SEO for WordPress and Calculating Your Blog Value

Two interesting things that caught my attention around the blogosphere lately. The first one is a really extensive SEO guide for WordPress by Joost de Valk. Joost is a professional SEO, although you might also know him for the many WP plugins that he coded already. Anyway on this guide he cover several steps to make sure that your WordPress is getting as much search traffic as it should. Here are the sub-topics:

  • Basic Technical Optimization
  • Template Optimization
  • Advanced Technical Optimization
  • Altering your blog’s structure for high rankings
  • Conversion optimization
  • Comment optimization
  • Off site blog SEO

The second one is a site called MyBlogValue, that created an interesting quiz with 19 questions to let you discover the value of your blog. After answering the questions here is what I got:


1,809,030

Hmm. This is the second time that someone tries to tell me that Daily Blog Tips is worth $1.8 million! The other one was inside an article by 24/7 Wall Street. If you happen to have that amount of money laying around, just hit the contact form and let’s talk :) .

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26 Responses to “SEO for WordPress and Calculating Your Blog Value”

  1. Rajaie AlKorani on June 12th, 2008 9:06 am

    My blog is less than one month old and it’s worth about $120,000!

  2. Daniel Scocco on June 12th, 2008 9:07 am

    @Rajaie, that is pretty good money for one month worth of work :) .

  3. Rajasekharan on June 12th, 2008 9:31 am

    Daniel,

    I think the sums are getting exaggerated at myblogvalue.com

    Check out the blog value at dnscoop.com. It comes out to be 859,872 for DBT! Doesn’t it seem arbitrary on the way the amount is reached?

  4. Daniel Scocco on June 12th, 2008 9:34 am

    @Rajasekharan, arbitrary no, over estimated perhaps :) .

  5. SEO Genius on June 12th, 2008 9:43 am

    Good article, the whole internet basis of “estimating a websites value” through a couple of questions or tools is over exaggerated or just inaccurate, but its just for fun.

    No one should actually take what these sites say seriously. As i said its just for a laugh.

    :)

  6. David Shaw on June 12th, 2008 10:10 am

    Woo!

    $117,020

    Not bad for a domain that I created in February!!!

  7. team ray on June 12th, 2008 11:13 am

    very clean site david

  8. Eli on June 12th, 2008 11:24 am

    $800 and something thousand over here. I find this tool very inaccurate and very inconvenient .. I’ve found better tools in the toilet bowl.

  9. Assad on June 12th, 2008 11:55 am

    Good source for fun. I don’t believe the figures though. Mine estimated at $125k++.

    Not bad for a blog that started this month eh? :D

  10. Adam on June 12th, 2008 12:01 pm

    MyBlogValue is a joke in my opinion. I started my website 5 days ago, have no monetization yet, only 9 readers, and the traffics ok.

    It estimated my blog value at over $1million. Thats laughable. I wouldn’t pay more than $100 for it at this point. While we offer great content it just isn’t worth anything near what MyBlogValue says.

  11. David Zemens - 1955 Design on June 12th, 2008 12:16 pm

    The first offer of $99.95 takes it!

  12. David Zemens - 1955 Design on June 12th, 2008 12:17 pm

    :-)

  13. Daniel Scocco on June 12th, 2008 12:29 pm

    @Adam, are you sure it was not $100000? I test the tool and over estimates a bit, but not by that large amount usually.

  14. Todd Andrews on June 12th, 2008 12:45 pm

    Something is only worth what someone will actually pay for it. This reminds me of the baseball cards I used to collect as a kid. So far, I’ve made $0 off any of those cards.

  15. Michael on June 12th, 2008 1:16 pm

    $53,000. Not bad, not bad. I’m not sure if I would consider this very accurate but it’s fun anyway.

  16. Trent on June 12th, 2008 2:17 pm

    My little sister could get make a blog that is worth a million dollars according to this tool, but hey, who isn’t interested in a blog about which color shoes will go best with her barbie’s new nail color. That has to be a blog worth something, right? :)

  17. redwall_hp on June 12th, 2008 2:30 pm

    I got $152,520.

    I’m a little doubtful as to how accurate the tool is, but If I were to sell, but $100k-$150k sounds about right to me. I spent over a year blogging every day, and working to build the blog up. Let’s try to add things up, shall we?

    The domain (PageRank 6) + Over a year’s worth of posts + The Design + The rep I’ve managed to build for the blog + Traffic and readers + $120/mo approx ad revenue.

    I think that comes out to somewhere in the $100k-$150k range.

  18. James on June 13th, 2008 1:59 am

    Interesting..but it’s not really accurate since you are the one who provide the answer of the questions which is likely to be manipulated. .

  19. Giuseppe on June 13th, 2008 9:43 am

    Tool molto interessante. Lo terrò presente per un prossimo futuro in cui creerò un blog per ricavare qualcosina in più.. e poi magari se ne vale la pena, perchè no, lo vendiamo !! Grazie

  20. Samir on June 13th, 2008 12:13 pm

    Mine worth: $23,820

    Good amount :-)

  21. Jared Stenzel on June 13th, 2008 5:28 pm

    My three week old blog is worth $269,000. Anybody got that lying around feel free to hit me up ;)

  22. Toxane on June 15th, 2008 12:36 am

    I got a little over $1M. Bring me the money. Please!

    ;-)

  23. Chris Marshall | Martial Development on June 19th, 2008 5:47 pm

    Here’s a quick way to judge whether these blog value estimates are worth any attention. Offer the estimator a 20% discount in return for cash upfront, and see if they jump to close the deal.

    Otherwise, it’s shameless link-bait flattery.

    P.S. Daniel, I think your blog is worth ONE BILLION DOLLARS. And I need your help to release my savings from the Bank of Nigeria…

  24. Gerard on June 20th, 2008 12:32 am

    My new blog is only hours-old, and I already have it worth 7.2k? Sweet..

  25. medyum on July 10th, 2009 8:17 am

    Good article, the whole internet basis of “estimating a websites value” through a couple of questions or tools is over exaggerated or just inaccurate, but its just for fun.

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