This post will show you how you can turn bad publicity into your Buzz marketing for your blog or website.

Recently, QuarterWiki, one of our new sites in the Zedomax Network, was reviewed on John Chow dot com. Within minutes of the post, we encountered many negative comments such as these:

• I’ve had enough of these wikis.

• Insane! Why would you pay for a single page when you could write a Squidoo.com lens for free, host a free blog all to yourself at WhyDoWork.com, and put up an entire site with free hosting at any number of free hosts?
  The first paid wiki worked because it was new and had a lot of hype. Take a look at the Alexa graph for milliondollarwiki now. Where do you think it will be a year from now?

In response, we simply left neutral and honest comments about our website and the company’s goals. As hours past, we got more negative and positive feedback from John Chow readers. We kept leaving as much comments as possible to politely respond to our nay-sayer’s incorrect judgements. In all, we got 138 comments for that post and still growing.

How did this help us?

First, we were able to tell the readers in detail about what we “actually” offered. Here’s one response we made:

Hi Steven, Paid Wiki can get you on the first page of Google for “Some Keyword Wiki”. The reason behind is that Wikipedia has no real competition other than us paid wikis.

For an example, a lot of people will type “wiki” after they type something they want to find on Wikipedia.

Type, “Digital Camera wiki” on Google, and you will see Digital Camera page of OneBuckWiki show up 3rd right after Wikipedia’s results. That pages is probably worth hundreds of dollars already to say the least.

This traffic can be monetized easily through advertising on your page. You see, it’s an untapped market noone has really exploited yet.

I hope that clears things a bit.

With this response, other new readers who just started seeing the review were informed of additional features that the QuarterWiki provided that was not mentioned in the article. We used a lot of these similar tatics to turn a negative comment into a informative questions and answers. The important part is not to get mad and stay professional with your comments as much as possible. (although sometimes you have to put the hammer down with some vicious readers, show them who’s the boss!)

Try to answer questions with questions. (You can also do this when you get pulled-over.)

The point here is that we used negative comments to actually boost the interest from the readers. This type of buzz creation can be compared to an ancient Chinese Martial Art, Shen Lung Kung Fu, where you are taught to use opponent’s energy to fight back, not your own. In other words, you re-use their negative powers to counter-attack.  You can learn more about it here on Wikipedia. (I think it’s the Snake style…)

The result:

We had sales record for both of our sites, the One Buck Wiki and the QuarterWiki.

Our review had more comments than any other recent posts on John Chow dot com, further increasing new readers’ interest in our review.

You can read about John’s latest post on “There Really Is No Such Thing as Bad Publicity”.

EntreWiki was just launched two days ago.

What is it?

EntreWiki is a new Web 2.0 Business Directory of Business Ideas and Opportunities.

Whether you are selling a Franchise or an affiliate program online, you can advertise on the EntreWiki for 15 years at just one hundred dollars.

Are you a blogger or stumbler? Check out the details on how to get a free $100 page.

Here’s details about the new EntreWiki from Yahoo News:

The EntreWiki is a new Web 2.0 Directory of Business Ideas where entrepreneurs and companies can advertise their businesses such as a franchise, business plan, start-up business, or any business that can help someone to start a new business.

Instead of spending $10,000 on a full page ad in National Paper Magazines such as the Entrepreneur and Small Business Opportunities, the EntreWiki offers a unique way to bring continuous growth of traffic from entrepreneurs and people who are looking to start a new business.

EntreWiki targets a focused niche group of entrepreneurs and people who are interested in starting a new business. They offers 15 years of online and offline advertising at just one hundred dollars with one-time free advertisement creative conversion to Wiki text.

One of our new sites we built for fun, OneBuckWiki, has sold over 1000 web pages within 2 weeks since its launch on October 12th. The great phenomenon seems to rise from the fact that pages can be bought for only one dollar. Many eBay users have been buying up pages in a frenzy, with some users buying 100 pages at a time.

Pages are now worth $10 each and sold for $10 each and people seem to be still interested as prices of the pages go up to another $10 when we have sold 2000 pages.

In the meanwhile, you can grab $5 pages at FiveDollarWiki, which will go for $50 once we have sold 1000 pages.

Amazingly, we’ve sold over 1000 pages at the OneBuckWiki within less than 2 weeks!

Pages are now going for $10 and people are still buying pages as their value keeps risin’!

[via] zedomax.net

OneBuckWiki was just launched yesterday. We’ve sold almost 22 pages within 24 hours of the launch.

The money making wikis are in now. These will spawn like blogs there are out there today. Maybe someone can make a WikiNorati?

Here’s the Press release that will go out in couple days:

OneBuckWiki.com Press Release - One Buck Wiki was just launched!

Zedomax Network, a San Francisco based Web2.0 company, has just launched a new website called OneBuckWiki.com

The One Buck Wiki is a new community of entrepreneurs, web marketers, and normal people who want to promote their businesses online and benefit from the collective traffic that’s generated by other page-owners and One Buck Wiki’s viral marketing.

Users can buy a page for only 1 dollar (Limited Time Only). As page-owners, they can promote a blog, e-store, or any other website(s). The page(s) users buy will solely have their content and no one else’s.

A page on the One Buck Wiki can be edited just as a user would edit a page in Wikipedia. The main difference between the two is that the One Buck Wiki can be used to promote an e-store, a blog, or any other products or services.

The One Buck Wiki is created by the creators of the Five Dollar Wiki at FiveDollarWiki.com, which was also launched only couple days ago.

They are a team of underground “moonlighters” that work around the clock to create the next Internet marketing tool.

The One Buck Wiki is based on a highly powerful business model that allows users to benefit from overall sales of pages and viral marketing.

The One Buck Wiki has just launched its beta stage and they have millions of unclaimed pages where the user can choose their own words or phrases such as “iPod Store”, “Business”, or “Web Development”.

There have been a number of “million dollar” ideas on the Internet in the past couple months including the Million Dollar Wiki (MDW), and the Million Euro Wiki (MEW).

The MDW (MillionDollarWiki.com) and MEW (MillionEuroWiki.com) offered Internet users the chance to own a piece of history at $100 each.

The MillionDollarWiki does seem to have excited the Internet crowd, with some customers buying up to fifteen pages at a time. Pages have even been traded, with the “Business” page selling on eBay for $6100.

Basically, the difference between the MillionDollarWiki and the OneBuckWiki is that a person can buy a page for one dollar instead of one hundred dollars.

In addition, the page(s) people buy now will ultimately gain at least 10 fold its original value at every 1000 pages that the One Buck Wiki sells.

“A page bought on the One Buck Wiki today could be worth $1000 when 100,000 pages are sold.”

With the One Buck Wiki, people can buy pages that will multiply in value automatically with growth of the website itself.

Even with all the directories and social bookmarking sites available today, Internet users are demanding more and they want to interact with the latest online marketing strategies available.

While social bookmarking sites like Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Digg are soaring in popularity, the One Buck Wiki team is pouncing on the opportunity to generate both massive online traffic and income with their new project.

For more information visit One Buck Wiki FAQ at http://OneBuckWiki.com.