Do you remember the MillionDollarWiki? If not, there’s a quote from NetBusinessBlog:
Graham Langdon, the creator, is selling wiki pages for $100 each. The $100 is a one time payment to own a page for at least 15 years. He hopes to sell 10,000 pages, which would earn him a million dollars.
So written in short:
- such a crazy idea
- half-baked business model (service was started without affiliate program, now there’s a message “please send an email if you are interested in becoming an affiliate” WTF?!)
- unacceptable pricing (goddamn 100 dollars just for setting a sucky wiki page?!)
Looks like a friggin’ joke doesn’t it? Now you can compare my poor writings with this: 567 pages are already sold (which means 56,700 dollars earned). Awesome.
Congratz to Graham Langdon, 21 year old senior from the University of Connecticat. He is one of the most effective internet marketers out there OR one another lucky beggar, but no matter on that. Srsly, I’m very very impressed (jealous a little bit, too) 
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September 12th, 2007 #
The million dollar wiki will get dropped for selling links and no one will visit it because it is not a useful resource…. good for the owner making money for nothing…. bad use of $100…
September 12th, 2007 #
Very bad use of $100 indeed. But what of it, 627 pages already sold. Damn when I think about these 62,700 dollars I do feel like a noob
September 12th, 2007 #
Not that much of a noob… you still have your $100
Dunno how he got JC and ShoeMoney to buy pages… wonder if they paid for the pages, or got paid to take them
September 12th, 2007 #
It sounds really stupid. I’d never do something that I can’t be proud of later.
September 12th, 2007 #
Im sure making $62k and counting will make him very proud, it would me!!
September 12th, 2007 #
Jez IMO he already is, just check his writings
I would be as proud as a peacock, too
September 12th, 2007 #
OK to be honest let’s say that 10,000 monthly would be enough for me to be proud.
September 12th, 2007 #
Thanks for the mention.
Also, he’s doing pretty well with an Alexa under 25,000. If he gets more and more buzz, he won’t need the big G.
This Million Dollar Wiki shows the power of doing something a unique idea, charging people to leverage your idea, and then marketing it like crazy.
September 13th, 2007 #
Dee: Yes I agree it was a lucky unique idea indeed, 719 pages sold and still counting. Nice gift from Shoemoney & a bunch of other people that jive that page listed at MillionDollarWiki is a good use of your $100.
September 13th, 2007 #
Its a total waste of $100 IMO…. the craze will be over as fast as it started and I doubt you will get any link juice from a site openly selling pages….
September 13th, 2007 #
I think if you are creative you could take advantage of this opportunity… I own the design page and have started pulling in constant page design gigs. I know that following MDHomepage will give the Wiki friction, but having people and content behind the site will probably help him reach success.
September 16th, 2007 #
Matthew: I hear what you’re saying BUT still do think that spending money on any other thing (even on AdWords) would be a better choice…
September 16th, 2007 #
Adwords is great, but you have to know what you’re doing and better yet, hope your not in a competitive niche, cause you are going to pay – especially to expiriment. A $100 one time fee is pretty valueable in internet marketing. Word of mouth costs $50 for the average blogger for 1 post. $100 for 3 months banner spot on an average website, where big time websites cost a few thousand with a 3 month minimum. Is $100 a risk on MDW? Of course it is… but so are most marketing campaigns, cause you don’t know the results until you try.
September 16th, 2007 #
I agree on Bart with this… sold pages on that site will get you no link juice from Google, once the hype is over it will be a completely dead site with no direct traffic…. better to buy adwords, paid posting on blogs… buy more content for your sites…. almost anything would be a better use of $100 IMO….
September 24th, 2007 #
What a lucky twat. For every 1000000 ideas like this only 1 will ever strike it lucky (wish it was me!!). I do agree with the comments above though – complete waste of money as Google will devalue the links for sure.
September 24th, 2007 #
Even if not these links will be useless and not worth any money IMO
September 24th, 2007 #
You guys are very creative entrepreneurs. You see it only as an opportunity for link juice. People are making money off of affiliate programs, advertising programs, selling products, selling services, as well as gaining traffic directly to their websites. MDW isn’t for one type of person – there are many ways to profit. Check out the ‘money’ page to scope out a few people who have already made their money back before the site has become a huge phenomenom. I can’t imagine what the site will be like after mainstream press catches on and people start re-selling their pages.
September 25th, 2007 #
Yeah Matthew, this time I totally agree with you. Good marketer is able to make money on everything, even on participating in such a carry-on project like this one!