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InForum Advertising
2008-05-29 04:36:00 For another monthly installment of our recommended resource we have reviewed InForum Advertising . We went to them with a $500 Marketing Campaign to advertise T35 Hosting. The campaign lasts a week and contains dozens of posts solely advertising your website. In the week time and including a few days after the campaign was over, we ...
Yahoo Search Marketing Coupon Updated
2008-05-28 23:32:00 I just got another yahoo search marketing coupon in my email so I thought I’d share it with you guys. Coupon code ‘USCJ16′ gives you $25 credit on a “self service” program or a $50 credit on a “Fast Track” program. The code might expire very soon, so if you always wanted to sign up ... More About: Marketing , Yahoo , Search , Yahoo search
Results of Removing Ads on T35 Free Web Hosting
2008-05-03 05:09:00 It’s now been a full 3 months since we removed ads from T35 hosting member pages… Time to do a follow up test and see how we did! To back up a little bit, the removal of all ads from member pages was one of the biggest decisions I have ever made at T35 Hosting . ... More About: Web Hosting , Results , Free , Free Web Hosting
T35 & Web Hosting Interview with Alex Melen
2008-03-12 23:46:00 Earlier in this week I was invited by G Allan Roberts to do a phone interview about t35, web hosting, entrepreneurship, and internet marketing. The entire interview is almost an hour, but some of it is definitely worth listening to. I’m including the file in the mp3 format for those that want to check it ... More About: Hosting , Web Hosting , Interview , Alex
Anchor Text Variations & Other SEO Tweaks
2008-03-03 21:57:00 Even with all our recent tweaks, t35 doesn’t seem to be doing too well in terms of SEO. After a recent seo analysis, it was brought to my attention that it might be impacted by the anchor text of the sites that link to us. In particular, about 99% of our anchor text is ‘free ... More About: Text
Photoshop Tutorials & Development
2008-02-29 23:13:00 As part of a new monthly feature, I’m going to start finding cool new sites on the internet that would be useful for webmasters like you! I’m going to try to stick to new websites that I really find useful and that could use the bump in publicity to get them started. For February’s feature I ... More About: Tutorials , Photoshop , Development
Our Brand New Site: FreeHostingDirectory.com
2008-02-11 22:02:00 You heard right! After almost a decade, we have finally launched a new site! (Well, if you don’t count this blog, and the webmaster forum that was spun-off from t35 a few months ago). With all of my experience in the web hosting industry (specifically FREE web hosting), the new free hosting directory makes a lot ... More About: Site , Brand , New Site
Do link exchanges still help SEO?
2008-02-07 16:57:00 With all the changes going on with the google algorithm I decided to find out if link exchanges still greatly impacted search engine rankings. As you can probably guess the main keyword we target for this blog is ‘web hosting blog’. When this site was just launched, it received a lot of attention (and a ... More About: Link
Yahoo Search Marketing Promotion and Coupon
2008-01-26 19:27:00 When I checked my mail this morning, I was pleasantly surprised by a promotional ad from Yahoo ! Search Marketing . I think it was based on a similar promotion a few years ago that I first signed up with their program. Since then, they have completely over hauled their search marketing program to a point where ... More About: Promotion , Yahoo search
Pop-up Ads removed from T35 Hosting member pages!
2008-01-21 22:28:00 Hate pop-ups? Why shouldn’t you? They are annoying, interfere with your web browsing experience and can often be very frustrating (especially when you try to close them). While that has been the general view on pop-up advertising over the last few years, it’s important to look back and see why they became such a popular ... More About: Hosting , Pages
First WebHostingMind Update of 2008
2008-01-15 22:34:00 Ahh.. I finally got a chance to make another post on the blog! Sorry for the absence, but I am still catching up on work all the way from thanksgiving break! A real post is on the way, but for now let me just update everyone with what’s been going on. In terms of this blog, ... More About: Update , 2008
Make Money From Posting on Forums
2007-12-12 21:22:00 I’ve recently received a few emails with questions about making money on the internet. I think this would be the perfect time for a shameless plug of a new website my brother just started. It’s a somewhat new concept where forum owners and forum posters get matched up. If your forum is completely empty and ... More About: Money , Make Money , Forums , Make
T35 Hosting in Business Week’s 101 Best Web Freebies
2007-11-28 17:46:00 It hasn’t been more than a few weeks since our last mention in business week, but it seems we’ve made it on there again! I actually completely missed it and want to thank blackhawk5193 and chickenmeister from our webmaster forum for pointing out the article. T35 Hosting is prominently mentioned in the “best tech tools” ... More About: Business , Freebies
Do site titles matter in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
2007-11-17 06:50:00 After spending countless hours researching and trying out SEO techniques, I decided it might be a good idea to share some of the experiments with everyone else. For this specific test, I wanted to know if changing a site title would have an impact on the search engine rankings. Although most SEO experts agreed that ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Search , Search Engine , Site , Optimization
Member count added at T35 Hosting
2007-11-14 21:46:00 In the spirit of adding more transparency to our company we have added a new “member count” at the top of all T35 Hosting pages. The count is automatically updated every 5 minutes in real time, so go ahead and check it out! We are hoping it will add more visibility and transparency to our member ... More About: Count
Microsoft IIS to overtake Apache?
2007-11-05 21:50:00 Netcraft recently released their October statistics and the results are startling. Apache now has less then a 10% lead on Microsoft ’s IIS — the smallest gap between the two since IIS was launched in 1996! From my personal experience, I was always under the impression that Apache was the dominant platform for serving content on ...
Google Page Rank Update
2007-10-31 14:34:00 For those of you who follow Google Page Rank , this has been a pretty exciting week. After an almost 6 month wait, Google has finally updated the rank value it assigns web sites (which then contributes to how well the sites rank in the search engine results). The major change for this update has been ... More About: Update
T35 Hosting Featured in BusinessWeek
2007-10-26 14:19:00 Those of you who follow business week might have noticed that I was selected for the top 25 entrepreneurs under 25 years old around this time last year. They just did a follow up interview and article, so for those who are interested: Then: Over the years, Melen has batted away offers from big Internet companies ... More About: Hosting , Featured
Free PHP Web Hosting Comparison
2007-10-23 02:29:00 The wait is finally over! I have officially completed the long awaited free php web hosting comparison. To benchmark the different hosts I used a php script that timed itself while executing tens of thousands of math operations. This script was then run 10 times each day on 7 different days (for a consecutive week). ... More About: Hosting , Web Hosting , Free , Comparison
Is Fantastico for cPanel becoming obsolete?
2007-10-19 17:47:00 I was setting up another server for T35 Hosting yesterday and noticed something new in cpanel’s WHM (the administrative side of cpanel). They now seem to have a pretty comprehensive list of one-click-install scripts that can be offered to customers. For those not so familiar with Fantastico , that has pretty much been their business model since ... More About: Obsolete , Sole
New blog features and a quick update
2007-10-17 16:15:00 I just wanted to give you guys a quick update about the things going on with the site. First and foremost, I managed to spend some time playing around with the blog and I added a bunch of new features. You can now see “recent readers” in the right column, as well as avatars for ... More About: Features , Blog , Update , Quick , Feat
Unmetered and Unlimited Space and Bandwidth
2007-10-14 02:31:00 While browsing a web hosting forum yesterday I noticed an interesting phenomenon. Unlimited and unmetered hosting is becoming a big taboo in the hosting world. In fact, most web hosting and webmaster forums have begun banning all posts about such plans. First a little background, including the difference between unlimited and un-metered. Unlimited space and bandwidth is ... More About: Space , Web Hosting , Industry News , Bandwidth
Another web host comparison!
2007-10-09 01:56:00 Since the last web host comparison was so well received, I decided we should have another one! This time I want to evaluate some of today’s largest free web hosts based on one of the most important features: PHP. For the test, I plan to use several popular scripts to test the load time, execution ... More About: Host , Comparison
What happened to free web hosting?
2007-10-08 02:40:00 With T35 Hosting celebrating our 10 year anniversary this year, I was digging through some old boxes to find something cool to put on the site. To my surprise, I found the original web hosting business plan! Thumbing through it brought me to the largest section: ?The Competition.? Quickly skimming ... More About: Web Hosting , Industry News , Free , Free Web Hosting
Welcome to the Web Hosting Mind!
2007-10-05 02:56:00 Now that the site is officially set up, I just wanted to introduce myself and let everyone know what to expect. First, a bit about myself. My name is Alex and I founded a web hosting company (T35 Hosting ) in 1997, moving it to the present day http://www.t35.com domain in march of 1999. For those of ... More About: Web Hosting , Mind |
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