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AboutUs describes themselves as being "a wiki for and about businesses, organizations, blogs, forums, and really anything or anyone that has a website".  

AboutUs describes themselves as being "a wiki for and about businesses, organizations, blogs, forums, and really anything or anyone that has a website".  

== History ==

== History ==

==Finances of AboutUs ==

==Finances of AboutUs ==

The initial financing of one million dollars ended in November 2006.<ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2006/11/13/story2.html?page=1&b=1163394000^1374690 Startup hits the money with biz wiki]</ref>

The initial financing of one million dollars ended in November 2006.<ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2006/11/13/story2.html?page=1&b=1163394000^1374690 Startup hits the money with biz wiki]</ref>

==Features of AboutUs ==

==Features of AboutUs ==

*Do-follow (following links) for fully documented pages (edited by the owner of the website, reviewed by AboutUs).  

*Do-follow (following links) for fully documented pages (edited by the owner of the website, reviewed by AboutUs).  

*Online Visibility Audit which is a tool that AboutUs considers as being useful for website owners as it helps them see their website as it is seen by the search engines and visitors, thus being able to spot mistakes.

*Online Visibility Audit which is a tool that AboutUs considers as being useful for website owners as it helps them see their website as it is seen by the search engines and visitors, thus being able to spot mistakes.

==Content and popularity ==

==Content and Popularity ==

 

'''Content'''

'''Content'''

A big part of the data found on AboutUs was created by a bot (web robot). The rest of the data found on AboutUs comes from searches and edits done by visitors (by doing this, the web robot is directed to that certain address to collect data). Most of the pages contain information taken from the "About us" or "About me" page of a website, including self promotional text and information about that website.  

A big part of the data found on AboutUs was created by a bot (web robot). The rest of the data found on AboutUs comes from searches and edits done by visitors (by doing this, the web robot is directed to that certain address to collect data). Most of the pages contain information taken from the "About us" or "About me" page of a website, including self promotional text and information about that website.  

'''Popularity'''

'''Popularity'''

In July, 2008 AboutUs attracted about 1.4 million visitors from the United States. The record of unique visitors for a month was set in November, 2009 when AboutUs was visited by a total of 1,677,937 people.<ref>[http://siteanalytics.compete.com/aboutus.org/?metric=uv Compete.com unique visitors count of AboutUs]</ref> As of March 2008, AboutUs contains over ten million listed domains, with an average growth rate of about twenty-five thousand new listings daily. As of August 28, 2009 AboutUs has a total of 15,248,689 pages.<ref>[http://blog.aboutus.org/2009/08/28/aboutus-pagecount-tops-15-million/ AboutUs pagecount tops 15 million]</ref>

In July, 2008 AboutUs attracted about 1.4 million visitors from the United States. The record of unique visitors for a month was set in November, 2009 when AboutUs was visited by a total of 1,677,937 people.<ref>[http://siteanalytics.compete.com/aboutus.org/?metric=uv Compete.com unique visitors count of AboutUs]</ref> As of March 2008, AboutUs contains over ten million listed domains, with an average growth rate of about twenty-five thousand new listings daily. As of August 28, 2009 AboutUs has a total of 15,248,689 pages.<ref>[http://blog.aboutus.org/2009/08/28/aboutus-pagecount-tops-15-million/ AboutUs pagecount tops 15 million]</ref>