On October 06 2009 08:02 FortuneSyn wrote:
Try checking out the value of the popular websites out there like facebook, google, etc. google is valued at like 2.41b USD.
I'm not sure what this top 10 list is of, but I dont care really. What I'd really like to know is how they come up with these values.
On October 06 2009 13:33 datscilly wrote:Show nested quote +On October 06 2009 06:19 Spike wrote:
Much more intrigued about the $319.21 of daily ads revenue and if that number is anywhere close to reality.
Also wonder how much goes into running this site.
I wouldn't be the one to ask, but I believe that $319.21 of daily ads revenue is estimated from the number of pageviews daily and is not TL's actual earnings per day.
If you estimate that TL earns $10 per day now and an amount per day that scales with the interest rate for the next 20 years (a lifetime for websites), then you would get the more modest $73,000 as the present value for TL.
That site, WebSiteOutlook, is a joke. I co-founded an website and founded another one and so am somewhat familiar with these kinds of things (not to be cocky but I also have degrees and work experience in economics and finance so picked some stuffs about business valuation). The site basically multiplies the pageviews of an website with a fixed CPM (cost per mille, which is how much advertisers pay to an website for a thousand impressions...I think the site uses $3 CPM) to determine the valuation.
And such valuation is wrong for many reasons. First, websites might not serve ads on every page. Second, obviously different websites sell ads based on different CPM or CPC (cost-per-click, which derives from CPM and click-through-rate). Third, business valuation should take account future profits, which the site doesn't do at all. Etc.
Basically one of the sites that serve interesting, eye-catching info with no substance....unlike TL!!!