Users of one of the most popular sites for photographers, art lovers, and design lovers rate the redesign ambiguously; moreover, for many, it has become an excuse to search for a new platform for publishing their works.

Look At Me explored alternative photo publishing platforms for personal and professional use and the communities around them.

Exposure, unlike Stampsy, was created as a platform for photographers with an emphasis on narratives, a series of photographs united by one thought. In general, for photographers who want to tell stories and not just post photos as they come in. This description includes not only sequentially located photographs, but also the actual description of what is happening on them. From several such photo stories, in principle, it is more than realistic to put together a kind of portfolio (even without buying a pro-account - the free one allows you to publish three photo stories), if you don’t get your hands on making your own website. Although the latter, in general, in 2014, is a rather pointless undertaking.

The main plus

The ability to tell stories that are easy to read, thanks to the illustrative series, and not just post photos.

Also a kind of online storage of photos, something like Tumblr, but for copyright photos; the main difference from its predecessors is the ability to sell photos directly through the site. To do this, you need to select the For Professionals option, and then set the price of the photo, etc. The service promises to take on all sorts of legal aspects, take care of protecting your copyrights and provide round-the-clock support, if, for example, selling photos is a new business for you.

The main plus

The ability to sell photos directly through the site.

A platform for creating your own portfolio site for mobile and web, with a separate focus on iPhone and iPad. On the basis of the Viewbook, in fact, your own site is created, within the framework of the given design variations. Viewbook has 3 types of membership, the cheapest starting at $ 4 per month.

The main plus

Creation of a website with its own url.

The French-based site is arguably the most popular among those who "fled" from Flickr because of their discontent that they cannot be controlled. appearance your page. Ipernity is, indeed, very similar in appearance and functionality to Flickr and, what is most important for the established community, the presence of groups (where any user can add their photos) and discussions - in general, it is the exchange of experience within the framework of the forum, supported by the visual part, and Flickr was the strongest.

The main plus

A photo community that many former Flickr users have migrated to.

The VSCO app is great not only for its filters (and tutorials on their use) and the purpose of reminding you that photos can still be beautiful, even if no one needs cameras, but also for its (rather successful) attempts to develop a photo community. To do this, the team maintains the VSCO Journal, where it shares the best photos selected over the last week or weekend, and also created a special social network and at the same time a photo platform - VSCO Grid, in which each application user can upload their photos, and the most beautiful of them can get in the "editor's choice".

The main plus

VSCO not only provides a platform for photographs, but constantly publishes tutorials and interviews with professionals, that is, it tries to give users new knowledge.

Quite simply, this is LJ from photography. Site slogan: a photo a day. Photos are organized according to the date you posted them and are next to each other on the calendar. That is, it is, rather, not even a platform, but a photo diary, which with its functionality reminds that it is time to update a couple of photos. Well, according to the same principle, respectively, the response system works: subscribers write comments by analogy with the same Livejournal.

If there is a need to sell or buy a product, offer a service, find or offer a job, then, as a rule, private advertisements are used. With the help of our website, you can very effectively and quickly solve the above problems. We will help you get rid of trips to the editorial offices of various newspapers, from organizing meetings and demonstrations to interested parties of objects of purchase and sale.

The category search function will help you quickly find the information you are interested in. On our site ads are posted free of charge and very quickly, but first you need to compose it.

We place your ads correctly

Bulletin board site invites you to post your ad for free and even without registration. With us you will instantly sell your product or products. In order to get the maximum benefit, first of all, you need to correctly and correctly compose the text.

Before placing an advertisement for a sale, we recommend:

1. Carefully work out and select everything keywords where visitors can find it
2. Pick up a few photos that will clearly show the condition of the item or item being sold
3. It is necessary to evaluate the quality of the text. Create a beautiful, competent text that fully describes your product or service

We have released a new book, Content Marketing on Social Media: How to Get Into the Heads of Subscribers and Fall in Love with Your Brand.

For example, in this article I will tell you why publishing on third-party sites is so important, where to post an article, and how to write good text.

Why is website promotion with articles so effective?

I believe that writing optimized texts with subsequent placement on different sites is one of the best practices getting traffic and strengthening your position in search engines. And that's why:

• Firstly, if you are going to publish your article somewhere, then it will 100% be a site with high TIC and PR parameters. Also, many sites where you can post an article are quite popular, and therefore are trusted by search engines. All kinds of article directories and information portals are constantly evolving: every day the moderation is getting stricter, and the amount of content is getting higher. It is for this reason that such sites attract search robots. By posting an interesting article on a high-quality resource, you speed up the indexing of your own site: your site may appear in the search results in a few minutes after publication.
• Secondly, one link from the site is far from the limit. If your article is useful and well written, then it may well be shared and quoted. Also, directories allow you to use articles for free with the obligatory indication of the source. In other words: you post one good article and get backlinks, the number of which can increase every day.
• On almost all sites, each author has a personal profile in which you can specify useful information... For example, you can write several sentences with the desired key phrases, as well as add any link.

Set up a posting schedule, take the time (or money) to write good articles, and after a while you will feel an increase in traffic and notice an improvement in rankings.

Where can I post an article for free?

Here you can find free articles to fill the site, as well as post your creativity. Moderation is pretty fast. The only drawback: in the article itself, all external links are awarded the nofollow attribute. But in the column “About the author” you can safely insert the necessary link, which will be indexed. The topics for the articles are very different.

Base of sites with countless thematic catalogs and sites.

Where else can you write an article?

• articleclub.ru At least 2,000 characters, Links in the article itself are prohibited (there is a separate field).
• article-plus.at.ua At the time of this writing, the catalog contained 7351 materials. Impressive.
• catalog.awb.by You can add an article, ad or company.
• conti-group.ru It is possible to add not only an article, but also a website.
• fb.ru A maximum of four links to an article can be placed: of which 2 are commercial and two are non-commercial
• jerbo.ru, 1 link allowed.
• lati.me No more than 2 links, natural anchors. Registration by invite.

Which article guarantees success: characteristics

Thinking about how to post an article on the site and charm not only the moderator and search engines, but also the readers? Here are the characteristics of the perfect article that all three will love.

1. Only informative content... The moderator will easily skip the article without unnecessary water, the user can mark it as useful and share it with friends. The search robot will notice this and will certainly appreciate it, giving you a number of bonuses, which we talked about above.
2. No crooked anchors! In no case should the article contain ‘Moscow office to buy’, if you are engaged. Only naturalness!
3. Don't overdo it with optimization. A huge number of keys, tightly crammed into the article, will not be liked by anyone.

By the way, we have a lot of articles about content and its creation: all sorts of chips and a lot practical advice with the history of my many years of practice. Yes, we thought about setting up a mailing list, but we are not in time yet. So it's most convenient

Free online advertising doesn't mean ineffective. Expenditures on large-scale marketing projects can be as high as five or six figures. But this only applies to serious business sharks. To promote your own small project, you can also use free advertising methods on the Internet. Perhaps in the future, with proper promotion, advertising costs will no longer be scary with their numbers.

Types of advertisements

Before choosing a suitable method of advertising, you need to decide what kind of ad it will be. The standard classification of advertisements contains only two items:

• Commercial advertising is advertising of goods or services with the aim of selling them and, as a result, making a profit. Commercial advertising today is not about pushing people to buy. It literally dictates how to live, what products to buy, what to wear, etc. Unlike private ads, commercial advertising must be properly framed, contain original "selling" text, and its distribution must cover the maximum possible Internet area -spaces.
• Private ads are ads of ordinary people, not related to commercial activities. Private listings can serve many purposes, such as selling a private property or looking for a job. There are no specific requirements for private advertisements. However, if a person has some professional marketing skills, then it will be much easier for him to achieve the goal that he pursues by placing his ad on the network.

Advertising placement methods

To place your ad on the Internet for free, you need to really imagine how it will look. How many people are interested in it depends on how the ad is presented to users. Advertisements are published in three types:

• graphic;
• text;
• mixed.

Each site independently establishes which can be placed in it. But, even taking into account the fact that the selling text will be written by a professional in his field, without visual perception of the information, the ad may be ineffective.

In addition, there are also ways to place advertisements. You can post an ad in three ways.

• - a kind of "riddle". If we talk in simple words The teaser is an image that should intrigue the Internet user. It can be accompanied by no less intriguing text with headings such as: "SHOCK!", "Did you know that ...", etc.
• Graphic advertising images on site pages are banners. can be seen not only on the net, but also on the streets of the city. However, web banners are much cheaper.
• The last method of advertising placement is contextual advertising. Contextual advertising is image or text ads that are published either on search results pages or on the pages of some web resources. Since such ads are part of the pages, that is, they are placed in their context, the name of this method of placing ads on the network appeared.

Where can you advertise for free?

Free bulletin boards have long since moved from real life to the Internet space. Moreover, they are extremely popular among the population. If earlier, when searching for the right thing or service, users drove the corresponding request into search engine, now many have a "favorite" site that can provide everything you need for one key phrase. The ranking of the most popular free classified ads includes:

• Avito.
• From hand to hand.
• Molotok.ru
• Tiu.ru

Free classifieds boards are suitable for both commercial and private use. An advertisement for an online store and an advertisement for the sale of private property will work equally well there. But since these advertising sites are not only frequently visited, but also free, they are simply inundated with spam. Therefore, in order to use free classifieds boards with benefit, it is not necessary to impose and highly praise the offered goods or services.

All free message boards have a list of paid services... No matter how lucrative the offers may seem, they should be avoided. It is best to submit as many advertisements as possible on all thematic and general sites. Registration on various resources will take most of the time. Moreover, for greater efficiency, it is not necessary to create an advertising post on a template at all sites. Several ad options allow you to choose the most effective one.

Free advertising in Yandex and Google

Contextual advertising in Yandex.Direct or Google Adwards is not a cheap pleasure. For newcomers to the field of business, this method of advertising will clearly not be affordable. But there is one option that can help you attract customers with these popular search engines.

To give information about your company for free, you can use Yandex and Google maps. It is no secret that the placement of an address, a link to a company on the map is free of charge.

Yes, this is a little different from the classic concept of "advertising". But if the user searches for something in the surrounding area, he will see the address of the company and a link to its official website, which may catch his attention.

Social networks

Social media is a great platform not only for advertising, but also for business in general. If a novice businessman has no money to create a website for an online store, then social networks may well replace it. You can advertise a business in social networks either using a personal page or using a special group, but for this you have to create one.

A group or communities on a social network is a thematic space where users who are interested in the proposed topic gather. This means that the community should not be exclusively filled with ads or product shots. To attract customers in the group, you need to post interesting information that is directly related to the offered goods or services. Also posts with the headings "Promotion", "Contest" or "Discount for repost" will be relevant. This will contribute not only to advertising products, but also to promote the community.

The ad post on the page must be pinned.

Advertising on forums

I would like to note right away that the owners of the forums have a negative attitude towards advertisers. Therefore, you will not be able to aggressively advertise your services there. The ad post or comment will be deleted after a few minutes, and the profile will be blocked altogether. To use this method of advertising, you need to act more cunningly.

• Find several popular thematic forums and register there as an ordinary user.
• To actively participate in discussions, create non-advertising topics, comment on the questions of "formuchan".
• After some time, which will take to build a positive reputation, begin to subtly advertise products or services.

Most often, users begin to independently ask for advice if they see the interlocutor's expertise in an issue of interest. However, even in private messages, you should not be zealous. A product or service should be advertised little by little and only to familiar users. Then the site administration will not have any suspicions and, accordingly, the account will not be blocked.

To summarize, we can say that free online advertising is real. The list of available advertising platforms gives unlimited opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs to grow their business. The main thing is to spare no time. And then all efforts will definitely give a positive result.

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Perhaps any musician, composer or arranger always wants to acquaint the people with his works, to find out his opinion about his work. Someone needs technical advice from professionals, someone needs detailed reviews, and someone needs critical remarks ...

In any case, the surest way to educate the public about your music is to put your music on the internet. Of course, no one has canceled the well-known social networks such as VKontakte, but it is still better to place music on dedicated resources, where you can also find useful connections with musicians, sound engineers, producers and other specialists in the musical and sound environment.

This article offers a list of Russian-language Internet resources where you can (and should) put your music to the court of a wide audience.

A community of musicians, sound engineers, performance organizers and in general everyone who is related to music. On the site you can find musicians and specialists involved in the creation and promotion of musical products.

A very useful Internet resource that provides free and legal listening to a wide variety of music. Also, of course, you can upload your own music on the site.

A community of creative people of all kinds. Here you can post your notes, artwork, literary works and photographs, the ownership of which is legally confirmed. Each member of the community builds a system of circles for their fans, who download works of authorship and pay for them according to the principle "Pay, what you don't mind".

In principle, even from the name itself, you can easily understand that this site is a very, very large Internet platform for distributing legal media content of various genres and styles. Register and upload your tracks for everyone to see.

With the help of the Muuz.ru music portal, you can not only attract new fans of your work, but also give the opportunity to those who already know and listen to you to do it even more simply and conveniently. You can upload your albums, tracks, photos, lyrics, get likes and new fans, see detailed statistics of listening, and also put links on the website and social networks.

The main goal of the site is to help people familiarize a wide audience with their work. Here you can upload your music and get opinions about it from other users. Everyone has the opportunity to write a review or leave a comment.

A well-known and low-profile resource that provides publishing opportunities for DJs, musicians, club photographers, vocalists and poets. Users can view new items and rate them, and promoters can attract audiences to their events.

A project for solo singers who want to show their creativity to others and get feedback. You can register your music profile, select a genre and upload materials: music, video, photo. There is a system of ratings and evaluations of materials from other performers.

A project for creative people where you can post your music through popular services. There is support for working with Yandex.Music, Soundcloud and YouTube, you can give a link to the artist's iTunes, post articles and information about concerts. There is a possibility of both free and paid music placement (the amount is symbolic). The music is hosted on a third-party server, so it is not possible to download it illegally.