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Long time no see! Well, I’m back with another domaining blogpost. Yes, another domain appraisal topic here

In my previous domaining post it was about the possibility to find out the real price of your domain name with the help of domainers community at?GroupValuation.com. “You appraise my domains – I appraise yours!” Yes, it’s “win-win” situation.

Those of you who have already tried GroupValuation.com services already know that sometimes your domain names don’t?get really what you were looking for. Because you don’t know the people who appraising our domain names and it seems that most of them appraised other domains just to observe formalities. “This one is 10$! Next one!”

So you still need another tool for domain name appraisal. Well and I guess you want it for free!

Here’s one for you – Valuate.com

It’s a really cool new automatic tool to get your domains appraised quickly. All you have to do is input your names in the field, click “Valuate” and wait for the results. Valuate.com uses different?categories to measure the approximate domain name prise:

1. Frequency – how many websites have been indexed by Google that feature the domain name keyword (for example, “Merlot” is the keyword of domain name www.Merlot.tv ) in their body. Using www.Merlot.tv again as an example, we see that there’re?about 1,730,000 files available publically online mentioning?“merlot”

2. Searches – how many people a month google the domain name keyword. It also shows you the dynamics of the certain keyword in the timeline. This again is done with the help of Google tool – Google Insights. Again, using “merlot” in Google Insights example we see that the time of the year that this sort of red wine becomes mostly popular (within Google, of course ) – December.

3. Traffic – I guess this the criteria you need to pay closer attention when appraising domain name. uses Alexa‘s database to see if there’s site already associated with the domain name and how well does it perform. Although, I must say it doesn’t have give the real traffic insights. I prefer using Quantcast

4. Comp. – “Average advertising bidding competition. Are the term(s) composing the domain name actively advertised?” It shows Adwords competition if I the visitors would come from Ilinois, US (I guess). By the way, pay closer attention to those ads – they might be your potential end-users

5. CPC – “Cost-Per-Click” that means how much potential advertisers are ready to pay for the ads to be shown within certain keywords searches. Speaking “non-seo-ppc-geek” language and using our “merlot” as an example: there’re advertisers that are ready to pay to Google $1,1 if you click their ad when you search for “merlot” in Google. Yeah, I know it’s not much, but the cheapest clicks you can get from Google Adwords now – $0.05

6. com, net, org – this positions shows you if other domain names with the certain keyword are free or taken. Ok, it seems Merlot.com, Merlot.net and Merlot.org are already taken. Well, obviously “merlot” is quite popular and most popular domain name extensions are already taken.

7. Appraisal – yes, the essence of the whole appraisal process. How much your domain name worth, according to the above mentioned investigation and factors. The summary of the process. And I guess something we all need to know.

That’s it. It’s that simple and painless, Darling

What I really like about Valuate.com appraisal is that you can click on and it will take right to the domain name appraisal page with the whole needed information you can use in selling process. You can send the domain name appraise link to the potential buyer to be sure he/she gets it right. For example the direct link to www.Merlot.tv appraise page is this – http://www.valuate.com/Merlot.tv No need for the lead to go through the whole process and push all the buttons (you know we’re all lazy excluding you, of course

What I always remember and would recommend you is this:

“The real domain name price is what a buyer is ready to pay for it”

Was it by Ricky Schwartz or Hank Alvarez? Correct me if I wrong with the definition, but you get the idea