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Provider Coupon Codes
Calling all hosting providers!
LowEndBox is soon going to publish a master list, nicely put together and well polished (website images, a little description of each provider, etc) of coupon codes.
If you would like for your company to be included, please submit the following:
- Provider Name
- Preferred sales contact/ticket system url
- Up to 3 coupon codes and a 1 sentence or less description of each coupon code
- Up to 5 sentences to be used as your company description in the master list
- Locations served
I'll be accepting applications for the next 7 days or so and hope to have this piece published by early/mid June.
The article will be on LowEndBox for all of 2020, after which a new article will be published with 2021 codes and so on. So it's great exposure. This page is open to all, so hope to see lots of involvement from all of our community hosts.
Comments
This is a great idea. We'll get something over to you before the cut-off.
Will the hosts/coupons be listed or presented on the page in any particular order or way?
Order is to be determined. Was going to look into possibly trying to randomize it somehow.
I've gotten a handful of submissions via pm so far. Keep them coming.
Tons of hosts have submitted overnight - awesome - thanks everyone.
Please continue to submit your coupons if you haven't already.
This is another great initiative, Jon. Best of luck.
Nice! Keep crushing it.
Let me jump in also!
I've gotten tons of submissions now, so thanks to everyone who has sent me a PM. I will respond to each of you over the next 2-3 days.
To answer a couple key questions:
A1Hosting will be pissed.
Pro tip: if you put RackNerd multiple times in the list it has a bigger chance of appearing on the top. You can also keep randomizing it until it's on the top. Anything works.
You're welcome as usual.
I hope if @FAT32 is involved, he can institute protections to make sure that the randomization is not likely to be gamed to favour certain providers. We should give every provider the same chance of appearing at the top.
Gotta figure out a way to do it within the constraints of WordPress first. Tomorrow I'm going to see if an existing plugin is available to get the job done. Later this coming week I'll be putting the coupons page together.
Very nice. Should work out great.
This is kinda hacky but you could randomize the list on every page load with some JS if you make them all list elements. Something like the first solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7070054/javascript-shuffle-html-list-element-order
Not sure how that will fare for SEO but it's an option.
I'll check it out, thanks for the suggestion.
3 more days for submissions folks!
It is a good opportunity to increase exposure for the providers. Thank you for taking the the initiative.
Need to submit it directly on LEB website ?
Shouldn't be a problem nowadays since most crawlers support javascript, and those that don't, well, do they even matter?
Nope just send a PM to Jon.
Hi Everyone,
New submissions for coupons is now closed.
This week I am going to start working on the LowEndBox post.
We got dozens of providers involved, which is awesome. Thanks to everyone who submitted their coupons.