Freedom - 8:02 pm on Jul 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

These dang threads get started once a week here at WebmasterWorld and all have about the same unrealistic posts from pie in the sky believers who think they should be paid $150 for every hour they worked on their site.

The best solution to these threads is to start a commercial exchange forum for website sales. I think it's been discussed before.

This topic (how much is my site worth) is getting about as old as the most common:

1. I was kicked out of Google, why!?

2. Google is corrupt and cheated me because they sandboxed my site I launched 3 months ago which has 10,000 back links and 50,000 pages of high quality, unique content. (Unique my #$%, it's crap content you stole from somewhere else and/or forum and product pages).

3. What are the highest paying keywords?

4. I were kicked off of the Adsense! Nofair I got cot but the other have n't ad sowry me engrish not so goods. Do what can I?

5. Scraper sites stink.

"How much is my site worth?" threads are always posted by those with no experience or basis in reality with buying/selling sites. They are lost and high on drugs thinking that because Orbis sold for $2.1 billion, the same valuation criteria should apply to their Mexican Donkey Porn Hotel Vacation booking website (which also has AS ads).

IMHO, they should go try to sell their site on some other forum instead of trying to sneak it in on WebmasterWorld. They really don't care about learning the market value on their website because you can tell by their hysterical follow up posts when they find out it's only 6 to 12 months earnings value in the real world.

They don't want to hear that because they were just fishing to sell it here anyway. If you read the start of many of these type threads, you see it sounds more like a sales pitch then it does a website/valuation question.

Website valuation and purchasing/selling strategy is a legitimate topic for discussion. But 9 out 10 times, that's not what these threads are about. It's a fishing expedition.

Spammers is what they are.