How much should I price my site?

by Adie
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I am thinking of selling some of my old stuffs to finance bigger projects but I don't know how much it will cost. I tried some automated evaluation but they always rely on PR..

Example:

  • Domain has exact local monthly searches of 9K and a hundred thousand broad matches.
  • Top 3 to 5 in US Google and 7 to 10 in Canada Google
  • Registered early last year with 7K backlinks
  • Earned $500+ last month
Please give me your estimate before I post it on either Flippa or here at WF.


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  • Profile picture of the author dave147
    Those sellers usually take a months earnings and multiply it by 12. That is what you could charge for it. Potential buyers will always look for real proof of earnings.
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    • Profile picture of the author Adie
      Originally Posted by dave147 View Post

      Those sellers usually take a months earnings and multiply it by 12. That is what you could charge for it. Potential buyers will always look for real proof of earnings.
      Wow! So if my site earned an average of $500 in the last 3 months I can just multiply it by 12? $6K is tempting
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      • Profile picture of the author rednimer
        I always though most sites were based on 10x earnings. I guess it could be more if it has proven earnings for a couple years, and less than if short term earnings
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      • Profile picture of the author Bingo123
        Originally Posted by Adie View Post

        Wow! So if my site earned an average of $500 in the last 3 months I can just multiply it by 12? $6K is tempting
        My thinking though is that if it earns you 6k a month, why don't you just hang on to it. A year from now you will have the 6k you would have got from selling it, but a year on from that you will have another 6k. I guess it depends how much of your time it is taking to run the site. I would be reluctant to sell something that is earning me 6k a year though.
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        • Profile picture of the author Keithsco
          Originally Posted by Bingo123 View Post

          My thinking though is that if it earns you 6k a month, why don't you just hang on to it. A year from now you will have the 6k you would have got from selling it, but a year on from that you will have another 6k. I guess it depends how much of your time it is taking to run the site. I would be reluctant to sell something that is earning me 6k a year though.
          I agree. Personally selling geese that lay golden eggs has always been a bad business decision to my mind, unless you fell in a hole and can't get out any other way, but if that's the case your goose is probably cooked anywayz, at least for a while
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        • Profile picture of the author Adie
          Originally Posted by Bingo123 View Post

          My thinking though is that if it earns you 6k a month, why don't you just hang on to it. A year from now you will have the 6k you would have got from selling it, but a year on from that you will have another 6k. I guess it depends how much of your time it is taking to run the site. I would be reluctant to sell something that is earning me 6k a year though.
          It's $500 per month, not $6K. I think you missed that information above. As I said, I need some $ to finance my bigger project (bigger and more profitable than this one). I can make another website or two that earns $500 a month in just couple of months. I just need to upgrade what I am doing and I need resources.

          Originally Posted by Keithsco View Post

          I agree. Personally selling geese that lay golden eggs has always been a bad business decision to my mind, unless you fell in a hole and can't get out any other way, but if that's the case your goose is probably cooked anywayz, at least for a while
          I say this website that earns $500 per month is just a result of my experiment and now I'm on final project with improvements and I need some software to fulfill that plan.

          Its like buying and selling a car for profit and I know how to detail a car. For example, I have $1k and can only buy a second hand toyota corolla with some minor problem. I buy that car, fix those problems and sell if for $2k. I have $1k profit. Now I can buy a BMW and sell it later for bigger profit.. That's how business evolves.. at least IMO.
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  • Profile picture of the author thesweetspot
    Well there are many sites that offer this service, I just got an email from webpronews about services that will actually connect with buyers if your site is right for the buyer, they of course charge a fee, here is the link Quiet Light BrokerageI am not affiliated at all, but it is something that I will probably look into next year as I am building my sites up for cash flow then pay for everything and then expand them but if something happens, sell.

    If you are planning on selling your site, take a look at how much you have earned, your list, your rankings and your rankings competitiveness, these are all points that make a site valuable, and no I have not read a book about this nor do I plan to until my day comes to selling, but you better believe these are the upsells I will use as bullets to convey my profitable website.

    Also how much you make per hour is another very important part, depending on your niche plus growth, some sites make 1-50 dollars an hour bc of how many searches are performed throughout the world. Which brings in another, are you ranking internationally, if you ranking in another country how feasilble is it for the buyer to monteize that traffic, you could sell to a forgeiner and get even big bucks bc you rank in very well in multiple countries, but you have to consider the server location and rankings that might fall bc of that transfer.

    Also you can consider if you have any web 2.0 sites that you have connected to ad networks that pay you out for your hard work, have you saved the logins and passwords?

    Another thing to consider is the links, do you have links from other sites that you can add to like ezines? Ezine accounts are super powerful and I experimented with that some time ago and within less than 24 hours I had my review for a hosting review which I get paid by when users pay through my site on the first page. I would charge anyone over 1000 dollars just for my ezine account.

    Also the hubpage account, if you do not have one, get one and add that as a bonus, You know that Google and possibly other search engines use these sites and their account period also known as how long those user accounts have been active in ranking those sites which will equal ad rev for buyers if they use and they will as they do their research on these companies. Remember when you built a link wheel, google and se engine track that and log it, that is one reason they all have some many servers and databases, information overload is huge for the data companies.

    Also, social media accounts, I would charge someone if they bought my company $200 to 1000 dollars depending on which ones to purchase those accounts along with the site. I remember reading someone that google will use social media account lengths as a ranking but that is not confirmed but knowing google, keeping active and quality is there key stone in order to make their customers happy even though they have some down falls about other sites, but that is the nature of their business and they control that..all i can say is whatever, all i do is get creative not competitive.


    As you can see, all of this can make a 1000 dollar site a 5000 dollar sites. Many companies once are exposed to these types of monteization methods and have more employees to implement these types of things, 5000 dollars is not a lot.
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  • Profile picture of the author thesweetspot
    Also, you said you made 500 dollars was that adsense or ad rev or affiliate product commissions? Are you running an ecommerce, amazon site, product page site as you are the creator?

    My friend also who knows tons selling domains within short time period, said sedo is great company to do selling on, not sure what the fees are but I hear that flippa is overpriced, cant confirm but I know that the internet has been around long enough for resellers like that to figure out how much to really make per users that sell websites.

    I would get into the domain forum and really learn about this if I were you bc you would be surprised about what is good.
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    • Profile picture of the author Adie
      Originally Posted by thesweetspot View Post

      Also, you said you made 500 dollars was that adsense or ad rev or affiliate product commissions? Are you running an ecommerce, amazon site, product page site as you are the creator?

      My friend also who knows tons selling domains within short time period, said sedo is great company to do selling on, not sure what the fees are but I hear that flippa is overpriced, cant confirm but I know that the internet has been around long enough for resellers like that to figure out how much to really make per users that sell websites.

      I would get into the domain forum and really learn about this if I were you bc you would be surprised about what is good.
      To be exact, here is my last 3 months earnings from this website:

      October: $472
      November: $615
      December: $564

      It is from CPA earnings but traffic is all from SEO. I had some good result with sedo before but I think sometimes they underprice stuffs. Never paid any traffic nor used any blink blaster.

      Originally Posted by paulie888 View Post

      We need more facts to make an informed decision. You said it earned $500+ last month, but have been earnings consistent over the last few months?

      Also, what kind of ongoing expenses are associated with maintaining the traffic/ranking of this website? Just keep in mind that the more details you can show your prospective buyer, the more confident they'll feel and the more likely they'll be to bid a higher price on your website.

      Paul
      I don't have any expense other than monthly hosting which is just $10. I have a lot of quality links including some major social networks and I even have link from huffingtonpost.com. Sure, I will include everything once I post this on classifieds.

      Its Google position is playing on 1st to 3rd.

      To maintain my position, I continously submitting 1 article per week to article directories and continue doing some profile backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    We need more facts to make an informed decision. You said it earned $500+ last month, but have been earnings consistent over the last few months?

    Also, what kind of ongoing expenses are associated with maintaining the traffic/ranking of this website? Just keep in mind that the more details you can show your prospective buyer, the more confident they'll feel and the more likely they'll be to bid a higher price on your website.

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author ArticlePrince
    I'd say 5k-6k would be fair is you have a proven average of ~500 a month, then just move on to bigger projects.
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    • Profile picture of the author Adie
      Originally Posted by ArticlePrince View Post

      I'd say 5k-6k would be fair is you have a proven average of ~500 a month, then just move on to bigger projects.
      Things are getting bigger with me and this time I need to outsource some small jobs that my time can't handle anymore.. Thanks
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