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If a host is able to pay for advertising, it does atleast tell you that the host is serious about their business and that they are big enough to pay for advertising.
You won't have to worry about the host going bankrupt and closing down all their hosting accounts over night.

Word of mouth has always been the best form of advertising for any business, sadly on the net many rival companies set out to destroy the reputations of other companies so that they can themselves obtain more business.

Just because you heard a host is bad does not make it true. Hosting directories are good because they give you a point of investigation. It is up to your own logic to weed through the not so good companies and good companies.

Remember that people always talk about the bad experiences they have, so logically the bigger hosts always have lots of complains about them, just because they have a large client base.

People don't normally talk about a good host unless they have had so many bad experiences they feel compelled to. Even then, many are just too busy running their websites and businesses to tell everyone how wonderful their hosting has been.

People who have had a bad experience, make it their mission to let everyone know about it until the end of time. Well maybe not that bad, but you get the ideal.

Yes your right, its unlikely your get too many clicks on a hosting directory when they have a few thousand companies also listed unless you pay for more prominent exposure on them. But you will gain extra pagerank from the link back - which may increase your search engine postions.

If its free after all... then you got a good deal. If you have a few clicks free from each hosting directory out there, then you have a lot of extra free clicks each month, that you would not have had.

You have to expect hosting directorys to charge for more prominent placement - do you realise the amount of work that goes into setting up a hosting directory and gaining good search engine positions.

Running a hosting directory costs a lot of time and money, so they deserve to get something out of it. Iv'e been working over 3 years on this site and have not made a penny yet. But its cost me a lot of money and time.

I dont see myself getting rich off any advertisments either - id be happy to get the money back that its cost me to get this far.