Seekopia: Online Blogging That Helps You Make Money
The other day I came across Seekopia which is an online blog magazine you can personalize according to your own tastes and interests. Combining online advertising and blogging, Seekopia has created a completely new way to blog and earn money. Create your free blog today and Seekopia will help you build a list of followers by promoting your posts and keeping track of your readers. By starting a blog, you instantly own a share of advertising on each and every blog post in Seekopia. Seekopia uses both contextual ads as well as custom user adverts throughout the entire network.
The site itself is very simple and the idea is very similar to what Google are trying to do with their Knol project. It seems as though there are a huge amount of these types of sites on the net at the moment and the only way they are going to stay alive in the long run is by providing quality content and giving back good revenues to contributors.
I must admit a lot of work needs to be done on the design of Seekopia. Currently there seems to be a lot of blank space at the bottom of the home page and even in the sidebars of each blog. It is interesting to see that Seekopia is also using Google Adsense as their advertising provider, because this makes me wonder if they are providing the writers with 100% of the revenues or just splitting the percentage with the blogger.
There are many alternatives to blogging on a site like Seekopia, such as writing Paid per post on your own blog, writing for a blog network, writing on Google’s Knol project or simply writing your own blog with Wordpress and using Google Adsense to monetize your site. Overall I don’t really see the point of sites like Seekopia because they provide too much creative freedom to the journalist, but seems to provide little in return. As a user I would much rather read a highly targeted and professional blog compared to something like Seekopia.
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I’m the founder of Seekopia and just want to clarify a few things:
Seekopia only launched 3 weeks ago so yes, definitely there is a lot more work to be done. The blogs themselves will be much fuller shortly as we’re adding several new features in the next few weeks. And also, once you do log in, the homepage itself is much fuller, with more modules and customization settings.
Regarding the profit sharing, ALL blogger posts on Seekopia show our bloggers Google Adsense, not ours. We provide bloggers with 100% of the revenue. What we do have a share of is the Adsense profits from the site itself, like when browsing topics.
I agree that in certain occasions, highly targeted blogs are better. However, Seekopia is targeting mostly new bloggers who want to be part of a larger network. The whole point of Seekopia is to be able to set up a blog as easily as possible and give your posts exposure immediately, even when users don’t actually visit your blog directly.
We have many more updates planned and considering it’s only 3 weeks old, we’ve already got some excellent feedback with several new members joining daily.
Thanks for taking the time to review Seekopia and keep up the good work on your blog.