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How Much Is Your Site Worth?

Have you ever wondered how much your web site is worth? Ann Smarty, author from Search Engine Journal and professional search engine optimization consultant, asked her readers just that, in an article titled, How Much Might Your Website Be Worth? The article provides some basic formulas and scenarios that can help you determine how much you should ask for your web site if one day you decide on selling it.

Regardless of the different formulas available, really the amount of money you can get for your web site is equal to the amount that someone is willing to pay. “The overall mathematician approach can be criticized as each website is unique and it can’t be evaluated by a simple formula.” Ann Smarty Said, and later continued, “My favorite method of determining how much a website it worth is the one by Yaro Starak.”

Yaro Starak is a young entrepreneur from Australia. Yaro has created, managed and sold several different Internet businesses since 1998. Yaro commonly says, “Your site is worth as much as someone is willing to give you for it.” which in my opinion makes sense. To me, it doesn’t matter how much a house appraises for, if the price isn’t right, or at an amount in which I feel it’s worth, I won’t buy it. The same would apply with a web site. (more…)

If you run a self-hosted WordPress blog, you may have noticed that the search feature that comes with WordPress doesn’t perform very well. On August, 4th, 2008, Joost de Valk, a very well known and respected Dutch search strategist and webdeveloper, published an article that explains how publishers can modify their WordPress search template file to increase the searching capabilities of their WordPress blog. The release of this WordPress tweak went viral and received over 250 Digg votes and made the front page of Sphinn.

Today at the Search Engine Round Table, a new debate started to surface regarding that asks if SEO’s are indeed providing service for clients or deciding to not accept new work and use their skills for their own internal uses. “why would the best SEOs decide to take on client work, as opposed to building out their own ideas and cashing in on those ideas.”, asks one of the authors at the Search Engine Round Table. (more…)

During the week I spend some time reading up on the latest news and gossip within the search engine market and week to week I end up having quite a few articles that I end up bookmarking or adding into my favorites. While I will continue to save these articles in my various bookmarks for my own personal use, I figured that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to share with you some of the articles that I enjoyed reading through the week.

With that being said, here is an overview of some of the articles that I read this week that I think that you’ll enjoy reading too. Every Friday, you can mark your calendars and be sure to visit the SEOHosting.com blog for some really excellent references to what I would consider, “The Best in SEO” for the week. I call this weekly series, SEO Friendly Friday. Hope you enjoy, I know I sure enjoy helping your learn. (more…)