Comments on: Mahalo Launches Reviews and Ratings; CEO Shares Company Stats

By: Pyrex Kid

Pyrex Kid — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

2,000 links in 2 months.
5,000 monthly active toolbar users.
4.2 million uniques (most apparently not from direct traffic).
200 message board posts a month.

Total cost: $16 million.

1 prima donna CEO. Priceless.

By: marc

marc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

with the addition of the browser tool and community feature their content has the potential to be way more useful than traditional search engines

algorithms are great but they are still not able to do many things people can. for example, how many garbage sites have you seen in the google search results?

500 per pages seems steep, but the long term value of that page to users and mahalo itself is priceless.

By: ThomasM

ThomasM — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

…but what about costs for maintaining outgoing link quality?

By: Sean Percival

Sean Percival — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hope you had a good time at SES, we created a page with some nice videos of the new features in action:

http://www.mahalo.com/My_Mahalo

Thomas to answer your question, we have internal tools to help us keep track of outgoing links. These tools check for things such as 404s or if the website is no longer online. Additionally we have some more processes for keeping existing pages up to date.

Mahalo!

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Sean – I will add the link to the post. I hope you can make it to one of these events (leave Jason at home) so we can meet!