million dollar homepage hits the mark.

$999,000

congrats to Alex.

Truly awsome achievement, deserves his place in internet advertising history.

James
JustOneUK

 

Yup, he'll probably sell out in a day or two.
Congratulations goes out to Alex from me, as well.

 

Does everyone know what you're talking about but me?

 

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

The original pixel page, created by Alex Tew, age 21 -- trying to sell one million pixels at $1 each.

 

Just go's to show that you make your own living on the internet and there's very few limitations to how much you can get out of your hard work

 

My mistake, I thought everyone knew

 

It's okay. I've been told I'm pretty clueless.

 

I wonder what he's going to do with the remaining 1000. I think he'll probably auction them off on ebay or charge 10x or even 100x the price

I'm just glad I managed to get mine a few hours ago, I was a little late, but the site isn't even online yet so it didn't really matter.

 

He definately deserves his place in internet advertising history... Congrats to the owner!

 

What after he solds out? will he start 2milliondollarshomepage.com ?..or just live off the SMALL sum that he has earned

 

Nope, he said he's not going to start another one, and I don't think he'll ever generate more cash from the same idea (ie. Adsense on the site).

 

Wow, I wonder what being on that site does for your google pagerank?

 

Nothing.

See Aaron Wall's interview of Matt Cutts: http://www.search-marketing.info/newsletter/articles/matt-cutts.htm :

 

I don't see that this means it won't change your PR

 

I don't know about PR but I have read that those who have tried it are happy with the amount of traffic that it produces for their outlay.

 

What that says is that the pixel links will not pass any PR to the pages they link to.

Even if they did pass PR, it would be close to zero: Count the number of outgoing links on that page. Look at the PR of that page. IF the links passed PR (and they don't - see above), the value would be:

.85 * {PR of the pixel page} / {total number of outgoing links on the page}

 

As to the traffic such a thing produces, of course "big banner" sites there gets some (and they paid a lot also), but what about the other microscopic squares? Many surely didn't get one visit!

 

I don't see what there is to stop pagerank being allotted (unless pageranck doesn't follow links in a map, and I really hope it does)

 

Hehe, with 1million unique within the last 48 hours, that's 1 per pixel, so even the smallest squares get roughly 100. Obviously some people don't click, some click 10 times... but I'm sure everyone got enough traffic or the site wouldn't be famous.

 

i am trying to bid on the ebay auction $4000.....

it has gone from 1500-2200 in the time i have been waiting,
need a bit more exposure for my free local advertising, but by the time i get approved i may be out bid