Do-it-yourself wiki business directory keeps growing

West Chester, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/02/2010 -- About 30 months after re-launching as a user-generated directory of businesses, individuals, and ideas, the site MyWikiBiz.com has hosted over 1,000,000 page loads. Its success as an alternative to Wikipedia for "less notable" enterprises to gain exposure and boost search engine optimization is apparently not flagging, either. The directory's founder, Gregory Kohs, explains his site's recent traffic patterns, "We had more unique visitors in August than we had in July, and July had more than June."

Averaging over 55,000 page loads per month is something that only the most popular 75,000 sites or so can achieve. Which means that MyWikiBiz is a more popular Internet destination than about 99.9% of all registered web domains. The growth in traffic over time is borne out in a graphic chart hosted on the site:

http://www.mywikibiz.com/File:MWB_traffic_-_monthly_to_August_2010.jpg

To celebrate the recent milestone in traffic volume, MyWikiBiz is hosting a free contest for editors who register (also for free) on the site. To win $50, you have to be the first to correctly identify which image file on MyWikiBiz (there are many hundreds) has been actively clicked, copied, and saved by more site visitors than any other graphic on the site. Contest ends September 30, 2010.

More details about the contest are found at:
http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:MyWikiBiz_popular_image_contest

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MyWikiBiz announces a monumental goal -- that the fledgling site will eventually become a 265-million-page user-generated directory.

West Chester, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/22/2008 -- Having acquired the business database once hosted at Centiare.com, MyWikiBiz announces a monumental goal -- that the fledgling site will eventually become a 265-million-page user-generated directory. Established in Pennsylvania in 2006, MyWikiBiz launched a controversial service that authored articles suitable for Wikipedia in exchange for modest payment. The founder of MyWikiBiz rocketed to national exposure with favorable press coverage in the Washington Post, USA Today, Forbes, and a cable television appearance. Wikipedia, though, rejected MyWikiBiz.

So, MyWikiBiz dusted off and created a new Internet home at MyWikiBiz.com for all those people, companies, and organizations that Wikipedia rejects as "non-notable".

Why 265 million?
The United States Census counts nearly 239,000,000 Americans over the age of 15. The Office of Advocacy at the Small Business Administration says there are 24,700,000 businesses (including sole proprietorships) in this country. Finally, LearningToGive.org says there are 1,200,000 non-profit, public-serving organizations (churches, community service providers, etc.) and 400,000 non-profit, member-serving orgs (fraternal and professional associations, trade unions, political committees, etc.) in America.

Add them all up, and you get 265 million.

Wikipedia has decided that only about 1 million of these entities might ever be notable enough for their encyclopedia's pages. All others are regularly (and sometimes rudely) shown the door. MyWikiBiz will welcome these 265 million entities to its pages. As MyWikiBiz founder Gregory Kohs describes, "That's the 'forest'. If Wikipedia's having a problem with a particular 'tree' named ScoreHero.com or the Pittsburgh Bulldogs blocking their view, that's their loss and MyWikiBiz's gain."

New life on MyWikiBiz
Articles in Wikipedia about ScoreHero and the Bulldogs semi-pro baseball team were recently deleted by the Wikipedia community, but their stories take on new life on MyWikiBiz. The site is not intended, nor was it ever intended, to be a neutral encyclopedia. It is currently a 30,000-page directory, similar to the Yellow Pages, Who's Who, or the Wilshire 5000 index, except with the proviso that the subjects of the articles about legal entities are "protected" from abuse and are expected to be authored by their subjects. Says Kohs, "I would be quite surprised to see MyWikiBiz become a comprehensive reference about entities like planets, organic molecules, or Spanish Cardinals of the Catholic Church. However, I would not be surprised to see it become a well-liked directory about entities such as independent record producers, regional pizza franchises, church parishes, logo design firms, webcomics, semi-pro baseball teams, and tax consultants."

Clearly, the opportunity for MyWikiBiz to expand this way far exceeds that of Wikipedia, considering the latter's stringent "notability" standards. But, can MyWikiBiz ever catch the English Wikipedia's two-million-plus page count? "We've already hit 30,000 of them in our year-old effort. Wikipedia only had 19,600 articles in its first year," says Kohs.

About MyWikiBiz
MyWikiBiz is a new directory where you can author your legacy on the Internet. We think you are notable, even if Wikipedia has rejected an article about you or your enterprise as being "non-notable". With MyWikiBiz, you create a beautiful, reader-friendly page that will get picked up by Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Search engines, because it's built on an enhanced version of the same MediaWiki software architecture used by Wikipedia.

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A new service has begun at MyWikiBiz.com. Companies and organizations that currently lack an article on Wikipedia can remedy that situation by using the services of MyWikiBiz.com.

West Chester, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/07/2006 -- The Wikipedia encyclopedia has taken the Internet by storm. With over one million distinct articles in the English language, Wikipedia is now recognized as the web's #1 reference website. And yet, literally tens of thousands of notable corporations and non-profit organizations are still missing from the pages of Wikipedia. It's estimated that over 42,000 U.S. firms and organizations have at least 10 employees and $500,000 or more in annual revenues. Yet, Wikipedia lists only an estimated 12,000 of these notable entities. At least 30,000 noteworthy companies and non-profits are completely absent from the Wikipedia revolution!

As of July 2006, there is a new firm that will remedy this problem. MyWikiBiz.com authors Wikipedia articles for companies and organizations that presently lack exposure on the world's largest encyclopedia. Located in West Chester, PA, the small start-up filed for state recognition as a DBA entity, reserved the MyWikiBiz.com domain name, and constructed an online storefront that is open for business. The firm's founder, Gregory Kohs, comments on the need for corporate exposure on the pages of Wikipedia. "On an average day, over 6 million different Americans are accessing Wikipedia. I can't fathom how a company's marketing or communications manager can shut off the lights for the night, knowing that his or her organization is missing out on that market of 6 million people – each of them hungry for information."

While anyone can create or edit pages on Wikipedia, articles about companies or organizations are not easy to establish in encyclopedic form. An article that smacks too much of advertising or biased self-promotion will be quickly deleted by Wikipedia's editors. Also, a company should pass a three-part test of "notability" that Wikipedia demands before inclusion. Says Kohs, "Someone from the workaday world is likely to get very frustrated, very quickly, should they try to author their own article about their company on Wikipedia. Our editors are experienced, know the ins and outs of Wikipedia administration, and get the job done quickly. Not one of our corporate articles has ever been deleted by a Wikipedia admin."

MyWikiBiz.com has served clients in both the corporate and non-profit realms. The company offers three levels of editorial services, all for less than $100. The firm's website storefront accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and PayPal.

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