Inspired by Alex Tew's Milliondollar Homepage experiment, two students in London have launched a one page website that contains exactly 1000 English words. Here you buy individual words instead of pixels.
The price varies from EUR 100 to EUR 1000 depending upon the font size you choose. At the time of writing, 11 words were sold on the The 1000 Word Page.
While the idea is nice and may become popular, there are three possible issues that can push advertisers behind:
» The price of individual words is just two high for a website that's so new.
» The words are not linking directly to the advertiser's website but to an intermediate page which does a meta redirect to the actual site. Therefore, it will not really help in improving the search engine ranking of the advertiser's website.
» All the words carry the same price tag. I thought words that are below the main fold should have a much lower value. Update: The location of the words will be random.
Reader Comments
Thanks for your post Armit
Just a note from the founders of the 1000 Word Page: we are randomizing the order of the words each time we update the web site so no word should remain below the main fold for too long a time.
Thanks
The 1000-Word Page Team
Written on 24/6/06 10:47 PM
Reasons why this is bad idea is
1) This website has 0 Page Rank.
2) Domain registered a year ago
3) Static links from this website will not add any value because this website has no theme.
4) Seach engines will not be able to index this web page and may even ban due to keyword density/keyword stuffing policies
Unless too many bloggers pick up this website and write about it, there is no chance that this website will become a hit.
Also, this is a copy of million pixels website.
--sri
Written on 25/6/06 1:06 AM
Looks like this is being done with more features at www.500words.com
Written on 27/6/06 11:33 AM
Great Work, we do research this topic at www.millionpixelmirror.com and found the market active as you do.
We lately redesigned our homepage and do offer a more affordable price now and an enlarged free area.
Have a look, you may even book an advert:
www.millionpixelmirror.com
Ed Mip
Written on 7/8/06 9:26 PM
I don't like that the price of a 4 letter word is thesame than a 12 letter word. The 12 letter word has more exposure than the 4 letter word, for thesame price
Written on 11/12/06 8:36 AM