How Much Is Your Blog Worth?
I can’t recall where I found this little widget but I think it’s cool and because this is a relatively new blog I thought I’d use this site which runs on Wordpress as a guinea pig to see just how fast a blogs worth will go up.
Today the widget says my blog is worth a BIG FAT 0!
As you can imagine that gives my self esteem a big boost, but before I find a bridge to jump off of let’s look at the facts:
- according to WHOIS I registered this blog back in September just a few months ago
- I made a few posts here but did close to nothing to promote it (that was dumb)
Now let’s consider some facts that may help this
- Blogs need traffic to make money
- Blogs need ads or products to make money
- Traffic online usually results from links
- Links usually result from the blog owners effort (at least initially) and later the content being so good that others can’t wait to promote it.
Consider those 4 points for your own use at your site because those are the points I’ll be keeping in mind as I build this blog into something not so pathetic as $0
You can get a site appraisal and check how much your blog is worth here and if you have the balls, or your site is actually worth something you can put this little widget up on your blog if it’s worthless like mine apparently is, it just might motivate you to take a little more action 
-Jae
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I have seen this widget before. It is a great morale-booster, but not too helpful to know that by some algorithm your blog is valued at $0. Do you have any examples of any blogs that have a value above $0, or does it have to be as popular as cnet or yahoo to have any value at all? FYI, I put in yahoo.com on the test site and the value was….. …………$0. Google is also worth $0. Maybe you are doing better than you think. Your site has an Alexa rating for the day in the low 2 millions at 3 am (yahoo and google have traffic ratings of 1 and 1 respectively). The lesson there is that both of those sites provide information that is useful to a large slice of the web-public and they advertise all the time. They advertise so much that now their customers advertise FOR THEM. alchemistmagazine is in a smaller niche. My site, wolfhalton.info, has an alexa rank of 3.9 million. I have been higher - when I was commenting a lot of blogs and writing more articles - and there is a direct correlation between targeted niche-based advertising and traffic flow.
Keep up the good work. I really like the alchemistmagazine domain name choice.
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