AboutUs.com
AboutUs is a wiki for and about businesses, organizations, blogs, forums, and really anything or anyone that has a website.
We aim to provide visitors with an introduction to websites as well as a way to share their knowledge of websites or promote their own.
AboutUs.org domain pages include a summary of the website as well as more text about it, relevant tags, its contact information, photos or logos, related websites and more... all while linking directly to the website. As a wiki, information on AboutUs pages can be added to and changed by clicking the edit pencil icon. 
Finding information - To see what information we have on a given website, search for the URL (like example.com) at the top right.
Sharing your knowledge - AboutUs is what it is today thanks to the people who edit and improve it. Please feel free to help build this guide to websites by clicking one of the many edit pencil icons.
Tools for Website Owners
Recently AboutUs.org has added new features and content to help business owners promote their website.
- The Online Visibility Audit is a tool to help website operators improve their site by seeing it through the eyes of search engines and their visitors.
- Site Metrics provides key numbers about a website's visibility in search engines and on social sites.
- A growing library of articles about online marketing offer tips for attracting new customers.
- Following links to good websites for people that have built out the site's AboutUs page.
Our Commitment
In order to protect the integrity of the resource and to engage with fellow editors, AboutUs is committed to reviewing every edit made to each of its pages.
We also want to be a place where you feel encouraged to contribute and find it easy to do so or learn how. For this reason we have numerous help pages and ways to be contacted.
Our Technology
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- AboutUs was pre-populated with information about many different websites.
- The thumbnail images are provided by Name Intelligence's proprietary thumbnail service and provide a link to the referred-to site.
- Our CamelCasing of domain names is to help make domain names more readable. If you notice that the CamelCasing is wrong, you can correct it.
- We developed the Recent Contributors box to highlight the editors of each page.
- We created tags as a more user-friendly interface replacement for categories.
- Our Online Visibility Audit is a tool to help website operators improve their site by seeing it through the eyes of search engines and their visitors.
Our Policies
AboutUs works to create policies and guidelines that provide a clear explanation of not only the legal aspects of creating a resource based on the information commons, but also on the values that help promote the WikiWay. Check out the AboutUs Guidelines page for more information.
What's happening at AboutUs
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- Live Chat - Come chat with us
- Community
- Recent Changes - Edits to the wiki
- PeopleAt.AboutUs.org - Some of our real people
- Learn - Our articles about internet marketing
- AboutUs Testimonials - Pats on the back
- DoFollow - We're linking to good sites with good pages
- How you can help - Ways you can contribute and help build AboutUs
- Jobs - Check out our available positions
Related Domains
- Ray King, John Stanton and Brandon Sanders started ICANNwiki.org
- MarkDilley, John Stanton, Ray King and TedErnst started WikiIndex.org
- DomainTools.com supports AboutUs.org
- AboutUs.org uses thumbnails from DomainTools.com
- Ward Cunningham started the first wiki at C2.com
- AboutUs acquired Jyte.com in January 2010
- AboutUs has a weblog at Blog.AboutUs.org
- We originally used MediaWiki.org software, and have since migrated much of our code to Ruby on Rails.
Contact AboutUs.org
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- AboutUs, Inc.
- AboutUs LiveChat (9:30-5:30 PST)
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- 1.800.AboutUs or +1 503.488.5763 (9:30-5:30 PST)
Address
- 107 SE Washington Street, Suite 520
- Portland, OR 97214
- USA
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