So I’ve launched a new site called Million Dollar Brandon. The idea behind this one is to allow people to create domain names for $9.95 per month, get a comission of $50, then split the commission with the people who used my link, and also giving a backlink to whoever does this. This results in a net gain of $15 and a backlink, a domain, and hosting for a month for the user. Then I repeat 39,999 more times to become a millionaire. Easy enough.

So we have a new #1 link going to the 1234directory. The old #1 link had lasted 85 days on top but it’s reign of terror is over. However it is the dawn of a new era for the link experiment. In talks with the buyer I agreed that he could hold the #1 link for 4 weeks time. This might setup a new system for the link experiment whereby the #1 link will be guaranteed for a minimum of 1 month blocks. This may encourage more buyers when they know that their link won’t get booted after a day.

Link Experiment has been popping up around on various blogs and forums, I thought I’d include a couple that I’ve seen so far:

Here’s a site where you can pay to vote on whether the link experiment will succeed or fail: http://www.piddypine.com/linkexperiment.php The owner will use the money made, pick one of the sites that voted and purchase a link for them on the link experiment.

This site analyzes some of the latest link sites: http://www.squidoo.com/thenextbigthing#module1777159

this blog does the same: http://miscblogger.com/?p=17

another blogger that wrote a post on the link experiment: http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/07/million-dollar-home-pages-galore/

and another: http://batflattery.blogspot.com/2006/11/new-million-dollar-page.html

and yes another: http://buzzbadge.blogspot.com/2006/10/buzzing-linkexperiment-next-million.html

i think there was a blog post in german about the site as well, but I can’t seem to be able to find it now. Sorry to anyone I forgot about, if you’ve got a post just email me and I’ll try to return the favor.

Well over $1,000 in sales came in the last couple days. The contributing factors are that 1)the site recently broke $10,000 2) I started running an aggressive adwords campaign. I’m trying to narrow in on which sites bring in good traffic, and which bring in bad traffic.

Nearly $1,000 came from one customer who found the site through adwords. She has several sports pages on the homepage now (gocheaptickets.net, goboston.com, ticketboston.com) She emailed me a little about her story which is pretty interesting. Her name is Joyce and after fighting off breast cancer she decided she wanted to try something different. She decided to make a go of making money online and started a series of ticket/sports/boston sport websites. After a quick google check her ticket prices were on average $10 cheaper than what I found at some other online ticketing companies, so her sites look like a good deal as well.

I wish all the best luck to Joyce in succeeding with her online business.

The last link purchase of $81 pushed The Link Experiment over the $10,000 marker this morning! Really amazing, thanks to everyone who bought a link and helped make the Link Experiment as successful as its been so far. I’m going to do my part and now help all the advertisers get more exposure for their sites and help promote this story. Stay tuned for details.

In my running news, I ran the Rothman 8k yesterday and PR’d in the 8k by 7 seconds to run 24:44 for 8 kilometers(approx 5 miles). This was a great way to end the fall season. I’m now resting a bit in order to gear up for the Boston Marathon. I’ll need to qualify for it first, I plan to try to run a marathon in February at a relaxed paced to qualify for Boston, and then go for a good time at Boston, possibly going for the Olympic Trials qualifying standard of 2:22, but we’ll see how things go before I set out a time.

LinkExperiment has dipped under 25,000 on Alexa today: check it here. I’m going to try to make some phone calls to some papers when the election dies down a bit about the Link Experiment. Hopefully I’ll get some papers interested in the site.

Less than $1,000 from the $10,000 mark! Should happen any day now. Also there’s a Brookline TAB article coming out about LinkExperiment.com and my running. It should be out Thursday, I’ll link to the article when it comes out. I think with the article coming out, the $10,000 mark will definitely be surpassed by a lot this week.

Also, I have added a “new” image next to text links that are less than one week old. This way it is easy to find the newest links on the page. I’ve got a 2 mile race on friday this week, although I woke up today sick, but hopefully it will pass by friday.

So I’ve been buying signature links like mad to promote the Link Expeirment. I’ve bought somewhere in the neighborhood of $250 worth of links so far primarily from digitalpoint and namepros. I’ve seen a pretty good boost in traffic so far, but I don’t think there’s been a direct purchase as a result of one of the signatures I’ve purchased yet. Although that $401 purchase may have come from one of the ones I bought. Anyways, I think I’ll buy a few more and just see how it works out.

I’ve just started up an ad campaign for linkexperiment. So far I’ve put up some banner ads through adwords on some of the webmaster message boards and I’ve purchased a text link off of alexaholic. So we should see a nice bump in traffic. I’ve been using the adwords site finder and text link ads to search for sites, hopefully I’ll find some nice sources of traffic.

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New high link of $400 just bought today to someone blog. Never seen it before, but looks like history/trivia about various stuff. Good if you want to brush up for jeopardy

On another note someone PM’d me over at digitalpoint. Asked if I was the owner of linkexperiment.com then said he could help me market the site. 5 hours later I hadn’t replied and he sent another PM calling me arrogant and telling me that my site was dying. Which bring me to another point.

PATIENCE! Something I think a lot of people who work online need more of. If something isn’t making tens of thousands right away a lot of people will give up on it. It doesn’t work that way. You’ve got to put some work in your projects and have patience.

Other stuff about the site. I’m starting up another marketing push. I’m thinking about buying a link from a PR 10 site and maybe about purchasing a billboard on I-95 in Philadelphia. I’ll have to look into these both a bit more, so we’ll see. I wouldn’t be buying a link from statcounter to get PR, but purely from a advertising point of view, since everyone looking at the link would be a webmaster. (although it would be cool as hell to have a link from a PR 10) Anyways I emailed them about some info and to see if my site would be acceptable to them so we’ll see.

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