Value your Blog or Website
There are many reasons why people contemplate selling their websites. Whatever the reason, you need to value a website. Whether it’s a new site, or an established site, there are times when the offers to buy your site don’t seem to stop pouring in. The amount offered could be considerable, and in your mind you may believe that’s a great bid. Maybe it’s the right time to sell it. Have you ever thought about the fact whether or not the amount offered is right. A high bid may not be right, and you could probably make even more money selling your site if you knew the right valuation. You need to value a website. This free website valuation site can solve your price estimate problem in no time. Furnishing the right details can help you analyze what the right quote for your site should be.
The site follows many factors, and ensures that the website value quote arrived at is accurate. This gives you bargaining power, and also lets you understand a sites real value. You have the freedom to quote an accurate website value BIN (buy it now) and obviously you’ll get a lot more, ensuring that it’s a profitable deal.
Their valuation tool evaluates many factors when they value a website. This includes:
- months of development
- research by experts in business valuation
- accounting
- business brokering
- and website due diligence
In order to ensure that their estimates are bang on target, they follow a report set up for Sitepoint.com.
When you need to decide the website value BIN, it’s important that you’re able to pit your site against unlimited similar sites that have been sold. Comparative valuation based on a reliable database that records similar sales is imperative when you want accurate value a website results.
Apart from the estimate, you search also ensures a thorough report that includes important business details about the site in question.
The valuation tool can only be utilized to full capacity if you provide truthful details required by them. You may think that there’s too much they information they ask for to find your website value but that’s the only correct way of doing it. If you thought deciding the right website value was a cake walk, you need to rethink.
Necessary details are required for the following fields.
- Domain Name
- Gross amount earned per month in US Dollars
- Overall expenses on advertising, hosting, etc, but excluding management time, mentioned in US Dollars
- Details regarding the number of months the site has been earning at the current level
- You have to mention what type of site it is.
- You preference regarding the inclusion of earnings and financial figures in the report provided
There are some optional fields too. You may want to skip this part but providing the following details helps in attaining a more precise website value assessment. This includes:
- Time required running the site in hours per month
- Mention your unique monthly visitors
- Mention page views per month
- Mention signed up members (if applicable)
- Mention opt-in subscribers (if applicable)
- Skill required running the site on a scale of 1-10
- Volume of and uniqueness of content on a scale of 1-10
- Contact information if you request that potential buyers should contact you directly
Once you’ve furnished all the details, you’ll have your hands on an accurate value a website report that allows you to sell at the right price. Check it out!
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nice findings.. but they need a minimum amount of net earning… i was not selling ads so i dint have earnings…so practically this report is not useful for me…
I think most blogs and websites are earning some sort of money from the advertisements or etc. Minimum earning is one way to evaluate a blog or domain.
Just ask yourself what you want to look for when you want to buy a blog for yourself. Of coures it should provide some return for your investment.
Actually i blogging for hobbies, so i don’t hope a big money from my blog. i have a little ads in my blog…
Not true. I find that only blogs that are already up and running with PR will actually be able to sell advertising space as there are so many blogs out there now. So, if you’re selling a smaller site then you probably wont have earnings.
I agree.But,even all blogs with PR(of 1-3) are not able to get ads.The main reason is there are a lot of blogs with good PR out there.
I agree to a point. I think if you have a good amount of traffic and are not properly optimized for earning, the site could sell for more than earnings will tell.
There are blogs that have not been monetized with anything but have the potential to generate money if the owner decides to monetize it.
Agreed. I think a blog/site with a lot of traffic can be very valuable even if it isn’t generating any money.
That link is quite helpful, but I have the same problem as Nitest Kothari. I don’t have any advertisements and my website is still getting started so I don’t have earnings. I’m sure this will be helpful for those who do have good earnings though.
If you got massive traffic coming through your site that would already be an indication of potential profitability, especially if you’re in a high value niche, or have created one of your own.
I have to try it sevice, can we try for valuing a free blog?
I guess, it can be applied only on own domains. Free blogs are not belong to you. The owner can anytime shut the blog down.
Website valuation involves so many factors. It just like online real estate. If we can manage to take the cost in 6 months, than I think it is worth.
Usually a blog is worth at 6x – 10x,where x is your monthly income from it.
Having other people put a dollar value for your own blog? I think website valuation right now is more art than science.
Agreed. Even getting a human to do it is hard as websites often don’t sell at the right price, just depends on the buyer/seller.
I agree.The price mainly depends on the competition the bidder has….Some sites with a number of interested bidders will go more than expected,and one with less bidders will go less than expected,even if the latter is more worth than the former.
Good article. I have read and heard people say that your blog/website is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. When it comes to putting an initial price on it though, I think this is a good article talking about that. I usually keep it simple and just say a site is worth about 3 years worth of earning.
Very true. At this time of economic crisis it really is a buyers’ market. People are desperate to sell to bring some money in, so they’re more likely to accept a lower price.
Nice post, really had some good information in there, was a good read
This is great information. I think profits play the biggest role and I’m sure the domain’s value alone could be good too.
I make most of my money through consultations i get from my blog would that count as revenue the blog has created?
Sadly, it says “Sorry, the “net” earnings are below the level we need to value this site. ”
apparently my site needs to much upkeep to be profitable from a time spent point of view. The site doesn’t think 80 hours of work a month is good enough to make $4000
Wow, that is very good. I would take that any day.
$4000 for the equivalent of 1/4 to 1/3 of a month’s work is definitely nothing to sneeze at, especially if you are converting the dollars into undervalued local currencies!
If you don’t mind me asking, which site are talking about? Is it the site your name links to?
I begin to investigate factors to learn how to value sites.Soon selling will get a mass character and sites will be sold like estates as it was already mentioned above.
As you always talk about your page rank, i think you have noticed again that the page rank is update and ya you have a stable page rank of 6.. thats cool no..
Great blog as always…
Handy site to help gauge the true value your efforts have created and added. Sometimes such services can be quite deflating to the ego, but getting a fresh, unbiased evaluation of your project definitely is a positive thing, and may just incentivise you to put in a bit moire effort.
What kind of guarantees on confidentiality?
Another question, what is in it for them?
Cool information, I guess I need to work more on making money. My website just reached PR3 and I don’t think I’m trying to hard to accomplish that.
I’m sure many people will start to sell their sites and thats when others will cash in.
@all: You rock! 30 comments on this post so far
It’s not all down to us, you rock this blog with some wicked posts… seems the least we can do for all the info you give
Agreed, this was a very good post.
I am disappointed that my questions are going unanswered. Just about everything else is but critical questions that I have raised have not been addressed. Can you do something about it please?
some good information on this post. But does this not apply to a normal .blogspot.com domain as it is always owned by blogger.com (google). Or can you sell your .blogspot blog to someone else????
Cheers.
Seems like a better tool than dnscoop.com
I still miss dnsstuff.com ever since they started changing. I’ve been looking for some new tools, thanks for the info!
I dont’t thisnk revenue is relevant in a lot of cases.
POTENTIAL revenue is the important thing. I’ve seen lots of websites for sale which aren’t monetised anywhere nearly as well as they could be.
Hmm I dont think to sell my blog [my main blog].
I want to keep it. But I dont know the others. May be I will but still not sure.
But over all, very nice information.
yea,some things are worth more than money
That is a good point. I find it nice to know a general value though.
A little more accurate way of measuring sale price then what we see on other sites which don’t take the earning factor into consideration.
It is always fun to play around with these type of evaluators. ebizvaluations.com is kind of like Zillow and home values. My websites don’t produce direct income, but they bring my business leads generate tremendous income. It is would very difficult to put an accurate price on that sort of a site, but I am sure that my competition would love to buy it off me.
I agree. I am also thinking of selling my site and your post is a great help. Thank you!!
ok guys most of people said.. its really important to have earning to get your worth.. what if i don’t have ads on my domain at all.. i ahve seen many people online having no ad on their blog and they have PR3+ blogs… these people generally go upto PR4 or PR5 then sell the advertising space…
I think a lot of people have been saying that if the potential for earnings exist, then the blog/site has value. In my opinion, if you have a lot of good, targeted traffic, then your site is valuable.
I don’t think I would even consider selling my website If I wasn’t really making money on it. Lesser return anyways.
people who selling them websites do it because some reasons like :
they don’t have time to manage it .
the revenue decreasing month by month .
them job is making websites and then sell it
and there is much reasons , so you can’t found someone sell his personal blog for example ” blog which have his name ” .
I have site that got an offer that is way below on what I am expecting, turned that down and now with all that emergencies coming in, i feel sorry that i have not accepted the offer, but who knows, there will still one who will grab it.
I think this is very good and usefull article. I bookmark this page, because in the future i’ll need it