Just a quick reminder to use your search engine skills to help you find good deals on cheap hosting.

Just haing 3-5 totally different hosts is a great advantage for SEO and with all the Web 2.0 spamming going on right now, these types of links are probably only going to become more valuable.

Your thoughts should be towards getting one "good" hosting solution, such as a dedicated server or VPS. Then add some cheap hosting to your SEO mix.

So what do we want? How about:

"cheap hosting"

But we're experts, so what are we really looking for? How about:

"cheap hosting" + "free trial"

Now we're talking! By telling the search engine exactly what we want, we have a better chance of gettting what we want.

There's plenty of variation:
"cheap hosting" + "free trial"
"$5" + "hosting" + "30 day free trial"
"cheap hosting" + "90 free trial"

"web hosting" + "free trial"
"cheap web hosting" + "30 day free trial"
"cheap hosting" + "90 free trial"

Want to use Paypal?
"web hosting" + "free trial" + paypal
"cheap web hosting" + "30 day free trial" + paypal
"hosting" + "90 free trial" + paypal

More variety so you don't have the exact same results as others:

"web hosting" + "free trial" + paypal + ftp
"cheap web hosting" + "30 day free trial" + paypal + php
"cheap hosting" + "90 free trial" + "unlimited domains"

And don't forget to use the "other" search engines.

And toss in popular "cheap" prices to get more results, like:
$5
$7.95
"$9.95 month" + "reseller"

Also mix in phrases like:
"no setup fees"
"instant activation"

I've given lost of examples here so that everyone can find their own resources and we don't all have the same footprints.

Finding cheap, dependable hosting isn't easy and you'll have a large number of "failures" such as not even getting your login info and passwords to technical aspects of sites not working (Which is why the Tuelz are so important!!!).

I recommend if you're using "unknown" hosts that you use Paypal for your subscriptions, since you have control and can manage your subscriptions yourself and cancel any hosts that aren't living up to your standards without problems.

If you're willing to spend a little brain power, you can find some really great deals on hosting, try them before you spend money and even make money before you need to spend money on hosting.

I found some hosts on ebay - cant be their prices..

LAST EDITED ON Feb-26-11 AT 02:10 PM (PST)
 
One way to exploit free hosting and still have control is to use free hosts that allow you to use your own domain.

Many free hosts will work for a while, then go down hill quickly. Use Moniterz to keep track of your free hosts and if one goes down, you can easily move it to another host and just switch your DNS with your domain registrar.

Or just use free hosting for a few months if you're short on cash or start up money.

Having domains just parked is usually a waste of money. Use them with free hosting to boost your web properties and linking possibilities.

Use all that PLR content you have (spin and mix it), plus ZZ Tuel, Hubz, Commentz, Scrubz, Moverz and more to automate these free hosts.

Once they have value, move them to another(dependable) host.

The great thing about using Tuelz and static HTML pages is that when looking for free hosts, you only need to have FTP access and no other features. This also means you use far less server resources than a blog, which is a big deal on free and cheap hosts.

Be sure to set up Moniterz to keep track and see how all your sites perform, including the free ones.

Let's anticipate a few things...Programs like Bookmark Demon, Scrapebox, Xrummer make it possible to spam tons and tons of links. To find these links you just use custom google searches to look for footprints of major web scripts, like blogs, forums, community software, etc.

But if wecan find them, I'll bet a coke so can Google. I believe Google will soon have to devalue these types of links, simply because they are becoming worthless.

If they do, it's possible that links on "regular" pages will become more important, simply because the comment/forum type links won't count any more.

Try to diversify your hosting. Get yourself a good, solid host, such as a virtual server (about $50 a month). This will give you good power.

Then, look for cheap but dependable hosting plans on a variety of services. Try to find ones that allow 3-5 domains or so. Then use each domain in a totally different niche and linking "system".

Or get inexpensive reseller accounts and trade some basic hosting with others that you trust.

I'll add a bit of news to this too -

Amazon's S3 file storage service, specifically their Cloudfront service, now supports naming a default object within a given storage bucket. What this means is you can now store & serve static HTML websites directly from Amazon, with no need for a regular hosting account at all as long as you don't need scripting, databases, or email.

The cost is so low for both bandwidth and storage that you can have tens of thousands of pages and decent volumes of traffic, and pay hardly anything for hosting. Your files are copied to Amazon's cloud server network throughout the world, so your files are physically closer to your visitors and will be served faster.

I'm moving to 100% static sites + RSS file for my own sites over the next few months. Though I'll continue offering Wordpress services to the marketplace, since that's what it wants, Wordpress hardly seems worth the hassle anymore for my own sites. Blogs get most of their mileage from RSS anyway, so why not skip all the security upgrades, comment spam & other hassles to begin with.

Anyway, I can see this working well with most of the Tuelz. There will be no FTP capability with S3, but I can live with that.