Pricing for Large Site Sales

In search of recent site sale statistics.

[RobinL]

I'm doing research on the selling prices of sites recently. Can anyone point me to a few recent sales of web sites, preferably more content based, and what they sold for?

[freshfish]

I've looked into buying a few sites and the prices vary widely...and wildly for that matter.

The question you have to ask is:
a) Is there a steady stream of traffic?
b) How much work went into the site?
c) Is the content worthwhile and how much would it cost to reproduce the content?

Example: If you have a site with 100 in depth articles, a small steady stream of traffic in a niche that isn't very lucrative and a well designed site...you will have to sell the site as a bundle proving the buyer with the traffic and site/domain as a freebie. Let's say a freelancer would charge $50 per article...you would be able to sell the site for $5000 because the buyer is getting all articles at once, some traffic and a website.

Example 2: If the site is earning money and has a good amount of targetted traffic, then the content will be the added bonus. The buyer will need to know that he can get his money back in 6 months time.

Hope that helps.

[RobinL]

No, I'm looking for big sales of large sites, sites that sold for the millions - specifically any news articles mentioning such acquisitions.

[freshfish]

ahhh, not really sure there...sorry couldn't be more help :(

[mincklerstraat]

If you're in for history, and good news / bad news history, you'll find a lot of articles on the sale of the site owned by Blue Mountain Arts for millions to excite.com (before dot com bust), and how its worth quickly dried up.