What are +4 million pageviews worth these days?

[Ramster]

Originally Posted by Simon

Okay... let me see if we can look at this a little differently.

Lets say you had a couple of free sex story archive sites that you've had online since 1998/99, with lots of pages in the engines, more than 750K visitors a month, and that you showed those visitors more than 4 million pages (stories) each month that they requested. Now let's specify for the sake of this discussion that the sites generate $0 (zero dollars) in directly* trackable revenue of any kind.

Now, based on those criteria...what kind of formula would you use to try to set a value on those sites? Is there a way to compute a site's value based on something besides the revenue it directly generates?

Simon


* explanation to follow so as not to make the question too long.

I'll give you 2 years income. $0 monthly X 24 months = $0. Quick transfer it to me.

Seriously now. Based on this "online since 1998/99, with lots of pages in the engines, more than 750K visitors a month" I'd be asking for about 9 months income. But since you say there is no income to track one would really need to see the site to see the potential.

With 25K a day in traffic the site has to be worth a lot of money compared to many. Traffic looking for stories and traffic in general can be valuable.