You will not get much traffic from normal keywords, you will not get any SEO benefit.

Do the bloggers recommending it get a kick back for doing so… a free page on the wiki, or some other favor???

I did not get kick-backs for this post… writing this will probably do me more harm than good….

I’m just sick of all these make money online guys peddling the same rubbish together. I know they are out to make money but, as you say, what about their readership?

Short term, the MillionEuroWiki may be a winner for them but what about long term?

Check out John Chow’s RSS count - 7490 - wasn’t it 8500+ yesterday?

I guess this hyping of rubbish is driving the sheep away in droves. (but he gets to keep the cows so maybe he will still be happy?)

Funny you mention John Chow, I un-subscribed a couple of weeks ago after reading for over a year. That was a fantastic site last year, the stories about the dot CON era, how sites were bought and sold… who made it who didnt were brilliant posts. Now its spam posts and re-hacks of old material.

I read cash quests for a while too, not because it is the best / most informed site of its genre, but because it was a straight up honest alternative which was not afraid to “call a scam a scam”.

I hope this latest post doesn’t mark a change in direction for that blog too… then again, I’m sure someone else will come along and take their place in the honesty stakes pretty swiftly…. blogs move pretty fast

If they do get a million dollars, then congratulations to them for successfully using an idea thats alread played out.

Yeah I was a bit surprised they tried it, then again its cheap as chips to set one of these things up.

They only need to screw over a handful of noobs to make a profit… I think its quite sad …

John Chow will hype up anything, but these two just seemed different. Don’t you think?

ugh….

I was actually saying the Million Dollar Wiki does not rank for its own name, which is a bit older than the Million Euro Wiki…

You are quite right it will take time for MEW to rank, however, as site that sells links is likely to recieve a penalty… which was the point I was trying to make, though not very well…

Of course, I feel like my investment in buying the page “Investing” has already paid off, seeing as I was the second winner of an iPod Touch. Does it really matter that the idea had already been done? I don’t hear anyone complaining about all the copycat cars on the road…I mean Karl Benz invented the darn thing and yet there are thousands of makes and models out there now.

Why not just accept that someone thought of the idea before you and is successful with it. You are after all, getting traffic as a result and just think if you hadn’t had something to rant about in the first place, we wouldn’t be making these comments.

I did not write this for traffic, as for ranking no. 1 for the phrase, it show’s how weak the real site is…

I am not jealous, I now have my own free wiki at spamipedia.org, if I had wanted to try and screw people over I would be doing it.

I have been offered money to set more of these things up which I have declined.

If your investment has paid off then well done… I fear that will not be the case for the majority.

I have plenty of other posts on this site which are not “contraversial” and still get read and commented upon.

As far as I am concerned MEW got what they deserved from myself and others who felt the same way.

Jez

Of course, there are always going to be those people that don’t take advantage of what they are buying or choose poor keywords, it happens even on free sites…that’s unavoidable. You can’t force people to be intelligent. I think my problem with your original post was that you were calling the whole thing a scam which I felt was unjust…maybe overpriced, but you are buying something so it’s hardly a scam.

Interestingly enough you gained an rss subscriber because I think some of your posts are interesting, so keep it up.

I did not really want to rank for any of those terms, they are no use to me, I was just pointing out the fact that google rankings were poor…. meaning that after the hype dies down it will be a dead site…

Google “Million Dollar Wiki” and the site is not listed, I believe they were penalized for selling links….

I have no idea how many subscribers I have… probably not many…

My Alexa rank dropped as I don’t post here very often… hence I removed all dates from the site…

I have no use for publicity, especially on this site as it makes no money….

Besides, sites with bigger audiences gave the schemes good reviews… John Chow sent thousands of people towards those wiki’s… I don’t really see how a post on this site matters either way….

The only reason this post got any exposure at all was because more popular blogs wrote posts about it, if they had just ignored my views then very few people would have ever read my posts…

If you have a different point of view why not write a post of your own on the subject and comment back with your URL….

I would imagine the new owners will add more content to bolster it up a bit…

If I were planning on spending a few hundred dollars like yourself I would want info on the number of unique IP’s per day etc.

Personally I would create free pages on squidoo etc. and spend my money on PPC, link building, direct advertising, reviews…. lots of proven methods which would get you a better return… in my opinion….