What is Mahalo: Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. Search results only include great links currently in Beta Stage. Mahalo is Hawaiian for Thank you.
What sets Mahalo from Google: Mahalo is a hybrid of Digg.com and Wikipedia.com. Most of you know Digg is heavily derived from user submitted and controlled content that showcases links based on user participation.
Wiki is like the new encyclopedia online. Again is user edited but the boys over Wiki does control the fake submitted content. Wiki is the best source for information regarding a certain topic.
So in essence when searching Mahalo, spam content is so called taken away and the pages are more "Topic" focused and "Page" focused meaning the users create pages/topics with a who list of 411 information.
For example: See the Topic Hurricane Ike here http://www.mahalo.com/Hurricane_Ike_Projected_Path
This Topic Page includes content of
- Top 7 user controlled related articles
- Guide Note
- Fast Facts
- Discussion Page
- Background
As you can see this is a slew of all sorts of information.
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Now your up to speed on Mahalo, how does Mahalo help SEO you ask?
Since Mahalo is user contributed content and is still in beta stage. Theres a huge window of opportunity taking advantage of a certain TOPIC or PAGE of information. Want to submit your website under the TOPIC of Houses for Sale in State?
Want to see how having your site listed in Mahalo's Topic of best computer speakers?
Click here http://www.google.com/search?q=best+computer+speakers
You will notice that the #2 ranked search term is Mahalo's links and just imagine if you added your site to that topic. See my point now?
So get the cracking and sign up for Mahalo and start adding some content. Ahead of the game is always better than being left behind.