How Much Money Is Your Website Worth?
Have you ever wondered what your website is worth on the open market? Do you understand that the older your domain becomes and the more you market your website, the higher its value becomes? Have you ever considered selling your website? These are questions that every webmaster should ask themselves from time to time, especially when sales start to dry up or their adsense earnings start to lower.
I have been learning the ins and outs of internet marketing for a number of years now and am often left quite shocked by the way in which a lot of webmasters do not realise that their website promotion should be seen as a long term project. Instead of taking this long term and patient view with their site, they attempt and expect to become rich via their website in just a few months.
I have known many webmasters who start out with the right attitude. They have a great looking site with interesting and useful content and work very hard in the first few months to then promote the site. They do this in a variety of different ways that I have normally explained to them, but then after just a few months they seem to lose interest just like a child who has been bought a new toy.
As an example I have a friend who at one point was writing an average of twenty articles per week, to promote his website. This lasted for around nine weeks before he basically got bored. He stated that the results were not as good as he had expected and that he was upset that he had not managed to achieve any top ten rankings for his main keywords in Google.
He had worked hard but to be fair had only concentrated on article marketing as a way of marketing his website, this of course was not what I had advised. I do however wonder how his site would now be doing now, a year on, if he had managed to continue writing his articles.
He has decided not to renew the domain of his site which I again think is a mistake. I treat every website that I have as a piece of real estate which I can sell at any stage of the future. Just think for a while how much a page rank six website would be worth, with even more promotion and in lets say another ten years this site could and reach a pr7 and beyond.
About the Author
Stephen Hill helps to promote a number of websites including:
stuttering
debt specialist
treatment for anger management
Author: Steve Hill
Being a webmaster is a much more important job than most companies would dare admit. Webmasters are responsible for the company web presence on every level, from the website copy to the web and email server administration. Additionally, webmasters are often tasked even more duties that should be considered unrelated responsibilities for the position of webmaster. These extra duties often will include online as well as offline promotion and marketing, search optimization, advertising, application programming, graphic design and/or brand management. The role of the webmaster has grown over the years and webmasters need to grow with the company's expectations or the website will not succeed. For instance, it is easy to get banned from the search engines for not knowing the correct methods to use to optimize a website for a better results ranking from the search engines for any particular search phrase.
This is why Webmastery is here, not just to offer direction and assist webmasters, but to do so masterfully, as you expect of yourself, or as your company expects out of you.
Since I am an American and know only American English and SEO methods, I specialize in American Webmastery. Hence the domain name, Webmastery.US.
However, please note that often both sides of the coin are presented here. Some webmasters swear by Linux and we offer articles by such authors to give insight to their creativity. Others are die-hard Microsoft software fans and use Windows based servers. Despite the bias, each system has its own advantages, and such articles are reprinted here for their positive contribution to those platforms, not to enforce their bias. It is we that have to make the final analysis.
This difference is even more apparent when I am showcasing and promoting white hat SEO (search engine optimization) and a black hat SEO article is published here, which method if followed could get a website banned from the search engines. The reason I allow it a small platform is to showcase its apparent and obvious idiocy in contrast to white hat SEO techniques. And as I cannot edit these articles in order to correct them, I let their illogicality and stupidity stand on their own for a time without any edits. But in case their spaminess is not apparent, I often do not let such articles stand long.
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