Alex Tew's MillionDollarHomePage 2: Pixelotto

C'mon, dont feel shy, its me

 

I'm guessing the price for a box will be the same $100? Seems like from what I gather that people will get a lot of traffic to the site but since it is a lot of people just clicking to "win", it is useless traffic. They will just go to your site and leave right away and click on another box...

 

Sorry scamsky, I clicked reply without remembering who said it. It was defenitely you

 

Well, unless they can only click one site per minute or something.

And it's not $100 per box. It's $200 now. That way he has a spare mil to give away..

 

I guess the premise is pretty similar to what my site was. I had a whole system in place to generate prize distributions based on advertising space already sold, to evenly award $1 million over a nice time span (like $100-1000/day in prizes). The prizes were randomly assigned to specific ads and given a 'time' to be released on a specific day.

What happened was, if someone clicked it, they had 5 minutes to fill out the page with their contact info before losing the prize. If those 5 minutes expired, the prize would be shuffled to a new ad. We also did some other things to guard heavily against spoofers/bots. We throttled the amount of times you could 'click' to a reasonable rate (so bots couldn't hit 100 times a minute). we also made sure to guard against session spoofing so in the event that a botnet could attack the site, they would have to be pretty smart to spoof the session to fill out the contact info, or they'd have to get notified and be at the proper computer within the 5 minutes to do it manually (since we use an image captcha to verify a human is claiming the prize).

I'm pretty confident my system would work darn well, and it sounds like tew is doing exactly what we had setup. My one thought is that we may have corresponded with his PR person about the idea and possible endorsement/joint venture of it. If that's the case he may have very well stole our idea :s I'll have to look at the emails that were exchanged.

 

Sorry, I'm 'LetsConga' from the previous posts, fyi. Don't ask, long story about the 2 accounts, but i just remembered this is the account i want to be using.

 

damn, that is an awesome idea.

 

I was going to snatch up pixellotto.com but someone beat me to it... by about a month and a half.

 

Alex Tew owns that.. It redirects right to his new site btw.

 

why is there no mention of this in the press? is this official? as all i can find is it is mentioned on forums and blogs only?

the whois shows no details relating to alex tew?

could this be a scam? or does anyone actually no this is official and have good proof about it?

thanks
ps i,m just sceptical, i wouldnt ant to see anyone get there money burned

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Hey, I don’t belive this I beat him to it! I’ve already set up two sites, both working around this concept!
The first one is www.cashcells.co.uk : This site offers the user clicking on the adverts the chance to win $$$, the total size of the prize is directly related to the number of adverts.
The second site is www.microlotto.co.uk : This site gives the advertiser who buys a square the chance to win in a sort of ‘cell lottery’ set up. Check em out!

 

It doesn't matter if you thought of it first. He is able to market it so he will get credit for it.

 

That guy joined one of my forums and posted that exact same post...

Spam is not good marketing.

 

It's gonna be huge, every webmaster forum and internet marketing blog is already talking about it, he's probably got thousands of links to the site already and it's not even up and running. By christmas he'll have tens of thousands of links. In the new year he may have hundreds of thousands, the website will be almost unavoidable. Good idea or not, everyone on this forum and every other webmaster forum is going to visit the site at least 3 or 4 times. That's an awful lot of 'alexa' traffic, add in the inevitable high PageRank that his site will have and you can see why this is going to be a success.

I'm not sure about the idea though. If one of us came up with the idea would it succeed? Probably not. It's like a big Hollywood sequel, it might be shit but you go see the movie anyway...

 

On the contrary, the advertisers on the original MDHP should thank him for
not resting on his laurels. The original site will inevitably get a traffic spike due to this new site.

 

Anyone know what his latest tally is?

 

He's already in the Alexa top 2,000

 

007, do you know how much he's sold so far? I'm out of town and don't have my login link he sent out..

I sold my first pixel today on my typo site! woo hoo!

PixleLotto.com

 

I'm getting a few clicks a day again from the MillionDollarHomepage.com site.

This new one better bring more than a few clicks a day though..

I wish ads were clickable already.. they can't be clikced until the 5th.

I don't know for sure how much he has sold but I estimate upwards of $60,000? I don't feel like counting all of the boxes sold.

 

heh V1 was a great concept and cloned many times nowadays though, better be drastically diff or i dont see it doing much