Don’t waste your money on Million Dollar Wiki

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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).