AboutUs.org – Advertising worth the money?
May 11th, 2008 by Andreas from Xavier MediaI 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 
. 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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May 12th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Hey there,
I want to thank you for taking the time to write a review about our service and our site. I definitely hear you about too much information in your article not being original. Is there any thing else that you feel we can work on?
We are continuously learning and growing and with your help we can continue to improve!
I am very interested in finding out how you think we could offer MORE value with our service.
Thank you again for your review and I look forward to hearing any additional feedback that you may have.
Corey
May 14th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I think you should be offering some kind of VIP membership (i.e. access to a special area with information, articles etc only for your upgrading members).
I also mentioned statistics, but maybe some kind of other SEO tools like keyword analysing.
/Andreas
May 15th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
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June 6th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I'am new to the website building and to get good rankings from the search engines.
I had a call from aboutus and she said they could help me on the rankings for $197.
Is it worth the money?
My site http://www.mygreenbeginning.com is only two months old.
Every day I try to improve on it to get more visits.
Its indexed with google. With ranking of 0.
Any comments please send to me.
Thank You
June 6th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Since you can create your own AboutUs page about your domain name for free I think you should do so at first. They have guides and tutorials to help you build your page about your site. To start building your page simply visit http://www.aboutus.org/mygreenbeginning.com or have a look at how our page looks like http://www.aboutus.org/xaviermedia.com
When you start making some money from your site and you feel that you need a professionally created AboutUs page, then pay for their service.
/Andreas