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- Minimum Number of Pages Allowed: 2
- Maximum Number of Pages Allowed: 1000
- Record Earned Weekly: M$431 - October 20, 2009 http://www.mahalo.com/leaderboard/users?...
- Record Earned Monthly: M$1,484 - October 20, 2009 http://www.mahalo.com/leaderboard/users?...
- Page Management Opened: June 3, 2009
- Mahalo 3.0 Launched: November 15, 2009
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Introduction
Mahalo Page managers are users and community members who make it their responsibility to keep Mahalo pages current, updated and full of relevant content for the topics they are responsible for. Mahalo shares revenue earned on Mahalo Pages with page managers. This page offers resources for Mahalo page managers.
Mahalo.com provides page managers with the tools to turn any search result into an interactive, informative, dominant source for those who perform searches on the web. Mahalo page managers are encouraged to visit their managed pages often to perform manual updates and to curate link sections. This practice greatly helps to keep Mahalo pages fresh for new and returning Mahalo visitors.
One of the essential keys to helping your page rank well is to update it. Each update has a positive, long lasting effect on the health of your Mahalo Page and ultimately the earnings your page will reward you with. Each update is also an improvement on the Mahalo community as a whole, each individual improvement makes Mahalo a better search engine for our visitors. This Mahalo Page Management Guide offers several different options of update you can perform on Mahalo pages. If you are looking for information on how to build each individual section of a Mahalo page from scratch, check out the information - How to Build a Mahalo Page Guide.
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The News Report Update Option
Each Mahalo Page has a guide note; this is the portion of your page that gets picked up by major search engines. Every time you update the guide note text this is recognized greatly by these traffic sources.
You learn from the ''how to write a guide note'' page, that the first paragraph of the guide note is nothing but a short, mini-encyclopedia-esque description of the topic.
The '''second paragraph is the latest news on your topic'''. Write an original paragraph describing the latest newsworthy event on your topic, you can always news information from any source you trust in regards to your topic. These are important updates for your Mahalo Page as it is proven Mahalo readers appreciate when guide notes present the latest information, search engines will also raise your rank based on guide note updates.
News reports are easy for page managers to perform. After reading an article from a trustworthy source, your update should only take a couple minutes, as you only need to write a short paragraph.
Always remember to ad a citation at the end of a news paragraph.
To learn more about the elements of a guide note, check out How to Write a Guide Note.
jeffhoard added a comment September 04, 2009 06:40 AM| ReportReporting a paragraph of news on your page helps search engines know that your page is up to date.
thet3mpo added a comment November 05, 2009 12:00 PM| ReportAwesome tip. I'm going to learn how to make an awesome page! -
The Featured Object Option
A lot of Mahalo Pages keep a "featured object" at the top of their page. Some ideas for featured objects include the most significant and/or current video found on YouTube or a defining image on the topic. Providing a 150 to 200 word description has proven to be an essential technique in raising a pages profile in search engines.
Video descriptions must be original, and cannot be copy and pasted text.
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The Curated Google Search Option
Each Mahalo topic page has the option of importing the top Google search results from the page builder. When you do so, sometimes the results may not be the best results for your topic. It is important to curate this section to remove any unhelpful links to your visitors. This includes links to un-managed websites, spam results, untrustworthy and uncited websites. Mahalo readers expect mostly the most reputable sources with Mahalo search results.
Below is a great list of what Mahalo expects from the links we connect our readers to.
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Remember the Mahalo Link Promise
- We will not link to:
- ... spam sites.
- ... non-spam sites that have deceptive, or overbearing, advertising. For example, we will not link to splogs - spam blogs that have nothing but ads above the fold, forcing you to scroll down to get to the content, which might be scraped from another site. This includes sites that are largely advertorial.
- ... any sites that give the appearance of participating in phishing or any other type of malicious activity ("phishing" being the fraudulent acquisition of sensitive personal information by masquerading as a trustworthy entity).
- ... sites that simply regurgitate information from other sites with or without giving credit where credit is due. For example, if you have a blog that you use to simply aggregate your favorite posts about gadgets from other, more notable gadget blogs (such as Engadget or Gizmodo)—without adding substantial value and information via your blog—then we will always link directly to the source of the information rather than to your blog.
- ... sites which scrape or re-purpose other people's content without permission. Note: We are not able to police every site we link to, so we will make mistakes. If we're linking to a site which you feel is misappropriating your content please let us know by clicking the "Report" link on the search result page in question.
- ... sites of unknown origin (i.e. we cannot establish who operates the site).
- ... sites which have adult content or hate speech.
- We will link to:
- ... sites that are considered authorities in their field (i.e. Edmunds for autos, Engadget for consumer electronics, and the New York Times for news).
- ... sites which create original, high-quality content on a consistent basis.
- ... sites that have been operating for over one year. Sites under a year will be considered, but most will be placed in a "member-submitted" section at the bottom of the page until they hit the one-year mark.
- ... sites that have clean layout, design, and a modest amount of advertising.
The Multimedia Update Option
When a Mahalo Page is built, it will automatically grab related videos from YouTube and images from Flickr. However, sometimes they are not always completely relevant to the page. Spend some time and click through each one and remove the un-related ones. Also feel free to re-order the videos and images in the manner you believe the viewer will most appreciate them.
To get the menu toolbar to appear, simply hover any video or image.
Also learn about Creative Commons Image Search for adding free images onto your Mahalo page.
jncasanova added a comment August 08, 2009 12:22 AM| ReportCan we fix the size of images (these appear zoomed in as default) and upload our own video thumbnails?
The Q&A Option
Most Mahalo Pages have a Mahalo Answers questions box, this means you or anybody who visits your Mahalo Page can ask a question about the topic. However if there are no questions yet on Mahalo Answers related to your topic, the search engines pulls in the next closest term, meaning your Q&A section could appear completely unrelated to your topic.
Use the question box on your page, and ask enough questions to get rid of the unrelated defaults. Another option is to use the Mahalo TwitterSearch tool, which is at the disposal of green belt and higher users.
Don't be discouraged if they don't appear right away, it could take up to 24hrs before they appear on your page.
mithrandir added a comment September 13, 2009 06:45 PM| ReportDon't just ask questions for the sake of this section, ask only meaningful, appropriate questions.
The Secondary Search Option
From the Page Builder you can add addition "Google Search" sections. However instead of the results being the same as the first Google Search section, you can change what Google is searching for by clicking edit.
So if your page is about Peterborough Vacation, add a search results for accommodations or hotels. It can be helpful and relevant to add a second related search to your Mahalo Topic Page, but you want to keep this practice to a Minimum, for now we recommend you maintain a maximum "Google Search" limit of two sections.
Questions and Answers About How To Update A Mahalo Page
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How to Manage a page in Mahalo? 1 AnswerHere's a few good resources about managing pages: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-build-a-mahalo-page http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-update-a-mahalo-page http://www.... read more
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- We will not link to:
