Via RRW:
The consumer product review site SharedReviews.com will announce tomorrow that it has taken an undisclosed sum of investment from parties in the domain buying industry. Those investors include Frank Schilling, one of the world’s most successful domain buyers, Seattle based early-stage VCs Monster Venture Partners and the big domainers at Internet Real Estate Group.
Content from SharedReviews will subsequently be leveraged to populate a vast swath of parked domains. Genericly named domains, misspelled domains, random domains that show up in search results - now they’ll have real live (syndicated) content on them, in addition to contextual advertising. Though it’s easy to look with suspicion on anything that big domainers do, this might not be so bad for the rest of us.
Great choice of initial investors. Congrats Frank, Peter!
The idea looks great but with only $2 per review it could be very difficulat to motivate the masses.
Francois,
Thank you for your comment.
We are only paying $2 per review as a beta bonus for users contributing early before the new revenue sharing model is unveiled with the full launch. We expect our community members to earn significantly more than that; you can see a hint of how it will work here: http://sharedreviews.com/how_different
Considering the current pay, about 7,500 approved reviews does indicate that even though this will be the low end of what a user could make, it still compels significant contributions by our participants. I would like to add that we are very happy with the quality of the reviews that we have collected.
/Frank
I am wondering how you did to get 7,500 review of quality at $2 the piece…
I am jaleous, this look likes magic!
But shuuuttt! Don’t reveal your secrets.
Sometimes the success key on such services is not on what you pay but on how you present the deal.
Something is sure, there is a huge need of fresh content to populate (for example) all these parked sites with original data of interest.
The partners you got for this project MAKE SENSE.
My wishes of success Frank.
Francois, you said it. Original content is needed and that is a lot of work. This is what will make sites or break them. If you don’t live and breathe the business, it will be hard. I run three startups and my own blog and it’s a 24/7 business. Get good people around you and things will happen. Sharedreviews.com sounds good so far. The players are solid and now all that is left is to execute.
Paul Rubillo
Could this move mark the end of conventional parking (PPC landing pages) and a move to a more search engine friendly content laden microsite? The biggest flaw in the direct navigation model was the ease with which search engines could purge the direct navigation sites from their indices. With this syndicated content model, the line between direct navigation and content becomes blurred. It should be interesting to see how the search engines will react.
Hello Paul,
Out of context but I cannot resist:
I just discovered your blog.
and found your tagline very funy
PaulRubillo.com
Because Oprah Dont Blog
Well found.
This is very good news for domainers. The long awaited marriage between PPC and PPL (pay per lead) on parked pages with dynamic contents and products can be achieved.
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I would say that this review is of great idea and information. Keep it up.
I was wondering now that it’s nearly a year later…
How are things going for SharedReviews.com
Anything new on the horizon ??
~DomainBELL (Patricia Kaehler)