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Use of Female Appeal in Web Hosting

Today, every company’s goal is to have an attractive image for its online presence. It can be traditional, post-modern, innovative, classic, edgy etc… It is inevitable to count it as a valuable asset to the company. At this point, sex always plays an important role. Female image has everything to meet the requirements for effective marketing.

Web hosting companies -just like other companies- are aware of this fact. Offering technological products and services, one would easily describe their targeted market as “dominated by men.” To benefit from this fact, some of web hosting providers choose female images to present their promotions or news on their web sites. I did a little research about web hosting companies that prefer to keep women on their home pages and tried to understand which figure they have chosen, what their characteristics are and why they may have chosen that particular figure.

Here you can take a look at the list with the hosting providers featuring woman images:

ACTIVEHOST prefers a professional looking lady showing confidence. They aim to keep professional and to get through potential customers’ mind at the same time.

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90+ Image Hosting sites for online sharing and storage

Here is a list of 90+ web sites that are offering free image sharing and hosting solutions for bulletin boards, forums, adult sites and auction sites such as EBay, for social networks sites such as mySpace, Facebook, Fubar, hi5, Friendster, Livejournal, Xanga eand blogs and simply for your friends and family. You can choose between a wide range of web sites to share your files quickly, securely, and easily. We did a thorough research online and made the list of most active web sites. There are brief descriptions of them including Alexa and Quantcast ranks.

Please note that the web sites are listed alphabetically. Alexa and Quantcast ranks are as of 18/05/2008 and are subject to change.

2and2.net

2and2.net provides free image and file hosting. It is designed to share pictures and files with friends, as well as hosting images for auctions, web sites, forum signatures and more. You can link directly to images so you can display them wherever you want to. There is no registration required.

Alexa rank: 80,574
Quantcast rank: 147,904