000webhost.com offers free web hosting that is ad free. Wow. With that type of offer we thought it would be worth checking out. Free is free. Right?

Not so fast.

Signing up was a breeze and only took a few seconds.

After creating a basic site and trying to upload it via FTP, and then make changes to files, it soon became apparent this may be the worst web hosting we have ever come across.

From the web, our website was usually not accessible at all, as if it did not exist, or there was an error message:

“The server is too busy at the moment.”

It is not good when this error message has its own category in a web host’s FAQ. This is what 000webhost has to say:

“This message can be noticed on peak times only, and only for active servers (active servers are the servers where we add tons of new accounts every day). This message will permanently disappear as soon we will switch new account setups to another server (usually in few days).”

OK, we get it. There may be different review in a week. Right now, free accounts are being piled on to our server so it is basically inaccessible.

That would explain by FTP access is mostly not available at all. Very frustrating to create a new site and try to upload files, only to not be able to connect to FTP most of the time.

Initial review: Not worth using, even if free. But given the FAQ we may check back in a week when hopefully 000webhost is adding sites to a different server.

Quick update: trying to ftp a file results in an error message there is no space left. Not good or maybe it is. Not good if the 000webhost server is out of space. But, maybe they will clear out some accounts and start bombing another server. Overall, this is just a mess.

PressBot is Incansoft’s automated press release software. I have used it for several years and thought it would be worthwhile to provide a detailed review.

Press Release Accounts

PressBot comes loaded with 25 different press release websites it will submit your press release to.

This is a good number of websites.

Even better, PressBot is supposed to automatically update when started. This is to remove sites that no longer exist and to add new sites supported by the software. From the user manual the update looks like this:

Maybe it is my copy, but I have not seen the software update in a long, long time. The result is not all 25 press release sites are still available.

The last time I used PressBot it successfully submitted my press release to 14 of the sites. Of the remaining 11 it could be my account is no longer active, so PressBot was unable to access the site, open my account, and do a submission. It just so happens that 11 of the sites I was submitted to require a login. Still, it seems to be a long time between updates.

I will still take 14 good backlinks or 14 good traffic sources, and you should too.

There are a range of press release sites the software uses. Some of junk sites. Others are good. None are necessarily the best press release sites in the world, but those can require submission fees of hundreds of dollars.

PressBot, on the other hand, is extremely affordable and a one time fee no matter how many press releases you submit, or how long you own the software.

That, itself, makes PressBot an incredible bargain and worth the investment.

Company Accounts

Within the PressBot software you can setup multiple company accounts. This lets you easily organize your press releases if you are submitting under multiple names, or are submitting for different clients.

PressBot Templates

One nice feature are the pre-loaded press release templates. When creating a new press release you see a screen to enter various information:

One of the options is to select from five different press release templates. Or, you can use a blank template and starting writing from scratch.

Since writing the press release using the small software window was a little cumbersome, I saved the basic templates to Word files on my computer. There, I write the press release, do a spelling check and grammar check, confirm the word count, and then copy and paste the content into PressBot.

I think you will find the templates to be easy and use and helpful in creating a good media statement.

Conclusion

PressBot is inexpensive software to help you write a press release and then submit it to numerous websites.

It is very easy to use and will help you add press releases to your marketing strategy.

Without question Press Bot will save you a lot of valuable time automating this process. You do not want to try and manually submit information to each site one by one.

You can order PressBot here.

RSS Bot is one of my favorite software tools for getting a broad range of backlinks. In a nutshell, RSSBox lets you create spun, unique backlinks across numerous RSS feed websites that will give you backlinks.

In my experience, RSS Bot is one of my keys to getting high rankings in Google.

Here is how RSS Bot works:

First, you enter the url you want to promote. As you can see in this picture, you can spin the keywords associated with your feed and also the description. By spinning the text you can ensure there is unique content associated with your backlink. Although I did not do this in the picture, you spin everything, including the feed name.

Second, create a submission profile. You can create an unlimited number of profiles to use with RSS sites.

This is what a sample profile looks like:

I tend to create a new profile for every url being promoted. You do not have to do this. You could also use a single profile to associate with all of your RSS submissions.

Third, select the websites to submit to. RSS Bot comes preloaded with numerous websites where you can submit RSS feeds:

The sites are categorized by whether you can submit to the site on autopilot, or whether or need or login, or need to answer a captcha.

When submitting your url you can submit to all sites, or just selected sites in a certain category. This can be useful for faster submissions if you do not want to answer the captcha sites. You also have the option to select individual sites you want to submit to, or individual sites to skip during the submission process.

In this picture, I have first selected all the possible sites to submit to, and then deselected three sites to show how you can control every aspect of your submission.

Finally, click submit and away you go! Then it gets real easy: just click the submit button and software begins submitting your url to numerous RSS sites.

If a captcha needs to be entered it will pop up on your screen, you enter the word, and the software moves on to the next site.

It is very, very fast. You can also select how many “threads” of submissions will be processed at the same time to make submissions even faster. I typically leave it as 4 different sites being submitted to at the same time, mainly because my computer is a little weak on memory. If it had more I would go even faster.

Additional Cool Tools

Let me show you the main menu in RSSBot:

The three extra and very useful tools in the menu are submission report, ping, and feed creator.

Submission Report: This gives you a report showing the sites that were submitted to. I do not use this too much myself, but if I ran a submission service and were getting paid to create backlinks, I would want to have a submission report to prove I had provided the servce.

Ping: In addition to submitting your links to numerous RSS sites, you can ping various sites to let them know your link has been added at the RSS location. This helps ensure each new backlink gets counted by Google.

Feed Creator: I saved the best for last. WordPress sites some with an RSS feed built in. But what if you have an html site?

Check this out …

This is an example where I started to create a RSS feed for Google.

What RSS Bot does is begin spidering your website and grabbing each page with the header information for the page. You can instruct RSS Bot to ignore certain files, such as graphic files.

You can stop the spidering at any point. Then, you can select which files to include in your RSS feed.

With a click you are done. A RSS file is created that you can upload to your website.

This is how I create fast RSS feeds for my html websites. Then, I use RSS Bot to use those feeds to create backlinks.

Overall: my review of RSS Bot is that it is a very easy to use tool and quickly creates unique backlinks to my pages. I have used it countless times to get backlinks.

Tip: Since you can use this with any url, you can get backlinks to backlinks. Also, if you have a backlink on another site, such as a blog comment, you can create backlinks to that comment to give it more ranking power, which in turn will result in more PageRank flowing to your website!

Get it here: RSS Bot