Advertising and Promotion

  • Ideally we would have 2 different landing pages, one for the “free” users and another for the “paying” users, so as not to overwhelm. We can call it “free”, I think. with the quotes…
  • Faucet(s) can advertise the products most likely to be attractive to the users, e.g., a free Minecraft server.
  • The charity site has SatoshiHost as the sponsor, with an ad in the footer. Same with the faucets.
  • The review section has its own page.
  • If we host a speed test server, we can gain some advertising and “brand awareness”, apparently.

Forums

There are forums for VPS and hosting topics.

  • LowEndSpirit.com – may be worth a look.
  • HostBalls.com – same.
  • lowendtalk.com looked promising but they will only allow advertising (even in sig or mentioning in posts) to paying sponsors, and sponsors have to give a registered company number to be considered. They also seem to want users to pay for other things too, like a domain auction, which they want $7 for. Still, it might be a good place to advertise the “free” services.
  • Freevps.org have their own system where companies donate bare metal servers and they make VPS for their users, so they are unlikely to allow competition. They may be worth checking out anyway in case there’s some other way.
  • webhostingtalk.com looked promising and still did after reading most of the rules. Also has a free hosting section.
  • forumweb.hosting looks ok too. Also has a VPS section. – [Edit] Not ok, wants 45 dollars a MONTH to have a URL in your sig!
  • Post4vps has sponsors who donate a VPS so we can do that maybe. Need to read more on the site.
  • VPSforum.com has vcoin, which seems like we can use for ads, and claims to be “the biggest”. Need to read more.
  • freewebspace.net has offers and requests. seems to be little used recently, though.
  • freehostforum.com is worth a look.
  • LetsHostTalk seems ok at first glance and allows posting of offers.
  • Lowendspirit.com looks promising too; I need to check it out some more.
  • freewebspace.net looks good too.

PRE Token Keyword Staking

We can advertise using the Presearch site.

  • Specifically used by people who are already into crypto
  • Is peer-to-peer like us
  • Can get our users to earn PRE tokens for us too and either send them to us or use them to stake for us.

There is a page of instructions here with links to other pages too.

Scout Crowd ranking

Scout lets you rank the web, ask questions, and moderate keywords!

CPM vs. CPC

For normal ads, e.g., via the ad networks, the following may be useful.

Mellowads, 20 Nov 2016

  • unique views 11,321
  • unique clicks 51
  • new refs 7
  • cpc 0.0001 (lowest price)

cost 0.005
Geo-Targeting – All countries
Advert ref – 2BF72683F3D4
cpm 10,000 unique views at 0.001 (lowest price) would be 0.01
CPC seems better than CPM in this case.

Other Places

Now it has its own page.