My take is that the earning level reflects all the other factors mentioned - the design, content, backlinks, even subscribers. These factors make the earnings what they are.
So, the 10 / 12 x monthly earnings is a good starting point. The only other thing I'd want to look at is the earnings trend - if it's going up month on month, then you need to factor that in, and vice versa. If it's holding steady, then the growth factor is naturally one.
That makes my basic calculation: current revenue x potential growth factor.
There are no doubt other factors that come into play, but given this blog's current status, I'd say the $30k mark was a fair price, as long as the new owner(s) were able to carry forward the processes that made the blog popular in the first place, and keep the current audience engaged.
John your crazy $300,000 literally out of your mind.
Evil Woobie
· 1 year ago
It's particularly difficult to receive rss from a blog when a subscriber knows that there's a new owner. I mean, we subscribed for a reason, and mainly, that reason is the blogger himself, his personality, writing style etc.
While that amount is out of the ballpark, I do however agree that its VALUE is correct when you take in all the parameters. I'd say $50,000-$75,000 would be the max I would pay.
Bryan
· 1 year ago
Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
I looked up johncow.com on SiteAmount and it says you have 724 backlinks on Google and 34,340 on Yahoo. Based just on the domain name value and backlinks the total value is: 5,444.92 ($10 for the domain name + 5434.92 for backlinks).
So you think that 30,000 uniques per month equals 360,000 uniques per year? Depending on what stats s/w you are using it either resets at the beginning of each month or uses a 30 day rolling window. So a visitor will be counted again after 30 days. So your actual yearly uniques may be little more than 30,000.
If that 30,000 monthlies is really based on 1,000 dailies then extrapolating a yearly number is even less accurate.
Abdalla
· 1 year ago
Do yo use awstats for recording stats?
Sunduvan
· 1 year ago
Can I buy your blog at USD 10.00? :twisted: :evil: Just kidding :lol:
A website is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. Are you going to use some auction to sell the site or are you just going to accept a bid silently?
I think the value of the blog is based on the blogger itself, and not the name of the blog. Therefore, if some Joe Blow that buys JohnCow.com may not have the same following, and readership, since most visitors visiting and commenting on the site are here to for JohnCow. Notice the drop in Alexa Traffic when you had guest posts while vacationing. You can add my 2 cents to Simons. :lol:
That's a whole lot of money. Puts alot of perspective on things. If I sold my little blog in many years to come I think I would be happy with the cost of hosting back and anything else as a bonus.
What would you do with the money if Bill Gates decided to buy your blog for that amount?
Mubin
· 1 year ago
I think the best valuation method was actually the rss method.
You selling John or just writing all these posts to make sure you don't get lowballed when you do start to sell. Lets just hope that this does not turn into another cash quests.
I disagree with #2 greatly base on the estimated average of $144k to get the same number of uniques. Depending on how well you manage your QS, it can be drastically less. You can also use other PPC such as Yahoo, MSN, as well as several other lower tier PPC engines to get the same number of targeted traffic if you were going the paid route and still spend less.
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So, the 10 / 12 x monthly earnings is a good starting point. The only other thing I'd want to look at is the earnings trend - if it's going up month on month, then you need to factor that in, and vice versa. If it's holding steady, then the growth factor is naturally one.
That makes my basic calculation: current revenue x potential growth factor.
There are no doubt other factors that come into play, but given this blog's current status, I'd say the $30k mark was a fair price, as long as the new owner(s) were able to carry forward the processes that made the blog popular in the first place, and keep the current audience engaged.
Just my 2 cents. :wink:
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I looked up johncow.com on SiteAmount and it says you have 724 backlinks on Google and 34,340 on Yahoo. Based just on the domain name value and backlinks the total value is: 5,444.92 ($10 for the domain name + 5434.92 for backlinks).
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Great article, you've casted the line out and just waiting for someone to bite! Good luck!
when will I reach that traffic?????hahaahahah=)
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If that 30,000 monthlies is really based on 1,000 dailies then extrapolating a yearly number is even less accurate.
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Notice the drop in Alexa Traffic when you had guest posts while vacationing.
You can add my 2 cents to Simons. :lol:
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What would you do with the money if Bill Gates decided to buy your blog for that amount?
You selling John or just writing all these posts to make sure you don't get lowballed when you do start to sell. Lets just hope that this does not turn into another cash quests.
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I find that these tools are often grossly inaccurate at least with my blogs they have been
Totally agree with you that calculating the amount of revenue the blog generates per month and multiplying it by 10 gives a pretty good estimate
Never considered the value of the posts though so that's a new tip for me. Thanks
Oh and by the way i like the pagani in the logo at the top looks cool :)