It looks like we are getting more and more search terms such as these:

Best Online Casino - #6 for PokerRoom.com wiki on Google

Cherry Shrimp Page - #4 for cherry shrimp male female sexing on Google

Great job to page owners of those pages! Remember, great content always ranks up higher than others.

Magnalight Page is #7 on Yahoo! We don’t know how that happened but it’s a good thing for the page owner.

Everyday, I keep getting these letters from theprizeblog.com. (Honestly, I think they just want some attention)

But, I realize this is a clever way of spamming.

I’ve never signed up for anything, but he’s asking for a link. (Like I lost something that I should have gotten…)

Anyways, it’s a very clever way of spamming. I tried replying back but no replies, must be a spam-bot.

Dear owner of http://onebuckwiki.com,
I’m Brian the webmaster of http://theprizeblog.com.
According to the results of my scan, I could not locate the link to http://theprizeblog.com on your site.

Since I received no explanation notice from you within 3 days, the link to your site at http://theprizeblog.com has been automatically DELETED, sorry.

If you wish to exchange links with us in the future, first please copy and paste the following HTML code below, and tell us where we can find the link on your site:

<a href=”http://theprizeblog.com” title=”The Prize Blog is the Original Contest Blog! This is the number one place online to find blog contests. Make sure you visit everyday for your chance to win!”>Blog Contests and Online Sweepstakes The Prize Blog</a>

After that please contact me and I will revisit the situation. Thanks.

Best regards,
Brian Aldrich
brian@theprizeblog.com

Wow, we were just browsing the categories and found this Web4.0! Wow, we were thinkin’ Web3.0 but these guys are certainly ahead of us. Check it out.

Wow, check out the Fort Page on the One Buck Wiki! The page owner JohnStanton has done an incredible job of putting great content. We are going to feature his page on the homepage for the next week.

You can take a look at his source and how he utilized the GoogleMaps function to create an interactive map for Forts.

We will also be having weekly contests from now on to promote great content as we have a new competition, which is Google’s latest project, Knol Project.

In order to improve our status as the premier wiki on the internet, we will be changing our direction of focus to better content instead of just simply advertising.

How can you help?

You can put more informative descriptions on your pages about your keyword instead of simply putting lots of advertising. The best is to put great content and ads to benefit from your pages. We will be upgrading the site’s overall functions to include commenting and other user-oriented features like the Knol Project Google is working on.

Wow, it seems like Google is building their own Wikipedia!

Check out the details from QuarterWiki:

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.

Check out the screenshot here:

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.

[via] Google Blog

Here’s a fun new contest that will help you promote your pages and win 20 free pages!

Here’s how it works:

1. You must first own a page. (You have be a page owner)

2. Go to John Chow’s blog or John Cow’s blog and comment a lot with URL linked to one of your pages such as http://onebuckwiki/Money.

3. If you show up on John Chow’s or John cow’s Top Commentator List for more than 24 hours, you win 20 free pages. (And you just got a site-wide backlinking to your pages!)

If you don’t own a page, you can go buy one right now and receive 20 free ones by simply commenting a lot on John Chow or John Cow’s blog.

BTW, there no limit for how many people or how many pages you can win.  For example, if you show up on both John Chow and John Cow’s Top Commentators lists, you will win 40 free pages!  If 5 people win, each of the five people will win free pages!
(The only requirement is that you can only win up to 40 free pages per page owner.)

Inspiration from Winning The Web and His Contest on John Chow and John Cow.

Recently, we’ve visited this one blog where the blog owner “thinks” we will not sell more pages.

Here’s his comment on the One Buck Wiki:

Good for him, but I doubt he’ll ever see $10k.

We say, what a crock of sh*+, he has nothing to back that up other than his dirty mouth.

In response, here are some reasons why One Buck Wiki will keep going strong and the points the blogger forgot to mention:
1. Over 2,600 pages are indexed on Google and growing…

2. Over 1,000 backlinks and growing…

3. Steady growth of Google search terms showing up Top 5 in the search results

4. Expected PageRank of 7 (Although we predict PR5.)

5. Pages have been selling steadily and as a result, content has been growing daily.

We hope the blogger will respond through another blog post about what he thinks of this.

Go comment on his blog right now and stand up for your pages!

What have we been working on lately?

After creating a lot of wiki sites with different prices, the OBW Team has learned a couple things:

1. Making people pay for a Wiki page gets more visitors to your Wiki site.

2. Paid Wikis can make your instant money within weeks unlike blogs. It’s an untapped niche market waiting to explode.

3. There’s more demand than supply, meaning there’s never going to be enough paid wiki sites to fulfill needs of advertisers and wiki lovers.

You can take a look at the number of negative comments on how people don’t want more paid wiki sites at John Chow, yet we hit record sales for both the QuarterWiki and the One Buck Wiki for that day.

4. There’s a whole category of niche paid wiki sites that can be made starting from Art to Zoo wikis.

Q. What are we doing about it?

A. We are going to make an E-Book that shows you how to make a paid wiki site from scratch and sell it for a small fee. It will also explain in detail how to incorporate SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to your Wiki site by hacking some of its core files.

Q. What are we charging money for it?

A. People in general perceive more value when they have to pay for it. If it’s free, no one cares. This analogy can be compared to our Wiki on Zedomax.com. It’s a simple free Tech Wiki with PageRank of 4 yet over the last year and half, not a single soul has taken advantage over the free wiki. We will be converting that wiki into a paid wiki to experiment if that will bring more visitors and interest.

A lot of people have Wikis already. Instead of installing CAPTCHAs or other annoying spam-filtering devices, you can convert it into a money making machine. By doing so, you will get more interest and visitors at the same time preventing spam completely.

The advantage of converting an exisitng Wiki Site?

If you have a Wiki site with a PageRank of 4 or higher, you will be able to sell pages right off the bat. Why? Simply because the pages already have a value from SEO standpoint.

In all, you don’t have to make a new site if you run Wiki sites already. All you have to do it install simple shopping cart system where people will be able to buy pages.

The new E-Book will be called, “Paid Wiki Hacks using MediaWiki” or something along that line.

By spreading the knowledge, we hope to start a new era of Web 2.0, where people can monetize on their Wiki sites.

Wow, it looks like One Buck Wiki has been coming alive in the last couple days after the price drop to one dollar. We’ve hit our climax of 27 pages, which is the best we’ve done in a day for this month. Let’s hope pages start selling like crazy like when we first started out when an average of over 300 pages were sold per day.

On the side note, we’ve probably experience the sales boost from our latest John Chow review for the Quarter Wiki.

If you haven’t, you might want to head over to our little brother, QuarterWiki, and put all those quarters you have in your piggy bank to a potential money multiplier. (Yes, take those coins to QuarterWiki and invest in pages instead of heading to your CoinStart machine.)

via Zedomax.com