Value of websites?

[veikoh]

First of all you need to find someone willing to buy it? I would buy something that have significant value to my visitors, not for small income it can generate for me.

[Bloggeries]

Originally Posted by veikoh

First of all you need to find someone willing to buy it? I would buy something that have significant value to my visitors, not for small income it can generate for me.

True and the person buying it may not think of how much cash it can generate today or tomorrow but maybe what it has the potential to turn into in a few years etc...

[depiction]

For younger sites that are not very established you can expect to get 8-12 months revenue. Some niches such as proxy sites with unpredictable or unstable revenue can be as little as 1-2 months revenue.

Other things to consider include a domain's age, brand reputation, stability of revenue, etc. Well established sites (3+ years) can typically get up to 24 months revenue.

[KeithCash]

Originally Posted by Skolor

10 months? I was looking into this a while ago, and I've heard everything from 10 months revenue to 18 months, but that seemed like a very high figure.

This is the same numbers I have been talking to web brokers some say 10 x yearly revenue, that is kind-of-high number..

Go a little high, maybe come to a more salable figure.

[richrf]

Originally Posted by TFGBlog.com

Are you sure about the 10 times the monthly revenue? My blog is online since one month soon and I earned around $70 but I don't think I can sell it for $700... Am I wrong?

Hi there,

As others have mentioned, there are many factors that can determine the value of a domain. That 10x figure, I feel, is an artificially low figure, manufactured by professional domainers, in order to get a really cheap price. Just think about it for a second. What other investment is there that you can get your money back in 10 months, and then start doubling it every 10 months. None ... absolutely none - unless you hit on a lucky speculation buy like oil in the last few months. So 10x is extremely low, if there are no ongoing costs besides the domain ... but,

Your blog is a different story, since the revenue flow is dependent upon you writing the blog and getting visitors coming to your site. So you have to factor in the cost of hiring someone, like yourself, to write a blog on a periodic basis, in order to keep the site going, and revenue coming in. Let's say that on average, it costs $10/blog. To write 12 blogs/month would cost $120 per month. Therefore your domain is actually not worth anything in terms of profitability. A person may feel that they can extract more revenue, by making it part of a blog network, but each potential buyer may value it differently.

Part of a domainer's appraisal will be the domain name itself - e.g., whether it is a .com, .net, etc. Is it generic? Easily recognizable and memorable? Can it be associated with some hot keywords? etc. And all of the other factors that others have mentioned, such as traffic, links, PR, Alexa, etc.

If you want to sell it, you may to put it up for auction at a place like Namepros, where the professional domainers hang out, and see what it gets. But be careful, I've seen lots of instances when a novice went into these forums and was talked out of auctioning it, so a pro could steal it.

Good luck with your domain.

Rich

[Bloggeries]

More and more sites are being sold on "Perceived or Future" value. Take this one for example. I paid WAY WAY more than 10X monthly revenue but I still think I got a deal for the property I own.

Other sites that are being sold for way more than monthly revenue are when the buyer sees that the site could be changed and profitable so the current monthly revenue isn't accurate as it's not being near optimized type thing.

End of story? You can sell anything for the highest price the market will bear; luckily it just takes 1 person from that market so as much as you can get.

[TeasasTips]

Originally Posted by Bloggeries

More and more sites are being sold on "Perceived or Future" value. Take this one for example. I paid WAY WAY more than 10X monthly revenue but I still think I got a deal for the property I own.

Other sites that are being sold for way more than monthly revenue are when the buyer sees that the site could be changed and profitable so the current monthly revenue isn't accurate as it's not being near optimized type thing.

End of story? You can sell anything for the highest price the market will bear; luckily it just takes 1 person from that market so as much as you can get.

So there is hope for my little wp site after all then?

[WhoJayBe]

Originally Posted by TeasasTips

So there is hope for my little wp site after all then?

I think any site has a potential of selling, if they can get the stats up and actually make money from it in the beginning.

I know some people who intentionally creates a blog with the thought of selling it soon after.

[TeasasTips]

Originally Posted by WhoJayBe

I think any site has a potential of selling, if they can get the stats up and actually make money from it in the beginning.

I know some people who intentionally creates a blog with the thought of selling it soon after.

It gives me hope. I have a wp blog that I don't really promote yet it's a work in progress...right now just filling it with relevant content

[broalex]

There are a lot of things to consider when evaluating a blog. Traffic stats should matter first, and as Bloggeries said above, "the quality of the traffic". I would go with the 10X rule, but only with blogs that earn over $US 500 in monthly revenue.