Keyword Market is an online game that allows participants to trade keywords as stocks.
To join register here.
The objective is to position desired keywords to be posted on the front page through smart buying and selling of its stocks.
All keywords will start with an initial value of $1.
You need to be the number 1 ranking stock holder for that keyword to have the it linked to your URL
Yes, a separate page called 'stock holders page' is alloted to link to all URL pages that own stocks for a particular keyword.
Prices change depends upon trading activity. The more activity, the more often it updates. It may update in a span of twenty minutes or at least once in every 8 hours.
You can have a maximum of 5 URLs per account
You can have a maximum of 5 keywords per URL.
You can have 1 - 3 words per keyword
Yes, though not highly advisable since it will weaken your position for that particular keyword because of resources being divided on two or more URLs.
You can sell a keyword stock per URL maximum of 5 times per day. But before you can sell another, the previous stocks that you have sold must have already been bought.
Prices are computed based on many factors. The most significant of which is based on the concept of supply and demand.
For example, the more backorders to buy stocks of a particular keyword will more or less have an increase of price value.
- Ratio of stocks bought and sold for a particular time frame
- Amount of activity for the particular stock.
- Volume of stocks traded.
Two factors affect ranking for a particular keyword. These are stocks on hand and page strength.
Normally, the user that has the most stocks for that particular keyword will earn the top spot. But we also added another feature that you can be on top even with lesser stocks by obtaining a high score in page strength for the particular keyword.
Page strength is a value that is multipled to the number of stocks on hand to compute page ranking for a particular keyword.
There are lots of factors affecting page strength:
- Activity - more activity means higher page strength
- Balanced distribution of stocks - if you own more than 60% of all the stocks of a keyword and trade seldomly, chances are your page strength will go down
- Age of ownership - the longer you own a keyword stock the better it will be for your page strength but be sure to trade some of it from time to time.