Archive for July, 2007

Promote your website with toast!

Jul. 29th 2007

your name on taostNot only is Your name on toast a very creative idea it also does some good - it’s profits go to charity. By purchasing a piece of toast you can have a short message displayed along with a link to your website.

The more you pay for a piece of toast the higher up on the page it gets displayed. At the time of writing this post prices started from $80.00 while the most money paid for a single slice so far was $444.44.

One of the most appealing aspects of this site is that the pieces of toast look fantastic, they appear to be real pieces that have been directly written on rather than being created in photoshop, this is complemented by a very minimal but effective site design.

Definitely worth a visit.

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Fifty Fifty - text link advertising

Jul. 20th 2007

fifty fifty web pageIn theory the idea behind the Fifty Fifty web page seems quite good. An advertiser buys one of 96 text link boxes at a very reasonable price which can then be sold on to other advertisers, the profit from this is then split between the site owner and the original advertiser.

Visually the site looks quite slick, the blocks themselves have very bright colours which makes for quite a loud looking home page but I quite like it.

There doesn’t seem to be many purchased blocks at the time of writing this post, though perhaps this could change with the right marketing?

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Pixelotto - pixel advertising

Jul. 17th 2007

Pixelotto is a website created by Alex Tew - best known for his massively successful Million Dollar Homepage.

On first impressions Pixelotto looks like just another pixel advertising site, but what makes this advertising site different from others is that users have an extra incentive.

Registered users have the opportunity of potentially winning $1,000,000 just by clicking on the pixel adverts, which in turn is an incentive for any advertisers wanting to showcase and get hits for their websites.

At the time this post was written the prize fund stood at $152,000 - the site was launched back in December 2006 so perhaps it would be fair to say that the site doesn’t quite have the same buzz about it that The Million Dollar Homepage did, it’s still another great concept though, and it will be interesting to see how it develops over the next few months.

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