Hi,

I have joined recently this board. I have run websites since '96 as a (serious) hobby. I'm a Java developper working mainly on open-source projects. I have display ads (banners, adsense) for paying the bill and I also used different technics to promote my websites (adwords, ...). I recently started a new website totaly focused on traffic and advertising, The Million Dollar Screenshot. The goal is to offer the lowest CPC of the market. I have quickly reviewed this board and the threads look interesting. So expect me to come back regulary.

Regards, S.

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Hi Serious, I'm Borderline Psychotic!

Got to admit...that's a hell of an idea you have there. If I weren't a cheap bastige, I'd take you up on it. :)

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Don't be cheap, I have good news!
The icon located at (3,0) will be sold on eBay. Auctions will start very soon at $1 with no reserve. This is the best opportunity to boost your traffic since ... sliced bread (1928, [1]). Icons at (1,0) and (2,0) will also be sold on eBay but later.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-l...icedbread.html

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Hi Serious. Glad you found WPW. Sounds like you plan on talking more and more here. Good to here that.

What is the price your asking? Do you have a shopping mall icon?

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Hi wh1,
I'm not sure I understand your question. Did you visit the site? The price is $100 for five years. There is no shopping mall icon on my desktop yet. Yours would be welcome ;)
Right now my Today Rank at Alexa is 53,776 (Week Rank 116,553).
Regards, S.

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I don't have an icon for a shopping mall. Was just wondering if you had one. Might you have one for a lingere store?

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Hi Adam,
The auction has been set. You can get an icon for $1.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=7565617724
Regards, S.

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hey serious,
Good idea looks like the milliondollarhomepage.com, hope it pays off!

Hi Cashcannon,
Yes, it has been inspired by the MDH. However, I'm selling real pixels ;)
I don't know if it will pay off but it is already a lot of fun. Anyway, the CPC is already less than $0.15 for the demo icon and less than $0.30 for the first sold icon. And there is still 1800 days to run
Rgds, S.

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Do you create the Icon, or would I supply my own? Also how do you get your visitors, strictly from paid ads? If so I would assume you plan continuing this for the entire 5 years that I would be purchasing.

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Hi Ada,

You should supply your icon and text. The icon should be 32x32, in PNG, GIF or ICO format. If you really have no nice icon, I should be able to find one. Yesterday,
25% of the visitors were from paid ads, 25% from search engines (organic), 50% from links (websites, blogs, forums).
You can not assume that there will be always paid ads but you can assume there will be visitors. My goal is to provide a CPC as low as $0.01 for every customer, so it means 10000 visitors minimum to YOUR site. But in 5 years, I think there will be more.
To pick a good icon and a good text will help.

Reagrds, S.

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I have updated the table with all the CPC.
Already two icons have a CPC under $0.10 ($0.07 and $0.09). After only 26 days, the first customer has already a $0.15 CPC and there is still at least 1790 days to go. Not bad, just compare with other forms of ad.

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Things are running fine so far.
The website gets more and more visitors and the return rate is around 10%. Really not bad ;)

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We should reach our 50,000th visitor this month.
We are today at 43,037 visitors with 3,664 clicks on paid icons.
A new auction is running.
And we have a banner!

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interesting idea, good going!

Now that MDH has finally sold out... you might have a few more takers ;-)