Interesting concept - would like to hear what others think. Perhaps this would be very difficult to impletment, and not sure of Googles reaction to it. Could it be a breach of their TOS? Who would ultimately own the site etc...

the reason why i ask this, is because me and a friend are currently working on somekind of contentplatform, fully and agressevly following SEO standards combined with a strong SEM strategy. For the moment we allready gathered up to 10 final papers of students (psychologists, doctors, etc.) witch we rewrited to apprx. 100 articles and a total of 200 pages. All these papers are high quality and well written, ofcourse, because they suited university standards.

The problem is:

1) they're all in dutch
2) the sources aren't endless

So I thought: why don't take it global...

Could be compared with wikipedia, but... with personal adsense...

On a further extend we would start with internal linking of the pages based on the content.

For example: some dude in Asia writes about chinees traditional kitchen and I, in Belgium write a review of a chinese restaurant. The system then would link those two pages internal using tags or keywords... think Google would love it, not?

[edited by: ASchmitt at 1:40 pm (utc) on Sep. 19, 2006]

Squidoo.com is doing something rather similar to this at the moment, although they're moving in the direction of building their own brand and acting as a portal-of-portals, rather than any direction that might rival wikipedia.

I doubt if it would work, because you'd have all the quality-control problems of a Wikipedia plus the challenge of keeping the platform from being exploited by greedy, short-sighted AdSense publishers.

Also, I'd be skeptical of any massive worldwide communal project that was built around a single revenue source.

ok but what if you work with an editor level system...

For instance:

you have an editor, able to create pages... then you would have a moderator, needs to approve the pages and last an admin to overrule everything if necessary...

Don't forget.. this is just some brainstorming on a cloudy afternoon... ;)

I can't see it working, from a financial point of view.

Plus I can't really see the difference between how things are now. Pay for a hosting package, write content, add advertising.

you have an editor, able to create pages... then you would have a moderator, needs to approve the pages and last an admin to overrule everything if necessary...

You're going to have to work out a way for the moderator and editor to benefit, then. If it's a money-making endeavour, nobody's going to volunteer time for this.

What you could possibly do is set up a company, create an Adsense account for it, display the company's adblock, say, 20% of the time, and the writer's 80% of the time, and pay your moderators and editors from the funds raised. Percentages could be adjusted to suit, of course.

Or you could have one block of your adsense code on each page along with the editors adsense. Perhaps you have a link bar and the editor an adsense block.....But I still think it would be a logistical nightmare. Great concept though!

Or, better yet, have just the publisher's AdSense code on the pages and give the writers/editors a pro-rata share of the advertising revenue. But then you're back to the business model that About.com announced before its launch in 1997 and ultimately abandoned.

could it be possible if a lot of people accross the world would work together on one project, contentwise, to create a big contentplatform, in lot's of different languages and lot's of different topics,

uhm... is it just me or does that sound alot like the definition of the internet?

[google.com...]

And yes, it does;)

[edited by: Bddmed at 8:16 pm (utc) on Sep. 19, 2006]

meeh... there's a small difference...

Let me further explain my thought... there're thons of sites where webmasters and SEO dudes are willing to trade traffic, trade content etc. Everybody is trying to build there own little project and making some monney out of it... so why not find a sollution that we all benifit from?

For example: if I would meet someone that's native french speaking, i would be willing to trade some content with this guy in exchange for some quality dutch content to help expand our geographical target region. So why couldn't this be possible under one big project, having the SEO advantages.
Let's say you have 10 guy each posting quality content on the platform. All of them place there own adsense codes in their content. But (!) everybody, so those 10, are working togheter to promote and generate traffic to that one platform. This can be done by promoting own articles and maybe linking internal to articles of others or just promote the entire project. You see?

On a further bases, if everybody sends traffic by linking from own individual site and project... can't see why this wouldn't be working...

Little fantasy math:

10 editors, 10 different languages, 1 article a day (2 pages)
this makes 10 quality articles a day and 20 pages full of quality content... After one month you would have 300 quality articles and 600 quality pages, in different languages about different topics...

Keep in mind that this is a brain exercise... pro's and contra's are more then welcome, but please use decent arguments ;)

BTW: good morning to you all, sun shines brite here in Belgium

Drupal CMS has a contributed module called Adsense that has one feature for contributed content or shared-earnings that might be something close to what you are asking for. I might be wrong, but I'd take a look at it to see if it's the line.

[edited by: Gusgsm at 10:44 am (utc) on Sep. 20, 2006]

Hello,

First of all: sorry for my english, but I am not an english native :)

So back to topic:
I like the idea of working together for one goal. It should be much easier to gain traffic to one "global project" than to different single projects. Everbody would participate in the success of the project. Even if one individual does nothing or less than the ofthers for the project. And this is in my opinion the main problem: the human nature. Its the same reason why communism failed in so many countries.

Best regards from sunny Germany :)
Dominik

ok, following ;)

So it comes to the issue of human participation? Therefor I was thinking of somekind of moderators... if you put a quota of 1 article a day, it's easy to track everybody's article count... at the end of the week if a user has 2 articles instead of 7... you get the picture...

Hi,

Yes it's intresting, it's worthwhile to start on a smaller limited scale. If it shows signs of success then, maybe expand categories, countries, languages etc.

Regarding Adsense, the Adsense API [code.google.com...]
could be used for individual earnings of contributors.

My 2 cents.