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FREE One of those NASTY four letter F words

Example about 'free'

Many times I hear people in these forums scream at those wanting to sell a book or CD to make a few bucks from what they have to tell. People claim if its not shared freely it is worthless... that WBers are obligated to tell their stuff for 'free'

Yet those same people are posting on a forum like this or ATS and have NO PROBLEM that a site like ATS is really a business and making big buck off the ADS that are on the 'free' site.

Sure you pay nothing but that is the reality someone is making money
Google and Yahoo apply the same principal... The masses generally follow links to ads etc and do buy stuff... if this was not true... there would be no point in the ads

There is a website that does an evaluation of your site... for net worth

http://www.dnscoop.com/


Type in ANY website address and they will do an evaluation based on tracking figure that will tell you what the site is worth...


Here is google.com

google.com was created on: September 15 1997

Domain age (approximately):
11 Years, 1 Months, 1 days..
Older domains tend to rank better, and they also tend to be worth more money.

The total number of pages that contain links to
google.com:
952,592,930

Site Value Report
The estimated value of http://google.com is: $1,184,000,000

This value is calculated based on several factors shown above, including: Links, Traffic (Alexa), age of the domain, site category, domain keyword popularity, and overall occurrences of the domain name on the web.

Here is AboveTopSecret.com...

abovetopsecret.com was created on: May 18 1997
Domain age (approximately):
11 Years, 5 Months, 1 days..

Wow just a few months before google

The total number of pages that contain links to
abovetopsecret.com:
210,467

The estimated value of a single link on abovetopsecret.com is: $102 /month
If you were to sell 8 links on abovetopsecret.com, you could generate $816/month in revenue for your website.

This value was not available for google as they are to big to calculate

Site Value Report
The estimated value of http://abovetopsecret.com is: $251,600
This value is calculated based on several factors shown above, including: Links, Traffic (Alexa), age of the domain, site category, domain keyword popularity, and overall occurrences of the domain name on the web.

So ATS is worth $250 million no wonder they turned down 20 million (according to Springer in a board business post)




Project Camelot...

Link Value Report by Text-Link-Ads
Text Link Ads
The estimated value of a single link on www.projectcamelot.org is: $19 /month
If you were to sell 8 links on www.projectcamelot.org, you could generate $152/month in revenue for your website.

Site Value Report
The estimated value of http://www.projectcamelot.org is: $13,080

I LOVE the internet... I can snoop on EVERYONE

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