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Text Link Ads, Making A Little Extra From Your Blog

Published March 18th, 2008 in Blogging, Making Money | No Comments »

A while back I signed up to a service for my blog called, Text Link Ads. It’s basically a service that tries to sell text adverts on your blog posts on your behalf. After signing up and getting approved you get a plugin (wordpress in my case) to upload to your blog, they then spider all your pages and see if they can match them up to advertisers.

I had the service running for a while and almost forgot about it, but just recently in the last few months they’ve started to sell a lot more ads for me. Now they do take a huge 50% commission on any advert they sell, but I think for now at least they are earning me more than if I was to try and hunt advertisers myself.

The amount they charge advertisers per link depends on the popularity of your blog, so if you make your blog bigger and better you can earn more off it. Right now it’s a nice little extra income for me, so I am happy to keep going with it and if your interested why not check it out yourself.

How To Put a Value on a Website

Published May 16th, 2007 in Making Money | 3 Comments »

I am considering trying to sell one of my websites as a whole package including domains, content, source code etc. At the moment I am not going to say which site it is as I am still undecided but it is a well established domain.

However the problem is that I have absolutely no idea how to value it. I have seen some sites that say you should simply take the monthly income and times it twelve to get the value. But surely there must be more factors than that to be taken into account. What about the value of the unique content, what about the value of incoming links, number of pages indexed by google etc.

The concept of just taking money earned to put a value on it, seems way to simplistic for me, so I think I will look if there are any companies out there that can assist with putting a real value on a site before I decide whether to sell or not.

But then of course there is the next big question, how on earth do you go about finding a buyer, where is the best place to advertise to ensure you get the right sort of interested parties and the right price.

If any readers have experience in this area, feel free to comment, any feedback or advice is more than welcome.