How Much Is Your Web Site Worth?
I ran accross a fun tool. Based on the number of incoming links you have it decides the value (in dollars) of your web site. Needless to say it doesn’t have much of a value for any serious web master. The real value of any web site is measured through many more factors than the number of incoming links. What’s the quality of those links, for example?
Even for a new web master it doesn’t hold much value.
If it’s so useless, why have I decided to mention it? Because it’s a very good motivational tool. Putting it somewhere on your web site and seing how, little by little, its “cash value” goes up might be tickling your senses. It might help you realize your efforts are worth something. It might help you hang in there and keep going. Even when you don’t see many immediate results in terms of traffic, income (or whatever else you hope to accomplish with your web site) seeing how its “cash value” went up from very small (or zero) will, hopefully, make you unerstand your efforts are not in vain. That it does take time to get somewhere and that things don’t happen over night.
You can get it yourself here.
If you want to find out this blog’s value check it out in the side bar (at the moment of this writing it was $372.00).
Don’t hesitate to let us know whether it has helped you at all and how.
Notes: 1. The value it returns is based on the links data from Yahoo Developer Network.
2. It holds any motivational value as long as you put some effort into marketing your web site.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Hello Cosmin,
Thanks for taking the time to visit and comment on my blog. I appreciate it. I also appreciate the suggestions that you made concerning my issue with the links on some of the templates that I downloaded for my WordPress blog. Being that I’m new to blogging I did not think to check the URLs in the in the header or side-bar. When I get a chance I will try out your suggestions on a template that I wanted to use.
I too have a “What is your website worth?” area on my side-bar, and it is a source of motivation to see that your site some has monetary value.
Evidently, the algorithms that the Yahoo Developer Network use and the ones Technorati use are quite different. Technorati places a much higher value on my blog than Yahoo does. Do you know if you have to have your blog registered with Yahoo as you do with Technorati?
Anyway, thanks again for stopping by. Feel free to visit any time.
Jose
January 26th, 2007 at 9:05 am
To be honest I don’t really know whether you need to have your web site registered with Yahoo or not for this.
Here’s the thing:
Technorati is some sort of a search engine for blogs. The beauty of it, especially for new blogs, is that you can set your blog platform to automatically ping it every time you publish a new post. As a matter of fact, WordPress does that by default. This makes it index your blog.
On the other, Yahoo is a regular search engine, which, unless you personally submit your web site for indexing, it will take a longer time to do so on its own as it relies on links it finds from other sites to your blog. That’s why it will take a longer time for Yahoo to provide information for our little fun tool to give your blog a cash value than Technorati.
cosmin