Everyone is talking about the recent changes with Google Panda and how they are killing off the major link building networks and changing the way links reflect on listings in search engines. While a lot of focus is on Google Panda updates and what link building methods will be acceptable and worth pursing in the coming months, the way we link to our web sites and the anchor text we use will also be important.

While looking around at the latest comments and blog posts on these topics, yesterday I came across some useful videos that talk bout the future of link building, understanding the latest Google Panda updates and everything in between.

Everything You Need to Know About Panda 3.3 Video

The video below is from THE HOTH, who we’ve done multiple link building campaigns and interviews with. It’s a very long and detailed webinar that goes into some great detail on the following:

• What EXACTLY is Panda 3.3 and, more impor­tantly, what is it not?
• The step-by-step guide to build­ing your very own blog net­work in 1 after­noon (and why you shouldn’t).
• The 5 changes we’re mak­ing at The HOTH to give you safer, more effec­tive links.
• The 8 action items to stay on Panda 3.3’s good side.
• The 3 SEO strate­gies that’ll make you stronger than ever going forward.

Beyond Exact Match Anchor Text Links Video

Another great video I came across, is one from Cyrus of the SEOMOZ team. This is a short 5 minute video but it’s a good one. Cyrus goes into detail on how the old days of building text anchor links with the same key phrases are no longer as effective as they used to be, and you now have to spread our your anchor text and bring a variety to it. This is the future of search rankings, as the search engines are now becoming more humanized and less of a ranking system.

To a lot of people, SEO is a form of spam.  Over the last 10 years, affiliates and webmasters have invested an endless amount of time trying to arbitrarily “fix” Google’s ranking algorithm and cash in on the 1^st page rankings.  Users have complained, Google has invested in countless updates to trim the spam from their search engines, and webmasters have lost their income source.

What people forget however is that there are also A LOT of big brands and marketing agencies who use SEO.  Whether Google likes it or not, SEO has become an integral form of online marketing in the 21^st Century.

There no two ways about it – SEO isn’t going to disappear overnight.  I remember reading in the WebmasterWorld.com Forums, after one of the Panda updates in October 2011, that it signaled “the end of SEO”.  It was now impossible for one-trick ponies and black hat gurus to rank their sites in the search engines.

SEO still continued however.  Webmasters just worked out how to beat Panda. They, you, and me evolved.

Will Google be Able to Penalize Websites in the Future?

In a lot of competitive industries, such as gambling, porn and pharmaceuticals, everyone is engaging in some form of grey-hat SEO.  Even the biggest brands and companies are breaking Google’s Guidelines about link purchases and manipulating the search results.  I was at the LAC (London Affiliate Conference) last week listening to a lecture from UniBet’s Head of Search, who was talking about grey-hat tactics.  In industries like this, grey-hat has become the norm.

But whether or not the biggest brands are engaging in SEO is irrelevant.  The big issue for Google is that SEO is going mainstream, and it isn’t disappearing overnight.

The search engine index has become the new “marketplace” for ecommerce and retail sites, which are rapidly encroaching the high street market demand (particularly here in the UK and USA).  SEO is becoming a legitimate, cost-effective, method for companies to market themselves online – just like Facebook adverts and PPC marketing.

Some of the top SEO experts, working for big brands such as Amazon and BMW, have already estimated that grey-hat SEO marketing is around 10^th the cost of running an Adwords campaign for the same traffic and keywords.  Grey-hat SEO can also generate an ROI of 130%-500% depending on which industry you work in.

The problem for Google is that if SEO continues to become the norm for online marketing then they’re going to be limited to the extent to which they can penalize websites in the SERPs.

Think about it.  If everyone is doing it, it creates and ethical dilemma for Google.  Of course it’s impossible for them to condone link purchases (Google’s own SEO Guidelines literally haven’t changed since 2003), but there will come a point where Google has to realize that everyone is buying links.  The “natural” link graph won’t be legitimate anymore and neither will the “social graph”.

Companies have a “right” to market themselves through SEO just like any other form of online marketing.  It’s not even just about Google.com.  It’s about marketing through all of the majors such as Bing, Yahoo and Baidu, to which Google cannot simply say, “No, this is wrong”.  Google penalizing sites for engaging in SEO will be like a TV network prohibiting companies from marketing themselves during adverts.

Google Will Continue to Rank the Best Results for Users

Naturally, Google will aim to promote the best results for users and will continue modifying, adding or removing factors to their search engine algorithm, which currents stands at over 240 unique variables.

I think there’s some interesting economics data to think about in the future of SEO though.  If grey-hat SEO does become more mainstream, for example, then will the companies that invest the higher amount in SEO marketing deserve to rank 1^st in the search results?  Surely just like offline marketing, the most efficient companies will be able to outspend their competitors, which will also be the ones that provide the best user experience and value.  As such, maybe the top SEO spenders will be the best sites for users.

Google will get better at finding unique signals that indicate higher quality sites.  But the problem is that if all of the high quality sites are engaging in SEO, and all of them already have positive signals such as social media followers, return visitors and strong analytics then there will always be “something” left in the algorithm to game – hence SEO will never die.

Why Most of the Information your Hear About Building Brands is Wrong

One of the things that’s starting to drive me crazy is the number of bloggers and affiliates now providing guests posts talking about how you have to “add value” to the Internet.

It’s really easy to say this, but 95% of the time I think the people writing this are talking the talk but not walking the walk.  These are the same “innovative minds” that think paying someone to design a few info-graphics on their site all of a sudden makes their site amazing!

It doesn’t work like that.  The best sites and brands on the Internet have slowly grown over time, either through takeovers, re-designs, partnerships or mergers.  You can’t just take a 1-month old site and turn it into a brand overnight.  Brand building takes time and hard work, in addition to a HUGE amount of investment in human capital, coding, editorial staff, marketing teams, and resources – something which I’ve never seen anyone mention when talking about building online brands.

Everyone acts as though the difference between a low quality affiliate site and building a brand is just about a change in mindset.  It requires a completely different set of skills and investment though.

Trust me, I regularly talk to webmasters who spend $xxx,xxx on premium domains and then $xx,xxx on design and coding.  I know a huge company in the finance niche who are about to launch a site that they’ve invested over $x,xxx,xxx in the last few months.  These are the real success stories that will get you the “band metrics” you’re looking for.  Not the smaller affiliates that decide to hire a slightly better writer for $0.04c per work.

Why you shouldn’t Worry Too Much About SEO Changing in the Next Couple of Years

First of all, SEO hasn’t changed much in the last 5-10 years.  It’s still more then 60-70% about links, keywords and optimizing your page titles.

Sure, the latest 2011 search engine ranking factors from SEOMoz.org shows that social signals and brand signals are a tiny bit more important then they used to be. But so what?  The fundamentals have stayed the same.  Build good content, make your site good enough for users, and buy a bunch of links.

Facebook has remained a closed network, which prevents Google crawling a lot of its data, and if Social Media signals start replacing link metrics in SEO then you’re going to get a wild amount of social “noise”, and social media brokers selling Facebook Likes etc over the internet.

Even if content becomes more important, you have to remember that users prefer to read short 500-600 word articles rather then reading 1,000 – 2,000 word essays.  Long articles turn off users and if anything it will damage your user metrics and increase your bounce rates.  Hence, improving the rankings for sites with longer articles doesn’t make that much more sense if you’re Google.

The only thing that we can say for sure is that Google will likely be highly dependent on the link graph for the next 3-5 years.  As long as you keep building good sites, which are relevant and provide some sort of value to the visitor (such as recommending the top online casinos) then you are good to go.

This guest post was written by Adam, who has been successful in affiliate marketing in a number of industries such as gambling, trading, binary options and banking.  He also runs his own affiliate blog at AffiliateFYI.com.

When it comes to advertising and building a brand online, reputation is everything. Though it may take years and several happy clients for you to establish yourself as a trusting brand and service, there is always the potential for negative feedback and people out there just making it their mission to tarnish your name. Just as quickly as you can build your reputation online, someone can come along and bring it down even faster… even if the information they are posting isn’t true.

Think about it for a second… is there anyone from your past, maybe a client, friend or even someone who is jealous of your success, that could potentially damage your name or brand online? In the end, all it really takes it a few high end and well established web sites to start posting negative reviews and content, that can rank really high in the search results and do some damage.

So what can you do?

That’s where reputation management comes in. With the usage and power of the internet growing larger and larger every day, it’s more important for every day small businesses and even Fortune 500 companies, to make sure they have a great reputation online. Through the use of reputation management services, anyone can help improve their reputation online, and lower any fake or negative comments/articles out there about their company.

How does reputation management work?

Let’s take a look at a case study of how Reputation Changer, one of the top reputation management firms out there works, and how they are helping their clients deal with reputation issues.

Case Study: UWC Corp received malicious listings online that were showing up under their company name: UWCCorp.com. In less than 6 weeks, Reputation Changer completely surpressed those listings from page 1 of Google and repopulated new / positive listings. With a brand new, very positive online reputation, UWCCorp.com saw an immediate spike in revenue.

A few weeks later, UWCCorp.com started to see an improvement in their search results, with more and more new and positive articles taking over the negative listings and pushing them down off the first page of Google.

You can take a look at the full slide show process and see a bi-weekly breakdown of how Reputation Changer dominated the first page of results for UWCCorp.com.

Improving Online Reputation through Google Suggests

While the majority of searching done online is through Google and looking directly for a company or brand name, have you ever thought about how much of an influence “Google Suggest” comes into play? When you start typing a search phrase into Google, it will start to suggest other alternatives or variations of what you might want to search for.

Another case study and winning example from Reputation Changer, is how they helped improved Michael Vick’s reputation through Google Suggest, which you can see in the screenshot below.

Have you ever taken the time to see what Google Suggest comes up with when someone is searching for your personal or business name?

Do Reputation Management Services Work?

Now that you have an idea how reputation management services can improve rankings, search results and how people can search for relevant information on a company, the best question to ask is “Do reputation management services really work?“. As you can see from the case studies mentioned above, they clearly do work, as the average person is most likely going to look through the first page of results to make a quick decision on whether or not they want to use a recommended service or company.

The business of reputation management is growing daily, and even Business Week has written a full article on the topic. In the article, a few interesting points mentioned where that there has been an explosive increase in reputation management over the past couple of years due to social media and the amplified voices of individual internet users. It was also mentioned that typical costs for a small online company, can range from $1,000 to several thousands of dollars a month for search engine related reputation management.

What’s Your Online Reputation?

When is the last time you took some time to really look into your search results and see what other people are saying about your name or brand online? Reputation Changer focuses exclusively on managing the reputations of Celebrities, Professional Athletes, Brands, High Profile Individuals, and Fortune 500 Brands.

If you would like to see how Reputation Changer can improve your image online, please feel free to contact them and see what they can do for you. Mention ZacJohnson.com and you will save an instant 10% off your reputation improvement package.

If you only had 30 seconds to tell someone about your business in an elevator and never see them again, would they remember to contact you? Better yet, would you have an impressive business card to give to them, that not only has all of your information and what your business is about, but leaves a lasting impression? You should!

How many times have you gone to conference even and collected a ton of business cards, then look through them when you get home and find that most of them are boring and only a couple actually stand out? Wouldn’t you like to be one of those cards that stands out? Of course you would!

Through a special promotion with UPrinting.com, we are giving away a free set of die-cut business card designs. The winner will get a chance to upload their own existing business card design and have them printed out on high quality die-cut business cards, or can create their own cards from scratch using the UPrinting designing platform.

How to Enter to Win Your Own Die-Cut Business Cards

I wanted to make this contest ridiculously easy for anyone to will, so all you have to do is leave a comment on this post, along with your idea on what makes a killer business card. One winner will randomly be selected on January 15th, and they will receive the business card package below.

Also, be sure to “Like” UPrinting.com o Facebook and you will be entered to win one of 3 iPod Touches and an iPad 2! Winners are chosen weekly.

Prize Details:

- 250 pcs Die Cut Business Card Printing for one(1) winner

Sizes to choose from:
2 x 3.5″ Rounded Corners, 2×2″ Rounded Corners, 1.75×3.5″ Rounded Corners, 2×3.5″ Leaf, 2×3.5
Rounded one corner, 2×3.5″ Half Circle Side, 2×3.5″ Oval, 2.5″ Circle

Paper to choose from:
14pt Cardstock Gloss / Matte / High Gloss (UV), or 13pt Cardstock Uncoated,
6 Business Days Turnaround *Free shipping

In addition to business cards, UPrinting provides a ton of other online printing services. Be sure to check out their web site if you are looking to have any printing and design services done.

According to Inc. Magazine, the average employee sends about 38 e-mails a day. How many emails do you send and receive on a daily basis? Now think about how many you send over the course of a year! Better yet, think about how much extra exposure you could be receiving through all of those thousands of emails if only you had some form of customized or branded email with your personal message or company information. That is the goal and concept behind WRAP Mail.

For years companies have tried to create a platform that could easily be sent through email, without the hassles of getting blocked by filters, while also making it a big frustration for the email users to send/receive mail. WRAP Mail is that solution.

The best way to explain what WRAP Mail can do for your business and branding, is to show you. You can visit the WRAP Mail web site and watch the short video on their web site, which is quick and fun, but also shows you how easy WRAP mail is to use, and how it works.

In short, WRAP Mail…

• Turn every day emails into brand marketing
• Wraps your emails with a unique interactive letterhead
• Shows your email recipient your regular text email, with a great design
• Reports to you “Click Alerts”, which tells you who is where on your web site.
• Provides benefits for any type of  business, web site or personal use

Driving New Sales & Customers with Daily Emails

Now as I mentioned earlier, the average employee sends 38 emails a day… If you only send around 27 emails a day, that’s still over 10,000 emails a year! Using a system like Wrap Mail can dramatically increase your business by putting your brand and advertising right in the face of your customers. If you were to only convert 1% of the people reading your email, with the additional branding and links within your wrapped email, that’s an extra 100 leads. Depending on your sales or lead generation, this could actually be much higher.

What Will Your Wrapped Mail Look Like?

After talking with Rolv from WRAP Mail and looking through the different options and services they offer, it’s quite a great looking program. Nearly any web site or business can customize their emails with a wrap that represents the look and feel of their business, while also increasing the bottom line.

The Wrap Mail design team can built a customized look for your web site or business. Just take a look at some of the custom designs posted on their site from current customers.

Yes, You Can Even Earn Money with WRAP Mail Too!

With such a unique and fun service, you would think there would be an ad serving network attached to it, right? Well, there is! WRAP Mail is in the process of rolling out their new advertising program, where clients can earn money for users to get paid when people click on their links and complete offers or decide to sign up for a product. This platform will be similar with Google Adsense, in that the users of WRAP Mail can opt-in to receive a pay per click rate based on their recipients clicking on advertisements placed within their email wrapping. Since many people are using WRAP Mail as a personal choice and looking to customize their email, and not specifically promote their own business or web site, this introduces a whole new world when it comes to emailing. You can read their latest press release on this announcement here.

What Does it Cost, and How to Get Started?

Surprisingly, WRAP Mail PRO is free for companies and individuals looking to use their services, as long as they are less than 100 employees. It’s easy to signup, all you need to do is fill out a short form and you will get started immediately. If you would like to set your 100+ employee company up with an account and custom email design, simply contact WRAP Mail directly.

When it comes to SEO and link building management, you have a lot of options. You can outsource everything, do guest posting on blogs, try your hand at article marketing and so much more… one of the most popular software packages out there for managing all of your SEO efforts, is called SEO PowerSuite.

The days of buying massive amounts of links and hoping for the best, are over. Google, Yahoo and Bing are much smarter in the way they rank and list web sites in their directories, which means you need to be smarter about your link building efforts as well. I previously wrote up a review on the software several months ago, but the SEO Powersuite team has made a bunch of noteworthy updates, which I wanted to make everyone aware of.

SEO PowerSuite is a premium package that built up of four quality SEO scripts; rank tracker, website auditor, seo spyglass and linkassistant. Let’s take a deeper look at each of the components that make up SEO PowerSuite, and what they can do for your web sites.

Rank Tracker

The first component of the SEO PowerSuite package, is the Rank Tracker. Through Rank Tracker, you can see exactly where your web site is showing up in the rankings, while also comparing your listing with other competitors for relevant search terms. Whether you are looking for exact match keywords, most relevant or your top ranked terms, Rank Tracker will pull a nice report together with all of your rankings.

If you’ve ever used Rank Tracker before, or read about it in the previous review, you will notice and appreciate the new design on their keyword reports. In addition to providing more detailed information, the reports are now more visually appealing as well. Pull up a keyword report and you will find where your web site is ranking, all associated keywords and any changes in your keyword rankings since your last report. The “visibility” in the top right corner will also give you a quick glance at your overall visibility and gives an idea of your competition and market you can still be missing out on. Refer back to the main Rank Tracker workspace and you will be able to generate full reports on the historical progress of their web site and associated keywords.

SEO SpyGlass

The second tool in the SEO PowerSuite package, is SEO Spyglass. An important tool for managing and tracking all of your web site backlinks. This backlink checker will create detailed reports breaking down all areas and type of incoming links to your site, which you can see in the screenshot below.

The more visually appealing a report is, the easier it is to understand and grasp the key points and factors that matter. SEO Powersuite has revamped their backlink reports wit the addition of pie graphs, which makes it easy to tell where your big links are coming in, with just a quick glance at the report. SEO SpyGlass will also provide full reports on what backlinks are text based or image based. It’s also important to have access to the different types of TLDs linking back to your web site, along with anchor text… all of which are provided in SEO SpyGlass reports.

WebSite Auditor

WebSite Auditor is the third piece of software in the SEO PowerSuite package. The performance of how your web site will rank in the search engines, is not just dependent on your content and incoming links, but also how your web site is built and structured. Having a fast loading site and the proper structure with your title, body and H1 tags is extremely important. Through the use of the Web Site Auditor, you can make sure your web sites are always running at maximum performance.

Instead of continually showing you what the actual reports look like, this time I wanted to show you what the actual software and behind the scenes would look like. In the screenshot above, you can see what your stats and reports would look like in WebSite Auditor, before converting them into a fancy report. All information is sortable depending on your desired setting and preference.

LinkAssistant

To complete the review of the four different programs that create the SEO PowerSuite package, let’s cover the LinkAssistant. Through the use of the LinkAssistant, you can manage and build new possibilities for gaining important one/two-way and relevant links back to your web site. In short, the software tool can be best explained as a link exchange tool, which allows you to find potential and related web sites that might make for a good link trade. One of the biggest pains about exchanging links with other web sites, is having to worry about them removing your links, while you still keep theirs up. That is no longer a problem, as all of this heavy reporting and tracking is done through LinkAssistant.

As shown in the previous software mentioned, in the screenshot above you can see what it would look like in the actual software as you were building and pulling backlink reports for a web site. If you prefer simple reports, stick to the application, or you can always pull up the fancy reports and blow your mind with their dazzling charts and easy to read reports. The key perks of using Link Assistant, is it’s ability to manage your link partners, which includes their names, email addresses, verification status, and more.

A Total Package for Managing SEO and SEO Reports

The process of managing and working on SEO is not something many people are thrilled about, but when you have the proper software and reporting to keep everything in order and tracking updates for you, it makes it that much easier for you. SEO PowerSuite has been one of the top players in the SEO optimization and management market for some time now.

It’s great to see them continually update and improve their software, while so many other companies in this industry release a product, then you never hear from them again. The new reports from SEO PowerSuite not only make it easier for their users, but also improves reporting that you can provide to your customers if you are providing or serving SEO services to third party web sites.

There is a free version, as well as Professional ($249) and Enterprise ($599) licenses. Visit http://www.link-assistant.com/ to download your trial version of SEO PowerSuite.

Remember when you started your first web site or blog and couldn’t wait for that next Google update so you could finally have a Google Page Rank score of your own? It’s always an exciting time for any web site owner, and earning a Page Rank is very important for how your web site will continue to rank in the search engines. Did you also know that the speed of your web site has a lot of influence on your search rankings and page rank score? It’s true!

An awesome infographic that was created to show the importance of page speed and comparisons among top web sites and marketing services below states “Google recognizes the faster pace we all crave. In April 2010, Google officially identified page load time as a key criteria in its Page Rank system and in March of this year provided a detailed tool, Page Speed, to help identify the extra baggage (aka JavaScript) that slows us down.”

Before looking over the Google Page Rank Race infographic below, be be aware of the following points for your web site, when looking for improving your overall speed and search rankings.

• The longer it takes to your page to load, the lower rank your page receives.
• Higher Page Rank = More Google Traffic.
• More Concise Code = Faster and more pleasant browsing experience.
• Javascript can greatly slow down the speed and performance of your web site.

It’s always fun and exciting to see what new products and serves people are coming out with. A new one that has caught my eye is called “Glass“, or “Write on Glass”, and the concept is the ability to write over existing web sites and share your secret messages or favorite sites with your friends, the whole world, or even keep them stored away for just yourself.

The concept behind Glass is quite amazing… think of blog commenting, instant messenger clients and social network sharing all in one. Now think about all three of those features I mentioned, but all in one in-browser extension, and without the need to continually open/change new windows. The best way to describe how Glass works, is to actually show you.

Now that you have a better understanding on what Glass is and how it works, let’s think about some cool ways we could use Glass to interact with others and expand on the ever changing world of social media.

• Create private or public conversations on any web site
• Integration of Glass through Facebook and Twitter
• Ability to integrate social networks and blog commenting
• Share web sites and content without using Twitter, Facebook or Email directly

Next, let’s go beyond the traditional ways of thinking, and look at ways Glass can be used from a marketing or teaching stand point.

• On site training/tutorials as you want the site visitors through a process
• Study and discussion of ad placement and site structures
• Create a mastermind community and share ideas
• As a site or blog owner, you can chat directly with people at your site

Start Writing on Web Sites with Glass

As mentioned earlier, Glass is a free in-browser extension that can easily be used with FireFox, Chrome or iOS. For anyone who is addict of Facebook and Twitter, I’m sure Glass will be right in your alley. I mentioned that Glass in an in-browser application, but that doesn’t mean you have to have it installed for use. Just like Facebook or Twitter, which is accessed through a web site, Glass also offers a full members area for storing, searching and connecting with other members on Glass.

I’ve been playing around with Glass for the past week or so and today they just went live with their new web site, which is much better to use and navigate. It’s a completely new concept, and quite impressive. Check it out and let me know what you think.

A lot can be said about the way the 2008 Presidential election was won. Some will say Barack Obama would never have become President if it wasn’t for his aggressive online marketing and social networking exposure. As internet marketers, we can truly appreciate the power of the internet and how we can influence people through social networking. Through the use of capturing email addresses and using Twitter, Obama was able to connect with the younger generation and be cool with technology, in addition to being able to instantly contact millions of followers for donations. After the 2008 election, people finally started to realize the power of social networking and how online communications will affect the way elections can be swung and won.

With all of that said, let’s take a look at how some of the top 2012 Republican candidates are making the most out of their web sites and email and social media efforts, while trying to win the 2012 election.

Mitt Romney

From the landing pages listed in this article, I would have to say Mitt Romney has the best setup. There is already a massive following behind Gov. Chris Christie, and by associating his approval with Mitt Romney, it gives you more of a reason to follow/like/vote for Romney. In addition to an immediate call to action (email/zip code), the page also demonstrates all of the necessary social networking buttons than many of the other candidates lack.

Rick Perry

Though he may not be running in the election for much longer after her little stunt last night during the debate, Rick Perry still has a decent landing page for his web site. An immediate call to action with a nice looking design, along with the option to skip right to the web site if you don’t want to signup. Not providing this option, or making it hard to find, can really irritate web site visitors.

Herman Cain

Herman Cain has been in the news from the start, with his 9-9-9 plan, to the recent allegations against him. We don’t care about any of that… instead let’s focus on his web site landing page. A great looking design with minimal distractions (various colors), but still an immediate action, which is to enter your email address and zip code. Again, the option to “continue to website” is still prominent.

Michelle Bachman

The web site for Michelle Bachman has taken a different approach from the others in the group, which is to offer a choice to the visitors… something I don’t recommend. If you click “Donate Today”, you are sent to a long registration form about donating and volunteering. You also have the option to get email updates… which just doesn’t sound that exciting. Adding one more distraction to the page, you have the option to buy her book. When giving the user too many options, many will just leave or start browsing without a direct goal in mind. I would have just went along with the other candidates and grabbed the users email on the main page.

Ron Paul

It’s not surprising that Ron Paul has taken a different approach from all other candidates, not just in his politics, but also with his site structure. When you visit Ron Paul’s web site, that’s exactly what you get… a full web site. There is no email caption or donation button in your face, but all of the content on one page. You will see placements through out the site for email updates, donations and social links, but they are not stand alone lead generation pages like many of the other candidates. This is an approach New Gingrich did with his web site.

Republican Candidates… Who Get’s Your Vote?

No… not to become the leader of our country, but for the best web site and landing page? With the ridiculous amount of money that will be spent and wasted pushing users to vote for these candidates, if they don’t have the right online setting and social pretense, their campaign may already be doomed. With the simple means of ONE CLICK to “like” or “follow” through Twitter and Facebook, it’s surprising to see more candidates aren’t making use of these powerful means of communication.

Have you ever wanted to run your own web hosting service, or wanted to know how other services can charge only a few dollars a month for web hosting? It’s actually easier than you think. When you order cheap web hosting through a service like HostGator, which costs under $10 a month, you are actually placed on a dedicated server with a bunch of other web sites. By placing a bunch of people on the same server, hosting companies can offer low monthly costs, while still generating a great deal of revenue.

If you ever wanted to start your own hosting company, you would essentially do the same thing. Order a large dedicated server, then break up your clients into smaller hosting accounts which you then bill on a monthly basis. This is what 16 year old Mate Hegedus has been doing with his web hosting company, and he would like to show you how to do the same.

How to Setup Your Own Web Hosting Service

To walk through the whole process and get a better understanding, you can create your own free unlimited hosting company at no cost whatsoever, by visiting Powrhost.com! Once setup, you will be provided with free and unlimited hosting with no ads!

So how can a 16 year old do such a thing using just his MacBook?

YouHosting is a company that allows everyone to go and turn just their own domain name into a hosting business. You don’t even need to buy a domain name as you can just simply get one for free at www.cz.cc.

Without paying a single dime, you may allow your clients to have 10GB of disc space each and a whopping 100GB of bandwidth each month! And it really is that simple to create your own hosting company.

Simply go to YouHosting.com and sign up (it really is free). YouHosting will then tell you to point your domain’s nameserver to them and then you can just choose a pre-done theme and voila! You have your very own hosting business. The image below walks you through the process of how their service works.

Registration literally takes a minute and you can easily set up how much bandwidth you wish to allow in certain packages and how much you wish to charge users should they wish to upgrade for more bandwidth. You can really run a super powerful and competition ready free unlimited hosting website for no cost whatsoever!

But how can we make money from this?

As mentioned earlier, you can easily add your own upgraded packages which users can purchase should they need more MySQL databases, email accounts of more bandwidth.

Here is a screenshot of my master control panel’s packages selection:

As you can see I am only providing free unlimited hosting, but I could just as easily add upgrades to generate revenue.

You can also add advertisement to your client’s webpages, allowing you to generate revenue from that. Adding advertisements literally takes a few seconds and you can just simply take your Google AdSense code and put it in there!

You Can Also Sell Your Web Hosting Service

With the help of Flippa, this should be extremely easy for you. My own free unlimited hosting gets over 10 signups a day on its own and is hosting over 1 million page views a day. This was achieved with relative ease and I am sure I could do it too. My secret? I do not place advertisements onto my client’s websites but I do place a back link on their site back to Powrhost so that it has a better SEO.

Now all you need to do is get the first couple of users to your hosting site and that shouldn’t be too hard of you have a mailing list and you can just as easily place an advertisement into a hosting forum (something I am planning to do to catapult my site’s usage even more).

YouHosting’s control panel truly is revolutionary. It gives you access to do everything that you may need to do. You can set up domain names which your customers can use a free subdomain, you can create automatic email replies and YouHosting will even create and code your whole HTML website for you. All you have to do is just direct a domain name to their servers, get a free account and you have a fully functional hosting provider!

The super admin panel even allows for customers to submit their tickets should they have any queries:

Running your own hosting company, you will run into issues relating to support, downtime and possible security and software issues. Before jumping full on into your own hosting, make sure you have a good understanding of what’s going on, as you will be hosting web sites for other people, and it isn’t necessarily something you can just walk away from.

This guest post was written by Mate Hegedus who is a 16 year old internet marketer from Hungary.