Have You Tried Qassia Yet?
I have just joined Qassia so that I can check it out a little closer. As part of the 30 Day Challenge we have been covering some sites that help you build backlinks to a new blog. Qassia isn’t one of the sites that has been covered but it looks like being a candidate.
From the Qassia website:
Qassia is a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory. What exactly does this mean? It means that Qassia will change your life.
At Qassia, you can add your websites for free, and without having to add reciprocal backlinks. You’ll get unlimited quality backlinks (as opposed to useless “no-follow” backlinks). You can also add intel. Short for “intelligence”, intel is a tidbit of information.
Qassia is sometimes confused with sites like Wikipedia, Squidoo, and most recently, Google knol. Qassia is fundamentally different from these sites, because Qassia is not about asking people to upload authoritative articles. You don’t need to be an egghead at Qassia. You could upload a lengthy academic treatise if you want, by all means, but you can also get away with contributing a hastily scribbled tidbit of information about a person, a company, a place, an event, a thing, or anything you know about.
Like Squidoo and other websites, Qassia has an advertising revenue sharing program. So if you’re keen to get involved in a heavy way, you could actually reap some very handy rewards from it. For me personally, I’m more interested in the backlinks side of Qassia.
For those interested in the revenue sharing side of Qassia, it’s as simple as providing your google adsense number. You then get 100% of google revenue for any intel that you add to Qassia.
Like most things, the more you put into a site like Qassia, the more you are going to get from it. The system allocates Qassia Dollars to your account for certain activity (such as referrals, adding intel and screening other people’s intel). The more Qassia Dollars you have, the better your site will rank.
The purpose of this post is really to let you know Qassia exists. When I’ve been using it for a while, I’ll write a follow-up post which details more of the “hows” of using Qassia.
As Qassia is still in beta, you can only sign up via another Qassia user. You can join via my page by clicking here. It’s free so you really don’t have anything to lose by checking it out.
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Comments
I signed up with Qassia some time ago, through an invite by Alex Goodall.
I am not sure why but Google really doesn’t like giving me backlink credit. After months of waiting for a few Qassia backlinks still nothing. I do get the backlinks in Yahoo and MSN but they don’t seem to make money, as Google does.
Not sure what else to do but I stopped using Qassia after months of not seeing any SERP results in Google.
I found out about Qassia while searching for article sites
to submit to. Qassia offers so many benefits. For someone
who is not a professional writer, Qassia seems to be a good fit.
They do not edit your submissions.
They do not require
long authoritative content. You just submit Intel about
the people, events, and things within your experience.
That should be easy for most people to do.
I have found some not so welcome changes at Qassia.
They seem to be significantly tightening their requirements for article exposure. Lately only the higher ranking
content receives any meaningful exposure.
There have been instances when average ranking articles
were not displayed for any meaningful length of time.
Qassia is not the care free place it once was.
This is a recent change. They are reducing the exposure the average ranking articles receive on their sight.
The whole purpose of putting your articles there is to gain exposure. The whole point was not to feature professional
articles, but the every day events in the average persons life. That seems to be in doubt now.
There seems to be little point in the whole process, now.
Qassia seems to be mostly ignored by Google.
To get the articles on Qassia indexed, you must direct Google to the Qassia site, using a site map.
Perhaps being elite and upper crust is not everyting.
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I signed up yesterday but do not really understand anything yet. Looking forward to your post on you follow up on how to use it.