Suite101.com
Suite101.com was a content farm , an ad-supported online publishing - site , on the authors were able to publish posts. The English-language parent site existed from 1996 to 2014 and was published by Suite101.com Media Inc. in Vancouver , Canada . Hubert Burda Media was one of the company's shareholders. The German-language branch Suite101.de was founded in 2008. From 2009 to 2014 there are also Spanish and French language versions.
At US universities, the course number “101” denotes a course for beginners, and “ Suite ” stands for business premises or an apartment as well as for a useful combination (see Office Suite ). Suite101 originally stood for a collection of helpful introductory courses.
description
Suite101 provides a platform for freelancers to write content for. The focus is on the search engine optimization of the articles in order to increase the number of hits, as suite101.com CEO Peter Berger says: “the name of the game in this space is SEO: writing content 'that search engines want to present their users. '“To this end, the authors are trained in optimizing their texts for search engines.
The operators can leave the authors the free choice of topics because there are no fees, but a share of the revenue from online advertising on the article pages. According to the author's contract, suite101 can determine the revenue share at its own discretion. According to the company's own information, it amounts to an average of US $ 3.90 per 1000 page impressions for the English-language edition (as of September 2009). In the German-language edition, it is around 2.50 euros (as of August 2010).
According to its own information, the English-language site has over 2000 subject areas, which are divided into 20 categories (e.g. "Business and Finance" or "World Affairs") and 400 specialty areas ("Asian History", "Pet Care"). Suite101.com has first published articles, blogs and further links on each topic . Moderated discussion forums are also open to registered users . Suite101.com reaches around 30 million readers (unique visitors) every month with over 10,000 freelance authors worldwide (as of September 2010). According to its own information on the website, the German-language Suite101.de has around 1000 authors with around 40,000 factual texts and around two million readers (unique visitors) (as of November 2010). The company has meanwhile published media data according to IVW , but refrained from doing so again after 2 years and cited unchecked figures from Google Analytics .
history
Suite101.com started in 1996 as a community of (unpaid) amateur writers who wrote introductions and articles about their interests . Suite101.com was listed between 1998 and 2003. At the beginning of 2006, the company was taken over by a group of private investors with the participation of Burda Media and restarted with a new management, revised design and (since the beginning of 2007 ) the current revenue sharing model . Hubert Burda Media holds 42.78%, another shareholder is Boris Wertz, founder of AbeBooks .
The breakeven point was reached in operational business for the first time in 2010 . The company plans to get into content syndication and offer the content to other media for second publication.
In 2011 the German-language branch gave up its editing, articles have not been checked since then, and authors are no longer supported. Active operations were discontinued in July 2013. "Suite101.de will not accept any new registrations with immediate effect," it says on the start page of the author network. Previous articles by the authors remain online and are available to readers for comments. In addition, the authors continue to generate income and can edit existing articles and view the statistics. You keep the copyright for the articles and can publish them anywhere you want.
Towards mid-2014, suite101.com ceased operations and the content was removed. A new project with a focus on social sharing through personal contributions called suite.io has been named the successor. The articles on Suite101.de were online until November 28, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Craig Silverman: How Content Farms Train Their Writers to Write for the Web . In: MediaShift , Public Broadcasting Service, July 22, 2010.
- ↑ ReadWriteWeb.com: Content Farms 101: Why Suite101 Publishes 500 Articles a Day ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 20, 2010
- ^ Suite101.de Authors' Agreement in the version dated December 7, 2010
- ↑ CBS -BNET: How 29-Year-Old Mom Made $ 5k in July on Suite101 , accessed July 8, 2010
- ↑ Helmut van Rinsum: Journalism on Demand: Call a Content - You search, we write . In: Advertise & Sell, Süddeutscher Verlag, August 25, 2010
- ↑ An earlier version of the Suite101.de FAQ from the beginning of 2009, quoted from: onlinejournalismus.de: Forget the media crisis, Suite101 has good news for you! ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 9, 2009
- ↑ Burda limited liability company, consolidated financial statements for the 2009 financial year, dated November 30, 2010
- ↑ Der Kontakter: suite101.de , edition of October 4, 2010, page 18
- ↑ The Contacter: Monetizing User Content; Adsense is just the beginning , October 18, 2010 issue, page 20
- ↑ Suite101.de will no longer accept new registrations from now on ( Memento from August 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Suite101.com, July 22, 2013. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
