If I were to take all the words in the dictionary, let you buy a link to one of the words, and charged you $1 per letter for that privilege, would you be interested? I thought not. Such Wiki style directories went out of favor months ago. However, one such page is making the rounds lately called The Big Word Project .
I’m not quite sure how anyone benefits anyone other than the owners of www.thebigwordproject.com. You can’t even resell your “word”. With over 200,0000 common words in the English language, and at $1 per letter a pop, what would I gain by buying a word? When was the last time you bypassed Google to go to www.thebigwordproject.com and see who owned “mesothelioma”. Hats off to the owners for creating a new twist to the Wiki page idea, but I think I’ll pass. If they want to donate the money to charity, I’d reconsider.
I mean, why not name a star after your website. Think how famous you will be if we find life there! Not to mention, you are buying a paid link. Anyone know how Google feels about paid links? Oh, it’s a directory, and how long has it been since directories stopped giving pagerank? I suppose it’s all in good fun, but for a quarter you can ride the pony outside the supermarket instead.
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14 users commented in " Buying Links That Go Nowhere "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback **********I bought “duh.” I should’ve bought duped, I suppose. But I couldn’t resist. Can’t they sell out all of their words then make it possible for you to sell the words? Maybe not, but I spent $3 to find out. C’mon, duh!
I thought you were joking! I hope you prove me wrong and make millions off of “Duh”. D’oh! might still be available.
Why wouldn’t they let you resell? Makes no sense to me. They take a commission and make bank. Maybe it’s a ponzi scheme. I don’t know.
BTW, I originally was going register “cutarded.” A portmanteau for cute and retarded to give to my girlfriend, but they wouldn’t let me make a word up. Probably saved my relationship.
I just paid for “sucker” and linked to your site
Ha!
Just wait.. I’m sure John Chow and Shoemoney will pimp it in 5…4…3…
At least they will if the author pays them $500 each
Which means go buy business, technology, etc. so when they pimp it, a few hundred hits will come your way and possibly even get a link from either of those guys.
Alright, I should have waited until I checked out the website first. So you are essentially buying a link to your website, that has 0% linkjuice due to The Big Word Project getting banned by Google in about a month due to spam (link farm).
At first, I thought you were buying a page like on million dollar wiki or million euro wiki, but nope! Interesting find none-the-less. Haven’t heard of this yet.
It also seems that all the money words are bought, so buying them now is pretty much useless unless you buy something like ‘bah’ and try to get to the top of the page on the B’s or T’s or whatever. And the only reason why money words would be good to buy is because others searching for the word to buy will run into your website and possibly click…. so yeah.
Gary: I looked for the pimps and instead found a surprising amount of negative reviews already. My instinct before I started researching the article was exactly as you thought, a few paid reviews plus all the good words going to the top blogs. Instead I found words like “marketing” going to http://www.verticalresponse.com. Seems to be word of mouth making it go viral. Like in entrecard forums, it was the 5 blondes who brought it up.
No hits for duh. Yet. I’ll keep you posted.
I wonder what they will think of next.
That seems like an interesting concept. I doubt it will last very long or have much umph with google.
I think they should have been greedier, and charged for each letter an amount in dollars that corresponded to it’s worth on a scrabble board.
At least that way the purchaser of “sex” would have paid a fairer price.
I like http://www.linkinword.com better.
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