Using one of the (of in my opinion of rather dubious value) 'what's your website worth' online calculators (CyberWyre Website Value Calculator - Making A Living 100% Online), the first link seems a bit high:
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The following report outlines traffic levels received by the submitted URL, overviews sources of potential income, and proposes a resale value of the site based on these factors.
Alexa Traffic Ranking The site's Alexa Rank = 40,214
PageRank The site's Google Page Rank = 7
Backlink Report
* Yahoo: 20500
* Altavista: 32
* All the Web: 30
Average of 7,274 backlinks.
Your site is valued at: $69,560
Monthly Earning Potential
* Text Link Advertising
Your site could sell text link advertisements at a rate of approximately $75/Link/Month.
If you sell eight links, you could earn approximately $605/Month selling text links on your site.
Check here for a review of Text Link Ads, currently the best way to sell text links from your website, or click here to give them a try!
* Affiliate Marketing
Your site could earn approximately $360/Month through affiliate marketing.
Check here for a guide to starting to work with affiliate programs, including what they are, and how to insert advertisements into your own site.
* Independent Advertising
Your site could earn approximately $965/Month through independent advertising arrangements specific to your site's niche. Take a look around to see if there are any companies which could benefit from advertising on your website.
For example, if you run a website about golf in Tampa, Florida, perhaps it would be a good idea to call a few of the local courses and see if they would like to purchase advertising, or a review on your site.
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But, the second is a bargain:
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Earnings Report for second link given above
The following report outlines traffic levels received by the submitted URL, overviews sources of potential income, and proposes a resale value of the site based on these factors.
Alexa Traffic Ranking The site's Alexa Rank = 38,881
PageRank The site's Google Page Rank = 7
Backlink Report
* Yahoo: 1520000
* Altavista: 1610000
* All the Web: 1220000
Average of 1,481,734 backlinks.
Your site is valued at: $4,605,388
Monthly Earning Potential
* Text Link Advertising
Your site could sell text link advertisements at a rate of approximately $78/Link/Month.
If you sell eight links, you could earn approximately $626/Month selling text links on your site.
Check here for a review of Text Link Ads, currently the best way to sell text links from your website, or click here to give them a try!
* Affiliate Marketing
Your site could earn approximately $372/Month through affiliate marketing.
Check here for a guide to starting to work with affiliate programs, including what they are, and how to insert advertisements into your own site.
* Independent Advertising
Your site could earn approximately $126,928.01/Month through independent advertising arrangements specific to your site's niche. Take a look around to see if there are any companies which could benefit from advertising on your website.
For example, if you run a website about golf in Tampa, Florida, perhaps it would be a good idea to call a few of the local courses and see if they would like to purchase advertising, or a review on your site.
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So's the third:
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Earnings Report for third link given above
The following report outlines traffic levels received by the submitted URL, overviews sources of potential income, and proposes a resale value of the site based on these factors.
Alexa Traffic Ranking The site's Alexa Rank = 37,010
PageRank The site's Google Page Rank = 5
Backlink Report
* Yahoo: 911000
* Altavista: 26100
* All the Web: 25600
Average of 321,077 backlinks.
Your site is valued at: $1,189,152
Monthly Earning Potential
* Text Link Advertising
Your site could sell text link advertisements at a rate of approximately $58/Link/Month.
If you sell eight links, you could earn approximately $470/Month selling text links on your site.
Check here for a review of Text Link Ads, currently the best way to sell text links from your website, or click here to give them a try!
* Affiliate Marketing
Your site could earn approximately $391/Month through affiliate marketing.
Check here for a guide to starting to work with affiliate programs, including what they are, and how to insert advertisements into your own site.
* Independent Advertising
Your site could earn approximately $32,170.1/Month through independent advertising arrangements specific to your site's niche. Take a look around to see if there are any companies which could benefit from advertising on your website.
For example, if you run a website about golf in Tampa, Florida, perhaps it would be a good idea to call a few of the local courses and see if they would like to purchase advertising, or a review on your site.
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I have to admit that if I could make 30 or 120K a month in 'Independent Advertising', rather than my current 'nil', I'd probably hold onto the site. But, maybe the sellers have more lucrative ventures on which to concentrate.
On the other hand, maybe the 'what's your site worth' calculators need an update valuer attributable to 'backlinks' and PR. So. as tempted as I am to re-mortgage my home and pick up one of the above 'bargains', I think I'll adopt a 'wait and see attitude', or perhaps buy PHPLynx for $30; put it on 'bonehead.name' (only available 'bonehead' domain') and wait a few years until the site's value increases to a million or so.
Come to think of it though, the next web big moneymaker could be to build a 'what's your site worth' site and a bunch of domains and rig the site to give inflated values for those domains then sell them to the newest crop of rubes looking for 'web income while you sleep' types of opportunity.
Yeah...that's the ticket...gotta go.
