Affilipedia Dies a Wikid Death
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Back in October 2005, I launched Affilipedia, a wiki intended to be “the Affiliate Marketing Encyclopedia.” Today, I am saddened to announce the passing of the site.
Affilipedia was a non-commercial endeavor with the objective of defining the affiliate marketing space via the contributions of folks in the industry.
Unfortunately, the Web 2.0 doors swung open for affiliate marketers to submit articles and update terminology in the space, and nobody came.
Well, some people were there regularly. Adult, pharmaceutical, and ringtone spammer skells regularly overwrote content with their links. I was banning IPs for breakfast each day with these characters.
They shouldn’t shed a tear – all of their garbage links automatically had the nofollow attribute on them.
Anyhow, maybe it was the name (“sounds rather like some dreadful illness or worse, some heinous crime” – ThreadWatch), lack of need for it, or whatever. But that’s that for my wiki experiment.
Adieu Affilipedia.
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On July 30 @ 2:32 pm postedAffiliate Wiki – Affiliate Marketing Q&A and More…
Shawn Collins launched an Affiliate Marketing Wiki in 2005, that died due to an underwhelming lack of interest by the affiliate marketing community and an overwhelming amount of interest by spammers. ……
At least you have an awesome title for this blog post. Made me giggle.
reply to this commentDid you remove the ability to have links ?
Why not sell it…
reply to this commentI had an automatic nofollow attribute, so links didn’t carry a benefit wit the search engines, but outbound links could be created.
I considered that an essential component of the resource.
I’m open to any offers, but it’s not a commercial site, so I’m not sure who’d want to buy it just to provide a public service.
reply to this commentIt’s always sad when a site has lower than expected traffic.
But I think it’s still highly salvagable if you want to repurpose it and pull RSS feeds from affiliate blogs into it.
Pull about 10 high authority site feeds into there and you’d have a high authority site too.
You could then push the traffic from there into this blog and use it as a traffic gen mechanism.
Everyone could always use a little extra traffic.
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