An Experiment With Wikidot
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I first tried out Wikidot earlier this year after getting Dennis Becker’s WSO, ‘Rank High With Wikis’ (not aff), and I was very impressed with the results. I created a few wikis and found that they were generally indexed in just a few hours plus they did rank well.
It’s actually a few months since I last created a wiki though and I wanted to test out whether or not I could get similarly good results with just a few hours work.
Basically all I did was choose two products - both get reasonably good searches each month according to the Google keyword tool, however one had 130,000 pages in competition (all very well optimized by other marketers - a very popular Clickbank product) and the other had only 11,700 in competition (both product names were searched for in brackets).
I registered 2 wikis using the product names (the urls look like this: productname.wikidot.com) and wrote a quick review of each product and added them to the wikis. Wikidot isn’t the most straightforward web 2.0 site to use if you haven’t used it before (it doesn’t use standard html), but once you’ve used it once or twice it’s actually quite easy.
So my site name was the product name, my tagline also included the product name, and I added tags (which are very important). Other than that (content wise) I only added the review on the home page of my wikis.
Next I went to Social Marker and bookmarked both with 25 social bookmarking sites ( 25 because I haven’t signed up to all the sites listed, plus some of them don’t seem to work).
2 hours later, both were indexed.
Here’s my results:
For the site with 130,000 competition in brackets: Ranked no. 41 for the product name and ranked no. 21 for ‘product name review’ (which isn’t too bad considering the competition).
For the site with only 11,700 competition in brackets: Ranked no. 14 for the product name and ranked no. 6 for ‘product name review’ - also my Digg is no.7 and my Mixx is no.5 (two of the social bookmarking sites that I submitted to that link back to my wiki).
All in all, for about an hour and a half of work I’m pretty happy with the results, and it seems to be a good way to test out new products. I could probably get these ranked on page 1 of Google pretty easily with some more content and backlinks, but I’m not sure that I want to - I’d prefer to create a site of my own (probably hosted wordpress) and get that ranked instead.
In my experience it’s ALOT quicker to get indexed than Squidoo, and ALOT easier to rank highly with. However it doesn’t have the same functionality, and of course it’s quite bland looking. I think it’s quite a good site to add to your web 2.0 arsenal if you haven’t already though, and is an easy way to funnel some extra traffic to one of your own sites.
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