How To Promote Your Website For Free

This method is easy and straightforward, all you need to do is to design a simple mechanism to give some sort of virtual points to your online visitors. Let's take a look at Poged.

Poged is a gaming portal website which displays lots of online games information including MMO, MMORPG, medieval, role-playing, fantasy, sport, sci-fi, strategy and adventure games. So if you are looking for new games to play or searching for game information updates, Poged is the place to go.

What interests me most is the way they try to promote their website - they have something called Poged dollar. There are several ways to make Poged dollars, e.g.

- Visit their website every day and earn 40 dollars
- Leave a comment and get 100 dollars, only once per day
- Complete your member profile, and get 150 dollars
- "Like" them on Facebook, give them a "plus" on Google, or "Follow" them on Twitter, you get 120 dollars
- Invite a friend to sign up, you earn 250 dollars

And what do you do with those dollars? With Poged dollars, you can redeem those virtual dollars for free stuff like game gold, game items, game time cards, beta keys and etc.

Now, if you can implement a similar system with your website, what can you offer to your visitors? Free blog mentions? Free service trial? Free consulting? Free product sample?

5 Recommended Offshore Web Hosting Providers

Usually US based web hosting is a popular choice for most website owners. Most of the US providers offer a good variety of hosting plans with a decent service and reasonable price. However, sometimes, for some obvious reasons, people would prefer to host their websites with an offshore web hosting company.

Here are a few service providers I used in the past few months. In general, those which offer shared web hosting, also provide VPS hosting, but not the other way round.

If you need more offshore web hosts, check out my other post Best Reliable Offshore Web Hosting. If you want more privacy and are looking for web hosting companies that accept Bitcoin payment, check out another of my post 10 Offshore Web Hosting Companies That Accept Bitcoin.

Offshore Shared Web Hosting

Root.lu (Luxembourg) - €2/month, 250 MB Storage, Unlimited Bandwidth, 1 Domain

KnownSRV (Netherlands, Luxemburg, Romania) - $2.95/month, 5 GB Storage, 30 GB Bandwidth, Unlimited Domains

Shine Servers (Netherlands) - $3.34/month, 5GB Storage, 1 TB Bandwidth, 3 Domains

WRZHost (Netherlands, Hong Kong) - $2/month, 1 GB Storage, 50 GB Bandwidth, 1 Domain

Offshore VPS Hosting

Ecatel (Netherlands) - €29/month, 80GB Storage, 2GB RAM, 10TB on 100 mbit unshared

Search Engine Not Indexing Your Posts?

First of all, I assume that you are using the most popular webmaster tools developed by the most popular search engine, well, you know which one. In "Index Status", you noticed that you only have very few URLs being indexed, e.g. around 1~3. And you remember that you already submitted a sitemap for your blog. According to the section "Crawl", "Sitemaps", you have over 100 pages submitted, and over 100 pages indexed. So, how come you only have 2 URLs being indexed?

Why is search engine not indexing your posts correctly? A possible reason is that when you set up your profile in webmaster tools, you add your site name incorrectly. For example, if your domain name is some--domain--name.com, some--domain--name.com is very different from www.some--domain--name.com in the eyes of search engine. If you add www.some--domain--name.com as your site name in the profile, and try to update the search engine by "Crawl", "Fetch as", you will get a redirect error message. If you add some--domain--name.com as your site name in the profile and "Fetch", you will get a message saying "Status: Complete, URL and linked pages submitted to index..."

I have a WordPress website which only has 30+ blog pages, and the total number of URLs indexed is well over 100, probably some URLs including those tags and etc. So, if you have an extremely low number of URLs indexed, check if you are naming your website incorrectly. In the user interface, I don't see a place where you can change / edit your website name, I guess you have to start a new profile.