Top 10 Free File Hosting/Sharing Sites Online

Are you looking for websites/services to host your files online? Here, in this post we are sharing the best free online services to host your files including, songs, photos, videos, data and more. There are lots of websites that offers this facility worldwide and everyone can avail this facility to backup their data, images, songs and more. You can also share these files with your friends, relatives by the unique file links and folder. The main benefit that these free file hosting services provides is the backup of your data that you can easily access if you lost the original one. And if you are running the blog that has some downloaded files for visitors you can also place them for free and share the link with everyone. You can sign up using the free and pro plans as you wish. If you have business data files and company usage then you can use the premium account to get more offers without any restrictions and ads.

Below, are some top and basically free services that you can choose from and one thing about them is the upgrade to pro if you want to get your own server. So, get started to our post and browse the best file hosting services online. 

DropBox

Dropbox comes first if we search for free file hosting that also provides the hotlink to uploaded files. With Dropbox you can directly get 2GB of free space and you have the options to avail up to 16 GB Free space by just refer Dropbox to your friend and relatives.  If you want to upgrade your account to business you can upgrade it from your dashboard.

Key Features:

Multi-file format supports (Images, audio, video, word, excel and everything in compressed file)

2GB of Free space and you can easily grab up to 16GB by refers to your friends etc.

Hotlink/Direct link to your uploaded files

30GB bandwidth to all of your files per day.

FileSwap

FileSwap.com allows you to share and backup your files online with tons of features. You can secure your files with password, access files from anywhere, organize them in files and folders, Share files anonymously with any user, using direct links, email, or plugins to Facebook, Twitter, and more!
Many Upload Options
Upload from your browser , from your PC , FTP, or remote website URLs.
Larger maximum file size allowed!
Organize your files in folders and share entire folders with friends!
Easily add, edit, and delete your files!

Mega File Hoost

MEGA offers you the big deal of 50 GB free space with unlimited bandwidth. It's one of the most popular services that are being used by millions of peoples worldwide for their personal and business purposes. Mega offers the full control panel to delete, organize, share, and edit your files. Just awesome service that you love to upload your files on.

Kiwi6-MP3 file Hosting

Kiwi6 allws you to upload unlimited sizes of files in MP3 file format. Also they offers the hotlinking/direct  linking to your files. You can also upload other format files but the limitations becomes change other then MP3.
Upload and direct link files for free.
Free hotlinking for all files.
Store up to 2GB free and share anywhere.
Direct hotlink mp3s and build your own playlists.
Embed music and images on any website.
Discover and share new music.

MediaFire

Share your media as media. Your photos, videos, songs, and documents are more than just files. On MediaFire you can share, view, and listen to over 200 different file formats -With up to 50GB of free space, you can use MediaFire to backup all your important files—and even your not-so-important ones too. Your files are stored securely and privately and are always available to you.
50 GB of free Space
Unlimited bandwidth
200 different file formats

DataFileHost

Data File Host have no restrictions such as a limited number of simultaneous downloads or limited download speed. No excessive ads and no download timer. All 100% free.
Features:

Up to 150 MB per file

Unlimited file uploads

Unlimited file downloads

Active files are hosted forever. Inactive files are stored for at least 90 days after their last download.

All file types allowed

ZippyShare

Zippyshare is a complete solution to share your files online fast. There is no bandwidth limit. Just upload and spread your files on the web.
Features:
100% Free
No Download Limits
Up to 200MB per File
Unlimited Disk Space
No Sign Up Required

Box

Online File Sharing and hosting service that allows you to easily manage your files in the cloud storage and share with others.Box lets you store all of your content online, so you can access, manage and share it from anywhere. You can also integrate Box with Google Apps and Salesforce and access Box on mobile devices.

MyFlare

My flare offers you to store, backup, stream, sync your files and the offer for free account is 2GB. Secure file hosting and easy sharing.

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Posted at Monday, May 12, 2014 |  by Unknown

Recover Your blog's Lost Traffic Due to Recent Google Outage

The reason why we delayed this post was that we were actually experimenting on what actually caused a Global drop in traffic and why isn't Google responding on this biggest traffic Tsunami ever. I remember that from July 17th to August 17th MattCutts was on a 30 days self-Challenge of not reading news or using social media. I guess that challenge has already ended but is MattCutts even aware of the recent Google Outage that took place on August 16th, when he was on this "No Social Media, No News" challenge? :> We were not able to find a single piece of information on what exactly happened on August 16th and therefore were forced to do our own experimentation which at least improved our traffic by 10% and we are further waiting for more productive results. The tips below are optimization techniques for both Blogger and Wordpress Platforms. Applying them is indeed the easiest and quickest job.

UPDATE#1: Google just announced the reasons what made a search traffic drop:

• Google Explains it as HummingBird!

If you have not read our Case Study on Google Outage then please first read that:

• Read: Up to 90% Global Traffic Drop World Wide

What Might Have affected your Site Traffic this time?

All services by Google went down for 5 minutes on August 16th, which effected a global loss in traffic worldwide up to 50%-90%. We wrote a comprehensive Case Study to prove that Google actually went into trouble on two specific days and the company has not yet commented on this technical blackout.

A similar failure happened even on April 17th, 2013 when Google Apps, especially Gmail went down for over 30 Minutes and people could not log into this largest cloud based Emailing system. Google quickly commented on this failure by informing Mashable:

We are currently investigating issues with Gmail, Drive and Docs as well as the Google Apps Control Panel. We are providing more information and frequent updates through our Google Apps Status Dashboard, which you can findhere.

But the problem this time is different. The outage this time effected Google's organic search traffic. Well optimized sites saw a massive drop of over 50-90% drop. The forums are crowded with anger and waiting for a positive reply but looks like this time we need to help the sinking ship ourselves.

Here are some of the problems and their solutions that might have resulted out of this latest Google outage story or new Google Penalty story:

Problem#1 : Precious loss of Indexed entries on Google servers

Google's databases that stores indexed data might have been badly effected which caused lost of several entries. Google bots gather newly updated content using sitemaps which are XML documents. Whenever you update your blog, your sitemap gets updated with a new tag entry, this entry pings Google through your webmasters account and that's how a Search robot gets informed when to pay visit to crawl and index the newly published content.

Solution#1:

If this assumption is the least right then a possible precaution would be to refresh the sitemaps you have submitted to Google. Follow these steps:

1. Log into your webmasters account
2. Go to Sitemaps
3. Check all boxes and hit the Resubmit button. Give Google at least 24 hours to refresh the new entries.

Tip For Blogger: Submit sitemaps containing at least 500 URLS. You can use our Multiple sitemap Submission tool to create total number of sitemaps for your Blogger blog.
Tip for Wordpress: In your XML sitemap plugin limit the number of posts to at most 500 or 1000. Add both these sitemaps in your webmasters account.

Problem#2 : Poor Quality Content  [True Definition]

A striking question that we often hear is Poor quality content and how to identify that you have written something that is poor in quality? The answer is simple, any post or page on your site that is of no value to Google users. Now what exactly could this content be. Following are some topics that come under this category:

1. Tags
2. Labels, Categories
3. Archives
4. Author Pages
5. Paginated Pages
6. Duplicate Content
7. Content with only links
8. Content with Less word count (less than 300)
9. Broken Links
10. Affiliate Links & Affiliate Posts!

I have taken care of almost all these types of SEO mistakes but the last one is something that I doubt this time and that is repeated posting on Affiliate products. We often post on Discount coupons with repeated use of keywords and product details. This pays no value to Google users but our Readers. After having brainstormed ourselves thoroughly We have come to a decision that such posting deserves to be tagged as noindex and noarchive. Google rarely sends traffic to Pages which shares affiliate products so it would be wise to take a safe side and noindex all such posts that offers no value in long term to our organic search and are meant to serve blog readers alone.

Solution#2:

We have written several tutorials on how to solve issue of the first 9 Poor quality content issues and today we will share an extremely easy and rarely applied method to make best use of your Affiliate posts and yet stay on the safer side. We will talk about Poor content issue#10 i.e.Affiliate Links & Affiliate Posts!

Its pretty obvious that you must always add a nofollow attribute to all your affiliate links but what about the post itself?

Noindex Affiliate Posts, Archives and Search Pages:

For Blogger:
Follow these steps for BlogSpot blogs:

1. Go to Blogger > Settings > Search Preferences
2. Enable Custom Robots header tags and set these settings:

Note: You can now easily noindex archives and Search pages (labels, search results) by choosing the noindex and noarchive options as shown in the image above.

Click Save and doing this will add a new option called "Custom Robots tags" in your blogger post editor. This option will enable you on how to treat a particular post. Whether you want it to be indexed or you don't want robots to crawl it. It has other options too for avoiding translating of post but we are concerned only with the tags noindex and noarchive here that will tell robots neither to crawl nor keep a cached copy of the page. 

Find all such posts where you have shared discount coupons or where you thing the post offers no quality and deserves to be tagged as noindex. Simply select the noindex and noarchive tags for that particular post and hit Update.

Note: This method doesn't add a meta tag under the opening Head tag of that particular page but it will instead add X-Robots-Tag header tag in the HTTP response of that page.
Check the X-Robots-Tag for my homepage:

For Further details please read:

• Read: Settings for Custom Robots Tags

For Wordpress:
Simply install Wordpress SEO by Yoast plugin and visit your post editor. You will find the noindex option just under the Advanced tab,

What then?

Once you have noindexed all poor quality pages and posts on your site, now it is time to refresh the sitemaps by resubmitting them to Google. This will force Google to recheck the URLS and automatically remove the noindexed posts from its entries. That simple!

Need Help?

Remember that the traffic loss this time could be due to any reason, we can only propose the best possible tips to ensure you get a step more closer when it comes to a well optimized site. The poor quality content on your site should be immediately removed by using the method described above. You do not need to deleted poor quality posts, just noindex them!
Let me know if you needed any help. Please do inform us back after a week or so, to let us know how this method brought a change to your overall site traffic. We will try our best to keep Blogger community updated with all latest SEO techniques that are applicable. Wish you a happy blogging experience and a happy Traffic recovery! Peace and blessings buddies. :»

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Posted at Thursday, May 01, 2014 |  by Unknown

How To Use Google Plus To Increase Website Traffic?

How To Use Google Plus To Increase Website Traffic?

 Posted by Qasim Zaib on 4/20/2014

Many of you might have noticed a declining percentage of visitors sent from Facebook to your website everyday. This is because FacebookPages are losing their reach, and can not account for as much of web traffic as they used to. Not surprisingly, Google+ seems to be catching on, and for Pages that utilize Google+ to maximum effect, the amount of traffic sent to their home website seems to be growing significantly.

More than 500 million people interact with Google products on a monthly basis. Unlike Facebook, Google offers marketers the opportunity to interact with visitors through many touch points, including YouTube, Search, and Google+. This means that for visitors who engage with you through Google+, the potential traffic channels multiply.

But for you to see a significant increase in traffic via Google+, you need an actively engaged audience. Here are some tips for improving your Google+ engagement.

1. Focus on Headlines

The more users notice your Google+ posts, the more likely they are to engage. The challenge is to stand out in a sea of thousands of posts. First things first. Unlike other social platforms, Google+ posts act more like mini blog posts, and every post needs a headline. Not only does adding a header help your post stand out, but Google uses the first words of your post in two different ways:

• They incorporates your headline into the title tag of the post
• The headline is typically what displays in Google search results

Adding the right headline can help your post stand out in search results, and can greatly influence the number of people who both notice and click through to your content. Use a headline, every time.

2. Formatting

Easily break up your long blocks of text with formatting to make your posts simpler to read and skim. This allows you to communicate more clearly and makes your text more accessible. In addition to adding bold to your headline, copy and paste the formatting cheats below to help compose a post that stands out from the rest.

3. Choose your words carefully

Google+ is a both a visual and a text medium, so make them both count! Don't be afraid of writing longer posts. Instead of simply posting a link to your latest blog posts and hoping for the best, add a summary of your important points. Explain why this is important. Give people additional context as to why they should click and share.

The few minutes it takes to jot down your thoughts could result in multiple reshares and thousands of additional eyeballs on your content.

4. Images

The vast majority of top posts on Google+ use images. Animated GIFs are very popular. For increased share-ability, it's usually best to upload your own photo.

By default, Google+ tries to include an image for any URL that you share. Unless you define the right Open Graph images and the proper social meta tags, the images are often not ideal, or are sized wrong. When you upload your own image, the image links to the full-size version, not the URL you want to share. In this case, don't forget to include a link to the URL in the text.

5. Use the #hashtags

Twitter and Facebook have made us accustomed to hashtags, but Google+ uses them in entirely different ways to organize and recommend content. Google uses hashtags and semantic analysis to form relationships between topics.

By default, Google often adds hashtags automatically to any post with sufficient text. Best practice is to add your own relevant hashtags at the end or within the body of each post.

6. Leverage Google+ comments

Much like Facebook's popular commenting plugin, you can embed Google+ comments on your own blog. What makes this so powerful is when visitors leave a comment, they are given the option of sharing your post to their own Google+ followers. This can greatly increase engagement among these users and their followers.

Officially, Google+ comments are only supported for Google's own Blogger platform. Fortunately, clever folks have devised a number of plugins and solutions for Wordpress, Drupal, and more.

Building your influence

Google+ isn't so much a social media platform like Twitter and Facebook, but an identity platform that works with Google to connect across all our different devices and web services.

This means that while sites like Facebook and Twitter can still deliver traffic to your website, Google+ is so integrated across so many platforms that it has many more places to touch potential visitors. Business that build up their audience base today potentially position themselves to collect bigger rewards in the future.

Do you receive traffic from Google+? Is it a part of your social strategy? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Posted at Thursday, May 01, 2014 |  by Unknown