Curious Minds Need to Know
Aussie Dave | May 25, 2006 | 4 comments
Will someone please tell me what the point of the “million pixels” websites (such as this one) is?
It seems to me like the only winners from it are the owners of these sites, who manage to convince people to purchase pixels on a site with no proven traffic!
Think about it. The owner approaches people to purchase pixels on a HTML page for $1 a pixel, and is able to become an instant millionaire, irregardless of the number of people who actually visit this HTML page. And, as you can see from the end result, it isn’t actually that beneficial for the suckers advertisers.
Can anyone please enlighten me?
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: General
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Try and see this from another angle. Its like the lottery. A tax on the poor that they willingly … even eagerly pay. It helps to keep them supressed and pacified at the same time. The stupid need to be kept down.
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Well, put it this way, you already gave them 2 free links and so some (OK small) amout of people will click in from your site. And of them some will click through to one or more ads. The guy did pretty well on his own publicity, got mentioned on big news sites like the BBC I think, so yes, he is basically selling advertising on an website which is only famous for selling advertising.
But the point of advertising is to get your product noticed. If someone clicks onto the million dollar homepage (or equivalent) and likes my 10×10 pixel icon so that he clicks it and gets though to my site selling pencil sharpeners – well, it’s $100 well-spent (asuming it happens enough times).