How Much Is Your Blog Worth?
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I recently ran across two tools which give a monetary value for any blog. They give a dollar figure on how much the blog is worth. I am sure this value does not capture the actual worthiness of your blog but these are fun tools to try out.
dnScoop gives lot of valuable information about any url, one of them being the value of the site in monetary terms. According to them: this value is calculated based on several factors shown above, including: Links, Traffic (Alexa), age of the domain, site category, domain keyword popularity, and overall occurrences of the domain name on the web. They provide an embeddable widget.
There is a utility tool on pingoat which gives the monetary value of a blog based on Technorati rank. It also provides a widget to embed the value on your blog.
I decided to use these tools to figure out the monetary value of some famous blogs which I frequently visit. Here are the results (in no particular order):
- Techcrunch: $16,428,000 (dnScoop); $80,581.37 (pingoat)
- Mashable: $2,660,600 (dnScoop); $20,472.12 (pingoat)
- GigaOm: $7,327,200 (dnScoop); $25,398.16 (pingoat)
- ReadWriteWeb: $1,788,000 (dnScoop); $18,987.64 (pingoat)
- Lifehacker: $24,154,400 (dnScoop); $67,200.43 (pingoat)
- Engadget: $28,548,000 (dnScoop);$386,086.65 (pingoat)
- Gizmodo: $28,674,000 (dnScoop); $137,974.46 (pingoat)
- Problogger: $8,091,720 (dnScoop); $20,018.96 (pingoat)
- ShoeMoney:$462,150 (dnScoop); $15,572.14 (pingoat)
- Ajaxian: $266,400 (dnScoop); $9048.41 (pingoat)
- Digital Inspirations: $73,700 (dnScoop); (did not return results, some bug with blogger blogs?) (pingoat)
Graphical representation of the same data (click on the images to enlarge):
DNSCOOP
PINGOAT
Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Engadget and Techcrunch seem to do well with the dnScoop numbers and are close to each other but Engadget seems to be way beyond others in pingoat numbers.
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Interesting, thanks! If you knew approximately what some blogs have sold for very recently, it would be interesting to compare the actual sales price with the valuations. If anybody’s done that, I would like to know. Also, I’ve just run into your blog recently. Great information. Thanks!
Wow! Wished I read this post before publishing mine.. thanks for sharing
You might want to check out http://www.smartpagerank.com . This is the site that I have used to evaluate websites and I have found it to be an invaluable tool.
Hi! If you want to find out how much is your website worth you should consider http://www.estimix.com. It provides competitive analysis for free and it seems to use the Alexa traffic information quite well.