I guess that I am a bit slow on the uptake of this one, but the Million Dollar Homepage is taking the UK (and the rest of the world) by storm at the moment. Like all good ideas it’s very simple, a student needed some money so he is selling 1 million pixels on a web page for a dollar each. You buy them in 100 dollar blocks and put in a little picture with a link to your website.
I am not convinced that it will work, but as an experiment I have invested the $100 cheque that I just got from Google Adsense in a block which should appear on the homepage over the weekend. It will be interesting to monitor the website stats to see how they perform. If they even get close to the case study then I’ll be impressed.
Update: The link is up, so far we are getting about 3 referrals an hour, the gif is on the bottom left of the homepage (see the picture for reference).
Matthew,
just had a look at this. May be difficult to spot which one is yours! Is it the one with 50 on?
Another version, this time in french, called Bloc de pub (you can find it here : http://www.blocdepub.com),” rel=”nofollow”>http://www.blocdepub.com), and selling each bloc of 10×10 pixels only 10 euros instead of 100$ … starts to be really interesting now!