Word Hugger Micro Investments Word Hugger has just launched, and it is a new type of site that runs on micro investments. Investors pay a one time fee of $60, and get a "word" on the wordhugger.com domain for 10 years. You control 100% of the content, and pick your own word. For example, you can check out the Kiva page, which explains what Kiva is, and how you can help. Word Hugger donates 50% of all profits to Kiva as well. Why would you want to buy a word? The site has only opened recently, and so right now you can expect little competition in getting the best words early, such as "proxy", "SEO", "PPC", "marketing", and "Blogs". (I expect these to go fast, so this is at the time of this post, they may be taken now. You can check for yourself). You will own this page for TEN YEARS, and can put whatever content you want on it. Another great idea would be to purchase the word for your name, so in my case I could get the word "Raithe", and use it as a directory, listing all of the sites I own. You are allowed up to 15 links per page, and can choose your own anchor text links. The site is a long term micro investment. In the early stage of the site, you can easily rank your words and earn lots of the traffic that the community shares, and earn lots of money back on your Word Hugger word page. If you do not make your $60 back, I will personally refund you 100% of your purchase price, and every visitor that you have gotten from my site will have been completely free. I can personally guarantee that through the viral effect of this website, and the community sharing traffic effect, that you will be able to make money on your investment. If you think about it, $60 one time payment over 10 years runs down to only $0.50 per month, for up to 15 backlinks! You will also be receiving heaps more traffic than the standard directories would be selling you. In the long term, the site will be fully indexed in the search engines, and rank high for its competitive terms. The site is less than 24 hours old and already has had 3 authority news sites talk about it, one being PR7 (Mashable), and one duplicating the rss feeds (PR8 rojo.com), It will only take time before the media starts taking up the story. Other than the pros, there are some cons: To keep down on spam, you cannot promote any illegal activities, display porn, or link to porn sites, and to better benefit the community, you should write at least 200 characters worth of useful content. I suggest writing about a topic that you are interested in, or are familiar with. How do you get traffic from Word Hugger? Your page will be listed on the homepage and most recent page when it is ordered. If you can get more visitors to your page than everyone, you can rank high in the "top 100" most popular page, and get even more traffic, or you can always get free traffic from users hitting the random button. If you have a well written page with good content, on a good topic, you can get featured on the homepage as well. In the coming weeks, we will also be adding a search engine which will send traffic as well. (Currently the search engine is in the Word Panel for registered users purchasing pages). You also have full permission to sell your word at any time during the 10 years, for any price you want, and Word Hugger does not take a cut of the price! In the coming months, we will be adding a marketplace for this as well. Good luck choosing your words, and sorry about the lengthy post! http://www.wordhugger.com
Yet another shitty novelty money making ploy. God, The Million Dollar Homepage really started one hell of a movement of copycats and novelty shit.
The site has nothing to do with the MDHP or pixels. It is a directory of investors who each own a piece of the site. They can put their own content on it, and earn money from advertising, with a 100% moneyback guarantee. Can you express your thoughts in detail, so that any problems the site has may be worked on, rather than just flaming it.
so basically you are copying MillionDollarWiki, but donating some profits? or am I missing something?
No. It is a long term version of that site. That site does not know a thing about search engine optimization, the site bugs out if your page is bigger than 667 pixels in length, the homepage is obvious keyword spam, he is looking to make a million dollars (greedy ); while I am only looking to pay for college, and to give Kiva 50% all the way there. My site is 100% custom designed and programmed. It has instant setup time, costs a lot less, doesn't require a portion of the amount you sell your page for, and after the 50% costs are donated to kiva, the advertising money comes straight back out of your investment. You are owning a piece of the company with your micro investment in Word Hugger. It is a long term project, and I hope you will see that in the coming months. The site was previously featured on Mashable, and will be on some feature length movies when they come out, as well as blogs around the world. *Additionally: Anyone that private messages me who owns/invests in a page on wordhugger who has read this thread, I will post about your word and company on my .edu blog for free*
I'm aware it doesn't sell pixels, I'm not a moron. When I said copycat in relation to The Million Dollar Homepage I meant the stem of similarities spawned from it. Such as direct copies, then MillionDollarWiki now this. All novelty crap. The original was fine but for god sake give it a rest already.
I don't know if I would call it a similar site to MDHP's pixels. It is more like combining web directories with Squidoo, run 100% by user generated content. I am not out to make a quick million, but I suppose I see where you are coming from. Thanks for expressing your opinion.
No problem. I didn't say it was similar to the pixel concept but it's similar to it's stemed copycats like MillionDollarWiki. We've had it all a million time over, selling pages, wiki pages, words, I mean it's run it's course. This whole making sites purely to sell novelty space as a part of 'internet history'/
I disagree. People will always be buying and selling advertisements, as well as wanting ways to build traffic. I suppose only time will tell!
I didn't say advertising has run it's course. Obviously we need advertising and it wont die. I said: I'm referring to all these novelty get rich quick spin-offs. Doing my head in.