Over the past few months I have been looking at buying a few websites and/or domain names. To check backlinks, that PR’s (PageRank) are correct and the general valuation of the sites I discovered dnScoop.com.

This is one nifty tool. dnScoop allows you to check domain age, PR, inbound links, traffic rank, indexed pages, site value and estimated Text-Link-Ad value. This is all completed on a cool, Web 2.0 looking website. The site also features a great forum.

To use the the dnScoop domain name value tool you enter the URL in the space it tells you, and a few moments later it will load up all the vitals. Something I love about it is that under, say, the backlink category you can click a hyperlink that will take you to “link:yoursite.com” at Google and show you all the backlinks to your site. Very easy to use, and to get that information that’s so important.

Stay tuned as in the next post we’ll go through what the key terms: domain age, PR, inbound links, traffic rank, indexed pages, site value and estimated Text-Link-Ad value mean to us!