A new concept that has recently surfaced in the wonderful world of online marketing is the purchase of buying pixels. Web entrepreneurs are buying up pixels on high traffic web pages and are placing click through banner ads which link to their own sites. Is this new trend effective? The short term answer could be leaning towards yes. Web entrepreneurs with pixel ads are seeing their unique number of web visitors go through the roof. Especially the ones who get their banner present on a site early so they can reap the rewards of traffic received from "buzz attention" Some web entrepreneurs are reported to be receiving thousands of unique visitors per day from a simple pixel add.

How did the trend start?

A kid by the name of Alex Tew revolutionized the idea of selling off pixels. Alex, a 21 year old from Wiltshire England came up with the idea in an effort to raise $1 million dollars to pay for his university education. Those must be expensive classes at a $1 million price tag! In all fairness, Alex set an enormous goal. He didnt need to raise a full million to pay for school but he knew how to draw the attention of the media. Now his site, www.milliondollarhomepage.com is one of the most frequented on the web and those who have purchased pixels from him are reaping their rewards with high amounts of traffic to their own sites.

The copy cats

With every good idea there are bound to be copy cats. New pixel sites are now surfacing faster than ever. Some sites even offer pixel adds for free such as www.thefirstmilliondollarhomepage.com or at a very attractive discount such as www.millionquarterwebsite.com. One site in particular that is catching lots of attention is www.cyberlotexchange.com. This site acts in a similar fashion but instead of focusing on the pixel sales this site is built in a way to mimic land development. Those who buy space on this site are actually treated as owners and reap the rewards of the success of the site just like land owners who buy into development early. Its actually a pretty cool concept, owners buy cyber lots for their banner advertising needs and if interested the cyber lot owners can sell off sections of their lots.

Keep Harvesting those Pixels

It's pretty evident that pixel sales have been kind to the Alex Tew and the owners of these new copy cat sites that have followed. However, the nice thing about these pixel sites is the actual purchasers and owners of the pixels benefit from the increased traffic to their web sites. All in all, it has been a great pixel harvest this fall!