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What about SEO texts? What are their roles in the modern marketing? Unfortunately, their power is diminished by Google significantly.

In the beginning, let is introduce what are the main sorts of online texts used for business. The 5 main texts are:

• Sales text. Sales copy has the only reason – sell that service or product.
• Informational text. The text which provides the unbiased information about the products  and services.
• Ads texts. The emotional text which emphasizes the emotional satisfaction of using the particular service or product.
• News texts. Any time sensitive information may be referred as news. It has one serious negative feature. News texts are getting old and get buried in the archive of all the news.
• SEO texts. Specific texts which emphasize the keyword rather than brand in the text.

So in brief sales text sells the service or product itself; informational text introduces some facts about the service, Ads text emphasizes the emotional state of the service or product; news text presents service/product in the shape of news story. So what the SEO text does? It has no intention to sell anything, only promoting the keyword with the link.

The most effective text is the Sales copy with all the Call to action, USP (Unique Selling Proposition), Headlines, images, text formatting and user experience factors. SEO text can only support the sales text if it must be found on Google. Direct ads are sometimes more effective that long fight for top 10 position with organic searches.

When You will need to decide, which texts must be invested to, please remember, that Sales texts will increase your business for sure while SEO texts may not achieve the quick goals. Also your website should not be stuffed with purely SEO text as it will not be readable by to customers.

Most popular social networks have prepared the amazing opportunities for your business at no cost. Just use it wisely and you will get visitors to your website, sales and build the reputation. The tool is called the company pages.

As you may already know, there are two types of identities in the social networks. One is personal with name and surname, personal description, friends and activities which are mostly relevant to the personal life and experiences. Another type of identity is organization. Business is one of the forms, so you can set the identity of your brand, activity, occupation, and hobby and promote it instead of personality. The best benefit of company page is that it can be managed by several people who have access to it. Personal account is managed by one person only.

What company pages should be doing? On regular basis company page should post specific updates about the market, products, services, promotions, insights, views etc. It may be text updates, photos, videos, links to own or other pages, polls. More interactive posting – better for followers and fans of your company page. There are plenty of resources telling how to manage your company page; therefore we will not get deep into it this time. Let’s see where you can set your business profile:

Facebook. The biggest social network actually got the biggest because of attractive business promotion features. Facebook Pages are the main place for your business advertisement, no matter what market you are in.

Google+. Google Plus has introduced the company pages immediately after launch. It is still gaining it’s power, but that means every company should be starting their Company Pages right now.

LinkedIn. The professional social network is based on connections between business people on the professional basis. You may not see the pictures with dogs or babies here, but you will definitely press releases, product descriptions and job offers. The Company Pages were introduced recently, but it already have great potential of you brand promotion in B2B realm.

YouTube. YouTube has a great feature of Channel. You can create few video channels of your activities and products. Of course, if you have enough videos.

Pinterest. Pinterest is the newest social network, which is still gaining momentum, but businesses are discovering it. If you are sales company, you would probably like to create your Pinterest board with the pictures of your products or some interesting stuff linking to your website. The pin boards are easily found in Google, so it may become a great source for traffic.

Are we missing something? Oh yes, right, the No. 2 in the World. Unfortunately, Twitter does not deserve a place in our list as there are no big difference between the personal profile and business profile. Lots of fake brands, lack of moderation and functionality. Sorry, Twitter, next time.  Anyway those five are enough to be busy at least 1 hour per day with updates moderation and searching for information to post.

Pinterest has been launched in 2011 and still is collecting its critical mass of users, therefore business should be entering it now. Later the competition will be enormous and those with old information will be in the top of the search. Why your business should be on Pinterest?

The main question is which businesses must be on Pinterest? If the services and goods can be presented as picture, then all of them. However there are some preferences. The Pinterest advertises the cool stuff. All the consumer electronics, fashion and clothing, interior, DIY goods are especially welcomed. B2B services must be presented in a slightly different way. For example, infographics, charts and some other useful material. The Pinterest is extremely useful for every e-shop as all the products can be added with the special banner with price and placed under the category ‘Gifts’. That’s great for sales!

The Pinterest is now used for entertainment and ideas catching. It attracts some specific visitors, therefore some businesses may not be reached properly. Despite the fact some information may be irrelevant now, it may change in six months. Once Pinterest will reach hundreds of millions of users, all the information will be interesting.

There is a little inconvenience. The Pinterest is very slow in localization. It has global, Dutch and German versions. The boom of Facebook was resulted by the local translations, so probably we must wait some time till it will be available in other major languages of the World.

Some experts consider Pinterest as one of the social bookmarking sites, but still it is called a social network, because it is based on following the topics and people. There are no status updates like in other social networks. The content is sorted by the topics and specific boards, for example ‘Conference’, ‘Presentations’, ‘Services’ etc.

Pinterest is considered to be the big thing in the social marketing world, so jumping into the train in early may bring some great results for your business.

• Article should be from 450 to 500 words (not symbols, but words).
• Article should have one or more images (the image (-s) should clearly be related to your article topic).
• Article topics could be about how to, feedback, review or something that would give a clear picture that it is about Host1Free provided service.
• Article should have minimum of two links pointing to one or another page of Host1Free.com.
• Articles should be without spelling and grammar mistakes.
• Every person can write unlimited amount of articles (no limits – this way you will increase your chances to win).

What we do not want to see in the article:

• We do not want to see hate or no tolerance speech, generally speaking, no abuse.
• We do not want to see copied content or stolen one.
• We will not accept any articles if it is posted in different source than we have provided.

Where do you need to post the articles?

You can post in any article directory (like Squidoo, HubPages, etc.), press release site or any other authoritative website that is not a new blog or spam website.
This is the example of the post: http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-website-optimized-for-smartphone

Where you should post your links with articles?

We have made a post in the Facebook page and you can leave a comment with your link or links for the approved articles in the provided sources.

When the contest is over?

The contest is over on 31th October, 2012.

How many winners will be announced?

The best 50 articles owners!

How the RAM will be added?

Simple, if you have 128MB, we simply will add you additional 512MB of RAM.
If you previously have won any of the contest and have about 256MB RAM we simply will add another 512MB RAM. OK?

How to find a good and reputable resource for your article?

You can simply Google with keywords “social article directory”, “article directory”, “press release directory”, or similar ones.

In what language should be written the article?

English only, please.

Could you give me more details what exact articles directories are the best ones to post the article?

Sure, we prefer the high rank article directories with the decent traffic.
This could be:

1. ezinearticles.com
2. suite101.com
3. helium.com
4. articledashboard.com
5. goarticles.com
6. webpronews.com
7. buzzle.com
8. articlesbase.com
9. articlecity.com
10. isnare.com

These links are just the reference, you can post to the similar high ranked articles directories. Also this question is really related to the question “Where do you need to post the articles?“.

We wish you good luck!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask them here by commenting this blog post, we will surely answer all your questions!

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When you have a huge website with lots of traffic, you should try adding a few bucks from the AdWords a day. It is possible and in the end of month your payment option will be credited with 50-100 or even more dollars from the ads. For doing almost nothing, it is a fair and great deal. It is just for the 1000 uniques and more a day websites. If you are small the situation is changing.

Small websites with just a few or up to 100 uniques (unique visitors) a day are not suitable for Google AdWords at all. They will not generate any income, but will occupy space in the website which can be used fo other purposes. Why one should waste the time and website space for advertisement which will be earning $10 entire 12 months? There are other great ads possibilities for small websites with low traffic.

One of the most popular ways of using the domain is publish a blog. Why not making a simple website (using WordPress or Website Builder) with the specific information and add some affiliate program links on it? Let it be web hosting affiliate program, or any electronics, insurance, gambling or other type of affiliate links. Such website should be updated once a month and in a couple of years it may become profitable as it will be found on Google.

Another way of income is blogging about the specific market and selling text ads. One can write the reviews of some specific products. When the blog is found on Google, the author may offer to write some paid reviews about the specific products, for instance smart phones or web hosting companies. It is not a complicated way of earning $10 per review or even more. Cybermums have discovered this way of earning long time ago, but they usually write about the toys and baby stuff.

If you can write 2-4 reviews per month, the yearly income may be $240-$480. If you have 5 such blogs all hosted for free at free hosting service, you can get quite rich as income would be $1000-$2400 a year. Google AdWords cannot generate such money if you have a simple blog or personal website. That‘s why you do not need Google AdWords on your website.

Good quality link: 

• The link from the niche blog which writes about your market or occupation.The link from any media article.
• The link in the social network updates (Google, Twitter or Facebook).
• The link as the reference to your page at the trusted content websites such as Wikipedia, Ask.com, Wikianswers etc.
• Link in the social bookmarking sites.
• The link in Yellow pages (ads websites).

Bad link

• The link from porn websites.The link from the site which is not related to your market.
• The pages which takes your domain name and generates some generic text about you by pulling out screenshot, WHOIS information, IP, title, Metadescription, tags if it is a blog and other information which is publicly available.
• The link is in the site where links are sold for money.
• The link which is placed in the website which contains viruses.

The good links are obtained not easy. Organic links are placed by other people without asking them to do so. That is difficult to achieve. Sometimes it seems that the 0 backlinks period lasts too long. The webmaster finds some suspicious tool which submits your website to hundreds of other pages. The few seconds and your website is listed in all kinds of content generators which are punished by recent Google Penguin update.

The other situation is even worse. The webmaster may pay 10-50 dollars to some guys from India who offer hand placement of your links. Maybe $10-50 is not a big price for you, but they will do all to get those links from non-related banned and punished websites for link buying and spam. Just in few days, you can get a serious punch from Google and will get down in the search so deep that no one will be able to find you. Unfortunately you will not be able to check those links as you simply do not know where they are placed. Such practices are condemned by Google, therefor here are some advice for you regarding the link building:

DO NOT USE any automatic submission software or tools no matter if they are paid or free. They may post your information or just links to the spam websites where they will get negative value.

DO NOT PAY for links in the sites you do not know. The payment can be done for the advertisement only, positive review in the blog, but not in unrelated websites.

ALWAYS check your link quality using some free online tools. If you will notice the unnatural practice such as lots of links over one night, please find out who have placed them. Sometimes it may be an act of angry customer or even competitor.

WAITING for a good quality link is worth it. It is better one quality link, that hundreds of spam links which one day will invoke the Google punishment. Links are not about the quantity, it’s about the quality.

If you keep those advices in mind, your website will be among the leaders in couple of years as trusted and authority website.

The recent Google updates and entire Google policy regarding the webspam is changing the attitude of the internet marketing managers. More and more companies prefer quality content website instead of SEO blogs. Such attitude will be awarded by Google in the nearest future for sure as declaration that ‘content is the king’ is not a joke.

Webmasters should think of creating a niche blogs instead of some webspam information. What is the difference between niche blog and SEO blog? Niche blog writes about the narrow niche or business area. For example the company develops various business management software – CRM, accounting, invoicing, and project management solutions. They all are well integrated and scalable, but should the niche blog write about all of them? Not really. The marketers should create different blogs for CRM, accounting, project management solutions and provide useful information for the potential ant present users of those solutions. SEO blog may contain the articles about all of them as they are related. The main purpose of SEO blog is to create related information and place the links to the main website or landing page. SEO blog is not for readers. It is for Google search spiders.

The investment to domains and poor content can be easily replaced by the investment to quality content. Hiring a copywriter will cost 5-10 times more than SEO text writer, but it is worth it. The useful information is more likely to get organic links and be shared in the social networks. Google loves that and the results can be much better. The only problem is that such blog will become an authority one in one year. That is a long term perspective. It turns that one niche blog can be much better than ten SEO blogs in the long term.

Host1Free is glad to give opportunity to host SEO blog or niche blog for free. Niche blog may soon become more popular and require more resources; therefore Premium web hosting may be needed.

Host1Free uses the DirectAdmin control panel which is very easy to use. You can set an email at the Email Management section. Creating account is easy – just enter the name, email and set a quota for your email in megabytes. If you enter 1000, you will have almost 1 GB for your email. If you do not usually send files of 10 MB size, this will be enough for you.

Host1Free also provides the possibility to check emails online using one of the most popular webmail services – Squirrel Mail and RoundCube. You can choose which one of them can be used for checking emails online. RoundCube has nice design, but Squirrel Mail uses less resources of your server which are limited. Also you can use the POP email. If you will set an option “Save messages on server”, you will be able to access all your emails both from our computer and online. This is useful if you sometimes need checking your emails not at home or work.

If you or your friends use email rarely and small quotas are OK, you can set few email addresses on your account. Please be careful and observe the traffic. If the quota is exceeded, the sender receives the ugly message from the Mailer-Daemon who says, that message could not be delivered because the mailbox is full. If you will notice that your or friend’s quota is coming to the limit, increase it or tell to delete some messages with big attachments.

Email with your domain is much more serious than any free webmail with the beginning containing your brand name. The small company can use the free hosting for email management in the beginning, but sooner or later it will need the Premium hosting which offers much bigger inboxes. Once more we can say, that free hosting is good for a freelancer or small business, but the free resources are limited and needs upgrade.