Overview
The following sections explain the internet account that is granted to you when you sign up for SoZo Hosting Internet Advertising Services for your web site on this link https://www.sozohostingservices.com/suserprofile.aspx?GUID=NEW_ACCOUNT . If you are unaware of our Internet Advertising Services, click on this link http://www.sozohostingservices.com to read up on it and then click on the Sign Up for New Account link. This will give you an internet account add your web site(s) to all our search sites, give you a free customizable Directory Link Pages to add your web site(s) to all our business directories, and give you free monthly advise on how to improve your search engine rankings on all major search sites.
After we receive each payment from you, we will send you a special email that has critical advice for search rankings. Included in this special email is the latest Site Analysis of your Home Page analyzing your HTML META TAGS and warning you if you are missing any information as well as giving you SEO (Search Engine Optimizatino) Tips that will help you with your search engine rankings in Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines.
What If I Forget My Password?
Click on http://www.sozohostingservices.com and click on the menu link that says "Forgot Password" or click on this link to go there directly: https://www.sozohostingservices.com/sforgotpassword.aspx . You will be taken to the Forgot Password screen where we will reset your password and email you a new temporary password. When logging in with a temporary password you will be forced to change your password. Passwords are 7-25 characters and/or numbers and are not case sensitive.
How Do I update my Credit Card Expiry Date on your system so I dont stop service when my credit card expires?
Click on the User Profile menu button and make sure your credit card expiry date is current. If it is going to expiry then click on the checkbox to update the expiry date, enter the new expiry date and click on the Update Subscriptions button which will update your subscription(s) with the new credit card information. Click on the Submit Request button on this screen to save other information on this UserProfile screen.
What if I want to change credit cards after I have already set up services with another credit card?
If you want to change credit cards, then you will have to cancel the existing subscription(s) following the instructions in the "How Do I cancel a subscription for one of my Domains" section below. After your domain subscription(s) have been cancelled then the credit card information on the UserProfile screen will become enabled. Enter your new credit card information and click on the Submit Request button. Then you will have to restart your subscription(s) following steps in the "How To I add a new Domain to Your Search Engines and get the free Directory Link Page into your Directories" section below.
How Do I add a new Domain to Your Search Engines and get the free Directory Link Page into your Directories?
To add a new domain (or restart an existing inactive domain) under your organization name to our search engines and Directory Link Pages, click on the Site Advertising menu button and click on the Add SM Domain button at the top of that screen. Enter the information in the SignUpNewDomain screen for the domain you want to add to all our Search Engines. Choose a monthly or yearly billing plan and Click on the Save and Continue button. You will see on the screen when your first payment will start for this domain you are adding. After clicking on the confirm payment to start or restart a subscription) on this screen you will receive an email showing the date of the first payment and a subscription id to track that subscription payment.
How Do I Turn On and Off the Free Monthly Email on Advice and Tips for Search Engine Rankings?
Once you have at least one active domain you will receive free Search Engine Ranking advice from us once a month. If you do not want to receive those monthly newsletters you can stop the emails anytime in the UserProfile screen checking the check box called "Check the box to right to stop receiving our free monthly email on how to improve your search rankings". Unchecking this same checkbox will allow you to receive the monthly email advice again.
How Do I set up the content for my free Directory Link Page?
After adding a new domain in the "How To I add a new Domain to Your Search Engines and get the free Directory Link Page into your Directories" step above, it will show up in the grid when you click on the Site Advertising menu button. Click on that row in the grid with the new domain name and you will be take to the Site Marketing Profile screen for you to complete the following 4 pieces of information:
1) Enter your Ad Caption (up to 100 characters) that will show up in the Results page of all people finding your site on our search sites. You can change the Ad Caption daily if you want. Do not add punctuation but words that will help drive more business for yourself or get more people to your web site.
2) You are given free of charge a Directory Link Page off the directory button off our home page. This Directory Link Page is shown on 12 of our Business Directories and lets you advetise your company and even your products and services! The name of your Directory link page is the name of your domain (without the periods) with an .htm extension. So if the new domain you was www.yoursite.com, then your Directory Link Page would be called wwwyoursitecom.htm. You can see your Directory Llink Page by clicking on the hyperlink at the top of this screen AFTER YOU SAVE YOUR CHANGES on this screen so do not jump the gun but let us finish this step plus step 3) and 4) below. If you dont want to add a logo to your Directory link page skip to step 3) below. If you do want to add a logo (and have a logo on your home page), check the 'SHOW LOGO on Link Page' check box. Open up your home page in a separate internet browser, right click your mouse on your home page, and click on the view source menu option. Look at the html code of where you are referencing your logo as it usually is in an images folder with html code something like ....IMG scr=\images\logo.jpg... In the image location edit box on this Site Advertising Profile screen, enter something like: http:// www.yoursite.com/images/logo.jpg, where www.yoursite.com is the domain name. 'Your URL Location For Logo Image Click' means you can take web surfers to an AboutUs.htm or ContactUs.htm page on your site if you want. Enter the full URL path for this field starting with http://. If you dont want to add a product or service image to your Directory link page skip to step 3) below. If you do want to add a product or service image(and have a product or service image on your wbe site), check the 'SHOW PRODUCT on Link Page' check box. Similar to the sentences above, add the location of where this product or service image is on your web site in the 'Product Location For Link Page' field. Thus enter something like: http:// www.yoursite.com/images/product1.jpg, where www.yoursite.com is the domain name. 'Your URL Location For Product Image Click' means you can take web surfers to a page(showing more information on your product or service) on your site if you want. Enter the full URL path for this field starting with http://.
3) Enter a title for your Directory Link Page. This is up to 100 characters that should contain your Organizations name as well as keywords of what your domain is all about.
4) Enter up to 500 characters for an executive summary for your Directory Link Page. This should be an overview of your organization as well the key services and benefits you are offering.
Click on the Submit Request button and you will see at the top of your screen that your information was saved to the database and your Directory Link Pages will be added to ALL of our search site directories in the next 1-2 days. To preview your Directory Link Page, click on the hyperlink description at the top of this screen. It will open up a new internet window that you can close down after previewing. Clicking on the table of contents shows you that all businesses and organizations with us our listed alphabetically even those new firms that start with a number as the first character of their corporate name. This "Table Of Contents" page is the directory link off each of our Search Sites. Directories add more links to your site which is good for search rankings. They also help the world find you so that more traffic can be driven to your home page.
How Do I Submit My Site To your Search Engines?
Click on the Site Advertising menu button. Click on the row (domain) in the grid you want to submit your site on. This will take you to the Site Marketing Profile screen. At the bottom of your screen is a Submit Site button. Click on that button and you will be notifed that your site will submitted to all our search engines. You only need to submit your site if you have made changes to your site as our crawler will be crawling it 1-2 times per month.
How Do I cancel a subscription for one of my Domains?
If you have to cancel the service for one domain then first click on the Site Advertising menu button. Click on the row (domain) in the grid you want to cancel service on. This will take you to the Site Marketing Profile screen. At the bottom of your screen is a Cancel Subscription button which will be enabled for all credit card payments. Clicking on this Cancel Subscription button will stop credit card payments on this domain and will make it inactive, removing it from all our search engines and well as deleting your Directory Link Pages from all our search site directories. If you cancel subscription on a domain by mistake, you always can restart service on it by following the "How To I add a new Domain to Your Search Engines and get the free Directory Link Page into your Directories" section above.
What if I want to add a Domain For My Client That is Not Part Of My Organization?
Adding other organizations domains to your existing Site Marketing Account means they will all go under your firms name in the Business Directories. You need to set up a new Site Marketing Account for that new client rather than adding the domain your existing account. Setting up a new account will give you flexibility to add their credit card information for payment rather than yours. To set up a new account, click on the SIGN UP NEW ACCOUNT hyperlink off the home page of http://www.sozohosting.com or click on this link directly: https://www.sozohostingservices.com/suserprofile.aspx?GUID=NEW_ACCOUNT
How come you block certain domains as well as domains with a question mark in them?
Domains added to our search engine sites are for businesses and non-profit organizations. We ask that you add your home page domain which is in the format of www.yoursite.com. Question marks are used to go to subpages or searches and we will only land web surfers onto your home page. It is up to you to have an attractive home page that will show your features and benefits clearly to help bring in more business for you.
Do you allow special characters in the Directory Link Pages?
No. When editing your Ad Caption, Title page and Executive summary in the Site Advertising Profile screen use text only. Special characters are not used since this page is dynmically built.
How come I go to the Sign Up New Domain Screen when I click on a domain grid row in the Site Advertisng Browse screen?
If you look at the status of the domain you will see that the domain is Inactive which means payment has been stopped on that domain. You cannot edit your Ad Caption or Directory Link Page information when the account is inactive. Inactive domains are removed from the business directories but can be readded again simily by restarting payment on the domain. So if you are taken to the Sign Up New Domain screen, then it is a chance for you to restart that domain to make it active again and let it be found in all our business directories.
What if my logo disappears on my Directory Link Page when it used to appear when I set it up?
If you added a logo to your Directory Home Page (in the SiteAdvertisingProfile screen on our system), then you had to specify a location on your web site where your logo resides such as www.yourwebsite.com/images/CorpLogo1.jpg. What sometimes happens is your web designer can update the name or location of your logo on your web site based on your decision. If your web designer changed your logo to a new logo image name file of CorpLogo2.jpg, then you need to go into our system and change the logo image location to www.yourwebsite.com/images/CorpLogo2.jpg in our SiteAdvertisingProfile screen since the name file: www.yourwebsite.com/images/CorpLogo1.jpg, is no longer applicable.