Recently I stumbled upon two tools which estimate the value of your blog/sites. Both of them depend on different metrics in calculating the value of your blog. The first one of them is been available in the Blog-O-Sphere for some time. It is Dane Carlson’s domain valuation tool available at his Blog. The tool computes a dollar value for your blog using the link-to-dollar ratio of your blog. So More the links more the value. It looks like he uses the technorati backlink system to determine the number of links into your site. The second one is a website which I recently stumbled upon – dnScoop domain check and value estimation tool. One of the major positive of dnScoop service compared to Dane Carlson tool is that it is not only aimed at Blogs. You can use this service to evaluate the value of your websites also. dnScoop estimate the value of a website/blog by taking into account the following factors – in links, age of domain, pagerank of domain and traffic to the domain. Actually you cannot check the value of your blog if you don’t own the domain name. The in links are calculated based on the Yahoo links and the traffic is calculated based on Alexa.
Put into test both of them gave absolutely varying values. My F C Barcelona blog – All About F C Barcelona had a value of $10 in dnScoop whereas it had a value of whooping $1693.62 in Dane Carlson’s tool. For me in this case dnScoop value is more justified than the latter as only recently I started working on this blog. A value of $1693.62 is a bit exaggerated; it may be because I was able to get some back links from some good blogs in the niche. But the same cannot be said about evaluating my entertainment niche blog Actress Snaps – it gave a $5,645 in Dane’s tool where as it only gave $740 in the dnScoop tool. Now in this case I tend to disagree heavily with dnScoop estimation as I am able to make close to $500 monthly from this blog alone. But then both tools do not take into consideration the fact of how much you earn from the blog. It is basically an indication to the guy who wants to buy the site - about how much he can make from the site. Till a new tool comes in the net which take into consideration the traffic, the niche values etc these two are these best we have.
The below table shows the comparison of Estimated values for some famous domain
| Website | Dane’s Estimation | dnScoop Estimation |
| Makeuseof.com | $1,039,318 | $142,040 |
| DoshDosh.com | $4,593,661 | $1,283,380 |
| Problogger.net | $5,155,379 | $1,849,120 |
| Fcbnews.com | $26,533 | $103,721 |
2 comments:
Huge variation for mine. DnScoop only valued it at $1,000, while Dane's tool brought in a cool $26K...
Hmmmm.... I don't think I'd sell even for the larger figure. Though I doubt I would be offered that.
Fun way to kill 5 minutes as I procrastinate though :)
Yup, it is indeed a good way to kill time... But then it is always encouraging to get your efforts valued, even it is a bit exaggerating
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