What are you worth?

So, what are you worth? Or specifically what's your site worth?

There are many ways to asses the value of your site and getting a good overview is important when evaluation your (or any) site. So how do you put a value on a website? You should really try and asses each site using as much data as you can.

While there are online, automated tools to help figure out what a site might be worth they can never compare to additional research, you know by humans. What's the businesses connected with the website worth? What sort of market/niche is the website in, how much do you know about that niche (If you're looking to buy).

To get the ball rolling you might want to get some basic stats. It's a good idea to find out what the Google PageRank is for a particular website, when was the domain established, how many back-links does the site have?

Online assesments all use different calculations to determine a sites worth, that's why it's important to use a handful of them to try to get a sense of the real worth a site might have. Usually factors such as inbound links, DMOZ, Alexa, PageRank, Compete, Quantcast, Domain Age.

If you're looking for a really good breakdown of how each calculation is determined the following link provides a great comparisons listing the approach and source information for various website evaluation services, check out how much is my site worth - best services to estimate a website value.