The Australian Million Dollar Website

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.