#I have some pics but where to post?
*If you could upload them to Bangari, then we can place them in the articles...artistically! We will improve on this as we go. We have to keep it looking good. That is one thing about Factoidz, that was always a very neat, organized site, and that helped get it to the top fast. We need to do the same.
For those who are unsure about what this is it is an album of pics we keep "behind the scenes" at BCG and when we want to we can add the pics to articles for public view. Which means you can all upload pics - even now - even if you haven't written articles yet.
#I think you have to imagine many writers and many clients and see if we could still run the system the same way. e.g. If we had 100 writers could/should we still have all the names at the top of the front page? If we had loads of writers all posting on BCG at the same time how do we monitor quality, maybe there should be a select few (founders) posting so they can also proof and monitor at the same time, this would also avoid sabotage by not opening posting rights to 100s of writers.
*I’ll reformat the front page as we grow. If we get to 100’s of writers, we’ll keep “editors/founders” at the top, and maybe put writers on the side. Sabotage is always a concern. I’m always looking for the best ways to prevent that and protect against it. I’m open for suggestions.
#I've found with EX_Factoidz articles I've spun to 90% or even more uniqueness when I run them through copyscape there are still bits that come up the same, is this acceptable? What percentage of similarity is acceptable to the robots?
*60% acceptable for social bookmarking.
70% good
80% excellent
90% passes CopyScape and you can’t get more original than that.
#My second biggest worry is people just taking our material off the site, we hopefully will be too busy to be copyscaping everything. We could use the system Constant Content uses of placing the articles on the site as images.
*Jing is a great tool for capturing and posting text “screen shots.” I know we want to busy writing...But don’t forget, it’s just as important to link, promote, post, monetize, do SEO and research potential clients, make sales, recruit new members, develop new ideas, learn new technology, etc. I “cheat” copyscape by using Google (saves ten cents, haha) but searching for plagiarists is a perfect first step to finding links, new clients and new recruits. That, and Alexa are the best two tools for that. There is nothing we can do if they “spin” our content, and we can do the same with stuff we find when we do our research. If they post it verbatim, we don’t have to worry because it was posted by us first. The bots now have a sort of “built in “CopyScape” and when they see duplicate content, they take points away from the reposter and give points to the original poster’s site.
Will clients buy the content already on our site, won't they want unpublished content?
#Simple, simple simple, ABC... do this then this then this...that's what will make it workable on a large scale.
*I couldn't agree more. We will be writing a lot of these step by step instructions. As editors and founders, we need to know the hows and whys of what we are doing overall. But on a larger scale, I’m sure it will begin to “compartmentalize.” some folks will be great at writing and spinning, yet suck at posting and not have a clue about SEO...Others will do everything else but write. Some will just deal with sales. Each of these departments will have step by step instructions.
So if we limit posting rights to a few who know how we also solve the sabotage threat.
#Its all still not simple enough - that's my biggest thought.
I know. I’m well aware that it is complicated. I’m hoping for two things: One, to get some decent revenue flowing so even if contributors don’t understand how the payments are being calculated, they “bottom line” it, and realize that it is better than Factoidz and AC...Two, I’m think that eventually, someone who understands accounting and algorithms will come along and say “Hey Kevin, that is a real good thing you figured out, you found a way to get content producers a fair wage for their work. Your team is going to be a huge success and we want to support you...how can we invest?”
Absolutely right, I probably made more on the Billy project than a year on Factoidz.
Look forward to hearing what everyone thinks, please leave comments and questions.
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