How much should a list of 30k sites be priced at?

[nobelmax]

I've been in the SEO game since 2020 and decided to get out this year. I compiled a list of all the sites I used for outreach and getting backlinks and it came out to be around 30k sites. How much should that list be worth, ballpark speaking, like what is the range that I should be looking at when putting this up for sale?
I asked the same question on Reddit and some dude said it can be worth any where from $3k to $45k!

Is this true?

 

[zelch]

yea I have a similar list... had no idea it would be worth that much. ours is insanely organized and vetted. is "theplatinumxperience" offering to buy it?

 

[BakerStreet]

$0. I know link vendors who will give you lists like that for free. You just need to pay them if you want a link on there. I really don't see the value in paying for a list when you still need to contact the webmasters later on.

 

[Ryuzaki]

Scrapebox is only $97. Toss in another $15 for some private proxies. After that it takes one cheap email blast to vet the list.

You know the whole "If a guru is any good at X why isn't he doing X instead of selling his methods?" It's kind of silly but it does apply here. If the list is good enough to warrant a $45k sale, then why not start a link-building agency? Yes, there's marketing work involved to get traction, but... so?

Nobody is going to buy that list without an exclusivity clause, meaning you can't sell it more than once. With an agency you can milk it forever, build a small team to take care of the labor, and you just run the spreadsheets and make sure everyone's getting paid.

Back in the day lists like this would get sold for GSA SER, Sick Submitter, Scrapebox, etc. They weren't priced much higher than $15-25 because they quickly became worthless and the barrier to entry to create a list like this is very low since most SEO's already have the tools and these lists aren't niche-specific.

 

[zelch]

For us, the manual work was 1) manually removing sites that were in any kind of network, based on their replies when we asked how many sites they owned. 2) adding pricing, again based on manual replies and back and forth wondering if that makes the list more valuable

 

[Naturellement]

If the list is good enough to warrant a $45k sale, then why not start a link-building agency? Yes, there's marketing work involved to get traction, but... so?

Nobody is going to buy that list without an exclusivity clause, meaning you can't sell it more than once. With an agency you can milk it forever, build a small team to take care of the labor, and you just run the spreadsheets and make sure everyone's getting paid.

This is a good idea!