As a follow-up to an article I wrote last year, I thought I would check to see what www.bloglyne.com is worth today. After not publishing any articles for just under 6 months, we realized a drop in Alexa rank of about 1.2 million *grins* So, I was curious if this change might impact the “value” of the blog according to the sites which I quoted back in March - Sootle, dnScoop, and the Business Opportunities Weblog.

According to these three sources Bloglyne.com is worth somewhere between $515 to $4,990.

Sootle values Bloglyne the highest at $4,990 - Their FAQ can be found here. They seem to use a method of disclosed purchase deals for other websites and then break down a per back link cost and use that to estimate the value of the site.

This seems a very poor way to measure the value of a site after the advent of DoFollow. For example, by commenting on 6 to 9 posts in a blog that publishes the top commentators to each page an individual can create thousands of back links in about 5 minutes.

dnScoop values Bloglyne the lowest at $515 - They seem to take a “big picture” approach measuring the following items as of the writing of this article:

• Domain Age using the WayBack Machine
• Page rank Check (not sure how valuable this is with the new Google algorithms)
• Inbound Links (back links) using the Yahoo Site Explorer
• Traffic Rank by AlexaRank
• Domain Name IP Report by myIPneighbors.com
• Link Value Report by Text-Link-Ads

I think that the combination of each of these items gives a better view of to potential value a site may generate at any given time. And although I would like to believe my site is worth almost $5,000 after not doing anything with it for the past 6 months, I tend to believe that is hogwash!