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 two authority news sites talk about it, one being PR7 (Mashable), and one duplicating the rss feeds (PR8 rojo.com). It will only take time. 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. Ways you get traffic to your page: Recently Purchased Words - Also listed on homepage Most Popular Words Random Word Viewer 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). Good luck with your micro investments, and I wish you the best of luck. http://www.wordhugger.com