May 18th, 2007So How Much Is Your Site Worth?
So how much is your site worth?
As of this writing, mine was valued at $12,419.88. I happened upon this site while reading Ms Danielle’s site and couldn’t resist seeing how this site fared. I must say, I’m almost disappointed by the low value. There are many other blogs online that are much younger than mine with values in excess of $175,000.
Naturally, the length of time that a site exists does not mean it actually has value. One of my employers has had an eCommerce site up for the better part of a decade with yearly redesigns by professional web designers, and they haven’t generated much more than a few hundred orders from it. So after reading explanation behind the math at TNL.net, I started thinking about ways one might go about skewing these numbers.
This isn’t to say that I’m looking to have a false and over-valued site. Lord knows I don’t have this blog for money (though a generous donation towards my upcoming wedding would be greatly appreciated). Instead, after many years of programming and having users find ways to defy expectations and break rules embedded in software, I tend to think of how someone might exploit holes or other unforseen circumstances. From what I can see, this value is derived based on the number of links to and from the site.
Does this mean that those Godless sites that are nothing but links and popups would have a higher net worth than a site with human valued content? I certainly hope not. Any script-kiddie claiming to be a l33t ha><0r could run something from HotScripts that would dynamically generate websites on free hosts with garbage for content, ad-sense for filler, and tens of thousands of links and keywords for good measure. Then of course they would have these crap-sites point to each other for a higher chance of collecting false-positive hits from people using search engines like Yahoo, MSN and Google.
I wonder if ChaCha and PreFound will filter these out of their searches ….
Either way, this dollar value should be good for a bit of bragging rights. I’d definately recommend this to anyone that’s had a blog for a while and would like to know if it’s time to sell out 
i think bloggers who don’t blog for money wouldn’t sell and probably aren’t really concerned with the value placed on it that was determined by algorithms. however, being able to turn a non-existent site into a traffic generator with a lot of good back links is worth it to a lot of people. and you’re right, it can’t be filled with junk, and it can’t have back links that will penalize the site. filling a site with junk content won’t do anything good in the long run even for people who have the intent to sell. at some point, google will most likely flag it as spam and you won’t be able to drive traffic to it anyway…unless it’s an mfa site which is a whole other ball game…
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