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Buy the Last 1000 Million Dollar Homepage Pixels

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January 5th 2006
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This week marks the end of the Million Dollar Home Page, the web site that was divided up into 10×10 pixel blocks and sold off as advertising at $1.00 a pixel. The last 1,000 pixels are up for auction on eBay. Current bid: over $145,000. Milliondollahomepage.com was conceived when 21-year-old Brit Alex Tew was looking for a viable way to pay off the impending cost of school and its associated debts, and become a millionaire in the process. As of this week, Tew has now surpassed his goal of generating $1M. According to his blog, last week his site has received more than 2 million visitors, and is at the very top of the Alexa search engine’s movers and shakers list.

As a result of Tew’s success, numerous copycats have emerged in recent months, including Million Pixel Home Page, MillionDollarHomepage.net, the Million Penny Home Page, a million foreign domain extension variations thereof, and even Pixels For Jesus. Meanwhile, Tew’s original, according to its creator, will stay online for as long as possible, at least through 2010.



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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

Posted by Million Dollar | 2:51 pm on June 16, 2006.

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