Wow, listen up guys. GOOGLE is trying to make a paid wiki concept called Knols Project! Basically it’s free but they are offering 50% ad revenue sharing. So in essence, it’s a paid wiki concept.

The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily discoverable. There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it. We believe that many do not share that knowledge today simply because it is not easy enough to do that. The challenge posed to us by Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal.

Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project.

The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors’ names right on the cover, news articles have bylines, scientific articles always have authors — but somehow the web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names highlighted. We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content. At the heart, a knol is just a web page; we use the word “knol” as the name of the project and as an instance of an article interchangeably. It is well-organized, nicely presented, and has a distinct look and feel, but it is still just a web page. Google will provide easy-to-use tools for writing, editing, and so on, and it will provide free hosting of the content. Writers only need to write; we’ll do the rest.

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It’s always very funny how we are jumping from this FiveDollarWiki to OneBuckWiki to now, EntreWiki. Well, we are learning new ways to incorporate the latest Web2.0 technologies while upgrading all the sites. Although FiveDollarWiki has been a little slow lately, don’t worry, we are just using the new wiki sites as guinea pigs.

Check out the new Web 2.0 Business Directory of Business Ideas and Opportunities, EntreWiki.

What’s different from the FiveDollarWiki?

Basically, we setup the page for you. If you have an advertisement creative for your ad, we convert it into a Wiki page. This might be useful for Businesses that sell Businesses such as a Franchise or anything you can promote through dealers.

On the positive note, we’ve sold zero pages so far but we are giving out free pages to business-related bloggers and stumblers.

Are you a blogger? You are in luck then.

In order to start our second Beta stage, we are promoting the Five Dollar Wiki again with 5 free pages!

There are two ways you can get 5 free pages:

1. Write a blog post about Five Dollar Wiki with minimum 150 words

2. OR add one of our buttons to your sidebar or footer.

P.S. You can also earn a free page on our new EntreWiki. Check out the free pages for bloggers in detail here.

We have a new feature that lets you add RSS Feeds to your pages!

You can refer to the RSS Feed section of the QuickStartGuide for more info or read below:

If you have a blog or website with RSS Feed, you can easily bring up your posts on your page.

Continue reading ‘New Feature - Add RSS Feeds to your pages!’

We’ve removed No-Follow links so now you will benefit from SEO and linkbacks to your websites. Although we thought we did this before, we just realized we didn’t but fixed the problem within about 5 minutes.

Another great reason to invest in the FiveDollarWiki = priceless

Although our Wiki software doesn’t allow us to add external images or URLs, we’ve hacked our own software so you can:

You can also check out the advanced image methods at our QuickStartGuide.

Click below to see the full howto:

Continue reading ‘New Feature - Adding external images and URLs’

We have a new feature…again!

You can now put scripts such as Google AdSense by following these instructions.

They have been working for Kontera, Bidvertiser, and others too.

Click below for full instructions.

Continue reading ‘New Feature - Add Google AdSense or any other ads without embedding an HTML page’

Now, you can add technorati tags to your posts.

Simply use <tag>MyTag</tag> to add tags.

Refer to the tags part of our StartGuide for more detailed infomation.

These technorati tags will get your keyword listed on the first page of Google faster.

Since our Featured Pages are being updated very frequently and there are SO many pages to cover, we made a new Waiting List where you can list your page and descriptions about your pages. Simply edit the page and add your pages here to be listed next on the Homepage Featured Section.

This way, we won’t have to go through hundreds of pages and whoever finishes their page first can get on the Featured Page based on First-Come-First-Serve.

List yourself on the Waiting List today!

We have been a little slow updating our featured pages here on the FDW but we will keep rotating pages. In the meanwhile, please add your pages to the categories for SEO!