My website value increased 10 fold!!

[Dodgeboard]

I had been monitoring my site under the vB framework every month or so and checking the website value and statistics using marcosweb and stimator.com. I had been with vB for 6 years and never saw it go much over $1000.00.

I installed Xenforo two weeks ago and just checked my site statistics at both and boy was I in for a shock!!

Marcosweb
Site worth before installing Xenforo: $1017.00
Site worth 2 weeks after installing Xenforo: $27,036

Stimator
Site worth before installing Xenforo: $307.00
Site worth 2 weeks after installing Xenforo: $45,742

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Also, Google crawl stats indicate the average page load speed went from 6.0 seconds to 2.3 seconds since installing Xenforo.
I'm not even using vBSEO anymore.

What made it so much faster? What the heck happened to cause it to jump up in value so much? Can somebody please explain this to me?

 

[whynot]

Heh.. i site I sold 5 years ago for $25k (and has only gotten larger) is now worth $68.00 according to that site.. whew.. I guess I sold it just in time

Time to sell that $25K now,still can get a few pesos for it!

 

[Wildcat Media]

Your website is worth exactly what the market is willing to pay for it. No more.

Exactly.

It's like selling a business--there are actual formulas out there to determine what a business is worth: debt, receivables, sales, etc., and the market is also taken into account.

Those website valuations are essentially worthless. If they were true, I could have retired 10 years ago.

 

[Wildcat Media]

Worthless indeed. I checked one of the "big boards" I manage, and the site owner is averaging over $2100/month in Viglink income. Stimator.com says the site is worth $68.

 

[DeltaHF]

Worthless indeed. I checked one of the "big boards" I manage, and the site owner is averaging over $2100/month in Viglink income. Stimator.com says the site is worth $68.

At risk of taking this too far off-topic, I'd like to ask what what - if anything special - you guys are doing to drive your Viglink income?

 

[Cupara]

My site is worth $690, so far a good investment. Guess to raise it up in price is based on traffic, SEO, etc.

 

[Panupat]

lol my site's $500. it says my site performs very poorly. Surely its because i'm so far away from the test server

 

[steven s]

At risk of taking this too far off-topic, I'd like to ask what what - if anything special - you guys are doing to drive your Viglink income?

My viglink income is roughly 12% what I get from adsense.

 

[Wildcat Media]

At risk of taking this too far off-topic, I'd like to ask what what - if anything special - you guys are doing to drive your Viglink income?

Nothing here. I put it on an existing site in June and it's been raking in the money. I got tired of messing with ad banners, or trying to get staff to correct Amazon links to point to the site's account. I make more in one day with Viglink than I've been making over two months with Amazon alone. But, it is a site that typically has members posting a lot of links to other sites (eBay, Amazon, other music sites, etc.). You need outbound links to make Viglink worth your while. This is why I'm working on developing sites with a lot of links to sites that generate income, which visitors will gladly click on.

 

[Digital Doctor]

-= Rudy =-
Let us convert your forum to XenForo!
Inquire with me privately for details.

Do you want to change that ?
Sounded like you wanted to take a break from converting.

 

[Wildcat Media]

Do you want to change that ?
Sounded like you wanted to take a break from converting.

Oops! True dat. Thanks! I don't hang much here anymore, so I totally forgot. (Plus I have sigs turned off.)

 

[iTuN3r]

Dang ! $1,072 ..not even month old board

 

[Wildcat Media]

I checked one site I've had online since 1997, and they don't even list it. Yet it's ranked high in Google's organic rankings for its subject matter. Yep, I'd say the value is pointless.