Hi everyone,

We are glad to announce that prices are back up to twenty dollars!

Now, we should be getting to 3,000 pages real soon especially with more advertisements going out on SiteHoppin and we will have a new press release to push this project to another level.

Get BANG for your Dollar before pages prices rise again!

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.

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

The MillionDollar guy has opened EntreCard to the page owners of MDW. But I think he will let us use it too since I wrote the extension. :p

Go get a EntreCard today and advertise your pages for free!

The only requirement is that:

1. You must have some good content on your pages. If you have no content or poor content, you will probably not get accepted.

Here’s how to add Entrecard to your OBW page:

<entrecard id=”(your id number)” size=”250″></entrecard>

You can see an example on my One Buck Wiki Page.

We have a new feature that lets you add categories much easier than in the past. Simply click on categories that are similar to your page content. If a category doesn’t exist, you can always add them in the field as shown in the picture above.

Our OBW SEO Team says that the more categories you have, the better. Why? Since more categories linked to you means “more pages linked to you” within this site, this give you a higher PageRank than other pages. You can find which pages have been most linked to or find which pages have most categories. You will find that these categories have DRAMATIC impact on your PageRank score. PageRank is calculated by how many links you have coming in and it doesn’t have to come from an external website.

Now you can be updated with new pages, new changes, and blog posts via our Twitter feeds.

Get your Twitter Feeds:

OBW Twitter - Includes Blog posts, new pages, and recent changes

New Pages Twitter - Includes only new pages

Recent Changes Twitter - Includes only recent changes

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!

Our server was down for couple minutes here and there between 3am and 7am PST.  The OBW Team stayed up all night fighting some nasty DoS (Denial of Service) attacks from spammers and other hackers. It was great thing that Max was a hacker himself.  It took all night but we finally think we have put it under control.  Now the OBW Team is going to sleep so all orders will be processed tonight when we wake up again.

P.S. If it comes back, we already have lots of tools in our bag to really kill it for good so…