Comments on: Qondio Or Qassia, They Both Suck

By: Sire

Sire — Tue, 31 May 2011 04:39:06 +0000

I think it all depends on now long your link is there for, if it ever gets on the front page. Now that I have a new niche to promote I may just revisit that site to see what it has anything new to offer.
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By: Sid@Geeks Make Money

Sid@Geeks Make Money — Tue, 31 May 2011 00:27:03 +0000

Sire,
That is true. However, your article might be featured on the homepage, in which case you get a backlink (your signature) through the homepage of a PR7 site. Plus, if your content is local, you can get it more easily published on their US or UK or Australia sites (lower PR but still). Now, I don’t know how much a temporary link from a high PR blog will count. In any case, perhaps it is a good start, just to get some quick indexing from Google for a new site!
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By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 30 May 2011 23:10:46 +0000

Yep, it’s almost two years old but is still getting some traffic as people enquire as to what they’re all about. So, they charge $5 now, reckon I was lucky I signed up when it was free.

Although it’s a PR7 site doesn’t the juice you get depend on the rank of the page your link is on. So if you write a new article it won’t have any PR and so there are no benefits until your article gets a ranking.
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By: Sid

Sid — Mon, 30 May 2011 20:18:14 +0000

This seems like an old thread, so sorry for the late comment, but you might want to add, that they now charge $5 for joining, so it is no longer free. Perhaps it will be a nice addition to your rant!

By the way, just out of curiosity, it is a PR7 site – do you think backlinks from them will be any useful for a website, even if they are at the cost of a wasted article? I am asking because they don’t seem to have very high quality of screening/standards, so it doesn’t seem hard to publish there just to get a backlink (and perhaps trickles of traffic, but mostly backlinks)
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By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:18:54 +0000

I don’t ever recall getting any hits from them. I had a few thousand credits with them. I suppose they’re still there, but I’m not sure since I haven’t been back since this post.
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By: Robert C - The Wholesale List Guy

Robert C - The Wholesale List Guy — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:28:10 +0000

I have an account with Qassia – or – Qondio as they use to be called – lol. I agree – I don’t know the difference was or why you changed a name from a confusing – hard to pronounce name – to another name – that is – well – pretty confusing and hard to pronounce..

I have one question that I never been able to figure out. I have about seven articles listed there. I have accumulated “points” or intel points – about 2000 of them. What do I do with them – and where do I spend them – if they can be spent?

Never really understood that concept and cant’ find anything on the site that really explains it. Use to be able to read the articles they have featured there and get points that way. And, did you ever find anything of value from Qassia? Any traffic – whatever…

I get a few hits to my site from them once in a while but other then that, nada. Maybe it is because I don’t let other people copy, share, and change my articles?

What say you??

Robert C – The Wholesale List Guy

By: Sire

Sire — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:42:47 +0000

Oh I understand their reasoning, I’m just not willing to give them first shot at my articles.

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:14:56 +0000

I can understand both viewpoints, yours that prime content should first go to prime sites and Aaron from Qondio that they want to stay in / get into Google’s good books and search results and therefor need good, unique content. The reason I never wrote much for Qondio is that Google “doesn’t like them” imho when it comes to SERPs. Take for example Hubpages, Infobarrel or even Squidoo, their content turns up frequently in the first pages of Googles search results, never seen an “intel” there. Also when I look up backlinks to my sites, I can’t remember seeing an intel as a source. So, I concentrate on other places, but I still keep my account, you never know for what you need it one day! SY
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By: Sire

Sire — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:19:28 +0000

Thanks for your comment, but you must agree that the wording you used could easily be misunderstood.

I’m sure there are a lot of people that love to post little snippets, but personally I would rather save that for twitter.

I much prefer to deal with Helium as not only am I allowed to post my articles, they actually earn me money that I can use.

Once again, thanks for your comment, I’m sure my readers will find it of interest.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:54:20 +0000

I would like to start off by saying, thank you for this post. There have been very few posts critical of Qassia/Qondio – as far as I know only two, ever since our inception, including this one.

A critical posts helps us realize what we could be doing better.

In this case, your post is invaluable because it alerts us to the fact that we need to be doing a much better job communicating about the types of content we are encouraging users to add.

We most definitely would NOT want first shot at one of your articles. That would be presumptious.

Since inception, Qondio has been about enabling the addition of content that otherwise would not have been added to the web.

That’s why we call it intel – or intelligence.

Instead of posting one of your articles, post a snippet of info about a restaurant near your house. Or the school you send your kids too. Or a business in your neighborhood. Or a doctor you visited recently.

You wouldn’t post an article about a good dish to order at your local restaurant, since that wouldn’t be in keeping with the theme of your blog (I assume). But you could post that on Qondio. You can post ANY kind of info on Qondio – and we are looking ESPECIALLY for stuff that isn’t related in any way to your website. Content that would otherwise go to waste.

If you happen to visit a place, or come across a tidbit of info others might potentially find useful, post it to Qondio.

For more info about intel, please take a look at this page:

http://admin.qondio.com/about-intel

Allow me to also explain why we want only fresh, virgin content. We discovered (the hard way) that folks are quick to post regurgitated content already found on hundreds of other sites, rather than post something original and fresh. Regurgitated content doesn’t help our site stand out on the web, so it doesn’t do much good in providing the contributor with a good backlink.

Our site is now gradually becoming recognized by the leading search engine as a sterling source of original content, and that recognition is reflected in the serps. Despite being a new domain with relatively few backlinks, Qondio pages regularly show up in the top 10 search results. Our focus on improving content quality at the expense of quantity has enhanced traffic quality, too, improving revenue numbers for our contributors.

Again, thank you for your post, and thank you for allowing me to post this comment. Rest assured we will be working to communicate better with our contributors to minimize similar misunderstandings in future.

Aaron, of the Qondio Development Team