New Site Concept: Adcubes

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to share a new website and a new idea with everyone. I am working with a team and we made a site that sells something called 'AdCubes,' an advertising space that increases by $1 each time someone buys it. We have already sold 10 cubes, and they are delivering clicks at about 1 cent per click.

http://www.ibtimes.com/adcubes

Our idea is that as the interest to this site increases, the ad sales will increase, the traffic will increase, and the price of ads will increase. Because the ads are more and more expensive, people will come back often because they are curious how the site is doing. If the media picks it up, the price of the ads can skyrocket.

Anyways, I wanted to share about the idea. I think it is very novel, and I hope that you guys can take a look and offer constructive feedback if you would like.

Benjamin

I don't think I'd want a link to my site to share a page with links to ringtones, Ephedra, and real estate rentals. But that's just me. Maybe it's an aversion built up from all the comment spam I get from people hawking ringtones, Ephedra and real estate rentals. :-)

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Do you have anything else planned for the site other than these "adcubes"? If all you're going to have on the page is ads...you become another pixel ad website...a concept which has long since passed.

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Two sayings come to mind; 'Money for old rope' and 'There's one born every minute'.

British readers (at least) will understand what I mean.

There are different sorts of clicks. Quality clicks are when a user searches for an item and feels they may have found what they are looking for and then there are curiosity clicks as users browse to see what's available. Your site will only appeal to the latter.

That understood, what are your visitors faced with? An array of completely unrelated links in a weird competition to spend more money. They will only click on a link to see who is so desperate for links.

It is possible that some of those clicks will result in a sale but highly unlikely. Some of those sites may well be grateful for hits and may benefit from on-site ad campaigns but as I see it, the biggest gainers from such an enterprise are going to be the individuals who set up the scheme. This is purely a cynical money-making venture and the advertisers are the pawns in the game.

The International Business Times may well find this an interesting exercise in discovering how gullible people can be but quite how they could benefit from that causes me to despair.

'There's one born every minute', refers to the fools who think they might benefit from a such gaudy and random exposure.

'Money for old rope', refers to the exploitative method of gleaning ever-increasing money from people for what is in the end a 59x59 pixel space on a hodgepodge page with only a potential of curiosity clicks.

It's not original, it's not clever and it's not good.

It might make you a few hundred dollars. Big deal!

The Internet used to be a very interesting phenomenon, in my opinion you are simply adding to it's degradation.

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Here's a thought. Why don't you make thematic Adcubes and then direct interested traffic to the particular theme.

e.g. A Self Help section where you drive Self Help traffic.

Regards
David Tislini