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		<title>How accurate are the website appraisal companies</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Credit Card News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankrate.com]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading the article about bankrate.com buying creditcardguide.com for $32 million cash plus $2 million in working capital, I wanted to do some research on creditcardguide.com to find out what secrets the website might have done to command such a price. While searching through Google for sites that contain the text creditcardguide.com an interesting site [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After reading the article about bankrate.com buying creditcardguide.com for $32 million cash plus $2 million in working capital, I wanted to do some research on creditcardguide.com to find out what secrets the website might have done to command such a price.</p>
<p>While searching through Google for sites that contain the text creditcardguide.com an interesting site popped up. The website is websiteoutlook.com and the direct link to credit card guide.com is http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.creditcardguide.com. At the time of this writing the website is estimated to be worth $52,786.30. Well, it looks like the accuracy of this website is quite a bit off, unless it&#8217;s correct, and bankrate doesn&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re doing. No, I doubt that. So after seeing that, I thought I would check some more domain appraisals on the website credit card guide.com.<br />
Here are some of the results</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.cubestat.com">cubestat.com</a> &#8211; $49,342.89</li>
<li><a href="http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com">websitevaluecalculator.com</a> &#8211; $119 (Note this is with them displaying a pr of 5 and over 3 million backlinks)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.smartpagerank.com">smartpagerank.com</a> &#8211; $919</li>
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<p>Obviously the value of the website cannot be judged by a simple instant online appraisal script, and probably not by a firm. With the traffic, back links, page rank, and length of the domain name, I don&#8217;t think there is a online appraisal company out there that would even pay $1 million for this domain name. So basically, an online appraisal company is more of a novelty and something that shouldn&#8217;t be taken seriously. Who knows your new website mynewwidgetwebsite.com might show up as being worth over $1 million someday, or he might be less than $100, either way all you website owners out there, good luck on your websites, and hopefully you&#8217;ll be the next big acquisition by a large corporation.</p>
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