Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch pointed me in the direction of 1000tags.com. Similar to the idea behind the MillionDollarHomePage, it allows you to purchase links/tags to your website. By the way, I’m extremely jealous that Alex Tew thought of this and made a million bucks and not me!
Well, I thought this would be the first (and maybe last) place that WhiteAfrican.com would try and do some advertising. Mostly because by starting the tag “AFRICA”, I thought it would be a huge help to all of the other African bloggers out there, especially my chums at the Kenya Blog Webring. It costs $30 to buy into the AFRICA shared tag – and that’s for life too, no future payments – so not a bad deal at all. The more people who join, the bigger the tag grows.
I hope that my other bloggers of African heritage will join and also pass this news on to everyone else!
UPDATE from 1000Tags.com:
1000tags.com goes in Alexa’s TrafficRank position from nowhere to 4,808 in less than 3 days!
January 12, 2006 at 7:06 am
Man, that’s cool. I would do it if I didn’t have to pay for it. They should have a way of linking an article to them and get a free tag or something like that. That would get them some traction for thier tags too.
January 12, 2006 at 10:00 am
WHAT an idea!
Yeah, i feel you on this one, ndugu. First of missing the idea of selling pixels, and now this tagged thing. Grrrrrr…… One day…..one day we’ll find a decent way to make enough mbeca comming in (by itself!)….
January 13, 2006 at 2:15 am
It is a great idea, such easy money! How much traffic are you getting from the link to your site though? Is it noticeable?
Might be an option.
January 13, 2006 at 7:31 pm
I haven’t gained a ton of incoming traffic from the link yet. Of course, it gains traction the more people sign up on it (bigger word = more links = more traffic).
We’ll see how it goes over time, but my hope is that even a small number of African bloggers will take notice and take part.
January 14, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Um, well, I got here through 1000tags for whatever is worth, and I think I’ll be visiting it often. So far I like what I see 🙂
Kierke, looks like they heard you or something. You can now get free tags. Sorry Hash 🙂
January 26, 2006 at 12:01 am
My tag has just been made, South Africa, on 1000tags.com.
Now we wait …
🙂
January 27, 2006 at 1:10 pm
can’t believe i missed this one! am in!