Suite101

Suite101.com is a content farm, an ad-supported online publishing site can publish articles on the authors. The English mother side exists since 1996 and is published by Suite101.com Media Inc. in Vancouver, Canada. Hubert Burda Media is one of the shareholders of the company. The German -language offshoot Suite101.de was founded in 2008. Since 2009, Spanish and French versions exist.

At American universities designated the course number "101" a beginner's course, and " Suite" is available for both commercial premises or apartment as well as a useful compilation ( cf. Office suite ). So Suite101 originally stood for a collection of helpful introductory courses.

Description

Suite101 provides a platform to write content for freelancers. The focus is on the search engine optimization of articles to increase the number of views, such 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 articles for search engines.

The operator can leave the authors a free choice of topics, as there are no fees, but a revenue share of the revenues from online advertising on the article pages. The revenue share can be set according to the author Treaty of Suite101 's discretion. It is according to own data for the English edition average U.S. $ 3.90 per 1,000 page views (as of September 2009). In the German edition, it is about 2,50 euros (as of August 2010).

According to information from the English side over 2000 themes, which in 20 categories (eg, " Business and Finance" or " World Affairs " ) and 400 specialties ( "Asian History", "Pet Care" ) has divided. There is first published by Suite101.com articles, blogs and links to each theme. Registered users can also open moderated discussion forums. Globally, Suite101.com, with over 10,000 freelance writers around 30 million monthly readers ( unique visitors ) (September 2010). For German Suite101.de include self-reported on the website approximately 1000 authors with approximately 40,000 non-fiction and about two million readers ( unique visitors ) (November 2010). The company does not Media IVW or AGOF, but only mentions unaudited figures from Google Analytics.

History

Suite101.com started in 1996 as a community of ( unpaid ) Hobby authors who wrote introductions and articles on their interests. Between 1998 and 2003 Suite101.com was listed. In early 2006 the company was taken over by a group of private investors, with the participation of Burda Media and started with new management, redesigned and ( since 2007 ) the current revenue sharing model new. Hubert Burda Media holds 42.78 %, other shareholder is Boris Wertz, founder of AbeBooks.

In 2010, the income threshold has been reached in the operating business for the first time. The company plans to enter the content syndication and deliver the contents of other media for the second- publication.

2011 was the German -language offshoot of his editorial contributions have since no longer checked, no longer supported authors. In July 2013, the active has ceased operations. " Suite101.de now accepts any new applications more " it says from now on the home page of the author network. Previous article the authors remain online and available to readers for comments. Furthermore, the authors continue to generate revenue and can edit existing items and view the statistics. You retain the copyright for the articles and can publish at any desired location with it.