Whats my website worth?

[spidersites]

Hello
My name is Richard Pearson. Ive spent a lot of time developing my website www.ukfreepages.co.uk over the last couple of years
Which provides free web pages and paid web sites. I am considering selling the website as I wish to develop other products. For the right business this could be a good opportunity both in terms of new customers and the untapped market of free users.
Bearing in mind the customer database, number of paying customers and templates that are included not to mention a license for the site management software -
What do you think its worth?

regards
Richard Pearons
p.s If this isnt the right forum topic please tell me where i should post to.


Whilst the site does not rank well on google for the term “free web page” it ranks well on
The first page of the Microsoft search engine bing.com

I don’t pay to adverstise my site and on average I get 4 new website registrations a month
But at the moment these are not converted into sales.


Some more details

--------------------------- Customer statistics -----------------------------
Registered Users 1438
of which Personal Pages:615
and Business Pages:809
Number of users registered for sites is 223 or which 126 are businesses
Number of users registered for free pages 1153 of which 638 are businesses

I am prepared to provide a spreadsheet of prospects with contact information removed

-------------------------Income Details----------------------------------------------
Number of paying customers is currently 4 each paying £99 annually = 396

----------------------Templates----------------------------------------------------------
Copyright of 30 Templates covering a range of business types
These templates are ready to go to build an instant website with our software
25 templates designed for the wedding market – may or may not be included

---------------------Directory------------------------------------------------------
The site includes a business directory which is categoried by county

----------------------Software----------------------------------------------------------
A comprehensive management system that lets users
Register create and update and pay for their websites and allows the webiste owner to
administer them.

 

[crossdaz]

What do you think its worth?

It's worth a multiple of annual income - usually between 1 and 3 times, depending on whether someone thinks they can improve the site and how likely this revenue is likely to be consistent.

Generally people who buy websites want some assurances that they are not risking their money and unless you are desperate for the cash you'll be better off just having the income yourself.
The other kind of buyer is looking for a site with high page rank so they can either sell links or link to their other sites. In either case they won't want to pay much.

TBH, it's not going to worth much unless it either ranks well for a lot of good keywords, has a good steady income, has a high page rank or, ideally, all three.

The best rough estimate I'd give is 1 and a half times what it makes now.

 

[bestforsextoys]

To chack the price of what your website is worth you should goto www.websiteoutlook.com and it will tell you what you can sell it at

Let me know how you get on

Austin

 

How many unique vistors a day does the site have.?

Earl

 

[robertt]

To chack the price of what your website is worth you should goto www.websiteoutlook.com and it will tell you what you can sell it at

Let me know how you get on

Austin

Will you sell me auzzwholesale.co.uk for $146 ?

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.auzzwholesale.co.uk as that is what is says

 

[BrighterTools]

Just to confirm you have approx 1376 Customers and only 4 are paying customers which totals an annual income of £396.00. That seems like a lot of work for very little return. I would be happy to take it of your hands for say £1.

Please Note this is a serious offer.

 

[spidersites]

Thanks Made4Print. There is no work involved in the customers that I have. I'd have to be pretty stupid to give it away. It may suprise you but i'm actually quite intelegent.

Let me put it this way instead. How much would you pay for a database of customers interested in web design when there are 1500 potential sales leads?

Also. If people cant apprecite the value of owning copyrighted material then theyre unlikely to be successful online.

 

[sjr4x4]

...It may suprise you but i'm actually quite intelegent....

Ahh thats not fair, tell me that was deliberate, or was that deloberite

 

[TheAlbear]

Well the data costs are easier to estimate..

Data cost is about 20p per email, 2 this is the top end and assumes some segmentation.

But for an estimate it would put the data at ~£300, and the website with a turnover of £369 so all together i would recon about £669 if you can find a buyer..

 

[BrighterTools]

I do make this offer with some assumtions:

With regards the customers who get the site for free, I assume there very little work is required on the basis its free and automated. They get what they pay for and can't complain about SLA's. ( I appreciate that you endeavour to keep things running 24/7 anyway)

With regards the customers who do pay, ie the only ones that are expecting a specific level of service are only paying £396 in total. This is very little return. ie if you consider hosting and maintenance of the software and backups you are already making a loss.

I would assume that you have asked these customers (or most of them) to upgrade already? On that basis the quality of the leads would be rather minimal.

That might have been the only serious offer you had today, but in any case, it might also start some kind of bidding war. Who knows.

 

[spidersites]

Ahh thats not fair, tell me that was deliberate, or was that deloberite

This thing should come with a spell checker to avoid
embarrassing cock ups like that!

 

[bdw]

Richard, if you throw yourself to the lions expect to get bitten.

I am afraid that your website has no real value for several reasons.

It has no useful content and content can add value.

You have loads of empty categories and your navigation and layout is bad (being based on tables). Your Google toolbar PR is only 1, you have no useful Google ranking and the website does not validate.

The county categories in your directory include mistakes and non existent counties like Buteshire.

I would suggest that website value can be classified in two ways, the value of the site and its content and/or the value of the design. You have no useful content and it has not been well designed.

The templates you offer have no value. Better templates can be picked up free from many different sources.

Sorry to disappoint but you did ask and there's no point in offering false hope.

 

[bestforsextoys]

Will you sell me auzzwholesale.co.uk for $146 ?

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.auzzwholesale.co.uk as that is what is says

LOL Yes i would take that amount for it but it is not my domain hehe

But when can you send me the money

Austin

 

[spidersites]

Richard, if you throw yourself to the lions expect to get bitten.

I am afraid that your website has no real value for several reasons.

It has no useful content and content can add value.

You have loads of empty categories and your navigation and layout is bad (being based on tables). Your Google toolbar PR is only 1, you have no useful Google ranking and the website does not validate.

The county categories in your directory include mistakes and non existent counties like Buteshire.

I would suggest that website value can be classified in two ways, the value of the site and its content and/or the value of the design. You have no useful content and it has not been well designed.

The templates you offer have no value. Better templates can be picked up free from many different sources.

Sorry to disappoint but you did ask and there's no point in offering false hope.

Thanks for the feedback. The w3c validation and spelling errors are fixable. I bought the designs from a supplier in India. I am now insisting on
div/css coding. As for the content: My customers add the content to their web pages/sites. I dont have any control over that.

Also other people seem to think there is value - but maybe not as much as Id hoped for.

As for the PR, I havent done much SEO however Ive started getting people wanting to exchange links - so hopefully that will help.

 

[FireFleur]

How much do you think it is worth?

There have been attempts at this, Anglefire, Yahoo, googlepages, etc, but ISPs offer free hosting, and also offer free tools to nearly every customer.

That's the problem, the market is saturated and it is just used a minimal loss leader by the big companies and ISPs.

There are billions and billions of web pages out there, and only about 10 are shown on a search result page, so for most web pages there really is very little to be made.

Most companies would prefer to pay a bit of cash for some design for their presence sites as well, even if they don't want to rank, just so they can give out business cards with their web address.

So, the people you will tend to get are those looking to build links to their site, and using your site as another link off place. And it would be better to position it in that way

There is actually a demand for pages that don't rank highly in SERPs but will convey some page rank and association, that's the sort of anti design you need to get into the site to make that market.