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spooky
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Posted: 12th Sep 2005 00:43
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Student sells pixels on his website for $1 a pixel.

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com

Thought this would never take off but he has already earnt $8000 - how jammy can you get. Gets paid for doing virtually nothing.

He seems to have got lots of press attention aswell which I suppose helped a lot.

One day I WILL think of a way of making easy money...

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Posted: 12th Sep 2005 00:54 Edited at: 12th Sep 2005 01:01
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Each pixel contains a link though. A lot of people will pay for links especially if it's a popular page or is likely to become one. It's a stupid site though so it is jammy if he's made 8000 from it

Some people spent 900 dollars for 900 pixels. Which in my opinion is no better than buying 1 as it's still only one link and when the page fills up it will be unreadable.


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Damn it. Just hate it when people come up with clever, easy, cheap to run schemes that rake in the money. Ebay is a class example. As is the online poker efforts where people pay other people for winning directly (and the site keeps a commission - no prize money or nout to pay out). And now this guy. May not be the most brilliant idea on earth, but if he has already made $8000 from it, then well done. Gotta hate truly gifted "idea" people. Gits....

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wow, whish i coulda thought of that, even if 8000 is all he will ever make, its still 8000.

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Er, people really pay for this?


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Posted: 12th Sep 2005 01:55 Edited at: 12th Sep 2005 01:55
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apparently, i wouldnt, but hey, there are other idiots out there...

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Posted: 12th Sep 2005 01:55 Edited at: 12th Sep 2005 01:56
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Lol if americans would pay $1 million plus just for a piece of toast with gods face on it, who know's what silly money their flash out....


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hye, if you have 1million dollars of expendable money, who really cares what you do with it? me, id buy myself that brick with jesus on it, then theres that lima bean collection shaped like his head, oh and dont forget..........

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Posted: 12th Sep 2005 01:59
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Shave your beard?


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the ladies like some texture......

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Ohh..Didn't know that, well, that's the first ever coolest tip you have given me about getting women, looks like i'm gonna have to buy an ebook on it....hrmm


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tip #2: dont call them fat s**ts
#3: dont order a diet anything for them
#4: if they ask you "do i look fat in this?", you better say no
#5: look into their eyes, not their.....
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I could go on all day, but i am really starting to hate getting newb slapped.

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Quote: "look into their eyes, not their....."


I don't wanner see eyes....I wanenr see something more different

I think I would say yea you look well fat in that for a laugh

Althought....Might get the kick but hell it would be worth it.

Yes, I could just imagen doing a online datin, dating a fat girl, and she asking me, do I look fat in this, OMG, if I said no that would be lying now wouldn't it o.0


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yea, shed be like "omg you pig!!! your lying to me arnt you!!!" then you say, "fine you look fat", then shes like"OMFG, first you lie, and now you think im fat!?!?!?!!?!?!?" Then you stumble over your words when she knees you in the twins, and with 345lbs behind that leg, it hurts........not that i have ever, um,.....right then............

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LOL...

What was this actual topic about... ?_?

Oh, Millionair programe or something...


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Honestly, this has truly inspired me. Over the next few days I will be on a mission to find out how to effectively and legally scam the internet.

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yeah, we should start a siccom, "Desperate Obese-Wives)

It was someting to do wit an advertising site, oh yea a kid made 8 grand, woopdy effen doo.

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its inspired me too, hmmm, money in advertising......

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na I reckon that site that guy has made, those ads arn't really paid ads, I mean why would a professioanl web solution company in the UK host it on their?

Bit jiffy that is!


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dam, each little box is $100

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Quote: "na I reckon that site that guy has made, those ads arn't really paid ads, I mean why would a professioanl web solution company in the UK host it on their?

Bit jiffy that is!"


Do a bit of research, you will see that it is all real and legit.

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Yea, I thought someone said $1, then I looked and it was $100, just for a pixel, erm... has this guy typed google, I mean GOOGLE, ever?


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it is litteraly 1 dollar per pixel, 100 pixels per little box, minimum purchase=$100=100 pixels

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Quote: "I thought someone said $1, then I looked and it was $100, just for a pixel"


It IS $1/pixel. Those are not 1x1 pixel blocks, they are 10x10 pixels...so that means its $100 for 100 pixels.

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Clever Idea, Only I Would Never Of Thought People Would Pay, I Mean Google Sucks Up A Load Of Ads..

I'm gonna pay with an illegal card and get a huge picture of my face


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ok, but my a** is gonna beat your face there....

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also the images links goto a php script that forwards to there site, so there sites dont even get anymore page rank or anything :p


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Quote: "Honestly, this has truly inspired me. Over the next few days I will be on a mission to find out how to effectively and legally scam the internet."


I think a good way would be to buy mispelled versions of famous sites--- i.e. realarcad.com (instead of realarcade.com). Then stick a whole bunch of pay-per-click ads on there. A domain name is what, $5? If you make at least $5 then you don't lose a thing.

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Quote: "Bit jiffy that is!"


Bit me that is !?


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hows about that guy who sold twentieth century fox the name twenty first century fox because he noticed they hadn`t copyrighted it? they paid him millions for the name just in case they wanted to use it clever git!



the average IQ is 100...but the people that took the test where trying to look smart. most people don`t go over 50.
Area 51?, I`m more intrested in what they have in areas 1 to 50
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I heard they refused to pay him (cos he wanted millions), so they went with a different name.

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no, they bought it, the guy was a lawyer , they paid him about eight million iirc, think about it, if you where fox you wouldn`t want him to sell it to a hardcore porn film maker, lots of people would think they where at the back of it or something, it could do them a lot of harm (and they could probably offset the cost against tax anyway), they still use twentieth century fox though, they just didn`t want anyone else using the name I guess, if I was on the board someone in the commerce dept would be looking for a new job after that though.



the average IQ is 100...but the people that took the test where trying to look smart. most people don`t go over 50.
Area 51?, I`m more intrested in what they have in areas 1 to 50
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save the images!!!!

New dbpro site unleashed go to
http://www.freewebs.com/darkbasicpro
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LOL i should set up a site like that =P

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the page should be renamed

www.howtoconpeople.con

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no, "howIconnedpeople.com"

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nope

www.howpeopleoftheirownfreewillconnedthemselves.con.com

would be nearer the mark, personaly I think some people just have too much money and too little sense.



the average IQ is 100...but the people that took the test where trying to look smart. most people don`t go over 50.
Area 51?, I`m more intrested in what they have in areas 1 to 50
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Even closer would be

www.hahahahaihavejustgottonheapsfrommoneybycompletelyinsanepeoplewhowoulddoanythingfornoreasonandnowiam8000dollarsricherwhichisquitenicesonow
youwillgivemesomemoneyforsomepixelsonmycompletelyuselesssitesothere.cjb.net

(the .com address was already taken , so he had to sign up for Freewebs and use a .cjb.net)


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"I think a good way would be to buy mispelled versions of famous sites--- i.e. realarcad.com (instead of realarcade.com). Then stick a whole bunch of pay-per-click ads on there. A domain name is what, $5? If you make at least $5 then you don't lose a thing."

Unfortunately, thats illegal. When you buy a domain name you have to aggree that you are not usingsomeone else's brand name, trademark, copyright or whatever OR something which could be mistaken for it. A lot of people have had to volentarily hand over their domain names, sometimes entirely by accident. On the other hand many other people get away with it for years, its only if the other company complains that anything is done about it.

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www. i am tired of these con websites .com /report these jerks.


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Quote: "I think a good way would be to buy mispelled versions of famous sites--- i.e. realarcad.com (instead of realarcade.com). Then stick a whole bunch of pay-per-click ads on there. A domain name is what, $5? If you make at least $5 then you don't lose a thing."


A more legitimate approach is to buy a book on Organic SEO, buy a domain like www.get-stuff-cheap.com and then spend a long time with apache's mod-rewrite.

With a lot of work, you can make a site which ranks highly without you spending a penny. When you're there you use affiliate marketing with people who actually sell goods (like amazon) and they'll give you a cut if people end up buying something. A friend of mine where I used to work made around £5,000 in one year - nice little earner. Unfortunately, SEM (not SEO) is big business now, so you're less likely to get in the top results for "bread and butter" search phrases.

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It's not really a con; people get what they pay for. Nothing about it is misleading.

I actually visited some of the websites on that page and I'm considering buying some pixels!

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Quote: "I actually visited some of the websites on that page and I'm considering buying some pixels!"


But for the same price you could get a load more clicks using google, or programes that add you to search enginers.

Personally word of mouth is the best way here, only you would need to start by posting on forums, not in a spamming way.

Don't start throwing papers out, if someone wants to find you, they will.


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I'm going to do it.




(zoomed in)

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Oh god not dumbo and cool!


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Dumbo & Cool love Million Dollar Homepage and so should you.

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Report him? To who? The Internet police? Hahaha.

For one thing he's doing nothing illegal with this website.

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Well, I think it's a top-notch idea. No one's been conned, they knew what they were doing and weren't being misled in any way. If they choose to pay then that's there decision and what's wrong with people having a bit of fun with their money.

EDIT:: Go for it Drew, spread the word of Dumbo and Cool

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Drew--- have you looked at their website statistics? Do you even know how many page views they get? No use shelling out $100 or more if the site gets a measly thousand views a month.

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Yes and yes. The case study guy got an increase from 15 visitors to 6,000 visitors a day since his ad went up.

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