Dreamhost have a very nifty referral system that allows their users (that is anyone) to set up their own promo codes. The maximum discount you can give is $97. So if you chose to give a discount of $30 for your users, you will get $67 from each user that uses your promo code. Sounds cool, ey? But people are offering $97 discounts – so the people offering these codes get $0 in return… or do they?
You want to get the maximum discount when buying something (generally), so would you choose a discount of $90, $95 or $97 (and 100’s of promo codes for dream host can be found via a simple Google search)? Most would prefer the $97. But most people setting up these promo codes want to keep a bit of profit for themselves, so most will say “Use [examplepromocode] to save upto $95 on dreamhost” and then they get $2 commission (or whatever). It is near to the max of $97 but still lets the person setting up the promo code get a bit of profit.
You have a LOT more chance of refering a lot of people with a $97 discount than $90/91….95/96 ones, because a few other people have cottoned on to the strategy that is given to you below and are also offering $97 discounts. So people will ignore your $95 or whatever discount and save another 1 or 2 dollars and use a $97 discount promo code.
But you can still make (often a lot more) profit by giving $97 discounts. The way it works (to make money via offering promo codes for dream host that give a full $97 discount) is that you refer someone, they get a whole $97 discount, you get $0, but then if they refer another customer you get a nice $5!
So if you use the promo code LONDON97 you get the maximum discount you can get on dream host. I get $0 from it, but if you refer other people I’ll get $5 and you will get whatever you set it up as (go to home – rewards to set them up).
I am not just saying this, LONDON97 gives you a discount of upto $97 which is the maximum one allowed.
This isn’t quite what link baiting is meant to be about, but what the hell.
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I’ve noticed lately i’ve written a lot of crap – I’ll start writing better things soon! Don’t worry!
Dreamhost are one of the best shared cheap hosting companies around.
This post has the “low down” on them and how to save money with them.
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/start pointless post
This post is pretty much useless for any readers. It is just a quick rushed attempt at an SEO contest entry. Please see the compuntoes category for some more related posts! If i were you I would skip to the next post…
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Another SEO competition. This isn’t a post to take part. I am just going to do this post, mention Compuntoes a few times, and just see what it gets. I am not even from spain (or speak spanish) anyway. Compuntoes. That should be in Bold really, if you read the other post on here about bold vs strong.
I might actually add just one link to this post about Compuntoes.
Compuntoes information
Why compuntoes? Why not computoe?
The site running the compuntoe seo competition is called “com.es“. The word “dot” in spanish is “Punto”, so it is basically like saying “Com Dot Es”, or in spanish, “Com Punto Es”!. And that kinda answers why compuntoes is plural – because really, it isn’t.
Webmasters running a compuntoes campaign: Get some self pimpage
Write a post about this article (inlcuding the url/link, if you can :)) and send a trackback to this post (the trackback url for this post (Compuntoes) is below) and get a link back with NO rel=nofollow! A compuntoes-related link, for free :)
Digg this Compuntoes Story
For whatever reason you might not want rel=nofollow in all links in your blog that commenters leave. I certainly don’t. I only approve comments that are useful/no spammy sites. So why be harsh and put a link condom on?
Making all links in your word press blog (esp links in comments) not have a rel=no-follow is quite simple. Just edit a couple of files:
Warning: Editing files can **** up your WordPress install. Only continue if you know what you are doing. Make backups!
- Open wp-includes/functions-formatting.php, search for “rel” and find all “nofollow”‘s and remove them. There are quite a few. Don’t just search and replace though, check them all one by one (About 5/6 in total)
- wp-includes\comment-functions.php – line 366 (for me, anyway). Remove the “nofollow” bit :)
This doesn’t mean you can just now spam away on this blog and get free backlinks… (they’re all moderated anyway).
This also removes rel=no-follow from trackbacks. Be carefull! Rel=no-follow was introduced for a reason…
I am suprised they are not the most popular portal/search engine:
This is the first of a few experiements I have planned. This will be written up (not too long, only covering the basics), and published when (if any) results show up in Google.
I set up two pages on a site, both identical. They both have a “secret” word in them, that is made up and no google results at the moment. They are both linked to from http://www.klikgamers.co.uk/.
page1.php has the word in bold
page2.php has the word in strong.
They both also have an image each, just as an extra test to see what (if) gets higher in Google Image Search (GIS).
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“In order to advertise this site, I pay google for certain keywords. One of those keywords used to be “Suicide”. They made up a good percentage of our users. However, I deciced to get rid of the term because they were costing me money to come here, and they were just going to kill themselves anyway. That means they would not be repeat users. No reason to pay to get them here.” http://www.sosecret.com/messages/show/1297
It is, at least, one way of clever thinking…
