anon-for-now

I'm a fairly successful software engineer. I'm single, in my mid twenties, and pull in $130k+. However, I'd happily take a 50% pay cut to work three days out of five. I'd like to have more free time to work on my own projects and to focus on other things like travel, hobbies, etc. After a five day work week, honestly I just like to be lazy.

I would not like to go the consultant / freelance route.

Besides a three day work week, another option I'd be happy with is getting a lot of unpaid vacation. Are either of these arrangements feasible?

I have a website that is a directory of URLs -- it finds you similar websites. You give it a URL, and it finds other URLs with similar content.

It's in the Alexa/Quantcast top 10,000. It pulls in about 1.2mm unique pageviews per month, 95% of which is from organic search. 65% of visitors are from the US. It's a .com domain and has a PageRank of 3. It was launch 20 months ago. Growth has been fantastic, but has plateaued for the last 3 month (could be a temporary lull, or could be the peak).

Currently it's being monetized only through AdSense. I'm seeing $5.00 RPM with three ad units. CTR is over 1%. This nets between $4,000-$5,000 a month. Only half of my pages have AdSense on them, the other half (which link to torrent and adult sites, for example) are currently not monetized.

The site runs on one server and costs $50/month.

How much is this site worth?

I have a directory-like website in the top 10,000 that pulls in over 1.1mm unique pageviews per month. 92.5% of traffic is from organic search, and 65% of traffic is from the US. It's a .com domain, PageRank is 3.

The content is highly monetizable -- I'm seeing over $5.00 Page RPMs with only three AdSense ad units per page. It has netted over $4,000-5,000 per month for the last 6 months, and traffic is growing steadily. Only half of the content is currently monetized, the other half links to torrent / adult related websites, and is not allowed to serve AdSense ads. I reckon it could pull another $1,000/month from some other ad network.

The site runs itself for $50/month.

What do you think it's worth?