I was talking to Wendy of Emomsathome.com about her domains and she actually had them very under priced and I want to show you some free ways of getting domain names appraised.
First off if you have sites with digits or hyphens this will lessen the amount of your sale. Reason being is some people forget dashes, and slang (numbers) don’t do that well, some can but normally not.
Longer domain names are priced lower too, the less letters you can do the better!
Dependant upon where you sell the following are very important and can help you increase your price: Google backlinks, Page Rank, Alexa Ranking, and how popular the term is for search engines and if it shows up on the first page for searching.
All of these are very important factors and can raise the price by thousands if not millions! So please keep that in mind, and don’t ever feel like you are over pricing put it through Sedo at your dream price and if it doesn’t sell drop it slightly, think about it as real estate you’re selling your house in all essence its an internet home. So you’re essentially selling your home and want to find a great price for it so market it at your dream price (allow room for bidding wars!!! VERY IMPORTANT)
There is a great website that gives free domain appraisals for you to work off of. Keep in mind its only appraising the domain name, no pr or anything else the site is NameBoy.com
Its a great start for people looking to buy and sell internet real estate there is all DNJournal.com for news on domain transactions.
I looked at her domain names and thought newbieblogger was all me. how do you know if you’re someone that should even consider buying a name. Or is it one of those things ‘if you have to ask then you shouldn’t be buying’? Thanks again for your e-mail help the other day!
May 15, 2007 @ 2:55 pmWell personally if you want a website I think buy a domain or get hosted. Not on those blogger hostings but nicer ones wordpress.com is nice I am a big advocate of wordpress or find inner circles and a personal domain thats hosting.
But really if its something you’re trying to turn into a business a domain is key. you stick with it and you dont have to worry about moving and losing page rank. Where you do if you move with blogger etc. Plus your alexa is all your own and places don’t want to buy ads on free blog places a lot of the time.
But its really not about if i have to ask, where if there isn’t a price tag on it its not for me kind of thing. but if you’re buying a domain used the price is ALWAYS HIGHER believe it or not, and sometimes its better to think up your own domain but if its a must have and you dont mind parting with a couple of hundred or thousand or hundred thousand have fun!
May 15, 2007 @ 3:01 pmthank you for the insight…my wheels are spinning…maybe a website will be in my future…there is so much to digest in your posts that I think I might have to spend a day here!
May 18, 2007 @ 9:15 pm