Friday wrap June 13th

Posted by Scott on June 13th, 2008 .

Seriously this is like “how not to make money online“. Coming to the party a bit late and spamming multiple forums.

If your struggling to read some websites and you feel you have ample desk space Sharp have now put their 108 inch LCD monitor in sale, built to order for $102,000

Yahoo have agreed with Google to run use their advertising technology, will they won’t they Yahoo saga has been getting boring lately so it looks to have been sorted out.

Rosanne over on Net Business blog reports on how a site sold for $33 million, which wasn’t anything special.

John finds another blog valuation tool, and CG came in at:


6,798,730

Al might consider selling for that :) Other funny thing with this widget is not only does the badge link back to the tool (fine by me) it also creates a link to “money . co . uk” which seems a bit dodgy (and have removed from the above image).

An enjoyable game for the windows mobile is shift, made a nice change.

Were you tempted to get carried away with registering 4 letter .com’s, I am glad I wasn’t as the prices are crashing and some folks are going to have heafty renewal fees ahead.

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Comment by Tim Nash from Tim Nash SEO Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-13 10:17:13

So Lyndons link bait was not enough for money tut tut!

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Comment by Chris from Jack Jones Network
2008-06-13 10:29:36

Loving the sale of Consumer Search for $33mil! Fair play to the guys who sold it, must have been good sellers.

I’m not suprised to see 4 letter dot coms dropping in value as Ive always thought they are over valued anyway, give me a strong 2 keyword domain over them anyday!

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Comment by Daniel Harrison from Eco Gadgets Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-13 13:49:53

I find it amusing with those supposed valuation tools. They always seem to over-value the price of the website, perhaps as a technique of viral marketing?

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Comment by Al from Al Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-13 15:51:45

Yeah I’m sure viral marketing is a big part of it (as Tim said with the money link). It’s impossible to value a site from a few questions so just for fun, I find they are either stupidly low or the opposite.

 
 
Comment by Peter from Millionaire in my lifetime Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-13 15:22:41

My blog is valued at $30,196 funny how i only started it a few months ago and just kinda forgot about it.

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Comment by Peter from business plan consultant
2008-06-13 16:35:53

I guess the months to come are going to be excellent times to pick up good domains.

 
Comment by Justin Cook from SEO Toronto Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-13 21:12:17

Thanks, I csn’t play the game on my iPhone.

Yeah right, my blog is worth $334,630. I can’t imagine someone paying 3 grand, let alone 300

 
Comment by Robert Kingston from Environment Blog
2008-06-13 23:01:30

How rediculous is that! I just read about that website which sold for $33 Mill and I’m stoked.

It almost makes me feel sorry for the guy that bought it! Geez.

Robert Kingston’s last blog post..Energy Efficient Linux Servers

 
Comment by paulette from Lovermus Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-15 03:42:30

Good thing for me:) Before i was planning to register
at letters.com and now when i read your blog.
I am very thankful of not pushing through it.

 
Comment by One Year Millionaire from One Year Millionaire Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-15 19:23:04

That is a pretty cool blog value calculator… I am pretty sure that it over-states many blog’s value… and I am sure you would sell your blog for a 1/10 of the price tag up there ;)

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Comment by Tom from Free Ads Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-16 11:20:24

I didn’t get too carried away with the four letter domains, but carried away enough to feel it. Well we’ll see what happens, the long-term might be good for them…or not. ;-)

 
Comment by cameron0800 Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-17 01:36:11

James Brausch has created a new program that will help gather more business for your website. The program, Glyphius, takes the google headline you create for your website and scores it against similar websites based on successfulness. After the initial scoring, you can then change your headline to make it as successful as possible. Glyphius will then score your headline again against your competitors. This is truly and amazing product.

 
Comment by Barbara Ling Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-17 11:25:54

4 letter domains can be very useful indeed if you can get a good acronym around which to center it.

Me, I’ll stick to humor and making money domain names. :)

Barbara

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Comment by Jeff from Craziest Gadgets Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-18 03:35:41

The valuation tool seems outrageously high for me (like 200x annual revenue) but perhaps I was optimistic as to readership growth.

As far as LLLL’s go- an unpronounceable, non-acronymable 4 letters seems worthless to me.

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Comment by Pachi from Arbit Blog
2008-06-20 10:44:05

My new blog is valued at $100,000+
lol…

I am ready to sell it for half the price.. anyone in fot it? :)

Pachi’s last blog post..Clean inbox

 
Comment by Artist from Artist Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-10 18:16:27

Funny tool that evaluator. I put it completely low numbers for each of the items, undervalued at every step and it says my site is worth $2,004,830. I am scratching my head and wondering what I did wrong? Anyone in the mood to pony up $2 mil for my site?

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Comment by Yaba from How To Do Anything Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-23 20:11:42

These blog tools are a waste. Their primary intention is to spark off a viral linkbait. As simple as that. This one seems to be really ridiculous.

 
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