What is Your Site Worth?

// December 14th, 2008 // General

I was playing around on Google earlier today and stumbled across a website called “WebsiteOutlook“. WebsiteOutlook claims it can evaluate the worth of any website on the Internet at the touch of a button, which is handy for those of you interested in buying or selling a website.

So I decided I would give it a go! I typed in “danielfelice.com” and after a few seconds got back an evaluation. The search pulls site rankings from Alexa, Google PageRank, backlinks and DMOZ listing information to give your website a value in United States dollars.

The result tells you how much your site is worth, how many page views you receive and your daily revenue. For danielfelice.com – all these statistics are wrong.

This blog apparently gets 1133 page views a day and makes $4.81 in revenue. Both figures are incorrect. The estimated value of danielfelice.com is…..$3511.30. Somehow I think that figure is wrong too. Would you pay $3511.30 for this blog?

WebsiteOutlook does suggest that “the information offered by Websiteoutlook is not guaranteed to be 100% Accurate and is offered as reference only. Further research and conformation of claims are advised before any substantial investment,”  and I agree.

If you are looking at buying or selling a site, do thorough research before coming up with a value. I wouldn’t base anything on what websites like WebsiteOutlook suggest, even if, as a seller, it does looks appealing.



7 Responses to “What is Your Site Worth?”

  1. Kamran Barlavi says:
    December 16, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    Very interesting post. The valuation of websites is part art and part science. While traditional valuation methods should be employed when valuing a website that produces income, additional factors that are specific to websites should also be take into account. There is a great website valuation tool here and several articles about website valuations here.
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  2. Daniel says:
    December 23, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    Hi Kamran – I like the websitebroker.com site and the value seems to be a lot more accurate and asks for a lot of data to determine that evaluation. Thanks!

  3. rahman says:
    December 26, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Hi…. I like your blog. The content is interesting. I knew a site about value of the site. I even use the widget on my blog. The site is http://directory.sootle.com/website-worth/

  4. Daniel says:
    December 27, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Thanks for the comments!

  5. Google Placed Second in Alexa Rankings, Live.com Fast Catching Up! says:
    January 7, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    Alexa is a very important benchmark to determine the rankings and traffic of sites. Google is placed at the 2nd position as per Alexa rankings and traffic rankings and is facing tough competition from Live.com and of course Yahoo.

  6. Daniel says:
    January 13, 2009 at 9:29 am

    My Google PageRank is now 3! Alexa ranking has dropped a bit though…have to work on that

  7. just me says:
    September 24, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    Another way to find how much is your website worth is to use http://www.estimix.com. It provides competitive analysis for free.

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