We were inspired by John Chow’s post on There Really Is No Such Thing As Bad Press.

I think we could have gotten more buzz off this simulated fight if more users got into it, but it seems like it had a mild effect so we will be trying something else in the future. Watch out for surprises!

Wow, take a look at this! Last week, the Digital Camera page was showing up #3 on Google for “digital camera wiki”.

Guess what, today, the same page is ranked #6 on MSN Live Search among other big sites like Buy.com and Overstock.com for the search term, “Digital Camera”!!!

That page we’d say the Digital Camera page is worth at least $30,000 right now.

Now, there’s another reason to invest a dollar at the One Buck Wiki!

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.

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 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.

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!

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.

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

Wow, there’s been so many keywords showing up #1, #2, and #3 on Google for many pages within the last 2 weeks. Vancouver Olympics 2010 Page is showing up #3 on Google for “Vancouver Olympics Wiki”. We are even above AboutUs.Org, which is a pretty respectable wiki with PR5.

Still don’t believe us? Check out what the page owner had to say about this:

The Vancouver Olympics 2010 Page is coming up 3rd on “vancouver olympics wiki” search on google. W00t! GO OBW!

Our next goal to completely take over Wikipedia within the next few years by selling over a million pages.

Still don’t own a page on this gold mine SEO? Go buy a page today only for a dollar and get BANG for your dollar! Price WILL go back up to $10 or more so we suggest you take action this month! Besides, it’s only a dollar to make thousands off one page.

P.S. Above page is probably worth thousands of dollar already.

Here’s the list for today:

reverse funnel wiki Page #2 on Google for reverse funnel wiki

reverse funnel wiki Page #2 on Google for wiki reverse funnel

Our Blog post on how to make a dollar shirt, #4 on MSN Live search

Digital Gravel Page #1 on Google for digital gravel marketing and #3 on Google for digital gravel wiki

Bad Debt Page #3 on Google for bad debt wiki (Wow, this page is right after Wikipedia. This page can probably be sold for at least $5000.)

Great job to all the page-owners and you can adhere to the following recommendations on getting your page on the first page of Google:

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.

Such pages like Digital Camera and Bad Debt now have an SEO value. We don’t know if it’s $1000 or $50,000 but we know you could probably sell that page to a potential buyer in that niche. You could probably sell the Digital Camera page to an SEO company that has Digital Camera E-store clients for at least couple Gs.

We will make a new page soon on the homepage where you can list your pages for sale and list your Google rankings for a search term.

Many searches are “some keyword wiki” these days because people want to find the Wikipedia page for that “some keyword”. You can easily top it or get close to it by buying a page on the One Buck Wiki and putting interesting content!

Still hesitant about buying a page on the One Buck Wiki? Get a page for $1 and sell it for thousands before all the good keywords get taken.  It’s not a hype anymore, we just proved it to you’all.

We found out that this search actually lands on our E-store category page. And guess what? We got so many e-stores there! We were amazed.

On the side note, page sales have started to slowly take off again. Check out the latest pages sold here.

Make sure to sign up for StumbleUpon and stumble your pages, the main page, and as many pages as you can as StumbleUpon is our primary source of traffic right now along with EntreCard.

Take advantage of this special offer as page prices will go back up to $20 or more on January.

Due to the low prices we are offering the pages, coupons may not be used during this offer.

Should you have any doubts about getting new keywords, this is the time! We predict Google will update their PageRank next month so it might be a great time to get your pages before that.

Get BANG for your dollar at One Buck Wiki this month!

Why are we doing this?

First, our schedule was to have sold 2000 pages by end of November. Obviously, we missed our target and we gotta do something about it.

Second, bringing in more page sales will ultimately bring more content to the site and more traffic.

Third, we promised you you will get BANG for your dollar.

Don’t worry, once we hit 3000 pages, prices will hike back up to $30. We don’t know how often we will do this but we will probably do it every once in a while to help the page sales.

So, please hold on while we make some major hauling to our payment system and automatic page creation. In the meanwhile, feel free to grab some quarter pages at the Quarter Wiki as we have just launched the site and we are also working on some new spidering technologies that we will tell you when it’s ready.

If you are a stumbler and you have an account on StumbleUpon, you are in luck too!

In order to start our second Beta stage, we are promoting the One Buck Wiki again with 5 free pages!

There are three ways you can get 5 free pages:

1. Write a blog post about One Buck Wiki with minimum 150 words

2. OR add one of our buttons to your sidebar or footer.

3. OR if you are a stumbler, you need to stumble our homepage (http://onebuckwiki.com/Main_Page) and write a review of minimum of 150 words.

P.S. You can also earn a free page on our new EntreWiki. Check out the free pages for bloggers in detail here.

We are looking for 5 people who have businesses about “making money” such as Coin Machines, Franchises, etc…etc…

The only requirement is that we need an Advertisement creative from you in a Photoshop PSD format or high quality JPEG.

Basically, we will turn your Full page ad into Wiki text for you and you get to edit it afterwards.

Send your creatives to support [at] onebuckwiki.com to win a free $100 Advertisement Page on the new EntreWiki.

Your ads must be high quality just like a creative you’d submit to a national magazine such as Entrepreneur.

Although we are in beta stage, you can reserve your page today.

Now you can “Pwigg” your page easily simply by pressing on the button at the bottom of your pages.

If you hover over the Pwigg button, you will see how many votes your page has.

Go Pwigg your site today!

We want to find that perfect match for Google SEO using various different MediaWiki extensions and playing around a bit.

So, hold on as we will keep testing what will work for SEO.

We’ve noticed that Wikis have not been the most SEO friendly animals among the Web2.0 beings such as blogs.

We are implementing some new features which will include advanced tagging and most popular indexing based on votes instead of page views. This will ultimately result in more users and visitors participating in the wiki itself and that we know Google crawlers like.

Basically, we will be turning this site into a Digg/Blog thingee. We don’t know how long it will take but we assure you that you will get BANG for your dollar as our technicians and hackers are working on this 24/7.

We will have new menus like, newest pages, most popular pages, and RSS feeds plus twitter feeds to make it all go crazy on the blogsphere and the world wide web.

We are glad that we’ve had no orders today. This is the first time in 1 month since our launch date that we’ve had no orders for one day. This will help us to focus more on the new Web3.0 features we will be bringing to you. (hopefully… :p )

If you have any suggestions, use the comment box below!

Yey! We are on Yahoo News again! We are at number 2, not too bad for some moonlight writing.

Check out our article on Yahoo News here.

We just had a new press release go out on PRWeb.com. Check it out, we are at the top on the main page! (Make sure to stumble it! :)  )

We want to thank all our page-owners for community support behind us all the way.

Click below for full press release:

(more…)

Now you can make 25% on every sale of page you sell through your own Google Checkout coupon code.

How does it work?

Basically, the customer gets 25% off by using your coupon code and you get 25% commission.

If a page is sold for $10 today, you’d get $2.50 for every sale.

What is the long term benefit?

We are only accepting a limited number of Affiliates. The people who get in early will benefit from 25% commission for the next 15 years!

That means when the price of a page jumps to $100 or $1000, you can make $25 or $250 per page sale!

Again, this offer is for limited time only.

You can check out the Affilate Program page here for more info.

Here’s some guerilla marketing we have been doing around San Francisco.

My friend runs this Cigarette Store on the corner of Clement St & 24th Ave. Well, I’ve known this guy since they started this cigarette store about 2 years ago.

Anyways, he’s going to help promote One Buck Wiki by sticking some of our handmade stickers on the outside of his store alongside all the other ads. He actually now bought some pages on the One Buck Wiki and he wants me to get him more stickers. Cool…

This cigarette store is one of the most trafficked areas in San Francisco for fine dining located right on the center of famous Clement Street.

I have couple more friends who run liquor stores and mattress stores so we will see how many stickers we can get out there in the next couple weeks.

Do you have a store in a high trafficked area of a big city? Shoot us an email at buzz [at] onebuckwiki.com and we will send you free homemade stickers AND 5 free pages per sticker you put on.

Don’t worry, we are only setting up the site for OneEuroWiki.com. We won’t have anything to do with free pages… (actually, maybe we can reserve some credit….)

Do you have an idea yet to explode onto a Wiki type marketing?  If you do, send your plans and pictures to zedomax at gmail dot com.  We try to focus on single projects at one time in order to put all our effort and focus into it.

Do you want to be one of the first to beta-test our new site?

Send you e-mails to keywordia [at] onebuckwiki.com.

As soon as the site is ready, the first “exclusive, invite only” 50 beta-testers will be able to grab lots of main SEO magnet keywords just by being there first.

It will be a social networking site like Digg, except the topic is about paid-wikis only.

You can reach Max at Google Chat, zedomax at gmail dot com.

Check out the stats after one of our team members stumbled some of the featured pages. This is only stats for last 500 visitors and about 5 hours but over a long term, this could lead to 10,000 visits total. How can you help us get more traffic? Stumble all the good stuff on OBW. Whenever you stumble any of the pages, you WILL get 10,000 visitors from StumbleUpon in over 3 months. Since we have a team of stumblers who stumble all day long to participate in the human search engine.

StumbleUpon is already working with Google, Yahoo, Wikipeida, you name it. They ARE the next search engine. The most fun to visit a site. Get a StumbleUpon Account Here is you haven’t already and stumble your own page to start with.

As long as you stumble your pages, you will get free SEO from StumbleUpon. Wish they had affiliate program for signing up people…lol

Yey, Max got his stickers on his car AND laptop to ignite the fire a buzz community!

Ooops, we were wrong about the DoS (Denial of Service)… We just checked our Alexa rankings and yesterday we hit 15,437!

We might have to move to a better server soon due to unexpected spike in traffic although our quad-CPU should be able to handle up to 300K visitors per day.

Yey! We made about $600 from page sales on our $400 investment on JohnChow.com on Monday. That’s a nice 50% profit.

We just re-invested $600 for an Ad spot that came up on JohnChow.com. If we can sell enough pages to make $900, that’d be our safe target. If we sell more, that’s awesome!

We have been testing some ads with BidVertiser but cannot say for sure if we should invest more money there yet. We are also working on to integrate Google Checkout so we can use Google AdSense to drive more traffic to the site. (Google Checkout gives you free transactions upto 10 times amount of money spent on Google Adsense)

Once our page sales picks up a little bit more, we should be going very viral indeed…

(We photoshop-ed the image above but our Ad should be live on November 1st, so if you want free traffic, please have your pages ready and send a shout to featured [at] onebuckwiki.com)

Help us send out the OneBuckWiki BUZZ by putting one of these bumperstickers on your car.

Today, I sneaked into my old work, Keetsa Mattress Store, and made some bumperstickers with some of the bumpersticker paper they had laying around.

No, it’s not a real dollar bill, it’s actually a bumper sticker… :p

We made about 50 of these so if you want one for free, send your address to zedomax [at] gmail.com. We will send it to you as quickly as possible through USPS.  (I already put these all over my car, it looks kinda cool…)

Here’s a small Mastercard ad for these Bumperstickers:

1. HP Computer = $2000

2. Athlete’s Foot Spray at the Dollar Store = $1

3. Basketball Shoes from Payless = $60

FREE Handmade OneBuckWiki Bumperstickers = Priceless

Here’s proof that these are handmade. My girlfriend helped me cut them up. :0) Thanks Nancy!

I don’t know why, but I always wanted to share what books I have been readin’ for last couple weeks. I just kept buying books like crazy to make this site work so…
(I am reading Paypal Hacks and Web APIs with PHP right now, trying to automate the process…) Don’t know how I even ended up reading these crazy books anyways… must be the money…

Yes, still being able to invest at OneBuckWiki for $10 per page = priceless.

Good news is that we’ve sold enough pages today to offset our advertisement spendings at JohnChow.com. We will probably be doing some more advertisements with Mr. Chow soon thanks to everyone who’s bought a page today. And winning one of these books would certainly help me rack more books…

In case you have missed on our blog posts:

We have bunch of contest hidden in our blogs, maybe you’d like to participate:

http://fivedollarwiki.com/blog/2007/10/21/win-500/

http://onebuckwiki.com/blog/2007/10/24/do-you-want-to-help-us-advertise/

Here’s a screenshot of why:

This is the advertising category that the page-owners of OneBuckWiki have been editing for last couple days. The activity on the OneBuckWiki is enormous and we are trying our best to keep up with our page-owners.

Thank you everyone for putting some great content and if you haven’t added your page to the categories, you can do so by reading the category section in our QuickStartGuide.

It is amazing how quickly we are building content on the OneBuckWiki. We have almost several hundred pages of content within 2 weeks! That’s almost as good as an active blog. We think when we have sold about 2000 pages, this activity will exponentially grow… we are crossing our fingers.

Have a great Halloween everyone!

We’ve already got 2 orders since 3AM today and we are expecting more orders to come through so keep workin’ on your pages and we will get them featured, categorized, and promoted right.

A creditcard is supposed to enhance the experience of buying, not get you applying for debt relief. This is why viewing free insurance quotes before actually getting into a home mortgage plan is always advised. The basic rule of internet banking is confirming the insurance quote before closing the deal.

Thanks to the slowing of page purchases, we were able to upgrade the site with some cool features such as RSS and took some time to go watch a movie.

We also updated some features on our FiveDollarWiki, which was good. By having two paid-wikis, we are able to experiment with different features such as buttons and if they work, we put it on both sites. (We also think that inter-linking between these sites are very helpful for SEO)

Wow, we’ve reached 21 readers today on the OBW! Thanks everyone for listening to what we have to say and we will keep runnin’ fast so you get all the lateset features on the One Buck Wiki.

Make sure to tell 5 of your friends about your investments on the One Buck Wiki tomorrow, this is very important! With continuous word-of-mouth, our site will grow and hopefully, one day, we will turn our lump of coals into diamond together and share the wealth.