Wow, we’ve first started seeing some Google search results for pages that show up on the first page.
Here’s the two for today:
Diet Tips Page - #3 for “Diet Tips Wiki”
Stop Smoking Page -#7 for “Smoking and Cravings”
The funny page is that the Diet Tips Page has no content on it yet. (If there was some content, it’d probably rank first)
We put up some dummy content for the page and let’s see what happens.
Wow, it seems like Google is secretly working on a new Wikipedia-like user edited system called, Knols Project. I just found out about this and it does validate the fact that “WE” might be on the right track here.
We will be doing everything we can to implement features on the Knols Project onto the Quarter Wiki before their launch.
Knols will include strong community tools. People will be able to submit comments, questions, edits, additional content, and so on. Anyone will be able to rate a knol or write a review of it. Knols will also include references and links to additional information. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads.
Once testing is completed, participation in knols will be completely open, and we cannot expect that all of them will be of high quality. Our job in Search Quality will be to rank the knols appropriately when they appear in Google search results. We are quite experienced with ranking web pages, and we feel confident that we will be up to the challenge. We are very excited by the potential to substantially increase the dissemination of knowledge.
We do not want to build a walled garden of content; we want to disseminate it as widely as possible. Google will not ask for any exclusivity on any of this content and will make that content available to any other search engine.
As always, a picture is worth a thousands words, so an example of a knol is below (click on the image twice to see the page in full). The main content is real, and we encourage you to read it (you may sleep better afterwards!), but most of the meta-data — like reviews, ratings, and comments — are not real, because, of course, this has not been in the public eye as yet. Again, this is a preliminary version.
Wow, we sold lots of pages today. We want to thank every page owner of investing in the new paid online Encyclopedia.
We will have a contest starting later this week. Basically whoever has the best page of the week will be featured on the homepage for a week.
We will pick a random page to feature on the homepage later this week, all you have to do is put great content and whoever we think has greatest content and design on their page, will win the very first contest. (Yes, I guess the contest starts now then.)
We are also thinking about giving out some prizes. If you want to sponsor us, you will also get featured on the homepage as “sponsored by”. We can also get you 5 blog posts for sponsoring our events on Zedomax.com, Bedzine.com, Keetsa.com, Sleepzine.com, and Mattresszine.com. The blog posts are worth over $500 if you bought them so you will get your money’s worth for sponsoring us. (FYI for SEO experts, all the blog posts we are offering are PR4 and PR5s!)
Here’s a couple pages we liked:
John Chow - This one’s really good because it’s nicely formatted.
P.S. Make sure to have content on your pages and submit them to social bookmarking sites if you want your pages indexed and ranked high on Google!
Best Regards,
The Quarter Wiki Team - In Wiki We Trust - Yeah right!
We have been working around the clock to bring you the best in paidwikis.
Soon, we will have this blog updated and re-designed.
In the meanwhile, we have some great news from our older brother wiki, One Buck Wiki.
A lot of pages with content have been showing up #2 or #3 on Google search terms.
In order for this to happen, you simply have to put great content on your pages and be ranked right next to Wikipedia whenever someone types, “something wiki”.
The reason? Wikipedia has no competition other than us paid wikis.
Once you rank for on the first page on Google for such a keyword, you can even sell your pages for thousands of dollars to SEO companies or other website owners looking for that search term.
Follow these guidelines to raise the value of your pages:
1. Put great content.
2. Put definition of the keyword of your page. Meaning if you have Bad Debt page, explain what Bad Debt is briefly before advertising your website or whatnot.
3. Submit to social bookmarking systems. Make use of the buttons at the bottom of your page.
4. If you have no content, put something. Otherwise, Google will simply penalize you for having no content at the least.
We’ve been very busy here in our apartment in San Francisco. We have been working about 3 days without sleep so we are just tryin’ to catch up to the “too-early” launch of The Quarter Wiki. We will be adding the same features network-wide to all paid wiki sites so please hang on while we are workin’ 24/7 to get things right.
On the bright side, you can add Google Ads or any other scripts to your page by following directions on our QuickStartGuide. Basically, it’s a little easier than what it was like on the One Buck Wiki, Five Dollar Wiki, EntreWiki, you get the idea. We do have a review from Mike at Bloggin’ Ads just now so be sure to check out the “real” story behind all these websites we’ve been makin’. Mike made it sound like we are very competitive, but I guess we are.
On the side note, make sure to check out One Euro Wiki, they have been working very hard so reserve your pages. Oh cool, looks like they bought some pages here too. Awesome!
You can also check out rssHugger and get some free linkbacks from Collin for a free blog post. Alright, Collin bought some pages too! Check out his “Do-Not-View-This-Page“. Very humorous.
These guys rock!
Another side note, we will add any page buyers of Quarter Wiki to our blogroll as a bonus so if you have a blog, make sure to let us know. More free linkbacks from the linkbank farm.