Last month, LOUD3R used their semantic publishing platform to launch a network of 25 websites, each dedicated to a different topic. These sites collect news from all over the web to serve the unmet needs of enthusiasts for all sorts of topics.  LOUD3R’s goal was achieving 100,000 unique hits across the network within their first 30 days.  They exceeded this goal 2 times over with more than 200,000 unique hits for the first month.

“We knew from the start that some sites would flourish with many thousands of users, and that others would serve the needs of some enthusiasts without garnering a huge amount of traffic” says Lowell Goss, founder and CEO of LOUD3R, Inc.  “Because of the low cost of launching sites we created a wide network – looking at it as a whole, our aggregate traffic after 30 days is outstanding.”

Editors create LOUD3R sites by assembling a source list of websites and a semantic glossary of terms to teach the publishing engine how to identify the best content related to a particular topic. The platform is capable of unsupervised learning, and automatically improves over time through user feedback across the LOUD3R sites.  LOUD3R plans to add 7 new sites to the network within the next few weeks.  Here are some of the current ones:

The newest LOUD3R sites joining the network include: 

•PREGG3R – pregnancy
•TODDL3R – parenting
•AMPLIFI3R – guitar
•ROOST3R – motocross
•SPINNAK3R – sailing
•SHUTT3R – photography
•SUMM3R – Olympics

LOUD3R’s combination of human editors and semantic technology allows them to scale rapidly, creating and maintaining a wide swath of websites at minimal cost.  LOUD3R owns more than 550 3R-branded URL’s, each with the “3″ instead of an “E,” and they are continuing to scale up their network.

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