How to get an instant free evaluation for your domain and website

If you want to know how much your home is worth, there are a number of online tools you can check out. Similarly, there are a number of sites to determine the valuation of virtual real estate: domain names.

Online valuation sites help you determine the price of your domain name. While no tool or formula can provide an exact value for a house or domain name, they can help by providing a ballpark estimate. We must understand that no particular algorithm can give any domain its exact value with 100% accuracy. The price largely depends on people, how much they are willing to pay and how many people are interested in getting your domain name affects its value and ability to sell it.

DOMAIN VALUATION ALGORITHMS

Unfortunately, there is no formula for how many people want to buy a specific domain name or website. Therefore, we must rely on valuation algorithms.

How do domain review sites get instant value for my site?

Some valuation algorithms are based primarily on keyword metrics, including past sales data and cost-per-click data. The only problem with this formula is that it does not adjust for the traffic and pure content of a website. If you have a parked domain with no traffic or content, then looking for a site with this formula is the best way to go.

Perhaps you are interested in selling your website that is currently drawing traffic from all your hard work. If this is the case, then I would look for a domain evaluation and site analytics website that provides a value based on website performance indicators such as Alexa traffic rank, backlinks, and Google Page Rank.

Regardless, many of the instant domain appraisal companies offer enough information to give you the edge you need to buy or sell that special domain name or website.

Here is a list of factors you should always keep in mind when considering buying or selling virtual real estate…

Factors to look for that are included in a domain appraisal:

income reports
back links
Whois Information
page range
SEO
traffic reports
web ranks
web scores
web analytics
security data
social media
dns
accommodation information
IP information
page speed
SEO reports
server information
link analysis
metasearch
Search engine indexes (Google, Yahoo and Bing)
Alexa Range
FB likes, shares and comments
Twitter count
LinkedIn Shares
delicious actions
Google+

Free domain evaluations may not be 100% accurate, but they will certainly provide you with enough data to allow you to make an informed decision on whether to buy or sell that domain name/website…