Let your ads play rock, paper scissors – or at least get a free backlink
Officially the second post of March, time surely flies when you’re blogging, this one might turn out to be handy if you want to promote your website some.
On PPP I came across a somewhat new way of website promoting, well, not entirely new as it’s somewhat of a changed version of the ‘million dollar homepage’, but it’s a nice one nonetheless. The name of this website is ‘Head for the Top dot Com‘ and it’ll allow you to put up a free or paid advertisement in a somewhat unique way.
Instead of having a static place this website will let a random function decide whether your add will move to the top or the bottom, in the case of a paid advertisement, or being deleted, in case of a free one. Below you can see a quote explaining how it works ‘exactly’, taken from www.headforthetop.com::
Text or Image based adverts can be placed on the site, and each is placed in a box. Each advert also has a service or product description, and a link. Free boxes which just contain text can also be added which compete with the advertisements. Each box is assigned (user choice) either rock, paper or scissors.
The advertisements are then launched from the bottom of the screen, and head for the top, hence the sites name. When their progress is blocked by another box, they play rock paper or scissors. The winner gets to proceed. And the looser gets relaunched if its an advertisement, or is deleted if its a free box.
Its a novel idea designed to attract interest to the pixel advertising style of website. The fact that the casual user is able to play against the adverts is the clincher, because this focuses the interest on the advertisements which on most sites would be ignored. Realizing the uniqueness of the idea, the designer has had the idea patented. At the moment there is a one off fee, based on size, which buys you an Advertisement lasting a year or more.
Right now I don’t think this website will send a lot of traffic, but there is a positive thing though; all links are pure, no ‘nofollow’ or other tags are on it! This might make it a pretty interesting way to generate a couple of links back to your homepage by either submitting your site for free or paying to keep your link up there for a year.
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