How much is frgdr.com worth?

When you just purchase a domain and create your first website you wait anxiously to see when it will appear on a search engine. When your initial goal is reached, your new goal becomes making your website rank higher in the search results, so that people searching for it would find it in the first few results, before they give up. There are a number of ways to quantify how a site is doing, including some industry standards.

To satisfy my obsessive tendency to list things, I would update the status of frgdr.com from time to time, using a couple of measures:

 

dnScoop.com attempts to estimate a value for an established website or a domain name by using factors such as:

  • Links pointing to the domain
  • Popularity of the domain
  • Age of the domain
  • Pagerank of the domain
  • Traffic to the domain
  • and more…

Since the quoted appraisal changes as my website gains more popularity and content, and since dnScoop does not allow automatic updates, I will try to update my stats from time to time:

Date Worth
May, 2007 $436
June, 2007 $763
July, 2007 $785
August, 2007 $2,180
September, 2007 $654
October, 2007 unchecked
November, 2007 unchecked
December, 2007 unchecked
January, 2008 $11,096
February, 2008 $3,002
March, 2008 unchecked
April, 2008 $2,442
May, 2008 unchecked
June, 2008 $2,576
July, 2008 $5,802

 

Google’s PageRank is a logarithmic scale from zero to ten, determining the importance of a page.

Date GoogleRank
May, 2007 2
January, 2008 3
April, 2008 2
June, 2008 3
July, 2008 3

 

Google Search Site Position

It took some time (almost three years), but finally I have reached the top Google result for the term “Shahar Golan”. The reason it took so much time is that not only my first and last name are very common, but also there are some semi-famous people who share the same name including an accomplished basketball player and a professor of Psychology.

Google.com for English terms:

Date frgdr “Shahar Golan” Shahar Golan Shahar Shachar Golan
01/2008 1 1 1 36 >100 90
04/2008 1 1 1 >100 >100 >100
06/2008 1 1 1 87 >100 >100

 

Google.co.il for Hebrew terms:

Date פרגדר “שחר גולן” שחר גולן שחר גולן
01/2008 - >100 >100 >100 >100
04/2008 2 98 >100 >100 >100
06/2008 3 8 8 >100 >100