When I first heard of the Million Dollar Wiki I first thought of the milliondollarhomepage. You know the story some dude sold pixels and made money. Hell I even dropped $100 on it for 1 pixel that you cant even see. To my surprise I did get a few hits from it…. not many but a few.. It was more for just to say “I was apart of it” more then anything else really.
So I heard about this site called Million Dollar Wiki and my first instinct was … ya… right another pixel page. But then a few weeks back John Chow wrote about the page and how he was seeing some nice traffic from it. I still was a little hesitant but I just keep seeing more and more people investing in this thing and I thought… damn maybe this boat is going to float after all??
So last week I purchased a page for $100 for Free Ringtones. In about 10 minutes I received a reply with my user name and password. I logged in and made my page… took about 30 mins or so (most of the time was spent getting images). I have spammed edited wikipedia enough I was familiar with the wysiwyg editor to make my page. If you haven’t used the editor it takes a minute to get used to some of the functions but its pretty easy to learn.
SO what to put on my page…. Well I wanted to do 2 things.
1) I wanted to make a post that there REALLY ARE FREE RINGTONE sites out there where people can get there ringtones for free.
2) I wanted to drive traffic to my free ringtone site.
So I made a basic review site but of course I listed my Free Ringtone site as the first one and its the only one with a hyper link… Some may think this is sneaky… I say smart. ufeelme?.
I set this up last Thursday then I kind of forgot about it. After all… the site owner says the pages will be online for a MINIMUM 15 years. This was something I was not planning on coming back to for a while.
So this morning I was looking at my Nextpimp statistics and low and behold… it had sent almost 180 unqiue visitors of which 2 purchased a premium membership to the website. Now the Nextpimp Premium membership is $19.95 per 6 months and it auto renews… so if these people stay on board for 2 cycles I already have almost broke even in… 4 days superhot! Now I don’t expect this to happen much but one thing is for sure – I will for sure get my money back.
So I wonder where the traffic came from… I looked for a “new sites” or something listed but could not find one. Then I checked out the forums and wow there is a lot of people talking in there. This thing might be a hit after all. A lot of the people talking in the forums area all talking about how they are making money from there million dollar wiki page.
The dude who owns it has sold almost 500 pages…. which translates to 50k! Being the site started about a month ago I would say thats pretty fricking good. unlike million dollar homepage I have actually gotten a measurable return on my investment.
Here is the bottom line. People are buying great keyword related domains everyday on this site. Are you going to take a chance for only $100 that you missed the boat on your niche? I am not.
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Its definitely not a site thats going to last forever, since its basically all a free ad, but I’m jealous of his success already.
They allow reselling the pages so that could make for some interesting arbi results for anyone clever enough to grab popular keywords/phrases before anyone else.
What a clever idea! The links will be worth it as their pagerank gets up there and it looks like their alexa rank is under 25k… sign me up
Reselling a page? hmmm. I wonder how that’s going to play out. Will it last for 15 years? I wonder about that too. I think a lot about the future of the Internet. Will we even have domain names in ten years? Will TV and Internet be one? If so, will that turn the Internet into another entity that is controlled by big media?
I remember when his website first started. My first visit there and he had sold maybe 3 pages. I thought to myself, this thing is NEVER going to take off. Then social bookmarkers and a couple of A-listers got a hold of it and boy did it take off. I’ve been proven wrong… yet again
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thats a pretty awesome deal to already have 2 signups and 180 visits froma site that just got crankin.
I bought a site but haven’t made anything yet. Mine is the “Dating Site”. Lots of clicks but probably just from curious people who are thinking of buying.
I do not think this will work. How would I care about grabbing some popular keywords/phrases on a site like this?!! You can always get a address like http://abc.com/Free_Ringtones .
I tend to doubt when someone says “permanent link” or in this case “guaranteed 15 years”… it does not sound real, plus like the million dollar homepage, it can be a hit for a few months, but then the traffic collapses and in a year or two from now no one would remember or visit. It seems that everyone wants to use the gimmick of “million dollar”, but I think people are more cautious nowadays and won’t swallow the bait so easily.
Congrats to the dude that started it. $50K in a month is amazing!
Also if only 500 page have been sold there must still be a whole swag sweet keyword rich URLs up for grabs.
I hadn’t actually heard of it before this post. But I decided that I’d like to give it a shot, I bought the page for the City I live in, that should give me some leverage for local businesses and linking. Who knows….
Well hot dang, I need to hop on this fast sailing ship
All it takes is that first boost by a few big names! Unfortunately, that is hard to come by for many folks, including myself haha
Considering your post about fast fingers = fast money, how come you have not snapped up Shoemoney?
Hey I own the Money page on MDW http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Money and I am posting the earning of those on the site. Soon I will be adding a lot more to the page. But for now if you want an idea check it out.
Dude you’re gonna single handedly make that site big. You should have asked for a stake in it before making this post
i wonder why there are just
Dang, I looked at this before, but now need to look at it again!
I’ve got http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/united_kingdom and bought http://www.milliondollarwiki.co.uk to map onto it.
One google adsesne block has made me $120.
So in a word: yes
Not a bad idea!
Rhys you should be added on the Money Page drop my a email wikimoney@gmail.com and I will get you added ASAP. http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Money
Unbelievable. lemme try my hands too
Nice tip! Thanks
I dont think theres much money to be made in being a shoemoney affiliate
I want to buy one because it wouldnt be that hard to break even, Im just not sure which keyword to go with that will still be around and valuable in 15 years.
Or a 400 dollar reviewme from one “A-liste” will work to
porn is free @ king jacob
Nobody thinks google’s gonna nuke this for “selling links” ????
Hi Shoe, Thanks for this. That is cheap advertising for 15 years. i have wasted a whole heap in newspapers over years, and the ads only last a day and they’re in the bin.
Can’t get adult themed keywords. But there is a nice list of keywords on the site on the very top in the middle.
I don’t know how long it will last either, but it definately has a better model then MDHomepage – with people behind the site and content on pages. It will def last 2 or 3 years and that’s all you need to make a great claim in it. If the reselling of keywords go big – it will last a lot longer.
You could just resell the login no..?
I signed up and after an hour and a half still have no user name and password. How long did it take to get yours?
The shoemoney effect is on again. It looks like he sold 80 pages already today. Hope you are getting at least a 30% commission on signups from your blog!
Sign ups are done manually – so with 80 sales in one day – Graham will busy all afternoon setting up your accounts. I don’t think he will be attending classes today:)
Oh Thanks! I didnt know it was a manual process.
Congrats to his success on making over $8,000 today phew.
After I bought it 8 hours ago, still no reply from him.
Beware.
I just bought the personal-finance page there yesterday to see if it will drive traffic to my financial blog. It took about 3 hours to get my login info and I just threw up something there today, at least temporarily til I figure out how to best use it.
Thanks…
I bought a page.
Just checked out that page and found the web directory aviva or whatever it was called, bought a listing on there.
As far as ring tones go, I wish people would realize how easy it is to make your own :/
I bought “Coupon Codes” after reading John Chows review. Everyone has told me that I wasted $100.00. So I have been trying to prove them wrong. So far they are right. I haven’t made any money back yet. But I guess I have 15 years to do so!!!
Thanks for buying a page. Maybe it will boost my traffic!!
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Coupon_Codes
Planning on getting any additional pages?
I would think Google would look at this site as “paid links” and eventually penalize them.
I wanna buy a page too. I am reading how it works.
If you have a small advertising budget you should get a Million dollar wiki page to act as a bridge page (I think that is the right terminology for it). I got the page Money Making Blog last month and I have already had good traffic coming from the page. Or if you just want to monetize a single page you could do that with your wiki page. $100 is chump change for anyone.
damn ! shoe should be guru or something, I just read the blog and got caught buying
2 wikis, now I hope this thing will generate enough traffic to have me make my money back
thanks for the tips.
I know it’s not Question Session, but I only read this “make money” blog,
anyone has other good readings to suggest ?
MillionWiki made $ 8000 in one day because 80 pages sold today!
damn ! shoe should be guru or something, I just read the blog and got caught buying
2 wikis, now I hope this thing will generate enough traffic to have me make my money back
thanks for the tips.
I know it’s not Question Session, but I only read this make money blog,
anyone has other good readings to suggest ?
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Holy crap nuts… Actually, I never heard of such a thing until reading this. Sounds like a steal
One hundred dollars is to much money for this wiki, zero page rank and very little traffic.
For those sitting on the fence about this, why not give it a roll? Think about it, two big name bloggers in ShoeMoney and John Chow have bought in. Yeah, they are self promoting but due to this self interest, they will KEEP on advertising for the MDW, which increases traffic for all and creates a spill over effect onto your page. I bought the Stock Picks page which I just feel compelled to mention
For anyone that is still sitting on the fence, you have two big name bloggers like ShoeMoney and John Chow who bought it. I think the day after John blogged about it, MDW sold 70 pages, and now 80 pages with ShoeMoney. This is exactly why I bought my page Stock Picks page. This is indirectly free publicity. It’s in their best interest to blog about it and they will create a spill over effect onto your pages…
I baught a page, havn’t heard back from it yet, but I am very excited about the posablities. If nothing else, it will be a huge directory. Anybody know of simular sites?
Hey, well done Shoe, glad you’re on board … this is really starting to get legs now with some great mainstream media. A few weeks ago i bought 3 pages and they’re going great guns now.
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Sales
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Babymoon
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Free_Translation
I cant see why you wouldn’t buy at least 1 page. Most people I know spen more than $100 dollars on 1 nights drinking. This is a 15 year investment for such a small amount. personally i have purchsed 3 and the hits just keep on comming.
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/japanese
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/digital_photography
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/investment
or visit my blog at
http://www.paulhartrick.com
At $100 a page or $90 with a coupon how can you possibly lose. I know people who spend more than that on a nights drinking. Happy to see big names on board and with over 100 pages sold in the last 48 hours the momentum is really starting to build. Get on board before it’s too late.
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Japanese
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Digital Photography
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Investment
With the payback periods most people are reporting sounds like it is still worth the risk.
I really don’t see why Google would though.
I think the wiki is a good idea. I don’t have any pages.
Graham made more money from shoe with the blog. amazing.
Looks like 627 pages sold as of tuesday night.
but you can’t get the traffic they will drive to your own page with just any site.
Wow… Nearly 12 hours purchased and still no login.
Doh!
hmm … alexa rank 25k after a month. How is this possible ? What advertising method did they use ?
How do you mean little traffic ? Did you check alexa ? This site gets a lot of traffic
Thanks Shoe we will also try our luck on Million Dollar Wiki.I hope after few days this pages do rank in google and drive huge traffic.
Awesome… I just bought four pages!
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Credit_Report
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Payday_Loans
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Tax
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Phone
Signed up for my million dollar wiki page as well – all the best with yours SEO Next!
Hmmm that was a good investment?? How about sponsoring a car for my Blogging the Movie dot Com site. John Chow just bought one.
If they nuke this site they would have to nuke all the paid directory sites too – including yahoo’s paid directory.
Well the hype wanted me to test the waters myself. So i throwed 100 USD and bought a page called http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Online_Money today. I recvd. my details within a hour.
So the next question was what to put on it. So I decided, I will use the page to run contest with cash prizes. And lets see how much traffic it actually produce and the quality of the traffic.
When in doubt, its always better to try! Its a matter of time, u could easily recover that amount with a couple of clever tactics.
yeah, i decided to go for it too, just for the heck of it. http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Search_Engine_Marketing. Was pretty easy to sign up and not too bad getting the ad code in there.
I’ll sit on it for a bit and see what happens.
One caveat: you can’t sell your page until Graham sells 10,000 pages. That might take a while….
Folks we have to mount a serious marketing campaign to get a return on our investment!
Looks like an interesting site. Will have to look into it & see if it can bring some real traffic.
I wrote a blog entry here about my opinions of the Million Dollar Blog. Check it out… there’s some valuable information in it.
http://www.buildwebsuccess.com/blog/13-so-what-about-that-million-dollar-wiki-thing
OMG. I am so pissed off. I bought the payday loans one over 24 hours before you and I received no information.
I have the paypal receipt and everything. :@:@ What the hell Milliondollarwiki?!?!?!?!
But where does the traffic comes from??
I can’t believe that site can bring you more traffic than Squidoo which is free.
Is it PPC traffic?
Tried a couple of search for some keywords and this site never ranked in the first 100 results in Google.
please look this up it might save you sometime…. rel=”nofollow”
ooops…. “some time”. anyway.. you get the idea
ok thanks
Reselling a page? hmmm. I wonder how that’s going to play out. Will it last for 15 years?
Although Alexa doesn’t mean much… this Wiki will get tons of hits in the coming months. I bet major news organizations will mention it a few times, plus bloggers like Shoe giving it some love. It’s a unique idea, it will bring in quite a bit of traffic (for now anyway)
This is nice idea but i still wonder does that get so much traffic in long run or it just dies or how much people will trust the sale letter (the page) and make a purchase as the idea reach masses most of the people will know it is paid one.
I went ahead an bough 3 pages as well.
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Stock_Photo
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Free_Images
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Royalty_Free
Not much on them yet, but I’ll probably add more to them later.
The Million Dollar Wiki is actually an ok ‘knock-off’ idea of the original. All of the other ‘knock-offs’ have literally just been carbon copies but this actually does have something new to it. Can’t believe I never thought of it.
And it’s a pretty safe bet that page rank will find its way to the site in the next update with all the link love this site is getting!
I think domain names will still be there
Once enough investment has been made in a particular technology it becomes entrenched and makes it painfully difficult for the marketplace to transition to anything else. Look at how tough it is to kick the gasoline habit in our autos.
I’d put my money on domain names sticking around… In fact, I have — I just bought Blog Advertising.
DANG dude. This sucks. I order the payday loans keyword way before this guy and he forgot to setup my account. Now I file a complaint with paypal, he just refunds my money and refuses to talk to me! >_
Well well well… I had to buy one page also right now… will come back once I put there some text but if it is like you say than it should be good investment.
Also it is good to be in the first row while the site is young enough and there are blogs like yours talking about it.
good article
i have copied from you
http://web.enjoychn.com/blog/1219-million-dollar-wiki-a-good-investment
Damn son. unfortunately, not everyone is having such luck. if you check out the ‘money’ page on the blog you can see only a couple of sites that have broken even. The hype around this seems to be waning a bit, and surely in 15 years, there will be nada traffic (see how much millioindollarwebpage has fallen since launch).
It does bring hope, but it seems most of the successes are listed as a ‘featured’ page.. didnt check how that works, but yea.. the layout of the site is poor for spreading PR google juice around, as if it was fully filled, the pages for each category will have over 1000 links each on them which means 0 love passed on.
Geez, you are really sold on this idea.
Makes me think I should start my own ‘million dollar something or other’ and promote it by getting big bloggers to write about me for free swag
no offense and not to say you did that, but it seems to be a really popular topic on big blogs now for some reason
Well to be honest i am very skeptical about this, just something fishy. I dont know if that titel Million dollar wiki is good enough.
I’ll be trying out a different niche. Its not good with Adsense but it sure can attract some traffic. And parents like to spend money on their newly born
http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/Baby_Boy_Names
I would just like to post an update and say that I haven’t yet seen any traffic from my page
Ahh well, I’ll keep building on it
Some of these sites will never make it. But who would have predicted that the million dollar kid with his simple idea could persuade hundreds, if not thousands of people to believe in his idea? The media craze that followed was a wonderful lesson in PR.
has this project stalled, i looked on it yesterday and the page count hasnt risen?? anyone know?
Yes the thing is dead and buried, it doesn’t even rank for “Million Dollar Wiki” anymore and i was spot on not wasting $100 or even $10 on the thing for that matter.
BTW Shoe, didn’t get given your page to blog about this by any chance did you lol?
I took the page /Dentist but don’t know how it would be beneficial..
Just took it for fun.. but their idea is damn rocking!!!
Wow thats great, only problem is price of this pages…
A pretty good idea, the editing seemed a bit difficult but in the end even I managed to get everything working smoothly.
http://www.vo.gs is better .
i made with the blog shopping 3,35 usd in 25 minutes .
i also bought 3 pages from wiki but the only problem is that hard to find a regular blog with wiki
vo.gs vs milliondollarwiki
vo.gs for me
interesting..
I blog without a credit card or any other monetary items. It’s all word of mouth, free advertising, and bartering. I don’t even have monetary ads on it.
did this end up selling?
I had heard of this, but never gave a serious thought to it. Reading your post today, I am feeling like I can give it a shot for $100… wish you could have affiliate link for MDW page, you would have benefited as well if I decide to buy the page…. I am just thinking about the best way to use this page, do you have any ideas or shall I dive into their community forum.
Free Ringtones (8,193 views).. nice, top 50
I’m going to start a porn site. “Million Dollar Sucky-Sucky”
whatya think?
Considering a couple terms, I hope this works!
exactly. its all ads, so only advertisers would go there, so the only people that will view the pages are advertisers and curious blog readers. kudos to his success tho
no one wants to link to an ad page, google will never give these pages a high pagerank
i completely agree. million dollar wiki is a stupid investment.
I take that back, I guess it’s not all ads… it’s crazy though. dude’s already got over $115,000
AS long as it is free, every 15-yr old guy will sign-up!
you still don’t own your name shoemoney on wiki or myspace you idiot! Can’t afford $100?
lol $100
These pay Wiki’s are for weenies. I don’t know why you and Chow get so excited about them…They are about as exciting as watching paint dry!
The Mad Ape
Well, I’ve been watching this post for a while now (early Jan) has anyone started to see results from this yet?
Nice to hear about that. I never heard about Million Dollar Wiki, but if you get some sales, I will use it too. This post is a little bit old, I think the best keywords are sold out.
Has anybody checked this out of late? MDW has been revamped a little bit after a new owner took it over.
Wow that is really good results. I wonder how others have fared. It would be cool to find out and compare your results.
Good spot man! Well done on grabbing that keyword. I’ll be buying a page later on. Thanks for the tips!
i dont think it is such a good investment. I would rather spend that money buying quality blog reviews or banner advertisement rather than gettin a page in MDW
Wow–that is a very good idea. 50K? If he quit now that would still have been a very successful venture.
wow what a great idea! 50k for only a small amount of effort.
How is your sim card ad going? Is it still converting?
I think Million Dollar Wiki was a great idea. I’m getting my $100 together, and I’m going to buy a page on there to direct traffic to my blog.
Can anyone confirm what traffic they get from this and if they made any money from it?
Jim
I think I am going to try my hand at this… thanks for letting us know…
abhay
Hmmm…risky…but the big risks usually pay off most.
I mean if you have the Mill then go for it otherwise invest elsewhere
Great Idea. Great way to pay off college loans and then some.
Brilliant idea! definitely worth a look at for investing!
Great way to pay off college loans and then some.
Its definitely not a site thats going to last forever, since its basically all a free ad, but I’m jealous of his success already.
Im not sure this would still be viable but it was a good idea nonetheless.
I guess there are “get rich fast” ideas that work