Having Fun With Blog Rankings
Pretty much everyone knows about Alexa and Technorati when it comes to ranking a blog. The numbers they split out doesn’t really mean much but many ad networks use it so we are always trying to improve them.
There are a many tools on the Internet that can take information from the various ranking services and give your blog a net worth. Their accuracy is questionable but they’re great for impressing your friends.
The Text Link Ads Calculator
The TLA calculator from Text Link Ads helps you find out how much a link on your blog is worth. You just input your site URL, the category you cover, how many links you want to sell and it splits out a number. In my case, a link on my blog is worth $692 each (if I sell 10 links). Hmmm, TLA sells my links for only $240 ($100 coupon here). Maybe that’s why I’m sold out.
The Blog Juice Calculator
How much juice does your blog have? You can find out with the Blog Juice Calculator from Text Link Ads. Using information from Bloglines, Alexa, Technorati rank and Technorati links, the Blog Juice calculates a score for your blog. The maximum score is 10. I have a Juice rating of 8.4, which is more juice than Google’s Matt Cutts. 
The Blog Worth Calculator
The Blog Worth Calculator was created by Dane Carlson as a piece of linkbait (it worked). It was inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc.
The calculator uses the Technorati API to compute and display your blog’s worth by using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.
If anyone wishes to offer me $3,067,145.82 for John Chow dot Com, I’ll sell. Hell, I’ll sell for an even $3 million! But hurry, the offer is good for today only. 
How much is your blog worth?
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Wow man, you read my mind…I was looking for a few tools like this earlier today. Thanks!
Reply to this commentWOW! My is worth $5k. Is this for real? I just started this one on August 1. How exciting. John are you going to post the Technorati Widget in your sidebar?
Reply to this commentlol if only it were real, we’d all be rich.
Reply to this commentAgreed, I love the blog worth calculator.. although it gave me some pretty low numbers… guess I’d better get to work on the ol’ blog!
Reply to this commentNo where to go but up.
http://www.debohobo.com/2007/08/09/review-my-blog-as-seen-on-john-chow-dot-com/
Reply to this commentI ain’t mad at ‘cha! I’m about to do the same thing.
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Reply to this commentWah Johnchow Blog worth $3,067,145.82
Reply to this commentMy just 1 month blog is now worth $4,516.32 Pretty good according to me. Thanks for informing about Blog Juice. Didn’t knew about it.
Reply to this commentmines worth $10
Reply to this comment$3,951.78 and juice of 1.0
A lot of work to do to improve these numbers…
Reply to this commentMy blog is worth $1,000,364.88. However I feel generous too (and given is in spanish) I´ll sell it to anyone offering half of that
Reply to this commentNice Blog Worth XD 3million??? sell it XD
Reply to this commentXD mine worth 0$
Reply to this commentWoot! 283,399.08, and a Juice of 6.9..
Not bad I guess
Reply to this commentWOW! That is great too
Reply to this commentmine is worth $71k! waaa waaaa weee waaa!
Reply to this commentMine worth $55,889.46……
Reply to this commentThanks for the mention John!
Reply to this commentJohn U R Reaching 100,000 comments mark pretty soon, I recommend having a super
contest, and then really super when RSS reaches 10k.
Vijay
Reply to this commentanother website with a ranking of what you have on alexa would probably be worth like atleat 20 million. Thats the problem with blogs they are like cadillacs. low resale value.
Reply to this commentI wrote about Blog Juice last week. Like you said these tools are neat to look at, but have little real value. In the end value is a sliding scale depending on the person giving the value.
BeachBum
Reply to this commentThanks for putting it back into perspective. I was getting a big baller complex.
Reply to this commentChow, i wont buy your blog even for 30000$.
Reply to this commentBecause I don’t have 30000$.
I’m gonna get my checkbook out and write you a check for your blog!!! Just don’t cash it yet
Reply to this commentI knew it was a good idea to follow Alistapart designs.
Reply to this commentNo one would buy yours for $3 mil. and no one would buy mine for $89,000. I think that third item is wacked out.
Reply to this commentwow….i tried looking in TLA for your placement so that I could use that coupon, and i couldn’t find you.
So i settled for something else.
Reply to this commentYou can’t find it because I’m sold out.
Reply to this commentI think that means you should raise the price a bit.
Reply to this commentJohnCow.com for sale
http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auction/11567
Reply to this commentI have always found these to be interesting / fun, but kinda worthless, but great linkbait lol.
The true value is how much the site can / does earn, you might have a huge site about fluff, many visitors and links etc, but no real value.
My “value” was around $18,000, but in a year I currently earn over $40,000 from it.
Reply to this commentI’d take hard currency over “value” any day of the week.
Still, it’s an interesting point because normally the “value” of sites in hugely inflated when compared to their actual earnings - not the other way around.
Care to share where you make most of the earnings on your site from?
Reply to this commentWell I just started building sites a about week ago, after reading john chows website and I have been inspired. So I have been making several niche websites now.
I’ve been spending hours brainstorming, and building with blogger
But to answer your question I use Google Adsense so far. But with one of my site I must of hit the hammer on the nail becuase it generating 100-150 unique hits a day. Currently generating about 20 cents a day now. Good no??
Reply to this commentA few nice tools there, non i would ever rely on though
Reply to this commentNice!
Reply to this commentI just started blogging so I’ll have to wait a bit before I can use this. If you have some free time check out my new blog at http://www.webgation.com!
apparently my blog is worth $96,536.34
Do you think I should hold out for a cool 100 thousand?
Reply to this commentMy blog is priceless. But I’ll sell for $5K.
Reply to this commentsomethings wrong here, the blog worth calculator laughed at my blog. . .
Reply to this commentI always like those calculators. Fun
Reply to this commentYou had one in other article and I used it and it said my blog was worth $10. However the blog was only up for 2 days..now 4 days later that same blog is recieving 100 unique hits day.. Dang where is that other calculator? I bet it not 10 $ anymore.
the calculator is so busted in my opinion. it makes it seem everything is worth so much.
Reply to this commentIt’s a great feel good tool though.
Reply to this commentI had my blog valued by a fortune teller and she told me it was worth close to a trillion dollars. So, looks like I’m the don now.
Reply to this commentMy two month blog is worth $1,693.62!!! That’s quite good.
I agree with mason. The calculator is really busted.
Hmm, this could work quite well with one of John Chow’s money promoting ideas from the past. The one where you try to sell your blog on one of those sites for a price that is too high.
Reply to this commenthttp://www.johnchow.com/three-low-cost-promotion-ideas-to-get-more-blog-traffic/
It’s really funny . ha
Reply to this commentIt’s the gap between how much something is worth and how much you can sell it for that’s the important figure!
Worth is a subjective figure, whereas the selling price is market driven.
That said, I’m sure John Chow’s blog would sell for more than most peoples!
Reply to this comment$23k and juice of 1.5
Not too shabby for a 7 month old blog…
Reply to this commentThese tools are fun… too bad it distinguishes between my .com and my .com/blog/ I’ll have to figure a way around that.
Reply to this commentNice work…
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http://money-online-resource.blogspot.com
Reply to this commentThese are not only useful tools, but can be fun to experiment with as well!
Reply to this commentThe value estimator at dnscoop.com is a little more “accurate”. For example Johnchow.com is only worth $175,500.
Reply to this commentYes, I also had interesting time to check my site’s worth one day and checking all the other popular sites. And very opposite to your case I was disheartened. I don’t have to mention why
Reply to this comment10,XXX? I’m insulted.
Reply to this commentMine worth $7,339.02
it’s one month old .
Reply to this commentWow incredible useful yet humbling!
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