http://valueontheweb.com/blog Price is what you pay, value is what you get Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:40:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Someone on DigitalPoint asked a question about blogs vs. forums. The general impression is that forums are harder to start than blogs, but are easier to keep going once they are started. I ran a quick analysis to see if that holds true. The graph below shows ... http://valueontheweb.com/blog/2007/09/13/forums-vs-blogs/ Finally, finally, finally. We are almost ready to launch new functionality for our website valuation tools. The graphs will include regression values that make it easier for you to interpolate a site value. The search results are color coded so that rows alternate, making them easier to ... http://valueontheweb.com/blog/2007/09/11/site-update/ I don't think I've seen a site for sale on Sitepoint for $1,000,000 before. I can't imagine this site is actually worth that unless you have other gaming sites to tie into. http://valueontheweb.com/blog/2007/09/05/one-million-dollar-site-for-sale-on-sitepoint/ This is the first one I've seen for sale at Sitepoint. http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auction/12445 It will be interesting to see what it goes for. I'm going to guess no sale given the 4K minimum bid. Facebook apps are too new, and if you are going to play in ... http://valueontheweb.com/blog/2007/08/31/facebook-app-for-sale-on-sitepoint/ http://valueontheweb.com/blog/2007/08/30/why-the-celebrity-niche-is-so-attractive-for-webmasters/ Facebook is the future. At least, for the next couple of years until the next future comes along. That's why I've been investigating Facebook applications, and have put a few out for bid. But instead of building an app, it might make more sense to buy an ... http://valueontheweb.com/blog/2007/08/28/buying-and-selling-facebook-apps/ One of the things I see quite a bit is people complaining about low website valuations. The quick and dirty rule of thumb is 10-12x monthly earnings, and many people think their sites should be worth more. Well, plenty of sites do sell for more. Good quality ... http://valueontheweb.com/blog/2007/08/25/the-value-of-consistent-earnings/ I own Jotzel.com, which is an old site I used to run Scoop software (Digg-like software before Digg was around) for a business aggregator. The site has been dead over a year, but still has a Pagerank of 5, so I've been wondering what to do with it. In general, ... http://valueontheweb.com/blog/2007/08/20/buying-domains-for-pagerank-arbitrage/ In order to fill the database for our site I didn't want to write a spider, I wanted to do some data entry myself and figure out what I was in for. I scrolled through a few thousand forum posts just to pull out 200 legitimate sales with quality ... http://valueontheweb.com/blog/2007/08/14/how-to-sell-your-website-without-coming-off-like-a-jackass/ Pligg.com is for sale at Sedo. According to this thread, there has already been a bid of 25K. Unfortunately, not enough similar sites have sold for me to estimate the value of Pligg based on historical data. But, I would guess it will go for around 40-50K ... http://valueontheweb.com/blog/2007/08/13/pligg-is-for-sale/