Will Link for Hosting?

April 12, 2008

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This week someone left a message on my answering machine that they wanted to sponsor ColorCombos. We were pretty excited after receiving this message.

It turns out that they wanted to give me free hosting in exchange for a link on the front page. Since I use Dreamhost, I have no need for free hosting. I might have gone for it if it was for dedicated hosting.

If you were to buy a link on a PR6 page from text-link-ads.com, it would probably cost you a minimum of $50 per month, or $600 per year. Hosting in comparison can be as cheap as $8 or $9 per month. So in essence, he was trying to buy a $600 per year link for $108. If you consider the actual cost to the hosting company, it is probably worth less than $3 per month, or $36 per year. It gets even better if you consider that I don’t need hosting, so it would cost them $0 per year.

The guy couldn’t believe that I had turned it down. He said, “it’s only a small link”. I told him that there has to be value on both sides of the trade. I don’t blame them for doing this. It seems like a great link building strategy. Still, I can’t believe others would sell their links so cheaply.

All of this reminds me of the time someone tried to pay me with ski lift tickets, another service I have no need for!

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