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    I've seen him selling it for 5K US dollars on Flippa, but at the moment it's not listed anymore. So, maybe its gone already.
    It’s off topic, but what is the real value of a casino site set up such as that on a wordpress platform.

    And I'm not talking about some goofy demo theme with replace the blanks text like “ipsopliuis nim ipsam volupta” etc.

    I mean a site layout that includes a “tight” and minimal top level navigation, visually appealing light colored posts & pages and an inclusive footer section - loaded with a few actual examples.

    Because that is the type of “cookie cutter” site that could be infused with some “soul” and “definition” to make it stand out from the pack.

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    The above post was moved to it's own thread here since it is a good question and a discussion surrounding the value of word press sites or sites in general can lead to a good discussion.

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    A basic casino wordpress site on a random domain with a nice layout and a few articles is worth very little in my opinion. The reason is that there are nice templates out there for little money, and it also costs you little to have written a few articles / reviews.
    A casino site with a standard design is only worth something if it generates traffic. Relevant traffic is what makes a site valuable.

    As you have mentioned Wordpress specifiaclly: I personally think that - all else equal - a WP site is worth more than an identical site on another CMS. The reason is that there are more buyers who know how to work with Wordpress. I have bought non-WP websites in the past and I would not do that anymore - just too much of a hassle.
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    i agree that for the regular Joe its way more easy to buy a wordpress theme, as its more easy to maintain for the mass. However, for me Wordpress is in most cases a big NO. It often says something about the affiliate: he probably doesn't have programming skills, have chosen the easy way, didn't take it too serious..and so on. Thats off course is not always the case but that would be my first thought.

    Wordpres is unsafe, risky, slows things down and inflexible. You also make yourself dependent on the theme owner and wordpress plugin owners. Specially if you dont know what you are doing. Also, its for a reason that 99% of serious sites have custom made sites. And not just another CMS but custom made CMS. It means that you can decide everything yourself, it means you have had a good plan from the start and that you take things seriously.

    Off course there are many exceptions... building a custom wp theme including tailor made plugins is a good start and might do the job for most... a standard theme is a big no...

    But ok, in the end other things like content and traffic is more valuable... also other things like the purpose of the site (purely for converting or perhaps use it for linkbuilding etc), the target market, years online, etc are important as well. As long as the traffic is steady (assuming you go for that) most other things dont really matter... depending on your and your team skills off course. But if you really want to build a brand of it, i would never use a standard theme and preferrably also dont use wordpress..
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    "I mean a site layout that includes a “tight” and minimal top level navigation, visually appealing light colored posts & pages and an inclusive footer section - loaded with a few actual examples."

    This can (fairly) easily be achieved with WP starting from scratch, and not even using a 'ready made casino template/theme'.

    "Tight and minimal top level nav".........easy, just put in to the menu what you want in,

    "visually appealing light colored posts & pages" ......easy, there are block templates. Just pick one.

    "inclusive footer section".,easy, just insert the pages you want to go in the footer

    "loaded with a few actual examples".......assuming you mean the disclaimer, cookie policy, privacy policy etc You would have to write the content for those pages of course (or maybe you can buy ready made template-type pages of these and just change a bit of wording around to set the relevancy, not sure never looked)


    Of course if you haven't used WP before there's a bit of a learning curve, but not a great one. If you're reasonably clued up on website/webpage construction to start with then it'll come pretty easily.....if you aren't (and intend 'enhancing' the site once you have it)...then you're pretty much going to have to learn most of what you'd need to know if starting from scratch anyway.

    All of which adds up to what Strider1973 said...very little other than the actual value of the content, cost of the theme (assuming the theme was included in the price), cost of images (if they look to be ones you can't pick up free) and a factor in of how much time it took the builder/creator to piece together.

    You could then also factor in time saved by not having to build the underlying structure yourself.

    That's all assuming there's no value in the domain of course ...
    Which is where it gets more interesting.....

    "is only worth something if it generates traffic. Relevant traffic is what makes a site valuable."

    Partly true of course, though there is more to the story.....

    The value in the domain is not only if it generates traffic....

    You'd need to factor in the inherent value of the domain if it was just the domain name (as Strider also mentioned). It might not have traffic, but still be worth something
    Its age and history
    Its (good) backlinks (if any)
    Its (bad/questionable) backlinks (if any...and what you might have to do about them)
    Whether it's ever had anything black (or maybe grey) done to it...and whether that might cause it a problem in future
    What it's ranking (anywhere) for
    What it might rank for, or might be on the verge of ranking for
    ...and give some consideration to what you might be able to make it worth by improving it

    Lots of variables, in other words

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