How much is your website worth? – part 2

Addition to 14 interesting websites that checks the value of your website, there is yet another one that does the same thing but sounds a bit too ridiculous to my case. Here is mine:

Now you probably understand why I said it’s ridiculous. There is no way for a site that has that much traffic worth that much money. I would sell it if anyone is interested.

However, it seems more accurate if the sites have much more traffic, e.g. google.com is worth $8.37 billion while Microsoft.com is at $1.05B.

So check it out for your own record.

Working on getting more twitter followers

We all like Twitter and know how powerful it is. And the game really gets started when you have tons of followers following you. So working on getting more followers on twitter is something that is worth doing. The effort putting into it will finally pays off one day.

There are tons of tips, tricks, guides how to do it all over the place. For example, you can soar your follow number in a short period of time by joining TwitterFollower.com, founded by John Chow.  It’s a free program that only targets two very specific things, mass unfollow and join to the list by committing that you will follow whoever follows you.

The program does actually work, largely because of John’s huge influence that attracted tons of people to join the program, me included. However, it doesn’t sound that the followers are very targeted and related users so the number may not mean anything to you if you are not in an Internet market niche. And for that reason, the method "Get More Twitter Followers Today” Chris Brogan posted today may work a lot better but that takes time and require a lot of consistent work and effort.

1. Find great stories from other people and share them with a link (and/or attribution). Do this 3 times or more a day!
2. Share useful information that others can use, too! example: “I’ve discovered that Blip.fm is very useful for sharing my musical interests.” (Bonus points if you provide the URL).
3. Participate in online events that use #hashtags, because others in the event will find you and appreciate you, too!
4. Respond to OTHER PEOPLE using the @reply method. This is advanced, so here’s an example: “@glendawh – Is it true you were out all night last night singing karaoke?”
5. Use Twitter Search (http://search.twitter.com) to find people talking about the things YOU talk about, and follow them!
6. Add your Twitter URL to your signature line in your email! (Easy to do!)
7. Don’t overtweet (more than 20 a day is a bit spooky to most people).
8. Don’t talk about your food (unless you’re me!)
9. Don’t use Twitter like IM (use direct messages for that)
10. Don’t tweet all about you: tweet all about them.
11. And never, ever, ever invite your friends to be part of your Ninja dojo (unless you’re @cspenn), your mafia family (unless you’re @jgottinotdead), or to participate in a “what type of piercing am I?” quiz.

I have been thinking of building a web app myself for a while to simplify some of the work I do regularly on Twitter, mainly simplify the process finding and following the target users, but haven’t really found enough time to really get into it. Jonathan kindly offered his time to help me out so we will work together to get something out real soon. However, we won’t release it sooner until we have proved that the theory of the app actually does work.

Potential way of making money on twitter via sponsored tweets

Both ShoeMoney and JohnChow shared a same way of making money on twitter, with the sponsored tweet. Just another potential way of monetizing your twitter account with hard earned followers.

One thing quite obvious is that it’s just another game that only the celebrities will benefit the most. Generally, the more followers and influential you have, the more you can charge. Hence, the more money you can make. If you want to get into the game, increase the number of your followers on your twitter account first. You won’t be able to make any decent money with only several hundred followers or even a couple of thousand.

I have only got suggested $1.5 per tweet when I signed up last week but both John and ShoeMoney got $125 and/or $250. While the charge looks quite reasonable comparing how many followers I have with they have, I increased to $3 anyway, still no offer though.

And here it is, if you are interested in trying, you can sign up here.