> I've had a pretty good experience with Planet Half-Life. > > Their hosting services are second to none, and as far as I know, they've > posted every news bulletin I've sent them.... > > -- > > dodgy
>From what I've seen, PHL tends to post almost any news item from hosted sites (those hosted by PHL) while not always posting news from other web sites. Which is what you would expect. They get revenue from ads on their hosted sites and get nothing from hits on other web sites. For major news items (items sent in by well know companies or MOD teams) they will tend to post those news items as well. For news items sent in by unknown MOD teams or developers, it's pretty much a hit or miss thing depending on who happens to read your e-mail and whether they feel it's "news worthy" or not. That's just the way it is. They can't post every single news item sent to them by everyone who pimps their web sites. They HAVE to pick and choose the dozen or so items that will be posted each day. Your best method of getting news out is to send your news items to MANY different news sites (planethalflife.com, bluesnews.com, shacknews.com, etc.) and hope that a least one of them will post your news. Also make sure that if you are pimping your website you have plenty of content (not just one or two screenshots and a brief description of your MOD). The more high quality content you have on your website, the more likely one of the news posters will treat you like a professional developer and will post your news items. Jeffrey "botman" Broome _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
