Is MillionDollarWiki worth a go?

Posted: September 13th, 2007 | Author: steve | Filed under: making money on the web |

I’ve been mulling over buying a page on MillionDollarWiki. Yeah, it’s only $100 but I just can’t convince myself that this site is gonna work.

At the time of writing, the site has sold 765 pages. That’s 76.5k for the site owner, very very nice. A great idea and already a nice earner for them - question is though, would it be a nice earner for me if I bought a page?

Most people are going to be using their pages to act as a portal to drive traffic to their other sites. Shoe has done this and has seen some clickthroughs to his ringtone site almost straight away. So it has worked on a small scale for him.

Way I see it, the only chance that MillionDollarWiki has of driving real traffic is if a lot of pages are put up that will, over time, start to get inbound links and rank in organic searches. Given enough time this may work. But there’s a few reasons why I don’t think this is gonna work:

  • If it gets popular, the spammers will jump onboard and create many, many link-farm pages for viagra and whatnot. Legitimate site owners may not want their sites associated with this kind of stuff.
  • Search engines could decide to pull the plug on the MillionDollarWiki domain if they decide it’s getting too spammy and is not providing value to organic searches. This happened to Squidoo.

But, as Shoe says, “Are you going to take a chance for only $100 that you missed the boat on your niche?”

4 Comments on “Is MillionDollarWiki worth a go?”

  1. #1 Collin LaHay said at 6:16 pm on September 22nd, 2007:
  2. #2 Collin LaHay said at 6:17 pm on September 22nd, 2007:

    $0.50 a month over 10 years*, sorry for that typo. WordHugger also donates 50% of profits to Kiva.org.

  3. #3 steve said at 10:54 pm on September 24th, 2007:

    Hey Colin,

    Love the look of WordHugger - very Web2.0 and very nice. Looks like Kiva is a good cause and hopefully you’ll raise some funds for them. I may just take the plunge on this one!

    You say there’s a money back guarantee on the pages - at what point do you get your money back? After ten years?

  4. #4 Steveify » Blog Archive » Wordhugger said at 10:08 pm on September 27th, 2007:

    [...] WordHugger work? Who knows, only time will tell. I previously wrote about why I thought MillionDollarWiki will not work - so why would I take a chance on WordHugger, [...]

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