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With HubPages, Squidoo, Tumblr, Posterous… and ViralHosts!

Inbounds links are useful for two main reasons: they can generate additional traffic to your website and, most importantly, influence search engines in the ranking of your pages. There are plenty of ways to get inbound links to your website. One of them is becoming increasingly popular: through user generated content websites and micro blogging platforms.

HubPages is certainly the most popular user generated content website. It has been designed around sharing advertising revenue for high quality, user generated content. Some of the pages – all built by web users – are very popular and generate a significant amount of traffic. Just so you know, some people are making heaps of money with these kinds of websites. I’m not explaining you how to make money with them though, but how to get more quality inbound to your website. Anyway, HubPages is the first website you want to look at.

Squidoo was founded about a year before HubPages and is also very popular. It doesn’t generate as much traffic as HubPages but is still a big player. Squidoo was designed to help web users easily find useful overview pages – called lenses – written by real people. With Squidoo, you have the option to give your earnings to charity, which is a good thing if you’re not really interested in monetizing your page.

Tumblr is a micro blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos and other types of content to their micro blog. Tumblr is popular for its customizability and ease of use. This is not the ultimate blogging platform, but if you’re not too familiar with blogging, or just want a simple but effective blog, then you should consider Tumblr. Signing up on Tumblr only takes a few seconds, and everything has been done to make you publish your content in the most simple way possible.

Posterous is another micro blogging platform but is slightly different from Tumblr. With Posterous, you can publish blog posts by simply emailing your content to a dedicated email address. If you’re confused about blogging, well this might be the best option. I just cannot think of a more simple way to publish content. You email your content and… that’s it. Your blog has been created. You don’t even need to log into the system to publish your content. You can do so though, if you really want to, to edit your existing blog posts for example… It is not as big as Tumblr but I really like the concept. Give it a try, it is definitely worth it.

ViralHosts is also a great way to get more quality inbound links to your site. This all-in-one cPanel hosting, list builder and mailer system allows you to host and build a site in no time. With ViralHosts, you can link to your main site, squeeze pages or any other pages you want. You know how much value search engines give to inbound links… ViralHosts is your chance to get quality ones! To be honest with you, I just can’t stop finding new benefits to using ViralHosts, so make sure you join free today and see how this system can help you build a strong online presence!

Otherwise, you may want to look at alternatives like Google’s Knol, SpongeFish or LaunchTags. Browse around and choose the ones you like. If you’re really after inbound links, then create a page on each of these websites. Keep in mind that not all will allow you to post links without a rel=nofollow attribute (which basically remove the value of the link for search engines), or only allow you to do so once your page is considered as a high quality page. Focus on quality and don’t insert too many links, one or two (to different landing pages) are usually enough. There is no use linking twice to the same address on the same page.

Some of you may have heard of John Marshall lately. John is an Iraq War veteran and fellow internet marketer who decided to take on the challenge to release 60 marketing tips in only 30 days. Make sure you check out his videos. Some of his tips can be really useful, whatever your level is…

How to become a better copywriter with ViralUrl

John raises a very good point in one of his videos. He talks about ViralUrl and explains how the service has helped him become a better copywriter. Not everyone is good at copywriting. If you’re not good at it, there’s no shame in that. You just need to work out a way to improve your skills… and ViralUrl can be part of it! Thanks to ViralUrl, John has started to write better headlines and email copies. There is no need to explain you how important it is for internet marketers to be able to write a good email copy… and an eye-catching headline is must have!

With this technique, John became a better copywriter, and he seems pretty happy about that, because he knows how important it is. Take a look at how John has managed to do that. Watch his video:

ViralHosts can help the same way. No matter if you use ViralUrl or ViralHosts, if you think you’re not good enough at copywriting, make sure you really benefit from this not so obvious advantage. What do you think of John’s tip? Has ViralUrl helped you the same way? There are certainly more not so obvious advantages of using ViralUrl… Please share your own with us!

Here is the 1st training video for our new all-in-one web hosting, list builder and mailer system ViralHosts. This video will help you get started with the ViralHosts hosting section. Two main topics are covered: how to set up an FTP account and how to set up a domain or subdomain. If you are unfamiliar with web hosting or if you are not too sure what to do once you are logged into ViralHosts, I strongly recommend you to watch it.  It is only a few minutes long and goes straight to the point. It also covers the automatic installation of WordPress via Fantastico (for upgraded members only).

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If you currently are a free member and would like to access upgraded features, you can do so by becoming an upgraded member. Log into ViralHosts and click Upgrade Section on the right of the menu. I would advise you to compare all ViralHosts membership types before making your decision. There is a dedicated page to do so. Then select the membership you want and follow the steps. It will only take you a few seconds to upgrade your account.

I hope the video helps! Feel free to leave a comment on the video or ask questions. You can also submit a ticket via our Help Desk. Make sure you choose the right category so we can answer it in the best delays.

You can find a PDF version of this training video here:

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