Beware of Blog Comments That Tempt You To Quickly Sign Up With A Certain Web Host

Referrals are very powerful on the World Wide Web. It is human nature to trust unsolicited third party judgment of a product or service. Some very smart online marketers know this and have found an ingenious way to take advantage of folks who are not too alert when they are on the web.

The way they do it is to use popular blogs where they leave comments that analyze the post they are commenting under, only that they add a twist that gets them to talk about this wonderful product that they used recently.

I know it is effective because I am by nature a very skeptical person but one such comment got me to quickly pay to join this scheme and in fact I got very deeply involved before it finally dawned on me that the whole thing was a carefully crafted marketing gimmick and that the advertised service was not really what it was claimed to be.

The same tactic is usually used to convince folks to switch to certain web hosts. Usually the comment will address a pressing problem facing many webmasters and point to a certain service that is excellent in solving the problem. In other words being hosted by the said service will guarantee that you are never faced with the problem being talked about.

It is wise to be very careful about comments at blogs and other discussion forums that seem to praise a certain web host. Examine the link carefully to see if it is an affiliate link (although even this can be disguised pretty well these days).

The best place to get recommendations is at well known, reliable web hosting directories and directly from persons you know who use the web hosting service that you are interested in.