Random idea for a site I have..

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dreamache

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The WF social good thread sparked an idea..

A site somewhat like Wikipedia, except there's an actual incentive for user-contributed content (apart from direct monetary gain). Specifically speaking, a site geared towards Web Dev/Design/Marketing/AM in general, each time a professional (anyone who writes a nice article/tutorial on a given subject) is rewarded with something like a prominent banner position for X amount of time (it could be a full page / interstitial ad).

Each accepted article (voted up or down by a group of admins in a unanimous fashion to ensure no bias takes place) would be published along with the author's submitted ad information. If there's a dry spell and a lack of new content, ads from the latest X authors to have submitted content, would rotate evenly.

Or one idea would be to permanently provide each author with their own interstitial every time (or some % of the time) a new visitor clicks on their article(s).

Site could easily rank well in the SERPs if all who participated threw links at it. Once the site grew, the incentive to provide quality content would also grow (obviously), authors would gain backlink value from articles + direct exposure to whichever his/her service/product/blog is. In fact you wouldn't necessarily have to own a service/product, could just link out as an affiliate.

So instead of your typical single owner/author/blogger website, it'd be a collaborative effort- with the personal gain coming solely from the quality of contributed content. Willingness to contribute content would be based on trust, which depends on who the admins are.

I'm more than few beers in already so if this idea sucks, it's because of my clouded judgement ;P
 


So you want to offer people a way to share the articles they write and make some money off indirectly because you're too lazy to handle payouts yourself? HubPages did a better job.
 
Insomniac said:
So you want to offer people a way to share the articles they write and make some money off indirectly because you're too lazy to handle payouts yourself? HubPages did a better job.
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That's the thing, not one person would have any advantage over the other in terms of making money, including whoever owns the site/domain. But therein lies the problem, an issue of trust I guess.
 
dreamache said:
The WF social good thread sparked an idea..

A site somewhat like Wikipedia, except there's an actual incentive for user-contributed content (apart from direct monetary gain). Specifically speaking, a site geared towards Web Dev/Design/Marketing/AM in general, each time a professional (anyone who writes a nice article/tutorial on a given subject) is rewarded with something like a prominent banner position for X amount of time (it could be a full page / interstitial ad).

Each accepted article (voted up or down by a group of admins in a unanimous fashion to ensure no bias takes place) would be published along with the author's submitted ad information. If there's a dry spell and a lack of new content, ads from the latest X authors to have submitted content, would rotate evenly.

Or one idea would be to permanently provide each author with their own interstitial every time (or some % of the time) a new visitor clicks on their article(s).

Site could easily rank well in the SERPs if all who participated threw links at it. Once the site grew, the incentive to provide quality content would also grow (obviously), authors would gain backlink value from articles + direct exposure to whichever his/her service/product/blog is. In fact you wouldn't necessarily have to own a service/product, could just link out as an affiliate.

So instead of your typical single owner/author/blogger website, it'd be a collaborative effort- with the personal gain coming solely from the quality of contributed content. Willingness to contribute content would be based on trust, which depends on who the admins are.

I'm more than few beers in already so if this idea sucks, it's because of my clouded judgement ;P
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Squidoo : Welcome to Squidoo
 
^^^While I do appreciate most of your posts for thinking outside the box the one thing that constantly kills me is your damn avatar with your eyes shut. You have to come up with something better. I know this is off topic but it has been something I have been wanting to bring up to you.

In regards to this thread I like the idea but how many admins will you have? Also unless I am mistaken I don't think adding to Wikipedia pads your bank account see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid_editing_(policy)

If you really want to make it work you would server up content based upon the what led a vistior to your site not just some random rotating info. As with anything target the audience. If someone hits the site wanting to learn how to milk a cow and you are showing him how to fix a VCR it doesn't matter how good the article is the bounce rate will be atrocious and no one will benefit.
 
Mahalo, squiddo, hubpages do it already with monetary gains. If you are talking about only AM/IM related articles, then expect a bunch of idiots selling "how to make money" ebooks/clickbank products
 
I think there could be some potential. The terrible thing about a lot of the sites is you don't really know what you're getting into. But how on wikipedia, unless you are looking for something ambiguous, you know what you will find.

If you look for php tutorials on squidoo, for example, you might have to go through pages of two lines of crap with some links or something. If there was a wikipedia like site for it, it would be a lot better. And I don't mean like a clone, but rather in the "spirit" of the site.
 
Fail at original idea.

Your idea has already been implemented successfully, albeit yours has a very slight twists... but one that doesn't change shit.


Unless you are like Bill Gates who can take someone else's underfunded idea and throw daddy's money at it to make it your own, I don't see this going anywhere.
 
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