Help:Announcements/Q207 - Revision history

MyWikiBiz: Archiving newsletter

2007-12-26T20:01:40Z

Archiving newsletter

OmniMediaGroup: Centiare:Announcements/Q207 moved to Help:Announcements/Q207

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Centiare:Announcements/Q207 moved to Help:Announcements/Q207

MyWikiBiz: Center and style

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Center and style

MyWikiBiz: /* How our traffic compares */ page views

2007-04-23T15:34:40Z

How our traffic compares: page views

MyWikiBiz: 382 px

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382 px

MyWikiBiz: Logo

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Logo

MyWikiBiz: /* How our traffic compares */ royal blue

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How our traffic compares: royal blue

MyWikiBiz: Extensions

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Extensions

MyWikiBiz: /* Why not Centiare? */ talk

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Why not Centiare?: talk

MyWikiBiz: /* Why not Centiare? */ fix up

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Why not Centiare?: fix up

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-[[Image:CentiareWire.png|center|382px|CentiareWire]]
+Before MyWikiBiz obtained the sole rights to the Centiare directory, we used to publish an announcement newsletter called CentiareWire.  This is an example issue from those days of early 2007:
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 ==How our traffic compares==
-[[Directory:Centiare|Centiare]] is getting a good amount of traffic for a site that's been open to the public for only four months.  We're especially proud of the fact that we average 7.0 page views per visitor.  That means our look, feel, and content are '''engaging''' visitors!  It's not YouTube traffic.  It's not MySpace traffic.  But, in terms of page views, we're already consistently beating other media sites that have been around for years and years.
+Centiare is getting a good amount of traffic for a site that's been open to the public for only four months.  We're especially proud of the fact that we average 7.0 page views per visitor.  That means our look, feel, and content are '''engaging''' visitors!  It's not YouTube traffic.  It's not MySpace traffic.  But, in terms of page views, we're already consistently beating other media sites that have been around for years and years.
 [[Image:Centiare Page Views vs Media Q107.jpg||thumb|right|475px|1Q traffic comparison 2007]]
 This Alexa ''Daily Pageviews'' graph for the better part of the First Quarter 2007 suggests that Centiare (the royal blue line) captures far more page viewings than any of these respectable media properties:
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 What are your thoughts about this?  I know for a fact that the majority of the registered users of Centiare have not made a single edit on the site.  Are they, like our artist friend above, hesitant to dilute their "own website" by linking to it from here?  I just don't get it, but comments are certainly welcome [[User_talk:MyWikiBiz|on my Talk page]].

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-'''CentiareWire''' -- ''Announcement Newsletter'' -- 2nd Quarter of 2007
+<div align="center">'''CentiareWire''' -- ''Announcement Newsletter'' -- 2nd Quarter of 2007</div>
 The CentiareWire is a quarterly newsletter issued to all Centiare Users who have registered and confirmed an e-mail address.
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 ==Cool extensions==
-Just in case you haven't noticed, there are at least a dozen really cool things you can do here on Centiare that you're not allowed to do either on Wikipedia, MySpace, or the Yellow Pages.  We have implemented [[Centiare:Extensions|many of these]] only in the past few weeks, so it's worthwhile to summarize them here, in case you weren't aware.
+Just in case you haven't noticed, there are at least a dozen really cool things you can do here on Centiare that you're ''not allowed'' to do on either Wikipedia, MySpace, or the Yellow Pages.  We have implemented [[Centiare:Extensions|many of these]] only in the past few weeks, so it's worthwhile to summarize them here, in case you weren't aware.
 *'''[[Centiare:Extensions/Amazon_Link|Amazon Link]]''' - You can create an entire storefront of Amazon products and earn a sales commission on every product purchased.

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 ==How our traffic compares==
-[[Directory:Centiare|Centiare]] is getting a good amount of traffic for a site that's been open to the public for only four months.  We're especially proud of the fact that we average 7.0 page views per visitor.  That means our look, feel, and content is '''engaging'''!  It's not YouTube traffic.  It's not MySpace traffic.  But, we're already consistently beating other media sites that have been around for years and years.
+[[Directory:Centiare|Centiare]] is getting a good amount of traffic for a site that's been open to the public for only four months.  We're especially proud of the fact that we average 7.0 page views per visitor.  That means our look, feel, and content are '''engaging''' visitors!  It's not YouTube traffic.  It's not MySpace traffic.  But, in terms of page views, we're already consistently beating other media sites that have been around for years and years.
 [[Image:Centiare Page Views vs Media Q107.jpg||thumb|right|475px|1Q traffic comparison 2007]]
 This Alexa ''Daily Pageviews'' graph for the better part of the First Quarter 2007 suggests that Centiare (the royal blue line) captures far more page viewings than any of these respectable media properties:

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 '''CentiareWire''' -- ''Announcement Newsletter'' -- 2nd Quarter of 2007
 The CentiareWire is a quarterly newsletter issued to all Centiare Users who have registered and confirmed an e-mail address.
 ==How our traffic compares==

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 [[Directory:Centiare|Centiare]] is getting a good amount of traffic for a site that's been open to the public for only four months.  We're especially proud of the fact that we average 7.0 page views per visitor.  That means our look, feel, and content is '''engaging'''!  It's not YouTube traffic.  It's not MySpace traffic.  But, we're already consistently beating other media sites that have been around for years and years.
 [[Image:Centiare Page Views vs Media Q107.jpg||thumb|right|475px|1Q traffic comparison 2007]]
-This Alexa ''Daily Pageviews'' graph for the better part of the First Quarter 2007 suggests that Centiare captures far more page viewings than any of these respectable media properties:
+This Alexa ''Daily Pageviews'' graph for the better part of the First Quarter 2007 suggests that Centiare (the royal blue line) captures far more page viewings than any of these respectable media properties:
 *'''Gazette.com''' - the primary newspaper of Colorado Springs, CO (a metro area with population of 587,500).
 *'''WBTV.com''' - the CBS television affiliate of Charlotte, NC (the 18th largest city in the United States)

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		+	What are your thoughts about this? I know for a fact that the majority of the registered users of Centiare have not made a single edit on the site. Are they, like our artist friend above, hesitant to dilute their "own website" by linking to it from here? I just don't get it, but comments are certainly welcome [[User_talk:MyWikiBiz\|on my Talk page]].

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 ==Why not Centiare?==
-Recently, I invited an independent artist to create a Directory listing on Centiare.  His response:
+Recently, I invited an independent artist to create a [[Centiare:Directory Space|Directory]] listing on Centiare.  His response:
-<blockquote>Thanks for the interest, but I maintain my own website and would not be interested in your services.</blockquote>
+   '''''Thanks for the interest, but I maintain my own website and would not be interested in your services.'''''
-Here's what I said in reply:
+Here is what I said in reply:
-I completely understand your line of thinking from a "brand unity" perspective.  But, if I may be so bold, I believe it is misguided.  Centiare does not strive to "become" or "replace" your own website (even though in the case of [[Directory:Liz Cohen|Liz Cohen]], who didn't really have her own page anywhere yet, it did sort of become a de facto homepage).  We seek to be a complementary source of "one click away from your website" traffic.
+:I completely understand your line of thinking from a "brand unity" perspective.  But, if I may be so bold, I believe it is misguided.  Centiare does not strive to "become" or "replace" your own website (even though in the case of [[Directory:Liz Cohen|Liz Cohen]], who didn't really have her own page anywhere yet, it did sort of become a de facto homepage).  We seek to be a complementary source of "one click away from your website" traffic.
-In other words, just because you have your own website, would you refuse to be listed in the Yellow Pages?  Would you dispose of the idea of having a MySpace page?  If you had an ad campaign running on the radio, would you refuse to accept an offer elsewhere for free television advertising?
+:In other words, just because you have your own website, would you refuse to be listed in the Yellow Pages?  Would you dispose of the idea of having a MySpace page?  If you had an ad campaign running on the radio, would you refuse to accept an offer elsewhere for free television advertising?
-Since Centiare is free to use, the only thing you have to "lose" is some time and effort to get your page set up and looking at least as decent as a "stub" on Wikipedia.
+:Since Centiare is free to use, the only thing you have to "lose" is some time and effort to get your page set up and looking at least as decent as a "stub" on Wikipedia.
-If I can just give you one quick example...
+:If I can just give you one quick example...
-BIG Images is a large format printer who has effectively utilized Centiare.
+:[[Directory:BIG Images|BIG Images]] is a large format printer who has effectively utilized Centiare.  If someone is searching Google for: '''"large format printing" "San Luis Obispo"''', they will get over 1,000 results on Google.  The BIG Images homepage is # 1 in the results, and Centiare's directory listing is # 2 or # 3:
-If someone is searching Google for: "large format printing" "San Luis Obispo", they will get over 1,000 results on Google.  The BIG Images homepage is #1 in the results, and Centiare's directory listing is #3:
+:However, if someone is searching Google for: '''"San Luis Obispo" large format printers''', they will get over 100,000 results on Google.  The BIG Images web domain doesn't show up in the Top 20 results (it happens to be 21st), but the Centiare page shows up 4th!  Someone clicking on that link then has all the information they need to call or e-mail the print shop, or to click one more time to get to the [http://www.BIG-images.com BIG-images.com] page itself.
-http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2006-13%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=%22large+format+printing%22+%22san+luis+obispo%22
+::[http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2006-13%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=%22San+Luis+Obispo%22+large+format+printers See search results.]
-However, if someone is searching Google for: "San Luis Obispo" large format printers, they will get over 100,000 results on Google.  The BIG Images web domain doesn't show up in the Top 20 results (it happens to be 21st), but the Centiare page shows up 4th!  Someone clicking on that link then has all the information they need to call or e-mail the print shop, or to click one more time to get to the BIG-images.com page itself.
+:Why would anyone say, "Well, I have my own web page, and if it comes up 21st in some searches, I'll just have to live with that.  I don't want a link that comes up 4th, if it's not to my home page."?
-Why would anyone say, "Well, I have my own web page, and if it comes up 21st in some searches, I'll just have to live with that.  I don't want a link that comes up 4th, if it's not to my home page."?
+:Sorry to sound like a sales pitch, but (as I said), what I'm "selling" is free.
-Okay, I realize I've just gone way over the line, practically spamming you with my sales pitch, but (as I said), what I'm "selling" is free.
+:[[Directory:Gregory J. Kohs|Greg]]