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I don’t know about you but I think this Million Dollar Wiki idea is a novel idea. It’s a clever innovation on the Million Dollar Homepage. However, I wouldn’t recommend buying a page.

Most newbies will probably make the assumption that just because it’s a wiki that it’ll automatically be given some Google love. The reasons that Google ranks Wikipedia so highly are because it’s a collaboration of worldwide editors and because EVERYONE links to Wikipedia when they want to reference something.

But Million Dollar Wiki is a PAID wiki. Only you’re not paying for a “review” like on a paid directory. You’re paying for a page with links. And when Google finds a few newbie webmasters start selling some for their links on their paid wiki pages, those unlucky enough to have bought a page will likely find that their $100 will have been wasted. What’s more, they’ll likely find the websites that they’ve linked out to have been penalised.

This wouldn’t apply however to something like the Million Dollar homepage. This is because they’re selling pixels; not links.

Nevertheless, it is a novel idea….though I don’t think it has any longevity. Just my 2 cents (or 1 pence).

For the past year, most of my sites have been mini-sites. Cheap to build or buy and fairly easy to market (mainly through SEO and posting on forums). This is especially good when you’ve got limited resources (translation: little money!).

Now is the time to go to the next stage. Building flagship websites.

My next site is going to be based on Pligg, which is the open source version of digg. I’m not sure how well it’s going to go but hopefully it’ll be something different to digg and its competitors. Unlike the rest of them, the site is going to be targeted towards a different audience….kind of like Sphinn

Hopefully it’ll be stirring up some controversy and maybe even get a mention on sites like Mashable and Techcrunch.

Here’s to the next stage…

Seeing as I’m not looking to actually make most of my money online from this blog….

(I think it’s made about $50 from adsense since it’s been up)
So I figure I’ll just use it to chronicle some of the cooler sites I’m working on