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Million Dollar Home Page Down

I’m sure many of you have already heard about the www.milliondollarhomepage.com. If not. it is a site started last a few weeks ago by a student in the UK called Alex Tew. He’s selling pixels on the home page of his website for $1 each with a minimum purchase of 100 pixels.

I know what you are thinking. “Why couldn’t I have come up with that idea?”

Don’t worry. We are all thinking the same thing.

Reason for this post is that the site seem to be down at the moment.

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.milliondollarhomepage.com Port 80

This doesn’t say much for sitelutions.com. The host that the site resides on. I know that this site is extremely popular right now. It’s ranked around number 800 in Alexa. Still, I think it looks pretty bad for the host.

Well, Im sure Alex won’t have a problem finding another host with the $200,000 + he’s made so far.

On a more SEO related note, milliondollarhomepage.com is already listed in dmoz and the Google directory. Is that really fair to the poor site owners who have to wait up to 3 years ot get in? Really now. Is it?

I submitted my site about 4 months ago. No word yet. I’m not holding my breath though. :)

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7 Responses to “Million Dollar Home Page Down”

  1. chris Says:
    October 6th, 2005 at 6:04 pm

    Have a look at what these guys are doing…

    http://www.milliondollarhero.com



  2. Administrator Says:
    October 6th, 2005 at 6:17 pm

    > 1. chris Says:
    > October 6th, 2005 at 6:04 pm e
    > Have a look at what these guys are doing…
    > http://www.milliondollarhero.com

    My eyes!!!! If anyone can stand to look at that blinding green grid, you might sell some pixels. I think you missed the boat on this one though.



  3. buckabyte Says:
    December 21st, 2005 at 7:34 pm

    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



  4. B Jones Says:
    December 23rd, 2005 at 1:12 am

    Buckabyte,
    Not a bad idea. Not bad at all. Ill be interested to see how things go.



  5. Reklama Internete Says:
    May 3rd, 2006 at 11:55 am

    Though it is quite an old idea, we have lots of example in our country Lithuania. The biggest problem of these copies - no PR. What is more, PR is impossible, because no one cares about ideas, which where already implemented and had their days :)



  6. Ice666 Says:
    June 27th, 2006 at 2:35 pm

    created a hybrid between the million dollar homepage and that guy on eBay who auctioned off his forehead: http://www.isellbody.com/



  7. medvegonok Says:
    June 29th, 2006 at 12:39 am

    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



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