Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Running a Web Hosting Business : Promote your hosting company

[frollein]

I'm running a small webhosting company and need to get more visitors to my site. Do you know of any good host databases and search engines where hosters can add their sites?

[bigdee]

tophosts.com
hostobserver.com
webhostdir.com
hostsearch.com

[cubision]

There are ENDLESS threads on this topic, by doing a search for the things you just asked for, you can find lists of dozens if not hundreds of places to advertise or list your company.

[Incredeble]

you can always create a banner and pay wht to display it. that can get costly for a small company. i should know, i own one

[Web Hosting Stuff]

Take a look at hostdirs.com ... they have plenty of hosting directories listed there.

[UH-Matt]

Most of the best methods are not posted as hosts dont want to give there secrets/strategy out

[Eric Lim]

Here includes some "non-secret" methods to get traffic.

1) Submit as much as possible to all hosting listing websites. Best is to write a redirect scripts to record where the traffic comes from, and pay your dollars to those whom you think it's qualified or brings you to most potential audient.

2) Search Engines. It does bring you an incredibly of traffic every month if you have a high rank for those popular keywords; such as "web hosting" and "hosting" .. Hmn or "sex hosting"

3) Local advertising around your nrighborhood. Spread out some words about your company to your friends, family, and relatives. You will probably be surprising with those people who stuck-in-the-mud would like their web site publish on the web and pay you well for a decent web layout.

4) SPAM at WHT

[UH-Matt]

Originally posted by cyberservers

4) SPAM at WHT

Above is not recommended by anyone other than cyberservers.

[Eric Lim]

Take it easy, I was just kidding

[Web Hosting Stuff]

Originally posted by cyberservers
4) SPAM at WHT

LOL You would then find a couple of *** whenever your name is mentioned on this forum

[tandem]

Every bit of information in the signatures is actually a form of SPAM. Why? Cause nobody has asked for that info! So cyberservers is quite right about his 4th method of promotion IMO.

There are a few businesses in this thread alone advertising their services for FREE in their signatures. What do you think this is?

[UH-Matt]

Originally posted by tandem
Every bit of information in the signatures is actually a form of SPAM. Why? Cause nobody has asked for that info! So cyberservers is quite right about his 4th method of promotion IMO.

There are a few businesses in this thread alone advertising their services for FREE in their signatures. What do you think this is?

In which case he could have defined his method a little better.

Rather than just saying "SPAM at WHT". A lot of people would take that literally

[SoftWareRevue]

Here's a nice start that was posted by PhilG in a different thread about something else.

There are some longer lists on the forum here somewhere.

[Web Hosting Stuff]

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
Here's a nice start that was posted by PhilG in a different thread about something else.

There are some longer lists on the forum here somewhere.

It's google's version of the Open Directory (dmoz).