You probably have already heard about the Million Dollar Wiki. Basically the guy is selling single pages on the site, like milliondollarwiki.com/money or milliondollarwiki.com/blogging, for $100 a pop.
Why would someone invest that sum into a single page? Because they are hoping that the site will go viral, bringing along both search engine juice and traffic (similarly to the Million Dollar Homepage). People are also inventing clever ways to monetize their pages, inserting Adsense units or even selling products with affiliate programs.
I must admit that I was skeptical about the idea, but the guy who created it can already consider himself successful, having sold over $50,000 in pages…
Anyway the whole deal got me thinking. Could this model prove sustainable beyond this particular case? Someone with an established domain, say a PR 5 or PR 6, could easily rent sub-pages for $50 monthly or sell them for even more. People buying these pages would not have a hard time making their money back, either by applying some SEO and receiving organic traffic or by using direct monetization methods like PPC and affiliate programs.
Suppose you manage to rent 20 pages; that is already $1,000 monthly for no extra work. One could argue that this scheme could hurt the domain. It is true, but only to a certain extent. The owner of the domain could create a policy limiting what users would be able to do with the rented pages, ruling out potentially harmful stuff. On the other hand, if the content on the rented pages is good it could even add value to the domain.
What do you think, would you be willing to sell or rent a page on your site? Do you think this trend can arise on the Blogosphere?
Thursday, March 8, 2012
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