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Graham Langdon created such a success and a part of internet history with Million Dollar Wiki, with over $100,000 USD income within the first 3-4 months of opening. With so much success, MDW seems to be finally slowing down with the pages sold. What is Graham doing with MDW behind our backs?

Bloggin-Ads.com barely started, but Graham agreed to do an interview that answers all of our questions and controversies and is bothering most of us. Before I discussing the interview, lets first get a quick review of Million Dollar Wiki.

Getting finished and detailed reviews is easy since the evil Mr. Chow has already done it for all of us. Can You Make a Million Dollars With a Wiki?

Background

Graham Langdon, a 21 year old senior from the University of Connecticut, created Million Dollar Wiki to pay off his schooling debt. Well a least we know that Graham is an well educated person that has a goal. Having a goal does not mean Graham doesn’t have a dream. As soon as he is debt free, his dream is to open up the world’s greatest bar in Boston.

Million Dollar Wiki

If you guys have heard of Wikipedia, you can just think of Million Dollar Wiki being the same except with a twist. The twist is that MDW sells each page for $100 instead of having it public for all to edit. Every page consists of a unique word or phrase that is controlled by the owner, which could also be sold.

Here’s what all of you have been waiting for, the answers from the man behind Million Dollar Wiki (the interview was copied over to this post, so there may be some grammar errors):

How did you come to the idea of having MDW?

I started a word-association wiki, associary.com. Each page has a unique keyword, like MDW, but instead of owning a page, people just write the first thing that comes to mind. It’s still one of my favorite projects. One of my hobbies is writing short stories and novels (well, working on a novel at least), and I started associary to help me think up similes and metaphors. Brain exercise really. I had $5 in my bank account and thought, “Hey, these keywords are valuable. If I can successfully send a lot of traffic to a site, with a new viral idea, like selling keywords in a wiki for $100, I might be on to something. Because it’s a virtual inventory, like Million Dollar Homepage, I gave it the name Million Dollar Wiki.

What is the future of MDW?

Million Dollar Wiki will be online until 2022, but I plan on keeping it online as long as it is still attracting traffic. I am going to continue to think up of ways to bring more traffic to the site, and my goal is to sell 10,000 pages. It’s pretty clear that strategic initiatives are going to need to be put in place to get there. One domain I own, Keywordia.com, may come into play here, to benefit MDW page owners who make good content. Can’t say too much about that though. It’s something that’s in the works.

You made $100k from MDW, but how much is taxes going to take off?

My accountant tells me between state and federal taxes, and self employment tax, I’m looking at 30%.

You mentioned that you paid off about $30k for your tuition, but was that your first thought?

Yes, I started the website to pay off my college tuition. That was my first goal from the beggining.

Upon receiving so much money, did you want to spend it on other stuff that you want? (a car, computer, electronics, etc)

Nope. To this day I still do not own a car, and I use the same old laptop I’ve had for the past year. I also still live with my parents. The fastest way to lose money is to spend it on crap like that. Let’s be honest, at the end of the day I am not taking home that much money from this project.

You wanted to hire a publicist for MDW, but what made you want to shell out so much money?

I did hire a publicist. I’m in a legally binding contract with Zable-Fisher public relations. John Chow supposedly reaches 10,000 readers and I made $10,000 when he posted about me. Shoemoney supposedly reached 20k and I made $40,000 when he posted on me. If it costs me $10,000 to get into Wired and Entrepreneur magazine, in front of millions and millions of people, simple math says that it will be well worth it for me just as much as it will be worth it to the page owners, with massive a ton of traffic coming their way.

With so much money earned through MDW, why didn’t you use the money to alter the scripting of the site? More automation of the script and less manual work.

Because I have friends and family to do the manual work, and I don’t mind supporting friends and family with the money I make. In fact, I get a great deal of satisfaction knowing that I’m sending some money their way. If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it. Right?

With your new project, “Business Card 2.0,” would you be able to give us bloggers some heads up?

You will hear about it very soon. I promise :). Look for the widget on MDW soon.

Besides the full interview, Graham sent me proof of him hiring a publicist for Million Dollar Wiki, which can be viewed at Zable Fisher Public Relations.

There you go, Bloggin-Ads.com is the first to bring the Million Dollar Wiki interview for all to see. Most of us probably think that Graham is just using MDW to earn money to purchase what he couldn’t before. With over $100,000 USD, he can basically purchase stuff he dreams about, but no I was wrong to think that about him. I’m sure i’m not the only one that thinks Graham uses the money for his own personal matters and that is why I conducted this interview with him, which will answer our questions. Upon asking Graham the questions, he felt offended and I’m sure any one of us would if we were doing nothing others are accusing us of.

Million Dollar Wiki is going to stay for a least 15 years as promised by Graham, but he also mentions that he is going to work on MDW no matter if the growth slows down or not. He is working countless days getting a new strategy up for MDW, which would allow more sales towards the 10,000th page goal.

Graham’s site might be slowing down, but it does not mean he is going to give up. Give MDW a chance by purchasing a page because it is a true investment that even John Chow or Darren Rowse realized.

Update: As most of you have probably noticed already, Graham just launched his Business Card 2.0 idea. You should take a look what he has to say in his blog.

Want to download the original e-mails sent between Graham and I? Download it below:

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