| O.K., I'm going to pull a Kevin Trudeau here..."What | | | | done or a lot of money has to be spent before |
| the Hosting Review sites don't want you to | | | | we start seeing sales. Unless you have a web |
| know." | | | | page already bringing in massive amounts of |
| First, if you type in "web hosting review" in a | | | | traffic. So don't hate us to badly. |
| Google search engine you're going to get page | | | | Do these web hosting review pages really sign up |
| after page of websites reviewing web | | | | for these hosts and legitimately review them? |
| hosts....why? | | | | Well, in my best guestimation I would say some |
| When you visit these sites you're going to notice | | | | do, many don't. My guess is many set up an RSS |
| that the same five, ten, fifteen, twenty web | | | | feed to sites like webhostingtalk or similar sites |
| hosting companies keep coming up over and over | | | | that already have hosting reviews on them. If |
| and over again....why? | | | | certain sites do there own review, I'm sure they |
| Is it because these are the best hosts in the | | | | go through there own link to collect the |
| world and they're so good thousands of people | | | | commission with hosts that allow you to do that |
| have to build webpages out of the graciousness | | | | to save on research costs. |
| of their hearts to tell you how good these | | | | So yea, it's about the Benjamin's. This is a |
| companies are?...maybe. | | | | companies way of saving on advertising by having |
| Or maybe we all signed up for an affiliate or | | | | affiliates market there product. It doesn't cost |
| publisher account at a very well known affiliate | | | | anything extra for the customer, the webhost |
| marketing community, one of the world's largest | | | | makes a sale the affiliate gets the commission, |
| affiliate networks. And maybe after looking at all | | | | the customer gets the disk space and bandwidth |
| the products to sell and the commissions they're | | | | he/she needs, everybody's happy. |
| offering (5% commission on a $25 handbag....7% | | | | And if you're still hating affiliates for cloaking our |
| on other material goods) we came across the | | | | links and making it look like we're trying to do you |
| webhosting companies offering anywhere from | | | | some great service when all we really want are |
| $80-$100 for each hosting sale made on shared | | | | commissions, sleep well tonight knowing that alot |
| hosting plans, $100-$110 on reseller hosting plans | | | | of affiliates get "shafted". When people disable |
| and $150-$200 on each dedicated server plan we | | | | there cookies, or delete cookies on there |
| sell. | | | | computer on a regular basis, they're erasing the |
| Well heck, sign me up for that! | | | | tracking code used by the affiliate network to |
| Before you hate us too badly keep in mind there | | | | track sales. Which means the customer still gets |
| is alot of work to be done on our part from web | | | | the great web hosting deal, the company makes |
| design to SEO strategies, from link building to | | | | the sale and keeps all the revenue and the affiliate |
| article marketing. Either a lot of work has to be | | | | is....well....out of luck! |