If you own a website, you’ll know that the most important thing you need is traffic and plenty of it. This especially applies if you use your website to make money. To get money, you need traffic and to get traffic, you need to advertise your website. Of course, there’s many things which should be done in order to get more traffic to your website such as as many back-links as possible, word of mouth, directory submission and good SEO (Search Engine Optimization). From personal experience, I’d say that as many back-links as possible plus advertising are the best methods of generating visitors.

The problem with this is that advertising can be very costly. The most cruel thing about it is that you want as many hits on your ad as possible so that more people will land on your website but at the same time, you don’t want so many hits to that advertisement that it tips the balance in terms of how much you have to pay. Often, you need to pay the host of your advert for every time it is clicked. The other way that advertisements often work is that you pay to have your ad online for a set period of time, say three weeks for example. You may not get any hits in this time yet you’ve paid for it, meaning you’ve made a loss.

The solution to this problem is quite simple. You need to get websites that have a back-link to yours but you also need to have an advertisement that is as cheap as possible. You may think that if the cost of you placing an advert is too cheap then you won’t get many clicks or it will only be online for a short period of time. Lucky for us web masters, there is a way to advertise your website online for only a few dollars/pounds (or whatever your currency) and the ad will be online FOREVER (or at least as long as the host’s website exists). This method is called pixel advertising.

At the start of this new century, a student called Alex Tew came up with the concept of a website where people could buy space to have an advertising link back to their website by the pixel. This method was HUGELY successful and gained worldwide media attention. He sold advertising space for $1 per pixel. Sure, this is quite expensive at $100 for a 10×10 square but the popularity of it meant that he sold every space within a few months.

Though this website is sold out now, this was only the first of its kind. Since then, more pixel advertising websites have spawned and the best part of it is, some of them charge a lot less than Alex Tew did. www.pixel-bricks.com is one of the latest pixel advertising websites. The price is only $0.02/£0.01 per pixel as opposed to Alex Tew’s $1.00/£0.50 (prices correct at the time of writing this article). As with all pixel advertising website, the minimum number of pixels that can be bought is 100 (a 10×10 square) because if it were any smaller then your advert would not be visible.

So, let’s take a look at what we’re getting here.
As opposed to paying hundreds of dollars/pounds for a limited time advertisement, we’re paying $10/£5 for an advertisement that will be online for potentially years to come. We know that these websites get visitors because of A) the novelty and the strange compulsion to click through on pixel advertising websites and B) other website owners who have also come to buy some space taking a look around first and clicking through to your website. You’re probably reading this now because you own a website and want to learn more about cheap effective ways of getting visitors. With yourself reading this as the example, you can see that web masters do actively go looking for methods like this (which you are) which means going to www.pixel-bricks.com is also another method of looking up your options. So by you, a web master reading this, you know that other web masters do the same whether by reading this or checking out sites like Pixel-Bricks. The thing which makes Pixel-Bricks.com stand out above other pixel advertising websites is the design (most pixel advertising sites look like carbon copies of each other) and also their cheap price per pixel.

There you have it, quite possibly the cheapest form of advertising on the internet but for a period of time that lasts years, not weeks along with the knowledge that a pixel advertising website does generate visitors. This is certainly something that i personally feel is a great method of getting me more visitors and therefore more money and I’d advise anyone who has a website to get some pixel space on sites like Pixel-Bricks also.