I’m disappointed with how the sale of Cash Quests has gone down. After reading that site daily for the best part of a year, there were times when I was inspired and educated to make money online. Although I often disagreed with the authors of Cash Quests, there were many articles that made that blog stand out. But now, after the blog was sold for $15,000, it’s been left for dead.

Somebody has obviously taken over the blog because the advertisements have been removed and replaced with large ad blocks. There hasn’t been a post on Cash Quests for more than a week and neither the old nor new owners have even mentioned the sale. Compare this with the sales of Blogging Fingers and Ryan Shamus’ blog and you see a stark difference – those sales were open and publicized.

Cash Quests was pulling in $1,300 a month, but why would any of the advertisers continue with their packages now? Furthermore, who is going to buy a review from Cash Quests? Take a look at the Cash Quests advertising page and, oh, wait a minute – there is no advertising page! It now point to a page on the website of the new owner(s) – IEntry.

It’s hard to imagine why a company would spend that kind of money on a blog only to kill it. Even the “About” page is now redirected to an IEntry page.

The iEntry Network consists of the best business-to-business web search engine, several targeted “niche engines” and email newsletters reaching over 6,000,000 unique opt-in subscribers. Total newsletter delivery is over 50 million emails per month.

It’s hard to believe that the owners of Cash Quests would let their blog fall into these hands when other bloggers have made it clear how important it was to them for their sold blogs to be treated well by the new owners. But then, it’s all about money, isn’t it?

Cash Quests is dead.

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Before I get started, I’ve got thank Sweet Hacks, where I won a contest this week. It’s about the fourth contest I’ve won, this time netting me $10 and a free link. Competitions are going on until the end of the year at Sweet Hacks, so go check them out and enter.

I was tagged in another contest and decided to participate because it’s original and something I’ve never seen before. Prija over at Blogging the Movie is holding a nofollow link contest. It’s created a bit of a stir and received a lot of entries, so I decided to pitch in as it’s Sunday and Sundays seem like a good day for contests.

Anyway, the prize is a copy of The Four-Hour Work Week, which I don’t really want but winning it couldn’t hurt. Here is the obligatory contest copy with three blogs I decided to add:

 

Prize

1. Free 4-Hour Workweek Book.

2. A chance to have a permanent link on front page of Blogging The Movie dot com.

3. Sign the Records Book as it travels to 10 different winners.

Contest

This contest is sponsored by BloggingTheMovie - A featured documentary about Bloggers. This contest contains no-follow links. So it is Google friendly and by creating an original introduction you won’t be dinged for duplicate content. This is an ongoing marketing campaign. There will be 10 winners at which each winner will be able to host their own contest which will be sponsored by Blogging The Movie. 1st Winner: Susan Suarez | 2nd Winner: Investing Adventures | 3rd Winner: Can be you!

Rules

1. Write an original short snippet introduction to avoid duplicate content.

2. Just copy the section between the start and end.

3. Add your 3 favorite blogs with rel=”nofollow” in between the link on the code page. i.e. <a href=”http://www.url.com/” mce_href=”http://www.url.com/” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”url name”>URL.com</a>. This is extremely important to ensure that Google won’t ding us. Make sure you contact the bloggers and insist they participate so they can keep this going.

4. Email your URL of your blog post to Free4hourWorkweek@gmail.com

[Deadline: 12/31/07 ]

Favorite Blogs

Betshopboy | DerekSemmler | Enkay Blog | MsDanielle | JimiMorrisonsHead | Siteguide.us | Darin.cc | JonLee.ca | Samanathon | MrGaryLee | KellyCho | SusanSuarez | RobertaFerguson | Bloggrrl | TheKingKongBlog | TheBeefJerkyBlog | LifeisColourful | MarketingDeviant | MaleWail | RomanDock | 40hourstogo | TylerCruz | JonathanVolk | Egonitron | SuncoastScribe | Gnaka | WorldOfAngel | MyBlogContest | TheGeekBoys | Courtney Tuttle | Neil Duckett | John Cow | Add your 3 Favorite Blogs here (it is important that you change the link to rel=”no follow”)

If you were not tagged, you can still copy the list and add yourself on. No worries, it’s a win-win for everyone. So lets get ready. Get on the list to become the 3rd winner on the Train Contest

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Remember all those wikis that popped up all of a sudden? Heard anything about them for a while? Probably not. The reason is because they have all but died, but it’s not the idea that died, it’s the wikis themselves, thanks to a lack of fresh ideas, decent content and effective promotion.

The Million Dollar Wiki hasn’t sold a page for over a month. The most popular pages, like “Business” and “Make money online”, got stiffed without any Page Rank. Out of 1,050 pages sold, only about half of those are even indexed in Google. The pages don’t rank high in Google for the chosen keywords. “Network marketing”, for example, isn’t in the top 100 on Google.

The Million Euro Wiki was picking up pace, but the owners who bought it from John Cow effectively killed it with their lack of ideas. It’s been over a month since the 73rd page was sold, the blog is never updated, the forums are empty, there’s no promotion going on – it’s dead. Cow did a great job of building the MEW up into something people were visiting, but since he passed it on, it’s died in the water.

I think this proves that products either need to be innovative or have constant buzz. The paid wikis weren’t innovative and the buzz died down after a while. Furthermore, people just didn’t know what to do with their pages, so the fad was never going to last.

The One Buck Wiki seems to be doing a little better, with 1,514 pages sold and most, if not all, of those are indexed in Google, but how long will it last?

Paid wikis are dead.

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