How do you value a website?

Thinking of selling the site on Sitepoint as I see the prices there are always quite high and thus the best place to sell a site??

So it's currently making $30 per day from AdSense alone = $900-$1k/month... it has 1 ad-unit per page only. It has a forum, gallery, 40+ page unique content related to the niche and in all that I get aboout 40k pageviews a day.


How much do you think it's worth, and how do you go about evaluating it so I know for future websites?

 

I understand that one year's revenue is a good price point. If you have a mailing list, then add a year's revenue from list as well. This is just a rule of thumb, so if you feel it is to high or low adjust accordingly. If you can, research the market (depends on how unique), to find comparable sites for sale. Uniqueness should add to your site's value. Sounds like a great site, I hope you are well rewarded for it. Good Luck.

Much Success,
George Pierce

 

10 -12 months revenue is what you should be looking forward for when you are selling your website.

 

i use this to check
http://www.sitevaluecalculator.com/

 

Generally, people take 1 years' revenue - but you should increase the value of your site by taking into consideration the backlinks, alexa ranking, pr, any extra articles you will be giving to the buyer, any other content, graphics, etc. See if you can get a better price - maybe throw in some consulting to help advise the buyer to fully utilize the value of your site. Try to up-sell some stuff too?

 

You can sell your site via auction. It has a lot of benefits!

 

To be all honest, there is no set formula when selling a website. It depends on many factors. I wrote an article about the value of a website on my blog on my blog. It boils down to what the buyer is willing to pay for the site. Earning are important but that is just a small part of the equation.

 

it all depends .... the domain alone could be worth good money

 

HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWLING LAUGHTA

Is this a joke? No serious webmaster, or person doing online business uses those things. You should know how to evaluate a website properly if you have been in this game for any length of time.

Pointing to sites like that show just how LITTLE you know.

 

Wrong.

There are a lot more factors that go into evaluating web properties.

Domain.
Type of site.
How long has it been around.
Type of revenue.
Maintenance versus profit.
Time invested daily, weekly, monthly.
Type of traffic/referrals.
Number of links and age of those links.
Memberships, e-mail lists, etc.

Most importantly proof to back up all claims.

 

Well you can value it based on Traffic / Earnings and trusted sites such as Dnscoop will estimate it for you.

 

If you're interested in those idiotic online calculator type things, I wrote a review of various website valuation calculators that you might like

They're not very accurate but they're damn fun to play with.

 

How often does ad revenue remain/decline/increase over what was posted in the auction in people's experience? It seems to me many auctions only post 1-2 months of income. It would stand to reason, to me anyway, that if you were looking to sell, if you just wait until you best month and then show the site as earning $50/mo it is likely to fall on average. But I don't know if that is what really happens. Any insights from those that have be buying sites for awhile?

Let assume no changes. I would imagine if you invest time... you should be able to improve the site, get more traffic...

 

It typically DROPS.

That is why it is key to get ALL the information you can. Most of the time, they leave out little things like their adword or yahoo campaigns. Or that they have a network of 10-20 other sites sending traffic to the one they are selling, or other such things.

It's not to say that ALL are pump and dumps. But there are many of those, and typically, they are sites with less that 6 months of stats, and time invested.

2 cents.

 

Why would revenue be considered? It should only be profit, taking all costs into account.

There should be an easy formula, something like: 1 year profit - number of hours to run per year X $15/hr. Then there is an adjustment for such things as potential, inventory, infrastructure, etc.

 

According to this The estimated value of www.taketheglobe.com is: $328

and It makes over 1k per day?

WTH.

LOL

 

sitevaluecalculator dot com

"The estimated value of google dot com is: $1,550,001,617"

quite accurate.

 

I'm going to send you a PM.

 

you look at it until you get sick

 

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