How much is your site worth?

[Zetan]

Big Tips for making your websites more $...

1. Get lots of members
2. [to get lots of members] Advertise on other sites
3. Topsites (get your site on the top 10)
4. Build peoples intrest. People want anything that is convenient
5. Guests can view site always.

If you have some, post some

Brianjw

I need to some of these, but they're pretty good ideas to start

Thats the most amazing advice I've ever seen 



ZTN

[brianjw]

Many have already done it. Those tips don't apply for $1,000+ websites. Here are some tips for over that ammount...

1. Keep your forum part of your website (if you have one) active with posts all the time and if your the admin, post asap for the members convenience.

2. Start building your website to have everything the member will ever need/want on the internet. Include (Weather, Local News, Sports, World News, Entertainment, Music, and more!)

3. Make sure you are marcketing your website every chance you get, if you are over the ammount above you want to do this. You don't necessarily need to pay to get on ads though

4. Any links on your site that link to another website... Create an article with an iframe of that page so the member will still be there.

5. Create a quick an easy registration that doesn't require alot of info (this only is for people who have Custom Profile Field mod or Modified it for more fields)

6. Make sure there are no errors on any part of the site as always and keep the theme nice, clean, and easy for the members to use.

7. Create an easy way for [non]registered guests to see what the member benefits are and give them an example such as one of the following...

• Guest shoutbox (allow guest posting in the shoutbox)
  
• Guest browsing (allow guest to browse all areas of website)
  
• Guest posting (create a guest board and let the guests post there)
  
  I think this is good for that number and again if anyone has more feel free to help. We also need some tips for 10,000 + then it just goes to million + and stops there.
  
  Brianjw

[Zetan]

The problem is not how many people you can keep on your site, or how many visitors you get.
Some of the most successful websites don't even have a forum.

It's the content that is important, and if you have something different to offer... than the other million websites doing exactly the same thing as the other million.. then all you get is watered down content that is repeated. And I do not believe a one stop website that tries to be everything is the right way to do it either.

There are millions of forums with millions of users.. look at the stats here at TP. Most of those numbers are members who own websites. Now look at SMF's stats.. then at vBulletin.com stats.. Can you see the bigger picture? For you or me to stand out above the rest, you and I need something unique.
You also need to have a good knowledge of what you are doing/selling.

Time is an issue... Many of the large successful forums have been running since the early days of the internet. They are successful because they started early.
Another way to really see how some of the successful website became successful is to understand how they did it.

MySpace was never a money spinning idea... it was an accident that some guy had the idea and that he never set out for it to become as successful as it has. People saw something new and free. Advertising to the millions of MySpace users is what makes the money.

Microsoft... Bill Gates never would have dreamed in a million years that his tiny company would one day dominate the computer world. He made a simple program user friendly and that was what people wanted.

Google.. a simple search engine that was clean and gave you the results you wanted.
eBay... it was only a matter of time before that happened. A catchy easy to read logo that people remember.

These are now household names.


Thats not to say that you or I could not make a successful site.
I'm not in it for the money, I have a career. I do it for the love of it. It's a learning curve for me and I'm sure the same is for many people who have websites.. thats the beauty of it. Information we can share. It's what the human race is built upon. Not wealth.


My 2 pence worth 


ZTN

[Lord Anubis]

Mines only
$11,639

[khoking]

I tried my new site, www.pentaxworld.com and it said to be worth of $2,610 (is that US$?).

Now...who's going to buy it? Where can I get a buyer for it? nah...with the amount of effort I put in, and its potential...I think it worths more than that.

Since Brian mentioned about promoting your site whenever it is possible, let me repeat the URL of my site again:
www.pentaxworld.com

Now let's wait till tomorrow, my site might worth extra bucks again... 

[Lord Anubis]

I tried my new site, www.pentaxworld.com and it said to be worth of $2,610 (is that US$?).

Now...who's going to buy it? Where can I get a buyer for it? nah...with the amount of effort I put in, and its potential...I think it worths more than that.

Since Brian mentioned about promoting your site whenever it is possible, let me repeat the URL of my site again:
www.pentaxworld.com

Now let's wait till tomorrow, my site might worth extra bucks again... 

Brian, thats my name what a smart person, and yes the more indexed the better results....so you wanna buy mine?

[vanguard]

$240

Priceless to me!!!

[Lord Anubis]

Mine, is priceless to me too...I would be most sad bout losing my members and ppl I have met through my site, but if I can sell and let everyone know that we have moved, it wouldnt be a bad idea...

[vanguard]

Hehe,

Good plan!!!

[Zetan]

hahaha... I forgot about this.. *drum roll*
My site is still worth $620.