The Million Dollar Home Page - original and best

Being first to market still counts, whatever the venture. Inevitably copycat sites of Alex Tew's original Million Dollar Home Page were bound to come along - and sooner rather than later.

Some are thinly veiled parodies, others are wholesale rip-offs. To get the ball rolling, at least one of them has included all the links that were live on Alex's site when they lifted the idea.

Including this one.



It's a 10 pixel square linking to Indochine, and appear's on both Alex's site and one of the pretenders' - www.themilliondollarsite.com. When checking with Indochine's traffic analysis package FlySoup, Indochine gets loads of clicks from the Million Dollar Home Page site and none at all from the fake.

So if you're planning to buy some pixels, get the original and best.

Having said that one or two copycat sites have paid something of an homage to Alex's original efforts and are offering something unique in themselves. I particulary like the idea of zerodollarhomepage.com where you pay nothing per pixel and it's simply down to the webmaster's caprice whether or not your link is featured.

Given the advice to purchasers that no adult oriented sites would be featured on Alex's site there's also a smattering of sites of an exclusively adult nature. The least offensive is probably milliondollarhomepagewithtits.com - an attempt, according to Tristan Blackwell who has set up the site, to make one (or two) small improvements to an otherwise perfect idea.