Internet February 28th, 2007 by HMTKSteve
Million Dollar Avatar: a few days later
Several days ago I wrote a blog post about a new site called Million Dollar Avatar. Before writing that post I signed up for an account and added my avatar to their system.
It has now been one week since they went live so I went back.
After logging in I went to my 'home' page on their site and found a long list of information.
Overall Stats
| Statistic | Total |
|---|---|
| Profile Views | 47 |
| Profile Comments | 0 |
| Profile URL Clicks | 1 |
| Profile Avatar Clicks | 0 |
| Homepage Avatar Clicks | 7 |
| Homepage Username Clicks | 7 |
| Badge Clicks | 0 |
| Random Member Avatar Clicks | 1 |
| Random Member Username Clicks | 2 |
| Tag Avatar Clicks | 0 |
| Tag Username Clicks | 0 |
| Search Avatar Clicks | 1 |
| Search Username Clicks | 1 |
| New Member Avatar Clicks | 0 |
| New Members Username Clicks | 1 |
| Backpage Avatar Clicks | 1 |
| Backpage Username Clicks | 1 |
Remember, this site has just been up for a week and it was several days before they hit 100 members. With that said it looks like I have benefited from ten clicks. Ten clicks from people who may (or may not) be new readers of my blog.
Be sure to check back at the end of March when I show you what 30 days has done for me.
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Steve, I have also signed up. I like it so far, neat design and load time is decent.
I find the load time to be very slow, with all the avatars loading and all.
I’ll pass a more final judgment in the weeks ahead.
Search engines were invented for a reason. Google has an Im feeling lucky option if your feeling lucky, how many people use it??
The effectiveness of this kind of system have been proven by pixel lotto which has failed. Random clicks are little value for either site owners and users.
You may get a few hits and boost your alexa ranking slightly, other than that I don’t think you will derive any benefit from this site.
I just hit 2 links, one was to a site with some interesting graphics, nice stuff, not my thing. The other was to some crappy business site.
Experiment over!