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Using a WordPress Hosting Provider

WordPress is an extremely popular platform for publishing on the Internet. It has been employed by large companies to report on global events and hobbyists to inform the family about the cat having babies. WordPress offers a range of benefits to casual and professional users alike, and there are many WordPress hosting companies that can help you get started right away.

Why WordPress?

The WordPress platform allows anyone to start blogging or publishing a website even without any significant background in web design. Most WordPress hosting providers offer a one-click installation of the necessary software so you can start creating and publishing content right away.

WordPress makes it easy to design and add content to your blog. There are thousands of free templates available to help create the look you want. This is one of the features that make WordPress so accessible to the general public. The layout and design elements are completely separate from the content, which means that once the design is set, any of the authors on the blog can start writing and not have to deal with all the design issues.

Finally, one of the best reasons to use WordPress is that it is open source software. To put it another way, it’s free. The software is open to the public to download and develop, and as the WordPress community continues to grow, more and more developments will keep appearing and new plug-ins and themes will become available. And it will all still be free.

WordPress Hosting Requirements

There are a couple ways to get a WordPress blog started. One is to register for a free online blog hosted by WordPress.com. This is completely free, but there are a couple of drawbacks to it. The first is that you will have fewer customization options because the blog must conform to their web hosting requirements, and the second is that the website address will not be your own. Instead it will be formatted as: “yourcompany.wordpress.com,” which can create a very unprofessional image. That’s not such a big deal for a personal blog, but it could really hurt a business.

Downloading and installing the software on your own WordPress hosting server, then, can offer you all the customization options you want and the ability to have it on your own domain. This option will, of course, incur some web hosting costs, but those are usually very affordable. When you start looking at your hosting options, though, there are some requirements that you should examine before settling on a company.

You need to make sure that the provider has enough bandwidth and storage space to accommodate your needs. You never know when your blog might hit it big, and the server will need to be able to cope with ever-increasing traffic. Be sure to look at the company’s history as well. What is their record when it comes to uptime vs. downtime? What do current and previous clients say about their service? Do they offer auto installation of upgrades and features? Finally, make sure that the provider has the proper software required for WordPress hosting – PHP, MySQL, and Apache server. When all these elements come together you can make your WordPress blog everything you want it to be.

T35 Hosting Updates

As some of you might have heard from our facebook page, T35 is getting a complete make-over. We have already implemented some of the new features (including web stats for free hosting members) and the rest will be rolled out with the new design in a few weeks. The design is being built from the group up with a great emphasis on the user experience. To check out the screen shots and keep up-to-date with our updates, please check out our facebook page or start following me on twitter. As always, any comments, suggestions and feedback is always welcome. The web sites stats just added to free hosting accounts was done primarily because of user requests. This is also still very preliminary, but we are also considering finally offering mysql on free hosting as well (also a big user request). As always, keep the feedback and comments coming!

Your logo is one element that can define your business completely. An important first impression about your business, many a time, is done by the appearance, style and design of your corporate logo.

While crafting a marketing and branding plan, logo designing comes out as one of the most important factor, which makes you to think what you should include within the design of your logo. In this blog post, you will get some tips and pointers on what to consider while selecting a logo for your business.

Learn from other successful logos

While you are thinking what type of logo will be the most suitable for your business, you can check those successful logos that have proven to be a successful emblem over time. For instance, the Coca-Cola logo, the Nike logos and many other logos that have been around for a significant period of time and that have really become a part of the consciousness of consumers from all parts of the world.

You can take tips and cues from these logos when it comes to the decision making process associated with your own business logo. These iconic logos have clean and clear design concepts, have basic color schemes and convey a sense of what the business is all about.

Be practical during brainstorming session

In addition to learning from other successful logos, you also need to clearly take practical considerations into account during logo design brainstorming session. For example, you will want to be certain that your logo will appropriately convey at least an indication of the products or services that you are offering through your business venture. In the end, a logo that really doesn’t convey a sense of what type of business you are in will prove to an ineffective branding attempt at best and a devastating error in the worst case scenario.

Moreover, you also make sure that your branding device should be appealing and attractive to the specific market niche in which you will contain the specific consumer group who will be most interested in doing business with your firm or company.

Avoid over-crowding, have a clean look

In selecting a logo design for your business, in determining what type of business logo will be most suitable for your venture, keep in mind that a clean and uncluttered look normally is the best selection, the best choice for your operation.

With a clean, clear and uncluttered logo you will find that consumers will more readily connect with your business. A quicker, sounder connection will increase the number of customers or clients that your firm or company will do business with both in the short and the long term.

Don’t forget to consider your industry

While you definitely do not want to copy another business’s logo design concept, it can be helpful for you to analyze what other businesses in your specific industry are doing in the way of logos, branding and related issues. Within a specific industry there can be some themes that are commonplace and well suited. Therefore, it likely will behoove your business to incorporate these themes into your own efforts at designing the most effective logo for your venture.

This is a step that a professional design firm will undertake as part of its own effort at developing the most effective and appropriate logo for your own business enterprise.

Final Lines

If you do take the time and make the effort to consider the factors set forth in this article you will be in the best possible position to understand what type of logo will be not only most suitable but also most effective for your business venture. You will be laying the groundwork for a successful and profitable business, the groundwork that will serve you well not only today but as your business grows into the future.

About the poster

This is a guest post from Ben Johnson of Logoinn, custom logo design service provider based in UK.

Some of you might have already heard the news, but to me it’s still unbelievable. Frequent visitors of this blog might remember seeing a rewiew I did a few months ago about all the old free hosts and how most of them no longer exists. Geocities was actually one of the few that was still around – mostly because it was backed by Yahoo! and could absorb the millions of dollars of expenses they were accruing.

Well, even the might Yahoo! no longer wants anything to do with free web hosting. For those that were online in the 1990’s, you might recall that Yahoo! spent over $2.87 billion to buy geocities. That’s right folks, say that number outloud to yourselves. $2.87 BILLION dollars. Not to mention that $2.87B in 1999 dollars would equal well over $3 BILLION today. Ironically enough, the value of the entire Yahoo! corporation was down to as low as $12B earlier this year.

Geocities was one of the original web hosts, and was actually one of the few that was started before T35. I actually enjoyed competing with them over the years (as opposed to competing with Google and all the dirty tricks they use). Here’s the official and final word from the Geocities folks themselves:

Sorry, new GeoCities accounts are no longer available. After careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this year. We’ll share more details this summer.

I know I’ve been MIA for a few months… I have been busy with some personal things, but am now back and will keep things more updated. I promise! To start things off, I would like to introduce our new website: http://www.DomainsFree.org. This is going to be a user-rated list of the best domain name registers (where you would go to purchase a domain name). We will also be adding coupons, etc.. to the most popular registrars to make sure you always get the best deal!

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DomainsFree.org

DomainsFree.org

Make sure to check it out!

Alex Melen Interview at Retireat21.com

I just finished an interview with Michael Dunlop from Retireat21.com, go check it out: http://www.retireat21.com/interview/interview-with-alex-melen-founder-of-t35-free-web-hosting

Some of the questions I cover in the interview include:

– Tell us about your main project, T35 Hosting ? Why did you launch T35 Hosting ? Where are you at now with T35 Hosting ?
- I understand that you have over 600,000 free hosting customers and a few thousand paid hosting customers, what advice would you give a young entrepreneur trying to build a membership of any kind?
- Your website has an incredible today’s alexa ranking of 7000! How have you been able to achieve such a high rate of traffic? What advice would you give a young entrepreneur trying to market their website?
- Why should people use T35 over any other FREE host? What do you offer that makes your service better than your competition?
- Do you think that entrepreneurialism is something that is in your blood? Or is it something that can be learned?
- What advice would you give to a Young Entrepreneur setting up their first business?

Tripod Free Hosting Closes Down

An email I received from tripod this morning:

Dear User,
As announced on the 26th of November 2008 the portal and webhosting activities of the Lycos Europe GmbH will be discontinued. Unfortunately, the free hosting service Tripod is effected. For this reason we are hereby terminating your Tripod Account as of 15th February 2009. Until the 15th February you can use your Tripod account and your Homepage as usual. After this date we will close your account and delete all your content which was stored on Tripod in accordance with legal requirements. After this date it will be ímpossible to view your Homepage in the internet or to do a Backup using FTP from your page because the content will be unrecoverably deleted. That is why we advise you to to backup all necessary data in the near future from your Tripod Account on your hard drive and if wanted to upload it to another homepage provider. Please keep in mind that we do not offer any support for the free homepages neither by phone nor by email for upcoming questions. Because of this reason we created a short description how to backup your data. We regret having to take this step and we want to thank you for your confidence in the past. Currently, we are still working on finding a solution to provide you the service through another provider. If we should succeed in doing so, we will inform you within the next 4 weeks. But as this is currently doubtful, we would like to ask you to assume the end of the service. Despite the sad news we wish you and your family a successful 2009.
Best wishes,
Your Lycos Tripod Team

For those who read my “What happened to free web hosting?” post from last year, Tripod was one of the few that was actually still around and operating. I guess I spoke too soon though. Although I haven’t used my tripod account in half a decade, it’s still sad to see another iconic 90’s free web host close it’s doors.

*UPDATE* I am still trying confirm if this applies to all of tripod, or only the European operations (tripod.co.uk). If anyone knows, please feel free to chime in.

I bet many bloggers had the same question when they first started blogging: Where should I host my blog? Is hosting my blog on a free platform like WordPress and Blogspot better; or should I operate my blog on its individual domain name and hosting?

Yes, it’s normal that bloggers often face dilemma when it comes to hosting. While different bloggers have different answers for the question; one can’t deny that not every blog needs to be hosted on its own hosting with a unique domain name. As a matter of fact, there are tons of successful blogs do not run on its own hosting – SethGodin.typepad.com, BrandAutopsy.typepad.com, and PhotoshopDisasters.blogspot.com for example are some of the typical example.

Comparing blogs on third-party platform and blogs with own domains

When deciding which way to go with, these are the major five factors that should be considered.

Operating cost

The best part of operating a blog on a free platform is, well, FREE. Hosting blogs on a third party platform like WordPress or Blogspot is totally free of charge; a blog with its own domain is otherwise. Web hosting fees and domain renewal cost are the basic expenditures for blog with its own domain.

Flexibility

Free things often come with a catch-22. In our case, major disadvantage behind a free blog is the flexibility. For example, you have zero controls on the cgi-bin or .htaccess file of a WordPress blog, which means there is huge level of limitations in term of blog’s outlook and functionality designs.

Blog Maintenance

Are you good with computers? Or, are you willing to learn further in website hosting? Do you have enough free time for your blog?

Think twice about hosting a blog yourself if the answer is ‘no’. Hosting a blog on its own domain simply means more maintenance tasks. PHP and database configuration, blog software installation, server side configuration (like robots.txt and .htaccess) – these are the basics for any blogs that run on its own domain/hosting.

Branding

Generally speaking, a blog with its own domain has more advantages when it comes to branding and marketing. A free blog’s long URL (like myfirstblog.wordpress.com) is ugly and hard to remember; plus a free blog often project a part-timer or amateur image online.

Yes we can’t deny that Seth’s and John’s blogs on TypePad are extremely successful but let’s not forget that these two clever minds are well known “brands” before they started their blogs.

Monetizing

Monetizing your blog might not be a big issue here unless you are looking forward to sell your blog in future. Most individual bloggers make money via selling advertisement space (banners or text links) and writing reviews – which are available for both ways of blogging.

Is free blog for you, or other wise?

Now the question is: Where should you run your blog?

Summing up factors listed above, there are a few scenarios when you should go with a free blog instead of its own domain. Non-techies, hobbyists, and students with limited time or budget are recommended to go with free blogging. There are plenty of good free blogging platform around and here are a quick list of some.

Xanga Bravenet
Multiply Yahoo 360
Blogster AOL Blogs
Blogger Atom 5
Word Press Blog

On the other hand, if you need a blog with better flexibility and branding potential, then a blog with its own domain/hosting is for you.

Do note that hosting nowadays is much cheaper than before. Most wonderful hosting services (T35 for example) charge less than $10/month – it’s so cheap that most webmasters own more than just one hosting account. Remember, a free blog on Blogspot or Wordpress is like house renting – your blog simply borrows the hosting space owned by other bigger websites; while blogs with own domain is like properties in real world. If you can afford $10 on a monthly basis, why don’t take up the full ownership of your blog? In case you need help in choosing the right hosting, check out my web hosting reviews.

Guest post by Jerry Low of Web Hosting Secret Revealed.

T35 Hosting and Melen (my brothers business) have teamed up on a new project to let you browse MySpace and Facebook from work & school (where they are typically blocked). The new site has very few ads (especially when browsing the pages), and sits on its own dedicated server and bandwidth up-link (to insure your websites load lighting fast). To view this new site just go to UnblockMyspace.com.

Unblock Myspace
Feedback and comments are always welcome!

T35 Hosting Facebook Page

Just a quick update about our new facebook page. We finally switched from having a facebook group to having a *facebook page*. This lets us keep everyone updated with news, coupons, offers, promotions, video tutorials and much more! Everyone that has facebook (and even those that don’t), just click below and become a Fan of T35 Hosting!

T35Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/pages/T35-Hosting/43919113012

Looking for a web host for your website? Ever feel like some of the things being promised are far fetched? Check this list to see if your host has done this to you! And if they have: run, don’t walk.. get far far away! There are plenty of web hosts in the market to not waste your time and money with the bad ones.

1. WE OFFER TERABYTES OF SPACE.. ALL FOR $1.. WE PROMISE!

terabytes

You’ve seen all the offers.. tens of thousands of gigabytes.. thousands of terabytes.. all for just a few dollars. Think it’s too good to be true? Well, it is. How do you think the hosts afford all that space? It’s a simple trick that is known as “overselling” in the web hosting world. Hosts sell 100x-1000x more space then they actually have hoping you don’t use it. And what happens if you start using it? Well if you read their terms of service, most of these hosts control your account based on cpu usage. At the same time, “file storage” isn’t allowed. So as soon as you upload more than 1gb, or get more then a few thousand visitors on your site, you will find your site gone. Of course none of the hosts want you to know this, so they hide it in confusing fine print and terms of service aggreements. I hate to say it, but mom & pop might have been right… if it’s too good to be true, it probably is a scam.

2. WE HAVE BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR DECADES.

decades

I find it funny how several well known hosts claim to have been around for “decades”. Another one boldly states “In Business since 1988″. I hate to break it to you guys, but there wasn’t really such a thing as web hosting back then. I’ve been involved in the hosting industry almost since the beginning, and I know for a fact there weren’t any $5/mo hosts around in the 1980’s. Before believing a hosts claim, check the whois on the domain and see when they registered it. The funny part is that most hosts that claim to be more than 10 years old haven’t been around more than a 1 year! Obviously they don’t want you to know this, so do your due diligence and make sure you don’t get scammed by a fly-by-night host.

3.  WE HAVE OUR OWN DATACENTER – THOUSANDS OF SQ FEET

datacenter

Face it, no matter what web host you go to, their site has pictures of huge datacenters, thousands of servers! Unfortunatly, most web hosts are just “re-sellers”. Just people with some spare time that rent some space on someones server for $20/mo and try to re-sell the space to a 100+ people. Best way to check? Ask for the address and other information on their datacenter. The trick here is that many hosts will give you the information of their providers datacenter (who they are renting from!), but if you are persistent enough and dig around you should be able to dig up the truth.

4. OUR HOSTING IS ONLY $5/MO – BUT YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP UNTIL 2050.

many years

I don’t know what it is these days, but web hosting used to follow the logic of “what you see is what you get”. Now you have everyone advertising plans for $5/mo, but when you get to their website you find out it’s $20/month! What’s the deal?? Well it turns out that you need to sign up for 2 years, 3 years or even 5 years to get the “$5/mo”. Is it just me, or is that not $5/mo? That would be $300/5years, not $5/mo! The worst part is that you usually don’t realize a host is doing this until you get to the final part in the check out. Do your research! Make sure when they say $5/mo, they mean $5/mo! Not $300 for 5 years divided by 60!

Would you pay over $1,000 to get to the front page of Digg? Well, you’d actually need to pay more than that. According to TechCrunch, a “power Digger” charges $1,200 to get your story to the front page. With no guarantees, you put in a four figure investment and hope that your story fares well. Many have been using and abusing the giant social bookmark in an attempt to tap into some of its enormous potential. Being one of the biggest 200 websites in the world according to Alexa, Digg is one of the only ways that most webmasters have into making mainstream.

Digg however isn’t easy to conquer by yourself. The ability to get a story popular on Digg has turned into a market in itself. A story must have around 200 Diggs (no, this number is not exact and Digg does change its algorithm often) to become “popular.” Becoming a popular gives your submission endless benefits. A term called the Digg Effect has even been coined to express the aftermath of a popular story.

Automated systems such as UserSubmitter and Subvert and Profit have decided to take a tactical approach to the problem. Their system is simple: Diggers Digg stories while webmasters get their stories Dugg. Diggers get paid for Digging, webmasters pay to get Dugg, and the system gets a piece of the pie. Everyone is happy, right? Wrong.

Digg is left in the crossfire of all this exchange. A system that is made and run by people is being abused and spammed by stories that would otherwise never make it. Digg isn’t happy and neither are their investors. Having only a small portion of the users control a majority of the content poses a problem. In fact, Digg has recently banned dozens of its most active users. Their goal was to find people abusing their system – specifically with scripts and programs. However, they ended up deleting many users that have testified to never using an automated system in their life. These once loyal and active Digg members have been punished for doing nothing wrong.

So as webmaster, marketers, and bloggers alike – how should we go about to tapping into Digg’s potential? We can use automated systems and risk having ourselves and our websites banned from Digg forever. Website giants such as DigitalPoint have been banned and despite their best efforts, are still banned. We could always hire the expert from TechCrunch, but $1200 is a steep investment to make with no promises made.

There is one more service we found: SocialElves. Social Elves has connections with many power Diggers and promises to get your submission popular. At a cost of only $300, it seems like the most practical solution. Any catches? Well, there are a few. Since they do not directly pay anyone to Digg or use any automated systems, they cannot make just any submission popular. In fact, they admit to refuse most submissions. So you must have an interesting and “diggable” story before coming to them. That means no “get rich fast” schemes guys! They do have a money back guarantee – giving you $1.50 for any Diggs under 200.

Digg is a great resource and definitely something that most webmasters should try to tap into. If you have the time and energy, you can become an active Digg user and try to push your own stuff. However, this can waste hundreds of hours and take months. Alternatively, you can try your luck with SocialElves or another service. In any case, make sure to let us know how you do!

Have you had experience with Digg, SocialElves, or anything else I mentioned above? Let me know! Comment below.

This is going to be a very quick & short post. I just wanted to tell all the webmasters to go and join our new directory! Registration is free of charge and you can instantly start receiving traffic and PR benefits. All sites are welcome: http://directory.t35.com.

Great news, we just got another yahoo sponsored search coupon to share with you guys! Just in time too as the other coupons (USPX11 & US1069) expired 8/13/2008. Just use the link below and instantly get $25 credit to your account to be used on whatever campaign you want!I personally use yahoo search to advertise t35 hosting, so I can personally vouch for their performance. Although there is more international traffic then I would like, the better rates and better conversions more then make up for it.

Advertise your Web site with Yahoo! Sponsored Search. Sign up and get a $25 credit into your new account. Learn more.

Tips to Advertise Web Hosting Businesses

Web hosting is just like any other business – to ensure that it grows, you must first let people know that you exist and then make your presence felt by offering service of the best quality so that your fame is spread through word of mouth and other means. Web hosts have a range of advertising options to choose from:

  • Take advantage of web host directory listings: The yellow pages of the web, directory listings are a godsend to both clients looking for services and products and for the business houses offering them. Their search is narrowed down to a few sites rather than the entire Internet. Advertise on various directories to widen your reach; while some charge for services provided, others let you list your site for free. Directory listings also improve your search engine ranking.
  • Use web hosting forums effectively: While most forums expect you to follow their rules and not include links to your site inside your post, you are allowed to use links in your signature. Make your presence felt on various forums by contributing intelligently to the threads of conversation and simultaneously getting a ton of free publicity in return.
  • Use search engines to propagate their services: Paid or unpaid, it pays to show up on the top 20 search returns in popular search engines. It takes a lot of effort and time to design a webpage with the right meta tags that’s optimized for search engines, but with the right designer and writer, you can establish yourself among the best in the business. As your popularity grows and other sites link to you, your ranking climbs higher on search engines.
  • Some CPC advertising helps: Advertise your site on other sites that deal in related topics, services and products – like those that offer web design and development services. Users who visit these sites are likely to be looking for a web host and you may just be the one they choose. Cost Per Click advertising works out to be a cost effective option because you pay only when someone actually clicks on your link and not otherwise.
  • Offer services for free: If you’re just starting out, it pays to offer small businesses free hosting services in return for your advertisement on their site. Viral marketing as it’s called is a very effective marketing tool on the Internet for most businesses and works really well for web hosting in particular.

This article is contributed by Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of top web design schools.

Google July/August Page Rank (PR) Update

Since google has recently updated it’s page rank, I thought I’d check up on how our sites were doing. (well — page rank for the google toolbar, the internal page rank used by google search is now theoretically updated in real time).

2008 page rank

T35.com is back to PR6 (it was down to PR5 the last few months after we linked our new sites from the t35 home pages). Our brand new free hosting directory is now up to PR4, from PR2 when we purchased the domain just a few months ago. The other two sites are pretty stable at PR5. Considering we don’t really do too many link exchanges, these are all really good Page Ranks. How did everyone else do in the latest update?

Free Hosting Directory Almost Complete!

I know there haven’t been any updates for a while, so I thought I’d do a quick update. We are finally finishing up the new site: FreeHostingDirectory.com.

free hosting directory

We have already compiled a manual list of over 80 unique free web hosting. Each host is individually and extensively reviewed. In fact, we create a hosting account on each and every free web host to personally test out and confirm the promised features and performance. We then not only categorize the hosts, but also provide detailed (and standardized) information on the features (like php, mysql, etc.. ). We also personally rank each host on a scale of 0 to 10 (and when you go to our site, the hosts are displayed in the ranked order by default, unless you rather see it alphabetical, etc..).
You can search through our free web host database either alphabetically (by clicking the letter at the top of every page), by categories (PHP Hosting, MySQL Hosting, Domain Hosting), or by searching the entire database. Out of the 120 active free web hosts we identified at the beginning of this project, we have personally reviewed over 90. I am hoping we can finish all 120 by the end of the summer! If you have ever used any of these hosts, please stop by the new site and submit a quick review to help your fellow web host users: Free Hosting Directory.

The Wall Street Journal reported last night that Google is close to offering a website ranking service that would compete with Alexa as well as the paid offerings from Comscore and Nielson Online. Google’s service will of course be free and instantly sent shares of ComScore (SCOR) down in late trading. This is particularly interesting since Comscore’s article earlier this year about Google’s decline search traffic (and specifically clicks on search ads) sent Google’s stock down almost 20% over a two week period.

I checked with several industry insiders and the rumors I’m hearing are that this service will be very accurate and fundamentally different from alexa (which ranks your site in a relative scale compared to other sites). I’m even hearing that Google plans to get the data from actual web servers (raw numbers!).

T35 is currently ranking top 5,000 on Alexa:

t35 alexa
I wonder how well we would do when Google ranks us? One thing is for sure, this service will definitely give more ammo to the internet marketers of the ‘net.

June 30th Update: The service is officially in beta, and I have been playing around with it all evening. It looks really cool and will probably put a lot of companies out of business.

Here are some screenshots:

google media planner1

google media planner2

It still seems a little buggy, for example T35 Hosting shows up in the “Body Builder” category, and the stats don’t seem close to the actual numbers. Still, once the bugs are fixed and they are out of beta, I think this will become the premier internet marketing tool.

I’m not sure what’s going on with the internet tonight, but some of the most popular sites around seem to be down! On top of that, host-tracker, one of the larger up-time tracking/monitoring sites is also down (so I didn’t even get an alert about some of the other sites). As of 10:30pm on Sunday June 1st (EST), the following major sites appear to be down:

Digital Point:

digital point down

Sitepoint:

site point down

Statcounter:

stat counter down

Host-Tracker:

host tracker down

I checked with some of the other site owners earlier in the evening and the last I heard is that it seems to be some kind of issue with theplanet’s data center. Then again, some of these sites aren’t hosted there, so I’m not sure what to make of it. If anyone knows what’s going on, please feel free to chime in!

InForum Advertising

For another monthly installment of our recommended resource we have reviewed InForum Advertising. We went to them with a $500 Marketing Campaign to advertise T35 Hosting. The campaign lasts a week and contains dozens of posts solely advertising your website. In the week time and including a few days after the campaign was over, we received around 5000 visitors. We still continue to receive a few visitors a day from the forum posts and are probably reeking the SEO benefits.

Here is the breakdown:
Average Price Per “Web Hosting” Click In The Industry: $2.50
Money Spent With InForum Posting: $500
Targeted Visitors: 5,000
Price Per Visitor: $.10
# Hosting Plans Sold: 17
# Free Hosting Clients: 42

Okay, so the results weren’t as extravagant as the acne example they shown on their website, but it still beats any other advertising campaign we have tried. We are continuing with them for another week to see how next campaign’s results compare.

Campaigns start at under $100 and include extra bonuses for reaching price checkpoints. Now want to hear the best part? Use coupon “webhostingmind” to get 25% off! This coupon is only valid for 10 uses so try it before the limit is reached.