How to sell my website ?

Gav · Jun 27, 2009

Hello

Hope someone can help me
I have had my website shop4giftsonline.co.uk since 2005 but no longer trade from here so have thought about selling it.

1. I have no real guide on how much it is worth. It has been registered since October 2005 and gets around 20 -40 unique visitors daily.

2. How do I go about selling it ?
I have a message on the site saying it is for sale and had some interest.
Is there any official way I must sell for handing it over. How does the sale process work ?
How do I change the name of who it is registered to ? The site is run with Mr Site and there is a section on there for your personal details but im sure there will be another register somewhere.

Thanks to anyone that can help.

JamieAllen · Jun 27, 2009

Hi

Take a look at nominet.org.uk

Good luck with the sale.

bestforsextoys · Jun 28, 2009

Hello

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Deleted member 27344 · Jun 28, 2009

You could try listing it on A5 Domains.

benjamin_c · Jun 28, 2009

why sell it at all? if you're getting upto 40 unique visitors each day then why not just link that site directly to your new domain? i imagine this would be more profitable in the future tbh...

wevet · Jun 28, 2009

Gav said:
Hello

Hope someone can help me
I have had my website shop4giftsonline.co.uk since 2005 but no longer trade from here so have thought about selling it.

1. I have no real guide on how much it is worth. It has been registered since October 2005 and gets around 20 -40 unique visitors daily.

2. How do I go about selling it ?
I have a message on the site saying it is for sale and had some interest.
Is there any official way I must sell for handing it over. How does the sale process work ?
How do I change the name of who it is registered to ? The site is run with Mr Site and there is a section on there for your personal details but im sure there will be another register somewhere.

Thanks to anyone that can help.

That is minimal traffic, the site is no longer online - other than the actual site infrastructure I cannot see that you have any value.

movietub · Jun 28, 2009

Selling the domain name?

Or are you hoping to sell the site design and structure? The visitor count is not worth anything really. Especially when you consider some of those unique visitors will be various robots trawling the site.

Is there some value you have not detailed on here yet? If not, if its just the domain name then selling it is simple and easily explained on several websites setup to do just that.

Gav · Jun 28, 2009

Thanks for the replies

It is the domain really but thought worth mentioning visitors before someone asks. It has got a PR of 5 so it must mean something to the person buying.

movietub · Jun 28, 2009

Gav said:
Thanks for the replies

It is the domain really but thought worth mentioning visitors before someone asks. It has got a PR of 5 so it must mean something to the person buying.

In that case it really is as simple as listing the domain name for sale to the highest bidder. In reality it may fetch no more than you paid for it. Which I'm guessing is a few quid - obviously you would have also paid a hosting charge at the same time, which is usually more.

The PR is good, but only valuable if the buyer wants to use the site as it is and without making sweeping changes.

Generally a website only has tangible value if its well known/ currently trading and the whole business is for sale/ extremely content rich and recieves over 1000 Uniques a day. Or of course if you developed an expensive backend to the site which was of use to someone with similar interests.

david64 · Jun 29, 2009

First thing to mention is this domain has fake PageRank. It's probably only worth a PR1-2, judging from its incoming PageRank.

There are three factors to consider when selling a domain:
1 - the actual domain's value based on the letters and TLD
2 - the incoming links
3 - the income

General way of pricing up a domain is, the domain value + perceived value of the incoming links + 18 months revenue.

The actual value of the domain is £0
The incoming links are worth about £10
I am guessing the domain has no revenue, so a rough estimation of what you would get for it is about £10.

You can try selling it on an auction site like GoDaddy (would be your best bet at a sale). I can't see it going for more than £25 though unless you can hook someone on its fake PageRank.

If you want other appraisals. Try signing up at NamePros.

Gav · Jun 30, 2009

David are you saying there is a flaw in googles method of ranking websites as I have not done anything to "fake" this.

GoPrivateDetective · Jun 30, 2009

it reads as a PR of 5 for me?

John_Mac · Jun 30, 2009

First thing to mention is this domain has fake PageRank.

How do you know this? I'm no expert so I did a quick search on the subject ('fake pagerank') and found articles about cloaking a page for Googlebot so that the PR of another site shows, but this can be checked by looking at the Google cache. In the case of shop4giftsonline.co.uk the cached home page is virtually the same as the current real home page, so it doesn't look like it is cloaked. Also, online tools such as www.build-reciprocal-links.com/fake-rank-checker/ and www.rankchecker.com are reporting it as legitimate PR5. What is your evidence for saying it is fake PR?

Personally I suspect most of the PR is coming from the inlinks from the mrsite.co.uk site, and these will be lost when it is removed as an example site for that software/service.

david64 · Jun 30, 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagerank#False_or_spoofed_PageRank

This domain has one PageRank 3 incoming link and then pretty much everything else doesn't have any PageRank, which means this domain is either fake PageRank, its recently lost high PR incoming links or there is another domain redirected at this domain with high PR incoming links. To get a PR5, you will need a good selection of PR4+ links.

John_Mac · Jun 30, 2009

http://www.mrsite.co.uk/sample.asp has PR6 and links to the site. Won't that help with its PR?

david64 · Jun 30, 2009

John_Mac said:
http://www.mrsite.co.uk/sample.asp has PR6 and links to the site. Won't that help with its PR?

Apologies, that link was being obscured in Y! with the similar results filter, so my checker didn't see that. Yes. That would probably make it a PageRank 5.

The best place to sell it based on PageRank is GoDaddy auctions. The domain might go for $100-200.

If you want to get the most for the domain, you'd need to find someone who was interested in it for PageRank and topic. However, I'd point out that that PR6 link is probably going to go at some point.

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