Frequently Asked Questions

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

Qassia 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 Qassia, 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 Qassia, your websites will rank better in our directory, get more exposure, and generate more revenue.

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

No, Qassia is an intelligence engine. We fuel the digitization of intelligence and make it available to those who want it. Qassia uses good content to help people find your sites; Qassia 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 Qassia'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 Qassia. Qassia, however, is the only intelligence engine we know of, and the only knowledge base to reward contributions with credit 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, Qassia will help you promote your websites, by giving your websites more exposure. If you are a user seeking information, Qassia will help you find original content and useful information you might be interested in. Qassia has tens of thousands of pieces of information not found elsewhere.

Click on "change email address" in your DASHBOARD.

Click on "change username" in your DASHBOARD.

Intel, short for intelligence, is what we call any chunk of information. Intel is added to Qassia 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. 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, you can add it to Qassia.

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.

If several users have intel dealing with "French cheese", the intel with the highest score will be displayed first.

Yes. And if the rating you assign to an intel is very close to the final score that intel gets after the screening, you get a bonus. You get an additional bonus if you are the first one to rate the intel.

Just point them to your user page, which is located at username.qassia.com, where "username" is your user ID. If the person viewing the page is not logged in, he/she will see a prominent SIGN UP button.

1. A prominent link to your website - with screenshot - will be displayed every time your intel is displayed or referenced.

2. Your websites will be displayed when users browse through 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". (The main space on the page, below, is reserved for intel.) 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 Qassia dollars in their account.

Users can browse through 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.

For example, if you click on "cars" at the landing page, the next page might have a list of secondary tags such as "imported", "used", "classic", "hybrid", etc. Click on "imported" and the subsequent page might have a list of tertiary tags such as "German", "Jaguar", "Lexus", etc.

The directory is available from our front page, if you're logged in. You can also find out more here.

Yes, but not to index their content. We crawl your sites to make sure they're still up and functional, and we occasionally crawl your site if you're participating in our Sticker Mania promo and have specifically given us permission to crawl your site. Check your Dashboard for more info.

Credit is measured in a currency we invented, called 'Qassia dollars'. The more you contribute to the site, the more Qassia dollars you earn. The Qassia dollars are added to your account, and you can view detailed statements showing your deposits, just like in a real bank account. The more Qassia dollars you are worth, the better your websites will rank.

Qassia dollars are not real dollars (that's why we call them Qassia dollars, not US dollars or Canadian dollars or whatever). Qassia dollars are a measure of your industry - the more you contribute to Qassia, the more Qassia dollars you get. Qassia dollars CANNOT be converted into real dollars. You CANNOT redeem Qassia dollars. Think of them as 'points'.

By referring a friend to Qassia, by screening intel contributed by other users, or by adding intel of your own. See this page.

The more Qassia dollars you have, the better your websites will rank.

Eventually we will introduce auctions for front-page advertising, site-wide links, and other novel ways for you to burn through your hard-earned Qassia dollars. For the meantime, what matters is the amount of Qassia dollars you have in your account. Your net worth determines how high your sites will rank.

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 intel 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, you should be getting a handy amount each month.

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About Qassia - What is Qassia about? What can Qassia 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 Qassia can help.
The Sweatshop in the Digital Age - Why there is something seriously wrong with the web.
Powering the Community - The Qassia Credits System - How to earn lots of Qassia dollars very easily.
How to Promote Your Websites on Qassia - How to get the most out of Qassia, quickly and easily.
The Qassia Directory - Why our directory represents a milestone in the evolution of the Internet
Latest Statistics - Various stats about stuff in our database, organized by country and category.

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