Site Value

Is PR alone enough to give selling potential?

[jen24815]

Hi guys,

I have a site that is service-oriented. It's been around a couple of years and has a PR6 w/ Google showing 240 inbound links.

It gets zero traffic - maybe 1500 pageviews/mo - it might as well be non-existent in the Google SERPs. (Is listed in Yahoo too)

I have another site that does really well in a related service area and I want to get rid of the old site.

My question is, is PR alone worth anything? I realize a PR6 isn't anything to write home about, but it's not bad.

Just wondering,

Jenny

[Beachboy]

It does have value, yes. The value of it will depend on a price the buyer is willing to pay for it. Won't be a whole lot, though.

[rogerd]

Jen, maybe you should try creating a bunch of good content for the site - if you combine plenty of content with the PR6 headstart, you'll find your traffic numbers will jump quickly.

[jen24815]

Hi guys,

Thanks for your input.

I was just wondering if PR alone had any objective value; subjectively, it could be worth anything to anybody.

I'm not going to develop it; I'm probably going to dump it, I just wanted to get some input on the PR as a measure of "worth".

Thanks,

Jenny

[brotherhood of LAN]

There were a few related threads about a month ago...

Bottom line is how much $ a buyer will make back and in how long. E-Commerce standard seems to be a buyer would intend to break even in an investment after 3 years (maybe less if the site is smaller?)

Just a "guess" of a "fair" value...where you sell your PR through links at $100 a month :)

100x12x3 = $3600

Would you sell the site for that?

[rogerd]

The site will have a lot more value if you sell it to someone in the industry who will be able to retain the links and also use the domain name (if it's topical in nature) to good advantage. I suppose someone in another business might find the starting PR useful, but the link counts will decay and the owner will have to promote a domain name that might not be his first choice.

If you don't find a ready buyer, I'd think you could use it to drive traffic to your site in the "related service area", perhaps by targeting different topics and keywords. With PR6, the right content will definitely boost traffic.

[jen24815]

Thanks for all the info everybody...gives me some things to ponder.

Sure, I'd sell for $3600. Of course, if I could "rent" links at $100/mo., I'd do that too. :-)

Thanks again for all your help!

Jenny

[jen24815]

Rogerd...the more I look at your suggestion, the more I'm leaning toward that being a very good idea. I could completely revamp the site to be a content one related to my main site's subject matter and just use it for advertising my main site...beats paying somebody else for it, huh? :-)