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Hello all,

Have a look here:
http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auction/3710?

This site has been sold after 3 hours for the requested price ($500). Let’s see what this site offer:
PR0
2000 unique users per month
3 months age
250 users
3000 posts.
No income.

A year ago this website would go around $200. Now it seems to me that people are willing to pay a lot more. If you can offer a decent website with nice design and a bit of traffic, you can mage huge profit.

I think that for small websites income is not relevant anymore. It is the design and the traffic that count.

Assaf

Hi all,

This is the most difficult question when you have to ask yourself before your put your site for sale. There are many factors that can influence the price. The most common rule that many people refer to is the income. Take the monthly income multiply it by 12 or 15 and get the value of your site.

This rule is simple but ignores many other factors.

I will try to give a list of the factors that you need to consider ordered by importance:
* Income – Costs : It is nice to have $1000 income a month but if you spent $1500 to get it, it is not that good…
* Google ranking for keywords : This is very important. If you have high ranking with Google for competitive keywords it worth a lot of money.
* Age : The older the site is better. New site worth much less.
* Traffic : The more traffic you have your site worth more. Simple as that.
* Complex : Does it a simple website or very complicated website i.e. online game?
* Potential : Does it a unique concept with potential to grow?
* Reputation : Does you website is well known?
* Google PR : You know the little green scale on Google toolbar that drives webmaster crazy.

Also try to be fair. When you sell a website it is better to say ‘I don’t know how to promote it’ instead of ‘I don’t have time to promote it’
This is why people buy websites. They think they can do a better job then you…

Happy New Year,
Assaf