Everyday, thousands of new websites are started and claim to be the next big thing. I’d say that from every 10,000 websites created, only one is successful.

If hundreds of thousands of websites like yours already exist, then I don’t see why people would have any reason to start visiting yours. (Unless you’re giving out free Macbooks, of course.) Next time that million dollar idea pops into your head, try doing a bit of research to see if millions of other people have already thought of it before you.

To save you the time and effort, I created this list of some of the most common ideas on the internet. Make sure that your million dollar idea isn’t one of those below.

Get Rich Quick eBook
Internet users are getting smarter day by day, so stop trying to fool them and go do something useful with your life. I don’t have a problem with those offering their sucky eBooks for free, buy what I don’t like seeing is some loser trying to scam an innocent guy out of his hard earned money. Don’t get me wrong here, not all money making eBooks are bad, but those with the hyped up sales pages are the ones that automatically raise a red flag.

Selling A Million Pixels
The first to appear online was the “Million Dollar Homepage“, and it was the first and only to be completely sold out. Before you knew it, hundreds of others started appearing and everyone was selling pixels! Some tried to be different and reduced the price to 10 cents a pixel, but even then, they were not even close to reaching their goal. A search on Google for the term “buy pixels” gives you about 68,600 results. Just another great million dollar idea killed by all its clones.

Million Dollar Wiki
Graham Langdon, a university student in Connecticut came up with the “Million Dollar Wiki” which has made $120,000 to date. Basically, you buy your own wiki page for $100, put whatever you feel like on it, forgot about it for the rest of your life. There are a lot of different “versions” of it, for example: Quarter Wiki, Five Dollar Wiki, and Million Euro Wiki. I don’t think that this idea will ever be worth a million dollars, mainly because I don’t see the point of paying $100 for one page when there are thousands of free websites that allow you to create your own page for free.

Paid To Click Network
Networks that pay their users one cent for viewing an advertisement for 30 seconds. If you have ever joined or started one of these sites, then please explain to me how you made it succeed, if you did. A Google search for the term “paid to click” returns about 910,000 results, so be ready for some fierce competition. A perfect example of a total flop of these kinds of websites is Algoco, which supposedly payed its members to surf websites, although none ever received their cash. Even though they’re not exactly the same thing, both are similar ideas.

Please don’t make another clone of the above sites, it gets pretty annoying seeing them over and over again. Once again, please remind me if I forgot anything by leaving a comment below.

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