Wednesday, May 7, 2008

How much is your site worth $$$?

Have you ever wondered how much is your site worth based on the traffice on your site? Also wondered how much a site that you visit often would be worth? Then check out this site (domainoutlook.com) that tells you the net worth of a top level domain. You simply enter a top level domain name and it does its magic and presents you with the estimated value of the domain based on the recent traffic. Here is a screenshot of the site using blogger.com as the top level domain:
As you can see, it says the blogger.com is worth about $267.67 Million and I believe Google has paid much more than that to buy blogger.com.
I am not sure how accurate their calculations are, for example, it lists Yahoo.com ($2.41 Billion) being lot more worth than Google.com ($1.2 Billion), which makes me question the validity of their calculations, but it is an interesting site and you can get a rough idea of how traffic gets translated into ad revenue.
Here is a table that summarizes the net worth of most popular search engines using this site:
Search EngineNet WorthDaily PageviewsDaily Ads Revenue
google.com$1.2 Billion550000000$1650003.16
yahoo.com$2.41 Billion1100000000$3300003
altavista.com$8.99 Million4104477$12316.26
metacrawler.com$169447.676431$232.12
msn.com$481.8 Million220000000$660003
dogpile.com$1.57 Million718484$2155.45
hotbot.com$96403.843078$132.06
excite.com$2.18 Million995475$2989.25
lycos.com$1.48 Million676506$2032.35
alltheweb.com$890008.7405455$1219.19
ask.com$19.75 Million9016393$27052.01
aol.com$114.72 Million52380952$157145.86
a9.com$371803.6168892$509.32
about.com$17.46 Million7971014$23915.87
baidu.com$185.31 Million84615384$253848.8

Happy Surfing,

Sonny