sites, for instance, sites that sell expensive products products to a very small niche are not accurate, but that is logical; no way to find that from analyzing a site. But you cannot find that out in person also except by analyzing the company. Which is difficult.

    So can you throw it in Cubestat for fun then?
     
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  16. Barefootsies

    Barefootsies Well-Known Member

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    Sure.

    I am always up for comparing some of these sites and seeing just how far off one is from the other for shits and giggles.

    Maybe I am just used to dealing with the higher end sites, not the BST $50.00 blogs. No offense.

    I have yet to see a higher end site, making good money, that is even close in any of those tools. Some are very high, some are very low. But, in fairness, I look at a handful of sites that meet what I am looking for. So I am not comparing hundreds of sites to work out the mathematics.

    Also, I deal in rebilling, and membership sites. Websites worth more than the rest.
     
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  17. Kwaku

    Kwaku Well-Known Member

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    So what was the result for the 'high end site' ; if 250k members, it should have serious traffic or all members are sleeping? Meaning some interesting amount should come out of the traffic oriented versions of these estimation tools, right?
     
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