Websites evaluation

[kappa84]

Hi there.
What do you think about sites like smartpagerank.com that tell you the value of your website?
Is the evaluation accurate? Do you know other websites that do the same things?

[vicdigi]

First I have heard of this site - just checked it out though. It is very slow and just a tool.

[kappa84]

Do you think you can rely on it's approximately evaluation?

[livetech]

Probably not I'll be honest. They offer quite a logical (how many links the site has etc.), rather than a semantic (what the site is about, how much money does it make) estimate.

[kappa84]

Isn't there on the web other "evaluator" that can combine the logical and semantic estimate and create a powerfull and reliable tool for webmasters? Or is it preety impossible to create one?

[karmadir]

Honestly speaking,

I find this tool irrelevant.

You can use Alexa,Siteometer and Google Analaytics for your website status.They are more accurate than this one.

[KingPin]

I just had a quick go with it and what a load of crap. You can't reply on any script/tool to fully evaluate you're website.

There are simply to many elements involved.

KP

[HostQuack]

no go with that site. Kinda useless. So many other better tools.

[OldWelshGuy]

Well I just checked my rugby forum ScumV Rugby Forum - Welsh Rugby Forum - Rugby Chat at its Best :: Index and it tells me I have PR zero , have 9 backlinks in goolge, none in Yahoo (yahoo have limited access to their site: & link: features.) it also tells me some other things.

Here is the rub though.

My domain is a niche website aimed at rugby.
It is number 1 on google for welsh rugby forum,
It is #2 for the term rugby forum.
It has over half a million posts,
in one month during the 6 Nations this year we got 3.5 million page impressions.
It is a domain name over 4 years old
it is in dmoz twice
They say it is worth $532
I refused an offer of £10,000 for the site last year.

In short, it is using ALL the wrong elements to base a value on.

In answer to why i was offered £10k for it. next year the British & irish lions are touring South Africa. At LEAST 30 members from the forum are travelling over on tour to watch the matches. TYhey are paying a tour operator £7,000 plus (each) to go. That is £270,000 of business. The tour operator that offered me the money will make his money back in no time!