Remeber this post?

Well after the first day i was number 2, then as expected dropped down to the 3rd page.

Now look! (Click for biggery)

Wonder how long this will last.

Found this page the other day, www.websiteoutlook.com.

How does it work? From the site:

Websiteoutlook contains a collection of actual number of pageview from other websites. The visitor data is combined with information about number of links that point towards the site, country, Alexa ranking and other data that is available on-line. All this information has been used to make a formula that uses the information that is available on-line to estimate the number of pageviews, its worth and possible daily income that the site has.

For lols i tried my million dollar website:

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.milliondollarwebsite.com.au

Net Worth :  $1810.4    Last updated Today
Daily Pageview : 354
Daily Ads Revenue : $2.48

Hah! Almost!

Edit: You should also consider http://www.websitefact.com ; they provide a nice summary of the website performance. I find their WF rank being more accurate than Alexa.

So one day a young English Uni student came up with an idea. His idea was to create a page, with a block of squares each with an area of 10×10 pixels. He would sell these blocks at $1 a pixel, with the minimum buy being one 10×10 block, so $100. His name is Alex Tew and his site, The Million Dollar Homepage sold out within 4 months netting him just over $1million US dollars.

Now being the savvy Internet Entrepreneur that i am, i decided to copy his page and start my own. Of course this was a bit of a gamble and a bit tongue in cheek but i did it anyway. So created The Australian Million Dollar Website.

At one point i was pulling in about $50 a day in adsense revenue and getting about 50 to 60 thousand visits a month. This was all purely organic Google search traffic. I was making no money on pixel sales as i was simply giving them away for free. The first version of the site was pretty full up and gained a Google PR of 4 within a few months. I have since relaunched the site with some updated software and started from scratch as a lot of the links were dead anyway.

Today,  PR has dropped to 2 but i am still getting roughly 50 hits a day, mostly from people still searching for “million dollar website!” Check the Google Analytics data.

15.10% – Direct Traffic

18.99% – Referring Sites

65.45% – Search Engines

This is almost completely on auto pilot now, people can upload their own ads so i don’t have to touch it aside from the odd blog post, and it nets me about $1000 a year from adsense.

You might think why is he telling us about this? Well from this i learned some very important lessons.

• Find other successful marketers.
• Analyze their success.
• Learn from their mistakes.

These were golden lessons that i stumbled across, right from the very start of my online ventures. I hope you found this post helpful!

Until next time,

Hugh