Thank you for the detailed information, I truly appreciate it. I realize I didn’t even mention my websites earlier, my mistake. One is xxxxxxx and the other is xxxxxxx. I understand that my websites may not be the best, but I’ve put in my best effort to build and grow them. At this point, I feel like luck played a big role in the outcome. Nonetheless, I value the experience and any advice on maximizing their potential before selling would be greatly appreciated.
not a good idea to post your sites here for millions of people (including google employees) to see.... Why do you think that I told you to blur out the sensitive info about your domains?
And I still need those screenshots by the way, as I don't have access to SEO tools, so I can't do anything with your domains, you keep disregarding my advice so I don't see how I can help you
But since you've shown the domains maybe someone can check them in Ahrefs and give a tip or two...
The domain names are nothing special IMO, so I don't think you can get extra money for them.... Furthermore, the word "forbes" is most likely trademarked, in which case you might get a C&D when your news site grows big enough to get noticed by Forbes. Always try to avoid using domains that contain words like apple, amazon, forbes, microsoft, sony, etc... Avoid registering and using domains that contain words from big companies, those companies will always come after you when you start making money, and they'll force you, your hosting and your domain registrar to take the domain down because you're capitalizing on the success of their brand and they don't like it.
You can check if "forbes" is trademarked in these countries, these are 3 of the countries that take trademark infringement the most seriously:
UK...
https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmtext
USA...
https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search
Germany...
https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/basis
Anyway, besides these I've got nothing to work with as I need to see the stats.... even the DR 50 that you showed earlier seems fake to me (but I could be wrong about this, so I need to see the backlinks in order to figure out)... IMO the domains themselves are not worth more than $100 if even that.... ok, the crypto domain has some brandability potential, and and it's also relatively short, which you could probably sell on its own for anywhere from $100 to $500 if you find the right buyer. And with a site that's in good standing with google you might get $500-1000 for the whole package. But again, you need to show the stats (RDs and backlinks, traffic, number of ranked keywords) as they show in Ahrefs / Semrush...
Few more things that I've noticed....
The news sites has a Health category and if you intend to run Adsense on this site (and even without Adsense I think you still need this) you will need a Disclaimer page on your site (similar to Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, etc) to tell your visitors that you're not an accredited doctor and that whatever health-related advice you give on your site should be taken as guidelines only and that they should consult with their doctors for professional treatment / help. Something like this, you can google for templates for the Disclaimer page if you can't figure out what to write on this page. But it's an important page in financial and health related industries, so you should have one on both sites as it helps with improving the EEAT scores (not by much, but every little thing can help) which is pretty important for small, random sites like yours.
Also, you need to work on your internal links as - from what I saw - you are only linking to your homepage and that's not good, especially for the news site that needs to have ALL relevant pages within their silo interlinked together. For example, all pages in the Health category need to interlink with each other if they make sense (if they address 2 similar topics, or if 2 different pages contain a few identical / similar / closely related sentences)...
Currently, you only link to the homepage and while this might work with the crypto site because the entire site is only about crypto, with the news site your internal links need to point to OTHER pages in the SAME category instead of linking to the homepage. So, the pages in the Health category should link to other pages in the Health category, the pages in the Business category should link to other pages in the Business category, etc...
The content... most of the content seems OK, but I have a feeling that it's still not quite there. I might be wrong, but this looks like AI content to me which - on its own - might not be bad (I've heard lots of people saying that they rank with 100% AI content) but the problem is that this content seems very generic, it lacks soul and personal touch, it feels like it's not addressed to people but to other machines or something. I would honestly try to make this content a bit more personal and relatable to people's issues... at least for the pages that show potential (rank the best and / or get the most clicks)
The OBLs (Outbound Links), or external links if you prefer. It looks like you're linking out to other sites from EVERY SINGLE page that you have, which could be bad if you do this with each article that you publish. To be safe, I recommend you only link to other sites once in every 10-20 articles that you publish. This is not an exact number, it's one that I would feel comfortable using, if you want you can link out once every 5 articles... or 10 or 8 or whatever number you feel OK with. Just not with every single page lol.
This screams like link farm to google (link farm = site created specifically to sell links), and - when taken together with other elements that google sees and considers important (uncloaked affiliate links on your site, generic content, no / poor internal linking, etc) - it begins to be obvious why you're not ranking.
Speaking of affiliate links, I saw one article in the Health category (an article about a diet or something) that links out to Amazon with a non-cloaked link, which - on its own - might not be bad. But it's generally recommended to cloak ALL affiliate links. Better be safe than be sorry...
Also on the news site I saw 1 page in particular that's very poor quality (it lacks images, it has 10+ links to the same external site, etc)... This screams lack of interest in your site, or maybe you've been hacked, but either way it's not good. Take care of your sites like are your own babies and this will show up in whatever google uses to assess the quality of sites which, in the end, will translate into rankings and traffic for your sites...
And there were many other things that I could have noticed had I spent more time on your sites. Small things, but they do add up and they give an overall feel about your site that google takes into account to decide whether / where to rank it.
At this point I'm not even sure that I need the screenshots of your RDs, backlinks and rankings because you've got a lot of work to do on your sites themselves. And I didn't even check if the sites are mobile friendly, which is another big thing with google, so yeah...
If you want to sell these sites in the current state, and based on what I saw... let's say you'd want to sell them to me (I'm not buying them, I'm only speaking hypothetically) and that I'm in good mood. I would probably give you $150 for the news site (and this only AFTER I would make sure that "forbes" is not trademarked, although I have a feeling that it is), and about $200 for the crypto site.
Maybe these prices are low but - based on the limited info I have about these sites - that's what I'd pay. I don't know what you've spent $3500 on, but these don't look like quality sites to me, sorry to say it
Anyway, I'm done with this. If you can provide me with the Ahrefs / Semrush screenshots of the graphs for these sites' RDs, backlinks and ranking growths over the last 12 months I might be able to find something that can raise their price. But otherwise I don't know what else to say, maybe someone else can help.
Cheers!
PS: click on the "report" button underneath your latest post and ask a moderator to remove your sites before they get spotted by nasty people. Hopefully it's not too late
