Determine Your Website’s Value with DNScoop

Posted by Kyle Eslick on February 4th, 2008 | Category and Tags

Ever wondered about the value of your website? We’ve learned about the tremendous value a domain can hold, but a domain with an established website can hold even more value.

If you had a potential buyer for your website and were trying to determine the value, the buyer would take into account several key factors. A website will typically sell for about 10 times the monthly income it generates, but blog purchasers also factor additional things into the value such as Google PageRank, inbound links, number of posts, age of domain, and of course your Technorati and Alexa rankings.

If you are interested in getting an estimated value of your website, DNScoop is a domain and site value tool that claims to set a value for your websites. Simply input your website URL and it will go out and look up the necessary information then assign a dollar value to your website.

So how accurate is this tool? I input a few of my blogs to get an idea. Because of my recent domain switch, it looks like this site has lost its value (currently $660.00), but Kyle’s Cove still shows a value of $19,292.00. I also decided to check out Hack WordPress because it is sporting a brand new PR5 rating and has managed to collect several quality backlinks (including being featured by Smashing Magazine). DNScoop placed a value of only $2,450.00 on that site, despite the fact that it generates a majority of my blog related income.

DNScoop Hack WordPress

As you can see from the above “appraisals”, I would only recommend using this tool for fun and probably not treat it as an accurate value for your website. How much does DNScoop say your website worth? Let me know in the comments below!

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    1. Comment by K-IntheHouse on February 4th, 2008:

      It says mine is worth over $12,500. :-) As you said tools such as this are fun to get some stats but it stops there in it’s usefulness for me.

      That’s incredible that HackWordPress is a PR5 already Kyle! No one else could have made a site so popular in such a short time. You saw a niche and ran with it and it is already an authoritative WordPress help site that I have started recommending to people I know. Keep up the great work buddy.

    2. Comment by Kyle Eslick on February 4th, 2008:

      @ K - Thanks, I was surprised also. I thought sites didn’t get assigned a PR ranking until they had been around for 6 months. I think I registered that URL on October 1st, 2007.

      I think it has worked because it is something I have a passion about. I’ve tried other niche blogs, but I didn’t really enjoy writing on them. I do enjoy writing for HWP.

    3. Comment by K-IntheHouse on February 4th, 2008:

      Passion goes a long way and I have the same experience with other domains sitting idle while I have no problem blogging about tech in ShanKri-la! :-)

    4. Comment by CristianR on February 4th, 2008:

      It’s a pretty good tool to mess around with although I don’t think it’s very relevant. From my point of view, a blog’s value doesn’t resume to PR and Alexa rankings.

      As you can see from the above “appraisals”, I would only recommend using this tool for fun and probably not treat it as an accurate value for your website

      But I see you’ve already taken care of that Kyle.

      Best Regards,
      Cristian Raiber.

    5. Comment by Jack Hj on February 4th, 2008:

      Just the info I was searching for. Many thx from Sweden!

    6. Comment by Madhur Kapoor on February 4th, 2008:

      Mine came to be around $27,278 though i highly doubt it will be that much. I think more the no of inbound links you have, the higher your worth will be according to it. And your site HackWordpress seems to be really well . I guess i can show the same passion for my new soccer blog. Currently i am finding it difficult to devote time to it.

    7. Comment by James Mann on February 5th, 2008:

      I like dnScoop. It was interesting to see what it has to say about my blogs. I would say my blogs have a ways to go before they would be worthy of selling. :)

    8. Comment by Garry Conn on February 5th, 2008:

      That is a fun site Kyle… I can tell that a lot of hard work has been put into programming that site. Very cool to recognize it here on SlickMania. I am sure the creator is getting some good traffic to it.

    9. Comment by Syahid A. on February 10th, 2008:

      Nice find man. It is like a one stop shop to check out page ranks.

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