Hello everyone, today Shanghai SEO (SWJ) will exchange ideas with everyone on what VC really focuses on regarding our websites? What is the value of a website?
SWJ was once a personal webmaster too, transitioning from spam sites to legitimate ones, from ** sites to proper ones, and from "portal sites" to niche classification sites. It can be said that SWJ has worked on about 80% of the various types of websites. With the increasing rise of individual grassroots webmasters and the emergence of younger webmasters, times are changing, and so must our perspectives. In the past, having 10,000 IPs per day would certainly bring in thousands of yuan or even five-digit profits or more each month. Now, it's still possible, but it mainly depends on the quality of your website.
So, what constitutes the quality of a website? From the perspective of a personal webmaster, according to SWJ: The content should be abundant, the interface grand, the variety rich, the traffic high, and the rankings good. But are these really effective? Actually, these are just a small part of what truly defines website quality.
From SWJ's perspective: The development prospects of the website, its profit model, and "who the website CEO is" are the main criteria for judgment. Only with good development prospects, clear profit models, and capable operators can the entire value of the website be fully realized. In this regard, SWJ believes that Mr. Jack Ma is an excellent example and a role model for SWJ to learn from. This will be further analyzed when discussing Taobao in the future.
So, from the VC (venture capital) point of view, what aspects do they consider? Based on SWJ's contact and understanding, VCs currently still place significant emphasis on a website's PR value, Alexa rank, and traffic as the main considerations. Development prospects and profit models are less important than the aforementioned factors, though they are still taken into account. Once, when SWJ tried to exchange links with Yahoo!, the other party only said one thing: "Come back to me when your PR is greater than 5."
From this, we can see that VCs and large portals still focus on relatively superficial things from SWJ's perspective, without delving deeper.
If I were a VC, the first thing I would ask you is: What is your profit model? As for development prospects, I think you don't need to tell me about those; I'll look into them myself. Additionally, I would analyze the overall quality of your website, such as the percentage of original content on your site and the quality of your friendship links.
That’s all from SWJ. If you have any thoughts, suggestions, or opinions, feel free to exchange ideas with me. Besides SEO, we should also learn more and become multi-skilled! Be cautious not to be misled by SEO. True SEO emphasizes resources and strategies, not cheating or simplistic page operations as commonly seen outside. Those, in SWJ's opinion, don't even qualify as SEO but could perhaps be considered a "webpage planning guideline."
Original article reprinted from: Shanghai SEO http://www.seo-sh.cn/WangLuo_ShiDai/303.html