Frequently Asked Questions

Here is a list of anticipated questions. Click on the question to display our answer. If you already a Qondio member, and are having an issue with your account, please be sure to check the Help Section too.

Qondio is a site to which you can add your websites. We are perhaps the only site on the web that actively wants you to promote your website. At Qondio, you can do so by adding your knowledge, in the form of tidbits of information called "intel". With every piece of intel you add to Qondio, your websites will rank better in Qascade, our amazing directory, get more exposure, and even generate some revenue.

We do not have a reciprocal linking requirement; if you do not want to, you do not have to link to Qondio.

No, Qondio is an intelligence engine. We fuel the digitization of intelligence and make it available to those who want it. Qondio uses good content to help people find your sites; Qondio makes it easier for your sites to appear in search engine results.

Not really, though in South Korea there is a search engine called Naver which works on a similar principle. Naver is the top website in South Korea, and unlike most other markets, Google is far from being the top site in South Korea. Naver's content is entirely original but, unlike Qondio's content, is not shared with other search engines. (See article about Naver here.)

Knowledge bases such as Wikipedia, Squidoo, Hubpages, and Knol are also somewhat similar to Qondio. Qondio, however, is the only site geared specifically towards intelligence, and the only knowledge base to reward contributions with Reward Points designed to improve the ranking of websites. Wikipedia gives no credit - which is fine with the academic community behind most of the articles, whereas the other knowledge bases are trying to develop an effective revenue-sharing model.

We have taken a completely different approach. We ask for intel, which anybody can add in abundance, not authoritative articles. And we have the only revenue sharing model that actually makes sense.

If you are a website owner, Qondio will help you promote your websites, by giving your websites more exposure. If you are a user seeking information, Qondio will help you find original content and useful information you might be interested in. Qondio has tens of thousands of pieces of information not found elsewhere.

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Intel, short for intelligence, is what we call any chunk of information. Intel is added to Qondio in the form of posts, which are somewhat similar to blog posts. Click here for more info.

You can add any kind of information you want, as long as it is original (i.e. never before seen on any page on the web).

You might want to upload information about a person, or a place. Neither have to be famous. Or you might want to share your knowledge about a device, a plant, or an animal. Perhaps you know about news or an event - something that happened. If it's information, and previously unpublished, you can add it to Qondio.

No, you can have a website about chess and add intel about cheese. You can have a website about rabbits and add intel about the gossip in your office. It makes no difference.

No, the only one who can touch your intel is you.

Images, yes. You can add up to 25 images per intel. Images are not resized. Videos, not yet. We are still deciding which video sharing site to partner with. For the meantime, you can add links to videos at other sites.

Screening is the review of intel by a fixed number of users, prior to publishing, during which the intel may be rated, but also rejected. You are free to add any type of intel, but we don't want total garbage (for example intel composed entirely of keywords instead of sentences) getting into our index.

When you upload intel, it is not published right away. It has to be screened by a set number of users. After the intel has been screened, it is either published or rejected. After intel is published, users can continue to rate (but not reject) the intel as long as it is available.

Intel with higher score will make it to our front page. The score also helps Qondio differentiate between similar intel. If several users have intel dealing with "French cheese", the intel with the highest score will be displayed first.

Yes. The exact amount depends on the length of the intel.

Not any more. We were getting a lot of sign-ups from people who weren't truly interested in link-building, and were only coerced into signing up by their friends and relatives who wanted to earn credit for referring someone. Hence the referrals system was retired in July, 2009, as part of our ongoing 2009 overhaul.

1. A prominent link to your website - with screenshot - is shown on every page bearing intel you've contributed.

2. Your websites will be displayed when users browse through Qascade, our tag-based directory. We will display a limited number of websites at the top of the page, in the space other sites use for "sponsored results". How do we select the limited number of sites to display? We choose those sites that are owned by the users with the largest number of Reward Points in their account.

Users can browse through Qascade, our cascading tag-based directory, or search. Matching websites and intel are displayed for each tag or search.

It's something we've developed. It's a directory, but based on cascading tags rather than categories. On the landing page, you have the most popular tags. Click on a tag, and you then get the 20 most popular tags that also have the first tag. And so on.

Browse through Qascade, or find out why it's a revolutionary concept.

Yes, but not to index their content. We crawl your sites to make sure they're still up and functional.

Reward Points are a measure of your industry - the more you contribute to Qondio, the more Reward Points you get.

By adding content to Qondio, by screening content contributed by other users, or by reporting rogue users. See this page.

The more Reward Points you have, the better your websites will rank in Qascade, our directory, and in search.

We carry advertising on the landing page of our site, and when navigation or search results are displayed.

When advertising displayed next to your user page or content you have contributed generates income, that money goes to you. We have by far the best ad revenue sharing plan on the Internet.

It depends on the number of your intel, the average quality of your intel, and which type of ads you run. To make a living from ad revenue sharing, you would need thousands of intel, so don't expect too much. If you have about a hundred good quality intel, you should be getting a handy amount each month.

	Other Pages

About Qondio - What is Qondio about? What can Qondio do for you?
Share Your Intel - What we mean with intelligence and why we need it from you.
Ad Revenue Sharing - Details about how we give you advertising revenue.
When Momentum Beats Relevance - Why promoting a site is hard and how Qondio can help.
The Sweatshop in the Digital Age - Why there is something seriously wrong with the web.
Powering the Community - Reward Points - What Reward Points are and how to get them.
Qascade™ - The Qondio Directory - Why Qascade is such a big deal - it's unlike anything ever attempted
Latest Statistics - Various stats about data in our database, organized by country and category.