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AboutUs.org - Advertising worth the money? |
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I don't know if you have heard about AboutUs.org before but it's a wiki similar to Wikipedia.org, but it's only for web sites. You can look up any domain name you like in AboutUs.org by typing aboutus.org/sampleaddress.com in your web browser.
There are three ways to get your domain name listed in AboutUs.org:
- Wait until the AboutUs.org bot has spidered your site
- Write your own page
- Pay AboutUs.org $197 to do the page for you
To find out if it's a good deal to pay for a page at AboutUs.org I pulled out my credit card and paid. To be honest I didn't only pay just to be able to do this review, I really really wanted a better AboutUs.org page too :D . A good Aboutus.org page must be as good as a good MillionDollarWiki.com page or maybe even better :???:
At their site they offer you the following for a flat fee of $197:
- Position yourself in front of more than 5,000,000 unique readers each month.
- Increase your results in the search engines.
- Point more traffic to your website.
- Create an amazing article that will tell the world about your business.
- Build strong relationships with the community.
- Develop ongoing dialog about you and your business.
- Generate another way for clients to find you.
I'm happy with the coach I got to help me build the page, but what I don't like is that most of the stuff at my AboutUs.org page is copied directly from my site. Hey it's a page about my site so it actually doesn't matter.... Or?
The traffic they mention is not something I've noticed at all :( , but I guess it will take until the next pagerank update by Google to see some results on the search engine ranking. I think they should offer some kind of statistics for the people that upgrade their page because otherwise it's going to be really hard to figure out if it was a good investment or not. Especially since it's your wiki page that's featured on their front page, not your actual homepage.
So, was it worth $197?
My opinion is that it's not worth the money, but on the other hand people spend $100 for a page at MillionDollarWiki and then you don't get any help building the page at all. At Aboutus.org I got a coach helping me at least.
If you can build your page yourself (i.e. you know the syntax) and have the time to do it then do that instead of paying $197. If you don't know how to do your own page and really really really really want a better AboutUs.org page, then buy this service.
If you're interested in having a look at my AboutUs.org page you'll find it at aboutus.org/xaviermedia.com.
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