Last I checked, Alex Tew was $180,500 richer.
When Alex Tew of The Million Dollar Homepage came up with his “college sponsorship” solution, I knew some other enterprising copycat would rehash the idea for some other “noble” cause. Not that it didn’t cross my mind, it did but I didn’t have a cause to support then, and I still don’t have one now. Does helping me pay off my car loan count??
So when a company does the million dollar jig, one can’t help but be skeptical of their true intentions. If you’re not a skeptic and you feel like helping out, the Globat Foundation has just launched the Million Dollar Help Page, a site aimed to raise funds for Hurricane Katrina relief.
For a good cause? You be the judge
Grab those pixels, even for just PageRank purposes (you can be sure these pages will get extra coverage from the online press - yummy authority sites). If you have spare change, you can also ask the developer to put your image map link higher up the HTML source. You wouldn’t want your link to be buried in the 987,613rd line of code.
September 28th, 2005 at 9:07 PM
arrrg!! *kamot ulo*
October 4th, 2005 at 7:45 PM
Riz, I know…it’s not fair…it’s just not fair… hehe :)
October 6th, 2005 at 4:40 PM
Have a look at what these guys are doing…
http://www.milliondollarhero.com
October 20th, 2005 at 5:06 AM
Check out http://www.PixelAds4All.com - they offer a FREE 100 by 100 pixel “tool tip image” with the purchase of your ad, which acts like a billboard for your site! They are also currently offering their pixels for 50% off, or $50 USD for a 100 pixel block.
October 29th, 2005 at 6:55 PM
Hi…Has anyone already seen the http://www.milliondollarpixellottery.com
you spend 50$ more for your pixelblock but have a chance to win 1.000.000 bucks!
December 20th, 2005 at 4:06 AM
My hat goes off to Alex Tew, he certainly found a unique idea to sell ad space. I actually took his idea one step further… selling ad space by the BYTE! There are so many “pixel pushers” out there now that I needed to put a spin on the pixel advertising concept. Check out http://www.buckabyte.com
February 5th, 2006 at 2:32 PM
More spin offs, looks like the six million dollar page is starting to take effect:
http://thesixmilliondollarpage.com/
http://www.billionairebillboard.com
I don’t get it though, seems like there will be a million of these unfinished…
March 13th, 2006 at 5:26 AM
Jobless Boy Launches A Website To Sell 10,000 Jeans On The Internet!
USA jobless boy has set his sights on earning himself a million dollars after thinking of a simple idea of selling brands new and used jeans on his homepage MoneyOrBox.com
He had been thinking of ideas on how to make a little extra money for himself but some of his ideas either never worked out or were just far too ambitious.
So far there are 28 jeans sold on the homepage which has netted him just $1300 but as visitors grow and more people hear about the site, no doubt more jeans will be added and he will progress towards his target of 10,000 jeans on his homepage and one million dollars in the bank.
You can view the website by visiting http://www.MoneyOrBox.com
May 30th, 2006 at 10:05 AM
check out that three million dollar page, it has a little different rules set
http://www.thethreemiliondollarpage.com/
June 25th, 2006 at 11:46 PM
What happens when you merge the milliondollarhomepage idea with sex (or is it art)? You get http://www.isellbody.com/
June 29th, 2006 at 12:01 PM
I believe that Alex’s site still generates some indirect value for advertisers at least by improving their visibility in search engines. It has a PageRank of 7 and many still continue to add links to it (by the way, this article has just added one link). So, getting the link from website with such a high PageRank for as low as 1$ it is clearly a reasonable investment. Good luck to all the copycats :)
http://www.milliondollarhosting.net