Tips to Get People to Share User Reviews Pages?

[sbrault74]

I'd like to know if you have some ideas / advice on how to get people to share or link to user reviews pages? I mean unlike blog posts, it's more difficult to promote this kind of content.

Here's an example: http://www.webhostinghero.com/reviews/inmotion-hosting/

I mean I just can't post links to the review pages on social networks, forums, whatever, that would be just plain spammy.

[LesleyPaone]

I would start by sharing them yourself. Sounds spammy doesn't it? You can do it in a way that is not spammy though, let me tell ya how.

I am familiar with inmotion, I don't really care for them either, but at the same time I am a moderator for an e-commerce package called Prestashop. All the time people are asking for hosting recommendations, so this would be helpful to those people. The great part is, Prestashop has two hosting partners that they recommend, A2 and Inmotion. They have deals worked out with both of those companies, check here http://www.prestashop.com/en/industry-partners  (because of ajax, I cannot directly link you, but click webhosting partners)

This leads me to what I would do if I were you, I would troll the boards and look for people wanting recommendations, post a short message about inmotion and a link to the reviews. In the case of Prestashop I know with almost 100% certainty that it would not get flagged as spam since you are promoting a partner.

Most hosting companies have partnerships with other companies, use that and exploit it. Once you start posting the reviews, it will be more viable for other people to start posting them as well.

[Chris.Menke]

Here's a quick couple of ideas to help jog your thinking:

• An off-site article/blog post for a web design community that discusses examples of various looks for "review pages"
• An off-site article/blog post on a humor or other hosting review site that points out some of "The funniest hosting reviews ever written"
• An off-site article/blog post on a career site about how a faceless systems admin decided to step up into the limelight and interact publicly with his customers online by becoming a web host.