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How much should I sell my site for?

by silverbean
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I'm thinking about selling my PR4 website that I finally got ranked #1. I've never sold a site before and not sure how much I should ask.

I made about $225 through the month of August from Adsense, Amazon and a CPA offer. I was #1 through half the month of Aug. and bounced around between position 6 and 1 before that.

The keyword gets 12100 global exact searches per month and 6,600 local.

I was thinking of selling it for $800 is that too much or too little?

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author TolyZ
    I would push it to a $1000
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  • Profile picture of the author Starfusion
    You need to take in some other factors regarding the website:

    How old is the site?
    How long has the site been generating revenue?

    Personally i wouldn't take less then $1,800 for the site.

    The longer the revenue has been generated by the website the better the price you'll get for it.

    Why not do some keyword research and target more traffic. Target more long tail keywords, add more pages and articles, "Give your website more juice"

    You could simply turn that into a $1k per month site and sell for over $15k "it's possible"

    Unless your strapped for cash and you need to sell, with your details there given i'd expect to fetch $1200 minimum.

    Good luck on your sale.
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    • Profile picture of the author ebusinesstutor
      If it is making $225 per month and would continue doing so, why not hang on to it? In 4 months you would make more than the $800 you are selling it for.

      One rule of thumb I have seen is 2 years of profits. So if you site is making $225 in profit each month, it could be considered to be worth $5,400.

      But of course, the problem is whether someone will pay that and what the niche is.

      A price like the $1,800 mentioned by Innow is probably a good one and would make you an extra 1K over what you were thinking.
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      • Profile picture of the author Starfusion
        Originally Posted by ebusinesstutor View Post

        If it is making $225 per month and would continue doing so, why not hang on to it? In 4 months you would make more than the $800 you are selling it for.

        One rule of thumb I have seen is 2 years of profits. So if you site is making $225 in profit each month, it could be considered to be worth $5,400.

        But of course, the problem is whether someone will pay that and what the niche is.

        A price like the $1,800 mentioned by Innow is probably a good one and would make you an extra 1K over what you were thinking.
        Exactly, don't try and sell your site when it's not at it's full potential, it seems you have room to expand the website into more pages and able to target some real good long tail keywords.

        Try and build your site up rather then sell well below it's potential, you'll only be giving us site flippers an easier job Believe me, you'll missing out on a hell of a lot more revenue selling it now then in the future, after some extensive keyword research and targeting a $xx,xxx is easily acheivable.
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  • Profile picture of the author EugeneA
    $800?!?!? That's way to cheap.

    I'm not too sure of the details. From the looks of it, If you sell that site then you could be trading a $100 bill for $1.

    As mentioned above, the amount of $$$$ the site makes a month x 12 gives you around the value of the site.

    Anyway... I don't see any real reason to sell a site unless you already have too many to care for.
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