Out of curiosity where do you all advertise at, which directorys give you the best run for your money.

Have you tried Hostsearch.com


I am not sure about Yahoo. ($299 ouch!)
Does it worth the price?

Perhaps, those who advertise at Yahoo can tell me.

If your business is serious Yahoo can help but now
it will mostly only deliver people in your area to your business..


Now you get listed regionally, and they will hack your description up bad to remove any key words like "web hosting"
etc

A good company name can help more

To be more specific on that I mean for instance my aea network
says

AEA Network - for small business, personal, and adult related sites

Kinda stupid if you got that result in a web match

If my company name was Adult Hosting then perhaps it would work 50x better....

Online Biz is so rough and things change so fast, be prepared to go nuts.....

I've never heard anything overly negative about HostSearch.

Search engines and directories like Yahoo and Google are very challenging to get decent exposure since they index so many similar sites.

My company has had positive results at Overture.com (formerly GoTo).

Good Luck! :D

It is hard to get top listing over at goto.com on good keywords.
Look at "web hosting".
It is almost $5.50 per click.

How do you compete with that?

HostSearch's ranking system works very well for us.

PS: Still waiting on a reply to the PM I sent you. :)

--Tina

Overture is by far horrible.......... If you are not in the top3 forget about any traffic.. If you are, consider 90% of your clicks being clicked by your competing business.. And at 3.00/ click
That can be very costly...

Think about it... Have you not ever checked your site listings
and seen your competitors there and clicked to look at their site?.. And the very nature of your brain led you to think about depleting their funds perhaps? <snicker>

All Overture traffic is clients, They have litterally no traffic other than theyre lame click program which is nothing but fraudulent blind hits, redirects etc, I think they have done away with that or are slowly anyhow..

The rest is your listings on alta vista, dogpile, etc, in which wouldnt it be easier to just join theyre programs? directly
where the ad is prominent and no worries of foul play?

Alright, we got alot of signups and money from hostsearch.com. We used them when the banners were $300.00 for 10,000 exposers and we recieved around 75 signups from that. Its was great! I would suggest advertising on hostsearch for any web hosting company.

Ive also heard that the showcase hosts is the best way to go. I know those get around 200,000 exposers per month.

I also use to use www.webhosters.com and they were really expensive ($40/cpm) Ive also used acouple other directories and they didnt compare with hostsearch

You may also want to contact sitepointforums.com and WHT to see if you could purchase ads here.

Jim

Originally posted by comphost
Overture is by far horrible.......... If you are not in the top3 forget about any traffic.. If you are, consider 90% of your clicks being clicked by your competing business.. And at 3.00/ click
That can be very costly...



I disagree. We send HostSearch "clickers" to a special webpage that gives them a 10% discount when they use the Discount Code "HOSTSEARCH" on our order form. We know for a fact that we get a high number of HostSearch orders when we advertise with them.

I also know that I've advertised with other host index sites and received extremely poor results. The only other advertisement method that seems to work fairly well is placing ads in webmaster related newsletters.

--Tina

We just started advertising on

resellerreview.com
*************
webhostdir.com

We are getting hits, but not too many orders, or like I thought. Our service isn't your typical hosting service so we are still working on how we should advertise smartbackups.com. Once people get how it works, it is almost an automatic signup. However pricing was very agreeable on all three sites. Exposure is half the battle.

Tina... What is your CTR on HostSearch when you use their manage ranking system? Right now i get a 4-5% CTR but without the the ranking system I just paid the $29 to get the company's name in bold. I have notice that there are host bidding upto $171 CPM on that ranking system... it must be doing them good because the one that are bidding $171 can just bid $85 and be highest bidder anyways...

My post wast referring to hostsearch but overture..(GOTO)

I tried HostSearch's biddinng system for a little while. It was a waist of money. I averaged 5 fraudulent signups a day coming from them with no real signups. I only let it go for the first $50 and quite after that being tired of the fraud.