We are pleased to announce that at the Pixel Advertising Shop we are giving away free pixels on our main pixel grid!
Here’s how it works.
We have set up a new payment scheme with Transact Social so that when you post a tweet or Facebook post through a special link, we in return give you a free $50 pixel ad.
Once you have posted a tweet or a Facebook post via our special Transact Social link you will then be taken to a form where you can input all your information and upload your image. We then need to verify your tweet or Facebook post and once approved your free pixels will be added to our main pixel grid normally within 12 hours.
To get your free pixels please click free pixels and follow the on screen instructions. Enjoy!
Following successful search engine optimisation (SEO), Google has now awarded the Pixel Advertising Shop a Page Rank of 4 out of 10. Great news for our existing pixel ads and all new adverts joining our site.
For those that are unfamiliar with Google’s Page Rank toolbar, here is their description, updated 24/10/2011. Source, http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/answer.py?answer=79837
“Pause your cursor over the Page Rank button to display the importance of the web page that you’re viewing, according to Google. Web pages with a higher Page Rank are more likely to appear at the top of Google search results. To learn more, see the Technology Overview .”
As part of our ongoing works optimising search engine results page (SERP) we are now ranking really well in Google.com and Google.co.uk under our keywords of Million Dollar Homepage and Pixel Advertising.
Here are our latest rankings:
Google.com, 6th on page 1 when searching Million Dollar Homepage
Google.com, 4th on page 1 when searching Pixel Advertising
Google.co.uk, 4th on page 1 when searching Million Dollar Homepage
Google.co.uk, 2nd on page 1 when searching Pixel Advertising
We have alway performed well when searching pixel advertising in google.co.uk but since Google’s new ranking system, Panda paid us a visit, we have shot up the Google.com pages! 
You can now find us ranked 3rd on page 1 of Google.com when searching Pixel Advertising and ranked 4th on page 1 when searching Million Dollar Homepage.
Fantastic news for all of you and us!
We are pleased to announce that we now rank 3rd on page 1 in Google when searching pixel advertising. The only other websites that rank better than us are the Original Million Dollar Homepage and Wikipeda’s pixel advertising page. This ranking is perfect for us and we feel our current Google objective here has been fulfilled
Our ranking for the keyword million dollar homepage has also increased and you an now find us on page 2 in Google!
In Yahoo! We are still number 1 when searching pixel advertising and a very impressive 5th when searching million dollar homepage. Here we are below 2 links from the original Million Dollar Homepage, Wikipeda’s page and a news site!
In Bing we are now 3rd on page 1 when searching the term pixel advertising but have yet to rank in the top 10 for million dollar homepage. Something to work on!
If you’re a regular at our pixel advertising website, you might have noticed a change today as we’ve now finished revamping our half a million dollar homepage blog.
Over the last few months we’ve added new features to our blog making it even more user and spider friendly. You now have the ability to subscribe to our RSS feed and there is also a new navigation panel to help you where we have separated the pixel news from our fundraising event. Please note, you can still buy Cancer Research pixels on our special top banner where 100% of the money raised from these pixels will be donated to Cancer Research UK.
Stop Press – there will be another fundraising challenge this summer! Watch this space 
We would love to know what you think about our blog as we are continuously tweaking our website so that it hits highly in all major search engines when searching our keywords. Do you like our new look? Is it easier for you to navigate and use? What else would you like to see on the website? We would greatly appreciate your input and look forward to hearing from you.
You can now find us on the first pages of Google, Yahoo! and Bing when searching the term ‘pixel advertising’. Currently we are ranked 4th on Google, 1st on Yahoo! and 2nd on Bing.
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Our next objective is to rank well when searching million dollar homepage, as there has been a surge of interest since Alex Tew’s Do Nothing for 2 Minutes website.
John O’Groats to Land’s End (JOGLE) completed!
On the 28th August 2010, Neil completed 1064 miles riding his bike from John O’ Groats to Land’s End raising just over £1000 for Cancer Research UK.
You can still make a donation at my justgiving website at http://www.justgiving.com/Neil-Croughton
Below are photos and extracts of Neil’s diary
Neil has made it 2 sunny John O’ Groats!
15 August at 18:51 via Text message
Day 1 – John O’ Groats to Dornoch 82 miles = a dead bum! Made it though
16 August at 20:47 via Text message
Neil is riding in the rain. Oh joy! but off to see Nessy!!
17 August at 10:04 via Text message
Day 2 – Dornoch to south of Fort Augustus, 84.5 miles. Got totally soaked this morn and didn’t see Nessy Camping amongst some amazing mountains tonight!
17 August at 21:25 via Mobile Web
Neil has made it 2 Fort William and is having lunch. Apparently I’ve got a 10 mile climb up over Glen Coe later!
18 August at 13:36 via Text message
Neil has made it up and over Glencoe. Down hill all the way hopefully!!
18 August at 16:30 via Text message
Day 3 – Invergarry to Tyndrum, 77 miles. Had dinner with the very kind and beautiful Kayleigh 2night!
18 August at 22:24 via Text message
Neil is on a 40 mile cycle path along Loch Lomand all the way 2 Glasgow! and its sunny.
19 August at 12:06 via Text message
Day 4 – Tyndrum to Catrina, 97 miles. At last!!
19 August at 20:10 via Text message
Day 5 – Catrina to Annan, 67 miles. Got soaked and that wind. Not good!
20 August at 19:11 via Text message
Has crossed the border and is now back in England!!!!
21 August at 11:26 via Text message
Found today really tough as woke this morn with swollen ankles and really sore achillies. Cant think why as a really odd cycling injury… Couldn’t really walk and was very tempted 2 take the day off!
21 August at 22:13 via Text message
Day 6 – Annan to just south of Kendal, 82 miles.
21 August at 22:05 via Mobile Web
Is feeling good 2day. A good nights sleep, the sun is out, the ankles feel a bit better and is already on the road!!
22 August at 09:13 via Text message
Day 7 – south of Kendal to south of Warrington, 82 miles. A really good day 2day. The weathers been fine and arrived just b4 5 at the campsite! A good days cycling.
22 August at 18:46 via Mobile Web
Is wet wet wet wet wet wet just south of Shrewsbury but can just about see the sun now…
23 August at 14:54 via Text message
Day 8 complete. South of Warrington to Ludlow, another 82 miles! And is now sat in his tent over looking a sunny Ludlow with a cup of tea (first one for 7 days) and a packet of assorted mini Danish’s!
23 August at 20:06 via Mobile Web
Day 9 – Ludlow to east of Bath, 99 miles. That bloody wind! Blew me off my bike! Not good. A really hard day 2day. Easier one tomorrow though as making a detour to Poole to see Dad and Mags. Should be about 60 miles tomorrow.
24 August at 21:24 via Mobile Web
Bad news. Back tyre has gone pop! – split in the side wall. Lost 2 inner tubes as didn’t realise the tyre was fu*ked! Crawling along with low pressure in my last inner tube towards Frome in the rain.
25 August at 10:45 via Mobile Web
Day 10 – Bath to Poole (Dad and Mags!), 68 miles. What a day. Totally and utterly soaked. The roads turned into rivers but made it 3 hours later than planned.
25 August at 19:44 via Mobile Web
Day 11 – Poole to Exmouth, 78 miles. Now in Devon, 1 more county to go!! Had a really nice eve with Dad Mags and Josh last night and this morn. Thank you for everything!!
26 August at 20:09 via Mobile Web
Neil is riding across Dartmoor and the sun is out!
27 August at 12:55 via Text message
Day 12 – Exmouth to St Germans, west of Plymouth. 77 miles. Took ages today as was very hilly but had fish and chips on route instead of cooking pasta and sardines again! Tomorrow is my last day. Thinking its going to be another really hilly day and probably the most mileage I’ve done so far this trip so going to leave at 7. Night all zzz
27 August at 21:40 via Mobile Web
Neil Croughton HAS MADE IT!! I’m at Lands End. 87 miles today, 1064 miles in total – I think! Raised just over £1200 for Cancer Research UK. A big thank you to everyone and for all my messages and texts of support. Beer tomorrow I think! X
28 August at 17:56 via Mobile Web
With my departure date getting ever nearer for my 1000 mile charity I thought I would give you all an update with my training. Last weekend I broke the 100 mile barrier and rode 103 miles on the Saturday. I rode fairly hard and was totally shattered by the time I got home – think is was due to running low on sugars but was really please with my effort. Weekends previously to this I’ve been hitting about 80 miles a day which included some massive climbs up over the Southdowns so I’m fairly pleased with my fitness.
I’m reckoning that the ride will take 13 days, averaging about 85 miles a day. I was a little concerned with my fitness levels but the pace will be a lot slower than my weekend rides so as long as I eat and drink sensibly and ride at a steady rate I should be fine!
During in the working week as well I try and jump on my bike a few times in the evenings and ride about 30 miles each time. Every other night I do some strength and weight training with some free weights so fingers crossed I’ll be fine.
Really looking forward to it now and the maps arrived the other day so I’m going to work out my route this week! There’s lots of info too on the web about John O’Groats to Land’s End so will hopefully get some good tips.
So far I’ve raised £345 for Cancer Research UK which is fantastic! To support me please buy some pixels or visit my justgiving website at http://www.justgiving.com/Neil-Croughton
A big thank you to all those that have sponsored me so far
SEO Update
We are now indexed in bing on page 1 when searching the term pixel advertising.
Thats all 3 major search engines – Google, Yahoo! and now finally Bing who have us indexed on their first page under our primary keywords!
Good News
We are now ranked on page 1 in Google and Yahoo! when searching the term ‘pixel advertising’ and on page 2 when searching ‘pixel ads’.
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