How do I value my domain to sell?

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Hey guys I was hoping to get some insight on a couple of my webpages. I used to be a home inspector and built up some pretty decent sites. I have since moved and haven't been doing inspections for about a year but I still have two sites sitting around.

Site 1 - DA-26 PA-38 PR2 BL-405
Site 2 - DA-18 PA-31 PR2 BL-172

The backlinks are HIGH QUALITY from other inspection websites. Never done any outside backlinking for seo. I know there's not a lot of backlinks, though I think 405 is good for a local site, but absolutely no junk.

If I were to approach inspectors back in Shreveport what could I value these domains at. Or, option two, I cold keep them for my PBN but they would not be at all related. No need to have them just sitting around doing nothing I guess.

I'm hoping to get some feedback from some of you who have done something similar. Any thoughts on what to do with them? Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I wouldn't give you a penny for the domains after looking at the shreveporthomeinspections.net backlink profile.

    Your clearly pumping up the domain that's for sale, just to make a sale. The links would most likely drop off after the sale.

    No thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author chagler
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      I wouldn't give you a penny for the domains after looking at the shreveporthomeinspections.net backlink profile.

      Your clearly pumping up the domain that's for sale, just to make a sale. The links would most likely drop off after the sale.

      No thanks.
      Umm no, sorry but that is incorrect. I have not pumped anything. My backlinks are from other actual home inspectors' sites except for NACHI which is a home inspector organization which I was active on their forums and ActiveRain.com which is a realtor website in which I was also active, realtors and home inspectors work pretty closely together. Can you expand on what you think the issue is.
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    • Profile picture of the author chagler
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      I wouldn't give you a penny for the domains after looking at the shreveporthomeinspections.net backlink profile.

      Your clearly pumping up the domain that's for sale, just to make a sale. The links would most likely drop off after the sale.

      No thanks.
      I usually like following your comments because I learn a lot from you, however, I am surprised at how off the mark you are with this. I formed relationships with A LOT of people for my websites. On top of that I am not looking to sell my sites anywhere except to one of my colleagues back in Shreveport who is still inspecting. These could help him quite a bit. My original remarks were in hopes of finding the value to potentially sell to some inspectors back home, not a random sale to a random person, point being I am not trying to pump anything to sell here as I stated in my opening post. Would you mind expanding a little?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Your missing my point. You control all the backlinks, no offense but forget all that, it's a bad idea for a buyer.

    You could easily remove any value those domains might have after the sale. It's a huge risk that I wouldn't even consider since I can buy other domains without that type of risk being involved.

    I'm not trying to be an azz, I'm looking at it from a buyers point of view.

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    It looks like you have a large network of same niche domains, have you considered ranking your own domains/pages & renting them out for recurring income?

    BTW, I would remove those URLs from OP because it's revealing your entire network.
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    • Profile picture of the author chris_87
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      It looks like you have a large network of same niche domains, have you considered ranking your own domains/pages & renting them out for recurring income?
      How do you typically charge clients for renting out a site? Do you charge a flat fee per month, per lead, per form filled out etc
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      • Profile picture of the author serryjw
        Yukon and I usually agree BUT...You have options..1st, You can sell the websites OR just the domains and allow the buyer to build their own website. Geolocation domains are always valuable. You happen to be in an industry that can easily be quantified.. Go to Google's ad planner for search results. You're in the industry, find out how many homes are sold yearly in your area. You can rent/lease a domain for flat fee, per lead sold or lead generated.
        Watch Andrew's formula valuating domain on DomainSherpa.com he doesn't have a posted formula for geo's so use these two as a rule of thumb.

        How To Value Generic Domain Names
        The Rosener Equation: How to Value Premium Generic Domain Names

        Good Luck!
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by chris_87 View Post

        How do you typically charge clients for renting out a site? Do you charge a flat fee per month, per lead, per form filled out etc
        I'm just starting out with local rental sites myself. My goal is to keep things simple & the best way I can think of is to simply rent the site (ranked page) on a flat monthly fee. I don't think it's a one size fits all situation, I think it all depends on the local business that's renting the site. You might want to check out the offline sub-forum, some of those guys are way ahead of me as far as selling local leads.

        If you target one niche like OP has with his network of domains I think it would be far easier to get a feel for the potential local businesses. I've contacted a few local businesses for price quotes, bare min. was $100 just to show up at my front door for this niche. So that kind of gives me a ballpark figure to work with per lead.

        OP, I'm not trying to derail your thread. It's just something you might want to consider because you already have the established PBN setup. Matter of fact you could possibly sell the entire network If you found the right buyer but I would keep the domains confidential & not be posting them on public forums, Matt Cutts might be reading this, lol.
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        • Profile picture of the author chagler
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          I'm just starting out with local rental sites myself. My goal is to keep things simple & the best way I can think of is to simply rent the site (ranked page) on a flat monthly fee. I don't think it's a one size fits all situation, I think it all depends on the local business that's renting the site. You might want to check out the offline sub-forum, some of those guys are way ahead of me as far as selling local leads.

          If you target one niche like OP has with his network of domains I think it would be far easier to get a feel for the potential local businesses. I've contacted a few local businesses for price quotes, bare min. was $100 just to show up at my front door for this niche. So that kind of gives me a ballpark figure to work with per lead.

          OP, I'm not trying to derail your thread. It's just something you might want to consider because you already have the established PBN setup. Matter of fact you could possibly sell the entire network If you found the right buyer but I would keep the domains confidential & not be posting them on public forums, Matt Cutts might be reading this, lol.

          Ok, I guess I'm a little confused again. This is not a PBN, at least not what I normally think of as a PBN. These are the only two sites I have. I don't own a network of sites. It's just a regular site with regular backlinks. Why would Cutts have a problem with what I have? I will remove them though. The only reason I had them posted was in hopes of someone doing a quick eval of the domain to tell me what they thought.
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by chagler View Post

            Ok, I guess I'm a little confused again. This is not a PBN, at least not what I normally think of as a PBN. These are the only two sites I have. I don't own a network of sites. It's just a regular site with regular backlinks. Why would Cutts have a problem with what I have? I will remove them though. The only reason I had them posted was in hopes of someone doing a quick eval of the domain to tell me what they thought.
            Looking at the first domain in OP backlink profile, looks like you own a network of same niche domains, they're mostly same niche EMDs. Therefore there's no value in the two OP domains without owning the entire network.
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  • Profile picture of the author onedomains
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    You'll see lots of bot sites that value BL and the keywords in the Name and stuff like Alexa

    www.estibot.com is a big one lots of domainers use for stuff on Flippa and such.

    Good Luck
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    • Profile picture of the author serryjw
      Sorry, estibot or any automatic domain appraisal is not worth anything. It could easily Be foof by 1000%. Domains should be hand appraised. If you don't want to pay the cost on Sedo, then I suggest you follow my suggestion. How many searches exist for the domain? Andrew's formula is not perfect but a hell of a lot more accurate than Estibot.
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