[Tony0930]

I’ve been talking to some of my friends about website prices and I would like to know what makes a website expensive, for example, if I wanted to sell my website, what should I consider when placing a price tag on it?

[Martyr2]

It is all about the traffic and what that traffic typically does on your site. If you can show that you draw a lot of people to your site, have a high ranking on Google, and that those visitors can easily be converted into banner clicking and eventually sales, your site becomes more expensive.

If you can draw a crowd of 1 million visitors a day but 2 of those users click the ads, it won't fetch as much as those who can draw 10 million visitors a day and can convert 85% of those visitors into clicking-throughs and eventual buyers for an advertiser.

Good search engine optimization/affiliates linking to you >> good google placement >> tons of visitors >> convert a high percentage of visitors into buyers >> more expensive your site can be worth.

[RodConnors]

It may not be all about traffic. Your site may be a functional website, e.g. a web based accounting package in which case you would have to compare it to similar products on the market.

[Tony0930]

hey, thanks!!
someone recommend me that I can let my website sit for about 15-20 years. Let it become overrun with weeds, small animals, rust, corrosion, etc.
I do have thought of 20 years from now I might be able to sell it to some desperate collector that will pay top dollar for it, and then invest 3x that much into restoring it and getting it back into running order.

but do you guys think this achievable?

[no2pencil]

Tony0930, on 3 Sep, 2008 - 11:14 PM, said:

I do have thought of 20 years from now
...
but do you guys think this achievable?

It's nearly impossible for anyone to be able to judge that sort of time span for a web site, considering that html technology is just reaching 20 years of existence. Therefor there is no track record to compare anything to. Combine that with the fast pace of the field, & again, you end up with the inability to forsee any sort of trends.

My suggestion : Change fields.

[capty99]

http://www.tylerjame...ur-sites-worth/

and about a 20 year prediction.
the internet will not be used in the same way we use it today even 5, 10 years from now. 20 years from now you won't have strict 'websites' in the same way imo.

[ccrasherdeb]

You might want to first consider registering and paying the associated fee for your domain for 20 years or more or you can be assured that it will NOT be there 20 years from now. If it meets XML standards, it will probably still work due to the very nature of XML.

[Logomachist]

No offense, really, but making some tiny personal website, letting it sit around for 20 years and expecting it to be worth a ton of money in 20 years is one of the ...most optimistic... ideas I've heard.

• Most of the webpages around now are being archieved by Google and/or by archive.org
  
• Webpages are digital media, they're not going to degrade over time and become scarcer like real objects do.
  
• Even real objects take 30+ years to appreciate in value. 20 years on they aren't worth much more than their original retail price. And as companies are increasingly rereleasing products that there is continued demand for, most collectibles aren't appreciating as quickly as collectors had hoped.

As for predicting the web in 20 years I think it is possible. A web technology takes a few years to standardize, a few years to be implemented in browsers and 5-7 years to become mainstream enough for the majority of websites to feel comfortable using it. That means any technology that is going to be pervasive in 20 years needs to start through the standardization track within the next few years, with the general concept probably being kicked around for a few years before that. Twenty years might be just barely too far ahead to predict, but 17-18 years? I think we're able to make some pretty good guesses.

[technolojik]

there are alot of web site about how much is my web site worth on internet
you can search it from google